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This week, Lisa is in a bit of a tizzy over her love/hate relationship with the Oscars. With Oscar season now upon us, how should she cover the highly flawed categories? What should she, Dean and Brian focus on? Or should they just skip it all together? To help her wrestle with her consciousness she brings on Academy Awards expert Paul Francis Sullivan (who has seen not only every Oscar winning film, but also every NOMINATED film!). In this pre Oscar pod before the actual Oscar pod, Paul and Lisa canoodle, argue, giggle, befuddle and maybe come up with a solution....stay tuned.
Warning. This episode (and the film) deals with the trauma associated with sexual assault. It may be very triggering. Please look after yourselves. This episode also (unavoidably) contains massive plot spoilers, so if you haven't seen the film, and don't want to be spoiled please pause and come back to us after you have seen it.
In our "Promising Young Woman" follow-up episode, Lisa and Dean are joined by Professor Emeritus Tania Modleski and Professor Caroline Heldman. They bring their unique and highly experienced perspectives to an in-depth discussion of the sociological elements and impact of the film. We needed their big beautiful brains to help us continue to break down this exceptional piece of work.
Professor Modleski is an American feminist scholar and cultural critic at USC. Her expertise is in American studies, gender studies, feminist theory, and film and popular culture. Her research efforts focus on women in film, women in popular culture, women in literature, and soap operas. See https://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003547
Professor Caroline Heldman, teaches Critical Theory and Social Justice at Occidental College. She is a political commentator and VP of Research and Insights at the Geena Davis Institute. B.A., Washington State University; M.A., Ph.D., Rutgers University Department Chair, Critical Theory & Social Justice Department Chair, Gender, Women, & Sexuality StudiesSee https://www.oxy.edu/academics/faculty/caroline-heldman
Further reading;
Emerald Fennell talk in detail about the various. options considered for ending the film.https://variety.com/2021/film/news/promising-young-woman-ending-spoilers-2-1234885400/ Film wins Best Film and Best Actress at Aussie'Oscars' https://variety.com/2021/awards/awards/aacta-2021-awards-promising-young-woman-1234923201/
Laverne Cox interview https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/14/laverne-cox-interview-trailblazing-trans-activist-i-can-be-so-hard-on-myself Caroline mentioned the Stuebenville documentary 'Roll Red Roll' Read a review here
Cross over episode!! Lisa and Dean are joined by Real Crime Profile Podcast's Laura Richards and Jim Clemente to breakdown the incredible film 'Promising Young Woman' written and directed by Emerald Fennell, starring Carey Mulligan in a performance for the ages.
Jim and Laura bring a law enforcement perspective to the plot and they have many insights into the behaviour of each character in this ground breaking film.
Warning!! This episode (and the film) deals with the trauma associated with sexual assault and may be very triggering. Please look after yourselves.
This episode also (unavoidably) contains massive plot spoilers, so if you haven't seen the film, please pause and come back to us after you have watched it. Some good interviews for more details: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/promising-young-woman-emerald-fennell-interview-1234605075/
Laverne Cox interview https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/14/laverne-cox-interview-trailblazing-trans-activist-i-can-be-so-hard-on-myself
Dean and Lisa return to talk about some factoids and other stuff that we couldn't fit in to our previous episode on simulated sex in film and TV. Dean goes full nerd on the history of the Hays Code from the Hollywood 1930's, until Lisa pulls him back on track and we chat through the end of the code and the beginning of the ratings system. Also we touch on the double standards of female vs male nudity.
Lisa, Brian and Dean are joined by famous Casting Director, and now Intimacy Coordinator, Marci Liroff. Marci's credits are ridiculous. She started out casting 'Indie' films ... you know as in INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM ! ET - The Extra Terrestrial , St. Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Footloose, Mean Girls, The Spiderwick Chronicles ... TOO many to mention. Here check it out for yourself. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0513924/ Whilst remaining a Casting Director, she has recently added another string to her bow, by transforming into a very important and badly needed role as a Hollywood Intimacy Coordinator. (IC) Marci's job is to help everyone from the director and the creative team, to the stars and the crew deal with nudity and simulated sex in film and TV in a responsible way, which in particular, looks after the well-being of the most vulnerable people in that situation ... the actors who are on set. It's a fascinating conversation and we end up by just getting down and dirty and sharing our favourite simulated sex scenes and sexy films. Some links to follow up: Marci's website, including her sizzle reel ... which is ridiculous.😳 https://www.marciliroff.com/ Her incredible jewellery designs. Get yours now ! https://marciliroffjewelry.com/ A background piece on what is amusingly referred to as 'Bonkerton' https://www.theage.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/bonkerton-truth-about-regency-romance-is-far-racier-20210205-p56zt6.html In timely fashion, Keira Knightly has just come out with a statement on her future simulated sex scenes. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/29/it-was-a-misuse-of-power-how-movie-sex-scenes-change-keira-knightley TRANSCRIPT OF EPISODE Scene from Bridgerton: When you touch yourself, you do touch yourself. When you're alone you can touch yourself. Anywhere that gives you pleasure especially between your legs. When you find the feeling you particularly enjoy you can carry on with that, until the feeling grows and then eventually you reach pinnacle, a release that should help you. Lisa: Hello, welcome to Killer Casting, I'm Lisa Zambetti. I am a casting director probably best known for my work on the long running show Criminal Minds. And I've cast victims and villains and cops and doctors and lawyers and everything in between. But apropos of today's topic, I've also cast many actors to play lovers, to play roles in adult situations. And I've even cast those very, very difficult roles where characters engage in sexual violence and who are sometimes the victims of sexual abuse. So given that, I wanted to give a little trigger warning, I wanted to warn our listeners today that we're going to be talking about sex. Sex in cinema, sex on screen, we're going to be using very explicit language possibly talking about things that could be triggering to you. And I want you to take very good care of yourselves and know your boundaries because this is going to be a great conversation, but probably a very frank conversation. And I have a very special guest I cannot wait for you to meet, but I want you to please exercise care if you need to, okay. So with that said, let me just say hi to my ever loyal sexy beast Brian Allan Hill, how are you today? Brian: Doing great, how is everybody out there? Lisa: And Dean Laffan the wonder from down under, how are you doing? Dean: I'm very well, thank you. Good to see you again, Lisa and Brian. Lisa: I'm hoping that I get to make Brian and Dean blush today. I'm really looking forward to that. So let me just lay it out there y'all. I am a very sex positive person when it comes to sex on screen, I'm not just talking about adult erotica, but sex in TV shows and cinema whether it's a consummation of "will they, won't they" get together, slow burning passion between the leads with this delicious animosity and chemistry that leads to sex, or more importantly sex that is about a very specific and difficult context. Sex that's born of grief, of pain, of secrets and lies and sex that moves the story forward, or just deepens your understanding of the character. Whatever the sex is between consenting adults on screen, no matter the sexual identity, orientation, and no matter if they have classically beautiful bodies and fantastic faces, or if they look like me, just the average everyday person grinding it out? I'm here for it. I am absolutely here for it. And some people may say, oh sex scenes are gratuitous and some people may have issues with nudity and that's fine. But indulgence means different things to different people. And for me, done right, sex is a very powerful and necessary thing. But those performances of simulated sex come at a price. And it's the actors on screen, they pay that price. And in the past, sometimes sex scenes are highly choreographed and a lot of times it's a lot of illusion camera trickery. Maybe people aren't totally nude, maybe they are. The fact of the matter is these scenes make those performers very vulnerable and in the past, in the very sad past of our industry in Hollywood and abroad, it's easy for that trust to be broken. It's easy for lines to be crossed and boundaries to be forgotten. But I have here today a very special guest who's going to talk us through something new that has come into our industry that is so needed. I can't even believe that we never had it before. I want to introduce to you an immensely successful casting director. She has cast some of the most important movies of my childhood and my premenstrual sexual Tween hood. She was on the casting team for ET. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, St Elmo's Fire, Pretty in Pink, Mean Girls, I could go on and on but I'm not going to because she in the last few years has become an Intimacy Coordinator. Please say hello to my queen Marci Liroff. Marci Liroff: Hi am happy to be here. Lisa: Oh Marcie, thank you for jumping on. And I know you are on the East Coast right now and you are instead of casting this show, you are the intimacy coordinator for this show. Do you want to tell us a little bit about this show, what you can tell us? Marci Liroff: Sure. I'm working on a series called "High Town" and it's in its second season and we're in Wilmington North Carolina on location. We've been here since October and it's a very dark and thrilling show and it centers around Provincetown which is known to be a wild vacation town in the summertime. But this focuses on the people that live there, and addiction, basically kind of the deep dark secrets that go on from the working class people that live there. Lisa: I haven't seen the first season, but it sounds amazing. Marci Liroff: Yeah, it's really, really good. Lisa: I'm sure a lot of our listeners have never heard the term intimacy coordinator before. It is a new role on the call sheet and I really just want you to just dig in, tell us what it is. Tell us why you turned to it after this amazing career as a casting director, I'm sure you still are casting. But what made you want to turn to this and just educate us on what it is and what you do? Marci Liroff: Well, let me start off by telling you what the job is. So it is a newish job and I'll tell you how it came to be. There's a TV series called "The Deuce" on HBO. And they were going into their second season and it focuses on sex workers. And Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in this show, and the series regulars were going back to work and one of them, an actress named Emily Meade was feeling very vulnerable in these scenes, because they would have to do these scenes with guest stars that were coming in, not series regulars, day players that were coming in and as you said, these are very highly vulnerable scenes and she felt like she was kind of working without a net, so to speak. And she and some of the other actors went to HBO to describe what it is that they need it. And kind of somewhat invented the job because this job had existed in theater for a bit and in film and television what we're doing is collaborating with the filmmakers to help get their story on the screen in an authentic way. And then working with the actors as well, as their liaison and as their advocate for these scenes to make sure that they stay safe and to talk about things like consent and boundaries ahead of time so that there's no surprises on the day and everybody feels safe and we get what we need, but it's in a very safe way, consent is really the cornerstone of this job. In the old days, actors would have a nude scene or a simulated sex scene -- and we do say simulated sex because we really want to clarify that they are not having sex. Some people if it's shot well, it looks like they are. We want to make sure that people know that this is not real. And so in the old days, actors would be wrapped in a sheet. They would show up and like, hi, how you doing. And the director would say, okay, go for it. And they don't know, there was no plan, there was no choreography and we're very similar in a way to a stunt coordinator. And if you think about a stunt being done when actors show up and they're putting that could be a dangerous situation and someone says, okay, go for it. I mean stunts are rehearsed, there are safety meetings, it is choreographed, and it is a very serious venture. So the same thing is applied to simulated sex scenes and nudity. So as I said, we collaborate with the film crew and actors, the actors advocate on set and in preparation for the scenes. So that's kind of the short answer and we can get into more of it. And how I came to be doing this is I've been casting for 40 something years and producing and coaching actors, which I still do. And I've been looking for my next act and I've kind of become a unicorn in a way that I'm kind of the master of reinvention. I also design jewelry, so I do a lot of things. Lisa: That's why we should shout out, you design the beautiful jewelry, so we'll definitely post that in our show notes. Marci Liroff: So as I said, I was looking for my third act. And it's been a while that I've been trying to figure out what else can I do. And I read some articles about this new position and I thought this is so up my alley. This just is kind of the amalgam of all the things that I have been trained to do so far, because I love working with the actors, I love working with filmmakers and I'm kind of one of those righteous people that wants to protect people that don't have a voice, that's always been my thing. I am always the people's advocate. And when I heard about this job, I just thought this is so interesting and this job is really multifaceted, which we'll get into, because we cover so many things on set. And so I did some research and found a woman in Los Angeles named Amanda Blumenthal who is kind of the, I would say the premier IC -- we call them ICs. She's the premier IC in the United States and lives in Los Angeles, and she was starting some training. And so I was accepted into a very small group of about seven people and we trained for six months in 2019. And I was certified by her organization called Intimacy Professionals Association. And I started working at the end of last year, started 2019 and then got a bunch of jobs the beginning of January of 2020 and then as we know, COVID hit and everything was shut down. So I had gotten the series, The Morning Show with Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon and a bunch of movies, and so all of this went away. And then a miracle happened and I got a call about this series and I relocated to Wilmington, North Carolina and I've been here since October. Dean: It's time for a clip -- you'll be listening to Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan. They're talking about the filming of sex scenes in the very sexy and very popular Outlander. Here we go. Sam Heughan: You know, we've always tried to approach them with something more and show that it's something to do with show the development of their relationship or and obviously it is a part of the show that we have to deal with. Caitriona Balfe: I think we've always tried to make it further the story along, but it's not just there for titillation or just sticking in a sex scene for sex scene sake. When we started this show, the way the sex scenes were sold to us. Ron was very adamant that he didn't want to do typical TV sex and that he wanted each time there was a sex scene, it had to say something about the couple or the story. And we've tried to make sure that that has maintained throughout the seasons and yes, this couple is very passionate, it's an integral part of their relationship, but unless it has also something else to say, it doesn't really work I think. Sam Heughan: And we're a couple now in our latter years, probably the prime actually. Caitriona Balfe: But I think that's also beautiful to show that this far into a marriage that a couple can still be as passionate and is romantic and as much in love with each other as they were from the beginning. I mean it changes and evolves. Sam Heughan: Doesn't mean it's less intimate or anything, you're just evolved. And I think other TV shows they don't show that. Lisa: So Brian and Dean, have you ever heard any of these horror stories about things that have happened to actors and actresses in these sex scenes? I mean, and I'll tell a story of my own when I was an actor what happened. But do you recall any of these famous scenes where, you know, a lot of people think that hey, you're an actor, you should be able to do all this, but people have been put through so much fucking garbage on set. Brian: Well the one that comes to mind most readily is Last Tango in Paris. That seems to me to be the most infamous and I think the one that damaged Marlon Brando's reputation to some degree, but not to the degree that he didn't get work again, you know what I mean, like he continued to work. Marci Liroff: Well quite honestly at the time it didn't damage his reputation because no one knew about it until pretty recently. Lisa: So Maria Schneider was in this love scene, whatever it is, a sexual scene, explicit scene with Marlon Brando and basically Bertolucci was like, we want to shake this actress up. We want to get her real reaction and they didn't bother fucking telling her what was going to happen in the scene and so he has to simulate anally raping her and she's going along with it because that's what you had to do. If you're with a big powerful director and a big powerful actor, you go along with it, right? This is pre Me Too, and that sets the tone for the industry. I mean, don't you think? Brian: One of my favorite documentaries is Hearts of Darkness about the making of apocalypse now and the scene that I always go back to and that is Martin Sheen on his birthday, getting more and more progressively drunk as the day is going on in the hotel room. And he smashes the mirror and cuts himself and he's bleeding, that's not what acting is. And yet Coppola lets it go. And I mean, to some degree, Sheen says he needed that, he needed to exercise those demons, but there's too many of those kinds of stories and I think that's kind of foundational to the whole Me Too movement. And what people who aren't in the industry don't understand, if you say no, if you decide I'm going to take a stand, and I'm going to say "no" a lot of times you're done, that's it. You get a reputation as being difficult, and then it's like this thing that you want to ma…
Full show notes at the publisherSince released in January 8 2020, this French language thriller/action/heist/fantasy has taken the world by storm. 70m households in two weeks ! Bigger than The Queen's Gambit or Bridgerton ? .... Sacre Bleu ! Your regular recappers Lisa, Brian and Dean are on board to step you threw Series 1. Series 2 is 'coming soon' according to Netflix. If this ep whets your appetite, you can dine on these morsels as well. Review at The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jan/19/lupin-netflix-surprise-hit-france-omar-sy
Review at the New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/arts/television/lupin-netflix-omar-sy.html
As mentioned in the pod, this original stories written around the true of the 20th century have been updated repeatedly in France. But in 1974 Japanese Director Hayao Miyazaki (later of Studio Ghibli/Spirited Away fame) produced an animated take on the character ! Trailer here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJudurbkv1E Lead of Lupin, Omar Sy became a star in France for the amazing 'Intouchables' Here is that trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34WIbmXkewU
Courtesy of our listener Ren, via SpeakPipe, here is the info on her recommendation 'Money Heist', also available on Netflix. Trailer https://youtu.be/fvCdLmxnkj0 The show on Netflix https://www.netflix.com/watch/80205342 (Meta-alert) 1 hr Documentary on success of the series https://www.netflix.com/watch/81098822
If you really wan to get you Eurotrash binge on, check out this list of Top 11 (not a typo) International shows to stream right now, yes RIGHT now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2020/04/16/fauda-money-heist-international-tv-shows/
FINALLY FOR SOME WACKY STUFF: Brian mentions that the character Lupin has "A very special set of skills". Well that particular phrase, means Dean needs NO further prompting whatsoever, to revisit this classic clip from The Graham Norton Show. Seth McFarlane doing his impersonation, of Kermit the Frog, doing his impersonation of the Liam Neeson phone call from the action thriller 'Taken' If you have not seen this it's a SERIOUS 'Coke alert' https://youtu.be/IxnePg0J9zM?t=313
And finally. The modern day man described as 'The Gentleman Thief' in today's world. Apollo Robbins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dWSIUNF10
His INSANENLY jaw dropping TEDx Talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-dWSIUNF10
Hey does anyone even read this stuff ... ? ;-). If so, please et me know on our Speakpipe widget, just go to , say your piece and you're done ! https://www.killercastingpod.com/contact Click the buttonRecord your message and we'll put you on the pod. Orright ... back to work now. (You that is, not me ....)
When we asked Bob to be on the show, we were stoked to hear his favourite show was Cobra Kai. We sit down with him and also Lisa's dad Bob Zambetti who has more black belts than you have had hot dinners. When Lisa would say at school "Oh yeah ? ... well my dad, could beat up *your* dad ... she wasn't kidding. If this episode fires you up, check out these links
The original video tape recorded auditions by Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita. The guy talking off-camera is Karate Kid director John Avildson, who also directed the first three Rocky films. https://youtu.be/YPFOHCmtEZI Great interview with Pat Morita explaining the back story of how he was cast in Karate Kid https://youtu.be/MoBeHY1Rvs0 Hilarious (and thought provoking) fan movie recut of Karate Kid, positioning Johnny as the good guy and Daniel as a spoilt bully. https://youtu.be/C_Gz_iTuRMM Ralph telling the story of how they shot the fly and chopsticks scene with a fly tied to a string ... no really ! https://youtu.be/EUG6FjvVo1M Martin Kove talks about Karate Kid and Pat Morita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix5oKfQirAk Multiple stories about Cobra Kai at ET Online https://www.etonline.com/latest/tv/cobra-kai About the Bobs .. Bob Ruff is currently investigating the double homicide of Fort Worth couple Agnes and Lloyd "Smitty" Courtney. The Truth & Justice Podcast recently wrapped up Season 7 (The Murder of Bill Little), and Season 5 (The Forgotten West Memphis Three). The podcast investigates a new potential wrongful conviction case every season. Bob asks listeners to help with the investigation, in an attempt to prove who actually committed the crimes and free the wrongfully convicted. Truth & Justice is a true crowdsourced investigation in real time. Professor Zambetti is a 6th Dan Black Belt in Taekwondo and 6th Dan Black Belt in Judo. He retired from active instruction at CSU East Bay (formerly CSU Hayward) in 2004 and is now a Professor Emeritus. He currently resides in Northern California.Yeah yeah .. .we KNOW that technically some of these films have 2019 release dates, but we *saw* them in 2020 and … c'mon give us a break please #2020 Lisa says check out Ma Rainey's Black Bottom … errr .. only she doesn't. All will be revealed, just listen on … Brian digs up some great, easily-missed gems. Meanwhile Dean puts on his grumpy face and dishes dirt on his nomination for the LEAST deserving Best Picture film of all time … (mainly because it happened in the year his beloved Blade Runner 2049 was not even NOMINATED). Yes Academy ... Dean is looking at you ! So this episode is a love-in for the stuff that nourished us throughout this shit-show, forever to be known as 2020.
BREAKING! Lisa has been working with acclaimed director Taika Waititi (Thor, Jo Jo Rabbit, Hunt for the Wilderpeople) to cast his new series Reservation Dogs. More here https://www.indiewire.com/2020/12/taika-waititis-2021-schedule-reservation-dogs-1234607085/
And now, on with the show ..
Lisa's special mentions for 2020 include: 'I May Destroy You' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11204260/
'The Great' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2235759 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10514222/
'Small Axe'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3464896/
'The Old Guard' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7556122/
'Palm Springs' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9484998
"Bridgerton' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8740790
Brian gives his big Texan love to; Jason Segel's 'Dispatches From Elsewhere' https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1768341273?playlistId=tt8965666&ref_=tt_ov_vi Nick Offerman's 'Devs'
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi4116627225?playlistId=tt8134186&ref_=tt_ov_vi And Charlie Kaufman's 'Im Thinking of Ending Things'
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi4234919449?playlistId=tt7939766&ref_=tt_ov_vi
Meanwhile, Dean was riveted by the retro-modern Tom Hanks WW2 drama 'Greyhound'
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3256991257?playlistId=tt6048922&ref_=tt_ov_vi
And if you enjoyed that movie you will LOVE this hour long deep dive (sic) interview with Tom on the AMAZING Dan Carlin's podcast Hardcore History Addendum. Check that out here
https://podcastnotes.org/hardcore-history/ep12-wolf-pack-hunting-with-hanks-tom-hanks-on-dan-carlins-hardcore-history-addendum/ Dean got his wetsuit on to watch two underwater doco's, 'My Octopus Teacher'
https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3668033817?playlistId=tt12888462&ref_=tt_ov_vi
And 'Last Breath' https://www.imdb.com/video/vi3035282457?playlistId=tt9056818&ref_=tt_ov_vi Dean's cave diving mate Richard 'Harry' Harris and his interview with Chris Lemons on his @realrisk podcast https://realriskpodcast.com/s2-e10-life-on-a-line-saturation-diving-with-chris-lemons-pt-1/
And finally for Dean .. how do you film a movie about an "Invisible Man' ? Well you put Leigh Whannel behind the camera, and Elizabeth Moss in front of it, and all is good. A cracking modern thriller with very topical themes of Domestic Violence and Coercive Control. Finally the hard-to-watch 'Uncut Gems' with Adam Sandler in (another) great serious role (leave the comedy behind please Adam) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5727208/ In terms of what we are looking forward to, Brian sez checkout: Avengers spinoff 'Wanda Vision' https://www.techradar.com/news/wandavision-release-date-trailer-disney-plus
Ted Danson vehicle 'Mr. Mayor' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10662034
And Carey Mulligan in 'Promising Young Woman' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292
Lisa has a hankering for:
'The Sound of Metal' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5363618/ Catching up on 'Mank' https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10618286 Dean sez:
Keep an eye out for Eric Bana in a taut Aussie thriller called 'The Dry' https://youtu.be/HwJhS4O_IdM
His unrequited crush Denis Villeneuve, is releasing his much anticipated version of Dune, attempting to expunge the hideous red-headed step child that *was* David Lynch's version with Kyle McLachlan
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1160419 And although he didn't get to say it on the pod, Dean is also looking forward to a couple of tent poles like Top Gun 2 and the final Daniel Craig Bond film.
Ray Shoesmith was right. The new guy is good. Connery rocks. Moore sucks. The rest are irrelevant.
Finally, check out the Guardian's round up of Best pics of 2020 that you may have missed
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/29/the-best-films-of-2020-that-you-havent-seen Likewise, what to anticipate in 2021 (apart from a double-shot of vaccine)
That's your lot then for 2020. We'll see on the GOOD side of the decade !!!
Here on Killer Casting we voted that it is INDEED not properly Christmas, until Hans Grüber falls off the Nakatomi Building. Though same say it is a Harry Potter film, after all ... John is sneaking around around a tower at night trying to avoid Alan Rickman, anyhooo ..... Lisa, Brian and Dean share their suggestions of some favourite Christmas/Holiday movies and TV. There are some classics which never date, some naughty ones, some sweet ones ... in short, something for everyone. Let us know what you all think on the socials ! https://www.facebook.com/killercastingpodcast https://twitter.com/killercasting https://www.instagram.com/killercasting/ Check out our YouTube channel with a special Xmas Playlist of the movies we mention on this episode. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqA-PkCzdRqDY1-22bkJ7-wLYJti-eNuT
Yes it features cards and gambling but its more about human nature and the con. For the last time in this current series, Joe takes us behind the curtain on the film and the process. Ebert called it "The year's best film" Whilst Siskel said " This is like 'The Sting' ... for adults"
"The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent." David Mamet OG7fkIowfENAEyMeMRRM
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