Fade To Black – Details, episodes & analysis

This week, Amon chats to SING SING star Clarence Maclin (09:58) and we review the critically acclaimed prison drama (25:53). Then we hit the road with British indie BLACK DOG (36:12), and in our HOT TAKE (51:22), we look at the habit of cancelling series after one season.

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Hi listeners! The main podcast is back on September 1st! But to tide you over, we have an interview special with the great Naomi Ackie. She joins us primarily to talk about BLINK TWICE in which she stars as Frida, a cocktail waitress who tech billionaire Slater King (Channing Tatum) invites to his private island. But vaction bliss soon evaporates as Frida begins to question her reality.

It's an impressive directorial debut from Zoë Kravitz, and Ackie is on career-best form in the lead role. We hope you enjoy this conversation (and the movie) as much as we did!

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This week, Amon chats to directors Asif Kapadia and Joe Sabia about their new documentary, FEDERER: TWELVE FINAL DAYS (12:12). Then we get our emotions in check with Pixar’s INSIDE OUT 2 (26:27), join Nicolas Cage in the apocalypse in action horror ARCADIAN (41:27), and witness a meeting of minds in FREUD’S LAST SESSION (55:42). 

Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:09:36), we discuss this year’s summer box office as well as the fact that BLADE has lost yet another director in Yann Demange. We speculate as to what the problem is - why can’t they figure this out? 

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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 racist backlash to Prime Video’s new series THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER.

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival THIS THURSDAY (September 15)! Book your tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/fade-to-black/

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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 Michael McDonagh’s THE FORGIVEN (51:13).

… plus, in our HOT take (1:06:49), we delve into the first two episodes of Prime Video’s THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER. Sure, it can take the Ring to Mordor, but does it know the way?

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday, September 15! Book your tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/fade-to-black/

If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod

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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 COMPETITION (01:06:04).

Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:17:07), with The Sandman, House of the Dragon, and Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power all either released or on the verge of release, we discuss what show is best equipped to fill the void of Game of Thrones, or if pursuing that goal is folly.

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/fade-to-black/

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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 doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/fade-to-black/

If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod

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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 empathetic towards how hard it is to make a film?

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets here

You can also pre-order Hanna's book STRONG FEMALE CHARACTER here!

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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 Palestinian refugee’s dreams of seeing her homeland again in documentary FADIA’S TREE (01:06:42).

Plus, in our “HOT TAKE” (01:16:56), we try our best to figure out what the hell is going on at Warner Bros. right now.

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/fade-to-black/

If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod

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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 how studios, most especially Marvel, continue to exploit artists. What’s the real cost of a good time at the movies?

And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets here: https://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/comedy/fade-to-black/

If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod

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