Podcast Episodes

The original 3:10 to Yuma, released at the height of the Hollywood Western, is carried by the battle of wills premise and the dangerously charismatic performance of its antagonist, Glenn Ford. Fifty years on, did this movie really need to be fixed? And was James Mangold the man for the job?

How do you adapt an unadaptable sci-fi epic about the origins of religious belief, the moral responsibilities and failures of people in power, and intergalactic hallucinogens generated by giant worms?

The true story of an expedition from Britain to Tahiti and beyond, led by the cruel and unpopular Captain Blight. Yes, Claire let David do another episode about ships.

Akira Kurosawa, often best known for his samurai epics, also pretty much invented the modern police procedural. Spike Lee, famed for his social commentary and love for New York, takes the story and runs with it. But which movie is more thrilling? Do these movies have anything to say?

You know how sometimes you go see the same Shakespeare play, but it's different actors, and they updated the setting to a 20th century dictatorship or Chicago gangsters or something? This is a lot like that.