Episode 22 of the Electric Shadows Podcast sees Rob Daniel & myself revving their engines as they ironically mosey through a discussion of Fast & Furious 8, and the surprisingly robust franchise as a whole.
We also dive into the insane world of Howard Hughes in Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply, and get ambivalent about the Star Wars: The Last Jedi trailer.…
Rules Don’t Apply
A long overdue return from the Hollywood legend behind Bulworth and Reds or just an over-long-gestated vanity project from the over-the-hill subject of Carly Simon’s You’re So Vain?1 Rules Don’t Apply falls, somewhat fascinatingly, occasionally gloriously, into both camps.
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Is TV as we knew it dying?
What was once a communal experience – households across the nation gathered before the glow of the cathode ray tube – has now become a more private experience.
It seems not to matter how you consume the latest episode of must-watch telly, be it Broadchurch or Bake Off, alone or in company, live or via catch-up, so long as you’re able to take part in the water-cooler discussion come Monday.…
Episode 21 of The Electric Shadows Podcast sees Rob Daniel & myself tackling the controversial live action remake of Ghost In The Shell.
We review the film’s merits and flaws, before discussing the whitewashing scandal surrounding the film and the way it is addressed within the plot.
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Ever so slightly longer ago in a galaxy pretty well-known to us at this point…
After forty years of galactic-scale family squabbles among the Skywalker clan, Disney’s latest addition to the franchise seeks to remind us that there are other families in the Star Wars universe… to a point.…