Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast

This week, the great Morgan Garrity returns to discuss the titular role, the name she gave herself, the movie that will almost certainly go down in history as the defining Saoirse Ronan character - it's Lady Bird! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the great Andrew Kinsella returns to discuss Loving Vincent, a rotoscoped semi-biopic of Vincent Van Gogh that seems to mostly exist just to show off how time intensive it was to make. Listen in as we chat about the movie's laborious production, the career of Oscar Isaac (who's not in this picture), and the Beatles. Both the band and the movies. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy fo...

We're back! This week, we're talking Weepah Way for Now, a loosely autobiographical star vehicle for pop duo Aly & AJ in which Saoirse plays a ghost. This one seems winsome but gets kinda freaky. If you're wondering why we mostly spend this episode speculating about things that already happened and talking about dead people like they're alive it's because we recorded it in January. Hosted on A...

Now this one, this is the big one. It's Brooklyn, the 2015 immigrant drama that saw Saoirse Ronan earn her second Oscar nomination and lay out the template for her movie star career. It's also a movie your hosts like very, very, much. We get into why this is such an endearing picture, along with tangents on Oscars new and old, Florence Pugh, Harry Potter, Brie Larson, Actorle, the literary afterli...

After several years negotiating the shift into adulthood via a series of supporting roles, Saoirse Ronan made her triumphant return to stardom by headlining a serious drama at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival which would assert her status as a respected actor and set the course for the rest of her career. This is... not that movie. This is Stockholm, Pennsylvania, a misguided kidnapping drama which...

This week we're back to talking Colin with the second of his two starring roles of 2025. This time, he's playing a gambler at the end of his rope in Edward Berger's Ballad of a Small Player, a potential Oscar play for Netflix that received a chilly reception on the festival circuit and, at time of recording, appears to have been quietly dumped, much to the consternation of both your hosts (this mo...

This week, the great Sean Fahey returns to help us struggle through technical difficulties as we discuss Ryan Gosling's first and only directorial effort, Lost River! Ten years on, with a movie seemingly only the three of us like, where do we stand on this one off? We answer that strangely complicated question, and along the way we complain about the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, debate the aesthetic...

In 2011, James Bobin and Nicholas Stoller successfully reintroduced The Muppets to a new generation, delivering a box office, Oscar winning hit. In 2014 they followed that up with Muppets Most Wanted, a movie that stinks so bad it basically killed any potential for the Muppets to appear again on the big screen. This week, we dissect the latter to figure out just what went wrong, and you know if we...

This week, the great Genevieve Jacobson returns along with first time (and equally great) guest Langston Young to discuss The Grand Budapest Hotel. Arguments are had and technical issues abound as we discuss the broader career of Wes Anderson, the film's Oscar run and notorious Ralph Fiennes snub, Saoirse's frustratingly small role and its oddly fruitful afterlife, and, of course, 28 Years Later....

This week, we complete our brief return to the work of Colin Farrell with A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, his reunion with After Yang director Kogonada and his first feature film following a three year hiatus after his Oscar nomination. We're not mad, we're just disappointed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our brief retrospective through the lost Colin episodes ends with 2021's After Yang, a movie that long time listeners know contains (spoilers) one of our all-time favorite Colin Farrell performance. Listen in as we talk Cannes section placement, theorize on this movie's half-assed released, sing the praises of Kogonada, make some incredibly inaccurate Oscar predictions, and generally get bored to...

This week, we're taking a look at Voyagers, the movie where arguably the entire class of sexy young movie stars in training gets on a spaceship and descends into horny chaos while Colin tries to keep the peace. Honestly we mostly just talk about Gran Turismo in this one vroom vroom. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In round 2 of the lost Colin Farrell episodes, we discuss Ava, the Jessica Chastain thriller that was one of the surprise hits of the pandemic. Join us as we talk the long lineage of assassins onscreen, Chastain the auteur, this film's contentious relationship with the Me Too movement, new developments in the Colin/Ewan symbiosis, the Fear Street movies, late style Geena Davis, the streaming atten...

Surprise! The lost Colin Farrell episodes have been recovered! Listen back to April 2024 when the great Colin Hamingson joined us to discuss the long in development children's fantasy adventure picture Artemis Fowl, an extremely normal Covid era catastrophe that Colin Farrell definitely wasn't added to at the last second. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the great Jeff Sweeney joins us for the return of everyone's favorite podcast within a podcast: that's right, it's time for another episode of Oops! All Rushmores! Listen in to increasingly deranged and contentious deep dives into the careers of six - count em, six! - of the finest character actors Europe has to offer. Also we discuss the 2013 Spanish animated film Justin and the Knight...

How I Live Now is ostensibly a 2013 film in which Saoirse Ronan plays a teenage girl trying to survive a war torn England. What How I Live now actually is is a movie with a relatively minor plot point so insane we find it completely impossible to talk about anything else and gradually descend into madness. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the great Andrew Jagielski returns to the show to discuss the last of Saoirse's attempts towards traditional stardom, Andrew Niccol's The Host. An adaptation of the only non-Twilight novel Stephenie Meyer ever wrote, the film stars Saoirse as a young woman possessed by an alien parasite dueling for control over her body, and get this - they both like different boys. Listen in as we deba...

This week, we're checking back in with our old friend Neil Jordan for 2012's Byzantium, in which Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan play mother and daughter vampires eking out a living in an English coastal town. Listen as we ponder such questions as: are vampires played out as a narrative concept? Does this movie function as an earnest feminist counter to its sex-centered marketing? Is this movie a...

This week, the great Justin Stillmaker returns to the show to discuss Violet & Daisy, the... other movie from 2011 where Saoirse Ronan plays a teen girl assassin. Co-starring Alexis Bledel, the film was the directorial debut and swan song of Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Precious Geoffrey S. Fletcher, and as we try to wrap our heads around this befuddling movie and his incredibly brief...

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This week, it's a first for Above the Title - we're doubling back to a movie we've already covered. That's right, it's a return look at the first role Saoirse booked after her Oscar nomination and her one collaboration with Colin Farrell, Peter Weir's swan song The Way Back. Our original episode was one of our most contentious, and we've had two years to let our thoughts percolate on this divisive...

This week, the great Morgan Garrity joins us to discuss Peter Jackson's boondoggle adaptation of Alice Sebold's best selling novel The Lovely Bones, starring Soairse as the ghost of a girl murdered in the 1970s. We talk the film's lengthy production and the complicated history behind the novel, get into our thoughts on Jackson and this adaptation, but really we're all here to sort one thing out: i...

This week, the great Charlie Schumann returns to chat about 9-1-1, the late career of Jennifer Lopez, and the relationship between the Mission: Impossible films and the tv show. Oh, and when we remember we also discuss Saoirse's first lead role City of Ember, a failed YA dystopian franchise starter about an underground city that definitely makes sense and definitely isn't boring. Hosted on Acast....

This week, we're playing clean-up on the last of the movies rushed into release to capitalize on Saoirse's Oscar nomination with Gillian Armstrong's Death Defying Acts. An almost entirely fictionalized melodrama set in the last weeks of Harry Houdini's life, the film stars Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones at the very tail end of the star runs, and Saoirse Ronan as the latter's plucky con artist...

The year is 2007. Saoirse Ronan is thirteen years old and four years into her career and has just gotten her first Oscar nomination. This week, Mark Tilley returns to the podcast to discuss Atonement, Joe Wright's sweeping epic of forbidden love and overwhelming guilt. Listen as we heap praise on Wright, discuss the film's Oscar run, debate just how much of this movie is meant to be real, and perf...