PODCAST: LFF 2021 – The Tragedy of Macbeth [Movie Robcast]

This is our final London Film Festival wrap-up episode, and thank you to all those listeners who stuck with us on a review of this year’s LFF.

To end, we look at Joel Coen’s The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.…

REVIEW: The Tragedy of Macbeth (London Film Festival 2021)

In his first single-handed filmmaking venture, Joel Coen (best known as one half of the Coen Bros.) takes on Shakespeare in The Tragedy of Macbeth.

Shot entirely on set, with sharp, black-&-white cinematography courtesy of Bruce Delbonnel, the film’s striking, otherworldly visuals, inky shadows and slanting light, owe a debt to German Expressionism.…

PODCAST: In the Heights [Movie RobCast]

Episode 118 sees the Robs out and about on a gloriously sunny Sunday afternoon.

In the shadow of the Tate Modern they swap thoughts on In the Heights, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s vibrant musical about life in the South American community of Washington Heights.…

Kong: Skull Island: monkey see, monkey well done

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A U.S. flyboy plummets out of the sun; hooked to a parachute.

His fighter plane death-spiraling into a flaming wreck on the white sand of Pacific beach. His panicked grappling with a Japanese pilot, his nemesis; a battle to the death on a clifftop drenched in searing light.…