What Have I Missed?

Send a text This week on What Have I Missed? This week on What Have I Missed? , we’re looking at the remarkable career of Catherine O’Hara - how she shaped characters, controlled tone and made strangeness feel both funny and deeply human. We begin with For Your Consideration , a quietly uncomfortable satire about fame, perception and the fragile line between being seen and being misunderstood. The...

Send a text This week on What Have I Missed?, we’re looking at systems - how they’re built, who they protect and what happens when staying inside them starts to cost more than stepping away. We begin with Cop Land , a quiet, heavy study of authority, silence and the price of finally speaking up when everyone else would rather you didn’t. Then His & Hers , where truth becomes a matter of perspe...

Send a text This week, What Have I Missed? looks at containment from three very different angles - how it forms, how it’s inherited and how it finally erupts. Grey Gardens traps its subjects in a decaying house and a shared mythology, where love, resentment and denial become impossible to separate. Sharp Objects turns a homecoming into a psychological excavation, exposing how trauma is passed down...

Send a text This week, What Have I Missed? looks at success from three very different angles - how it’s built, how it’s sold and who ends up carrying the weight of it. Moneyball rewrites the rules through systems and efficiency, challenging tradition in the quietest way possible. Winning Time turns victory into spectacle, where image, power and performance matter as much as the result. And The Sma...

Send a text This week, we’re spending time in worlds where truth doesn’t arrive politely, it slips in through the cracks. From the brittle manners and quiet cruelties of Gosford Park. To the slow, devastating unravelling of The Mortician. To the cool precision of Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man - where Benoit Blanc returns to peel back another carefully-constructed façade… Three stories. Three very d...

Send a text This week, we’re spending time with the work of the late, great Rob Reiner - a filmmaker whose range shaped modern cinema in ways that still echo today. From the aching nostalgia and fragile loyalties of Stand By Me… to the perfectly-straight-faced chaos of This Is Spinal Tap… to the razor-sharp courtroom pressure of A Few Good Men… Three films. Three completely different worlds. One d...

Send a text This week, it’s all about systems under strain. Satire. Power. And the quiet logic that collapses under pressure. Four Lions  - a comedy that strips ideology back to behaviour, exposing how conviction fractures when it’s carried by people who don’t fully understand it. Succession  - a long-form study of inheritance, damage and control - where power is learned early.  Mountainhead  - a...

Send a text This week, it’s all about the work that holds its ground. Craft. Control. And the quiet collisions that shape everything beneath the surface. A Beautiful Mind  - a portrait of brilliance and illness, grounded in some of the most precise filmmaking of its era. The Studio  - a world where art, ego and power wrestle for control, and every decision leaves a scar. One Battle After Another  ...

Send a text This week - it’s all about what lingers. Violence. Memory. And the histories that never stay buried. A murder that exposes the truth a town tried to hide. A masked world wrestling with the weight of its own past. And a man pulled into a story written long before he entered it. Mississippi Burning. Watchmen. Sinners. Three stories. One question. What happens when the past refuses to end...

Send a text This week - it’s all about Spike Lee. Heat. History. And the pressure that pushes every one of his stories to the edge. Where a neighbourhood boils over. Every choice carries weight. And one street becomes a battleground for change. Where the water rises faster than the help. Systems fail in real time. And a city is left to survive what it was promised it never would. Where wealth mask...

Send a text This week — it’s all about the chase.  Ambition. Delusion.  And what it takes to stay in the spotlight. Where risk becomes routine.  A gambler on the edge.  A rapper playing himself.  A star built from VHS dreams. Where identity is performance.  Every bet is a confession.  Every lyric is a mask.  Every role is a reinvention. Where success becomes obsession.  The stakes rise.  The seams...

Send a text This week, it’s all about control — and what happens when we lose it. A dystopian game show where death is entertainment. A digital purgatory where every choice is judged. And a journey that never ends because stopping means dying. From Stephen King’s The Running Man, to Alice in Borderland, and The Long Walk - three stories obsessed with endurance, obedience, and survival. Where the r...

Send a text This week - it’s all about control. Power. Purpose. And what it means to lose both. From a jungle that stares back, to a droid that starts to think and a team of heroes still learning what being human really means. Predator (1987) — where the hunter becomes the hunted. A brutal, sweaty fever dream of war and survival. Murderbot (2024) — a machine built for obedience, suddenly self-awar...

Send a text This week - it’s all about the beast within. Blood. Inheritance. Transformation. From moonlight myths to modern monsters - three films, one curse reborn. The Wolf Man (1941) - where it began. A fog-drenched fable of guilt, grief and silver bullets. The Wolfman (2010) - gothic excess, all candlelight and carnage, where man and monster finally share a face. Wolfman (2025) - the curse rei...

Send a text With faith, folklore and fanaticism at its core, this week’s episode of What Have I Missed? delves into belief and the cost of devotion. Three stories. Three reckonings. The Wicker Man — ritual. A sunlit nightmare where sacrifice wears a smile. The Outsider — reason. A battle between evidence and evil, where faith falters under forensic light. Heretic — revelation. When conviction beco...

Send a text With horror’s obsession shifting from monsters to what makes us one, this week’s episode of What Have I Missed?   explores three stages of the body in crisis. Three films. Three states of undoing. The Cabin in the Woods - controlled. Flesh and fear orchestrated for sacrifice.  All of Us Are Dead - infected. Bodies as battlegrounds, spreading faster than mercy.  The Substance - transfor...

Send a text With Ryan Murphy’s Monster: The Ed Gein Story out, this week’s episode of What Have I Missed? looks back - not at Gein himself, but at how his crimes changed cinema forever. Three films. Three new languages of fear. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho — the birth of the slasher and the moment horror learned to hide in plain sight. Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — the rise of the fina...

Send a text Welcome back to What Have I Missed? I’m Alex. Each week I catch up on three things I should have seen by now – pulling apart what still resonates, what catches me off guard and why they matter in 2025. This week: flamboyant farce in The Birdcage, extraterrestrial survival in Alien: Earth and the return of the Man of Steel in Superman. Let’s get into it.

Send a text Welcome back to What Have I Missed? I’m Alexandra Hepworth, and each week I catch up on three things I should have seen by now - pulling apart what still resonates, what catches me off guard and why they matter in 2025. This week: political paranoia in All the President’s Men , true-crime obsession with The Jinx  and Ethan Hunt’s last impossible mission in Mission: Impossible – The Fin...

Send a text Welcome to the very first episode of What Have I Missed? I’m Alexandra Hepworth, your host. Each week, I’ll be catching up on three titles I’ve finally got around to watching - sharing what still resonates, what surprises, and why they’re worth talking about now. Today it’s three very different worlds:  Sam Rockwell going solo in Moon . A Shakespearean apocalypse in Station Eleven . An...

Send a text The teaser for What Have I Missed? A podcast about catching up on the films and TV I should’ve seen by now. Fashionably late, but hopefully worth the wait.