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Hi listeners! With Christmas on the horizon, we thought we'd leave you with one last present in the form of an interview special with the great Charlie Cox! Amon caught up with him to chat about his new show, Treason - which is streaming on Netflix now - and Cox also shared his thoughts about the past and future of Daredevil. It's a fun one! All that's left for the Fade To Black team to say is to...

This week, after 13 long years, we return to Pandora with AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (29:52), while Amon talks to Colonel Miles Quaritch himself, Stephen Lang (14:12). We lace up with historical drama CORSAGE (56:00), find the doughnut hole in the doughnut's hole with Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (1:15:11), and get existential with BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (1...

This week, Amon has been on an interview spree! He chats to Brian Tyree Henry about drama CAUSEWAY (11:00), Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson about PINOCCHIO (49:00) and director Antoine Fuqua about EMANCIPATION (1:31:00). We review the stop-motion endeavour (30:00) and historical slave drama (1:50:00) as well THE SILENT TWINS (1:11:00). Plus, we give our hot takes about WONDER WOMAN 3 after D...

This week, Amon talks to Rebecca Hall about horror RESURRECTION (04:34); He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, David Harbour’s Santa Claus is coming to town in VIOLENT NIGHT (30:03); Noah Baumbach faces the apocalypse in his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s WHITE NOISE (42:11); We click our heels together three times and enter the world of LYNCH/OZ (53:42); It’s YOUR CHRISTMAS OR MINE? (01:04:19)...

This week, Clarisse speaks to STRANGE WORLD co-directors Don Hall and Qui Nguyen (11:56), and the pod team discuss Disney’s latest animated adventure (33:58). We devour Luca Guadagnino’s new film, BONES AND ALL (47:28), and tackle Maria Schrader’s take on the New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s crimes in SHE SAID (58:34). Then Amon speaks to MATILDA THE MUSICAL star Andrea...

This week, Amon journeys through James Gray’s childhood memories as the pair chat ARMAGEDDON TIME (09:06). Meanwhile, the pod team make a wish on Disney+ sequel DISENCHANTED (27:00); take a break with Charlotte Wells’ debut AFTERSUN (42:14); test their faith with Netflix’s THE WONDER (56:48); and find Letitia Wright stuck between a rock and a hard place in immigration drama AISHA (01:11:54). Then...

This week, Hanna speaks to director Sally El Hosaini about the remarkable true story behind her drama THE SWIMMERS (08:40), we meet MY FATHER’S DRAGON (27:58), thanks to Cartoon Saloon’s latest, and we go all out on BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (44:12), as Hanna meets Namor himself, Tenoch Huerta (01:15:46). And, in our HOT take, we’ll be sounding the spoiler klaxon on WAKANDA FOREVER (01:25:18)...

This week, we get WEIRD (04:44) with the Al Yankovic Story; Bill Nighy stars in LIVING (23:03), an adaptation of  Akira Kurosawa’s masterful Ikiru; we celebrate Jennifer Lawrence’s full-blooded return in CAUSEWAY (39:43); and Millie Bobby Brown is on the case in ENOLA HOLMES 2 (55:25). Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:11:11), can Guy Ritchie really deliver on the promise of a live-action Hercules? I...

This week, we contend with some major, horrifying red flags in Barbarian (7:10), check out some bromantic gay love in Bros (27:43), and have our sick bags at the ready as we enter the Triangle of Sadness (44:27). Plus, in our HOT take, we discuss the future of DC with the announcement that James Gunn and Peter Safran are taking the reins (1:03:49). If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest...

This week, Hanna speaks to John Patton Ford (06:18) about his crime thriller EMILY THE CRIMINAL led by Aubrey Plaza. We dissect Jamie Lee Curtis’s final (so she says!) outing as Laurie Strode in HALLOWEEN ENDS (25:10). Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson have a major fall out in THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (44:29), and Park Chan-wook delves into film noir with DECISION TO LEAVE (01:03:11). And in our...

This week…  Amon speaks to The Woman King’s own Thuso Mbedu (8:21), while we review Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical epic (23:09). We tackle the documentary NOTHING COMPARES (42:20), which draws a straight line between the revolutionary politics of Sinéad O'Connor and today’s pop divas. And, AWOOOOOOOOOO! The beast is released in Marvel’s one-take Halloween special, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT (50:30...

This week…  with the London Film Festival around the corner, Hanna chats to director Youssef Chebbi about his Tunisia-set crime-thriller Ashkal (13:47); We take a trip into the fictionalised, nightmare world of a cultural icon in Andrew Dominik’s BLONDE (37:35); Say cheese and SMILE – Halloween starts *now* with Paramount’s latest horror venture (01:09:08); The witches are back! And here to p...

This week… Reginald Hudlin captures the legacy of Sidney Poitier in his new Apple TV+ documentary, SIDNEY (07:52), and Olivia Wilde welcomes us to Victory, the town that seems a little too good to be true, in her psychological thriller DON’T WORRY DARLING (20:20). Plus, we take a trip back to 1290 for Lena Dunham’s medieval romp, CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY (45:59). And, in our HOT TAKE, Diego Luna ign...

This week… the Fade To Black Podcast was LIVE from Kings Place for the London Podcast Festival! Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù joined us onstage (04:23) to talk MR. MALCOLM’S LIST and GANGS OF LONDON. Then the team book their TICKET TO PARADISE (31:49) for the new George Clooney and Julia Roberts rom-com; decide if Hanna Bergholm’s new body horror HATCHING (46:45) is EGG-excellent or not; and discuss Owen Kli...

This week… Amon chats to THE Howard Shore (11:17) about his score for CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, and then the team reviews David Cronenberg’s latest film (34:00). It’s a Gen Z bloodbath in Halina Reijn’s murder-mystery slasher flick BODIES BODIES BODIES (50:16), and when you wish upon a live-action remake, you get Robert Zemeckis’ PINOCCHIO (01:04:38). And, in our HOT TAKE (01:28:03), we pick apart the...

This week, Clarisse chats to Alexandra Anger and Monica Pavez, the team behind all those uncanny prosthetics in David Cronenberg’s new body horror, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (08:44). We review George Miller’s THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING (32:39) dreams of love between a woman and a magical Djinn. Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain bring death and white privilege to the Moroccan desert in John Michae...

This week, Amon has a chat with Sharlto Copley about BEAST (16:05), and then the team talk about Idris Elba going mano a mano with a lion in Baltasar Kormákur’s latest (36:18). We see how many of the requirements we check off on MR MALCOLM’S LIST (50:40), as we review Emma Holly Jones’s Regency comedy. And Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas turn the lens on themselves in filmmaking satire OFFICIAL...

This week, Hanna chats to the debut filmmaker behind British period romp MR MALCOLM’S List Emma Holly Jones (9:36). We check out Netflix’s latest Brit social thriller I CAME BY (42:38) starring George McKay and Kelly McDonald. Esther is back in the horror prequel ORPHAN: FIRST KILL (58:53) and plus, in our HOT TAKE (1:15:19), we discuss the arrival of She-Hulk - the latest Disney+ series And we’re...

This week… Jordan Peele is back and you’ll never look up at the sky the same way again with his latest horror, NOPE (6:30); Romain Duris builds a monument for future generations and future Instagram users in EIFFEL (25:22); and Ari Folman’s reimagines the story of Anne Frank’s imaginary friend Kitty in WHERE IS ANNE FRANK (38:31). Plus, in our “HOT TAKE” (50:23), we ask: should critics be more emp...

This week… we make a special announcement about our first live podcast next month! Then Amon chats to Dan Trachtenberg about his latest directorial effort, PREY (12:20), and the pod team review the new Disney+ (grumble) thriller (32:07); then it’s all aboard David Leitch’s BULLET TRAIN (46:48) – next stop, murder and mayhem in this all-star action vehicle; and a 15-year friendship carries a Palest...

This week, Ron Howard takes a deep-dive into the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in THIRTEEN LIVES (12:37); Panah Panahi takes us on the trip of a lifetime to Iran’s border in his debut HIT THE ROAD (29:26); And documentarian Sara Dosa captures a romance between two daring volcanologists in FIRE OF LOVE (45:12). Plus, in our ‘HOT TAKE’ (01:00:10), we talk about the dire state of the VFX industry and h...

This week…Ryan Gosling is back and feeling the kenergy in Netflix’s THE GRAY MAN (08:20); we go WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (33:22) - whatever a crawdad is – in Olivia Newman’s adaptation of an all-time bestseller; and filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud revisits the dramatic events of April 15, 2019, in NOTRE-DAME ON FIRE (49:59). … and in our ‘Hot Take’ (01:08:50), we ask the question: is Marvel’s Phase F...

This week…Taika Waititi returns to the Marvel Cinematic Universe with THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER (4:40), Austen meets Fleabag in Netflix’s PERSUASION (28:21), robots are a man’s best friend in BRIAN AND CHARLES (41:50), and ITHAKA turns the spotlight back on Julian Assange (49:53). … and in our ‘Hot Take’ (1:01:21), we find out if THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER is truly worthy in our spoilerific section. And...

This week…Facebook’s favourite meme fodder, the Minions, are back in Minions: The Rise of Gru (07:53), Justin Kurzel delivers an uncompromising vision of a true Australian tragedy in Nitram (17:39); and we ask the question: does Ed Perkins’s documentary The Princess have anything new to say about Diana? (30:46) … and in our ‘Hot Take’ (40:51), we venture into the Upside Down for our full, spoileri...

This week…watch out for The Grabber! Ethan Hawke is back on Sinister form in The Black Phone and Hanna chats with writer-director Scott Derrickson all about it (14:02) before the pod team dissects the film (32:37). Elvis has entered the building in Baz Luhrmann’s extravagant biopic (50:27), and in our ‘Hot Take’, we breakdown the Obi-Wan Kenobi finale (01:15:10).  If you’d like to join the co...