Movies and Tea #46 – We Need To Talk About Kevin

The next episode of Movies and Tea is here as we continue the Female Director season and check out We Need To Talk About Kevin. Head on over to Movies and Tea to give it a listen!

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Continuing our season long celebration of female directors on this episode we look at Lynne Ramsay and her adaptation of Lionel Shriver’s novel We Need To Talk About Kevin in which the formerly acclaimed travel writer turned social recluse Eva looks back at the problematic relationship with her son Kevin and the events which lead to her current situation. 

We also question if Tilda Swinton was Oscar snubbed for her performance while breaking down this visually engrossing psychological drama.

Music on this episode

Mule Skinner Blues – Lonnie Donegan & His Skiffle Group
Yes I’m Changing – Tame Impala

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After Hours: 47 Metres Down + 47 Metres Down: Uncaged

Its been a while since the last share for the Movies and Tea. Actually, we’re a few episodes ahead of this one in release but I’ll be reblogging them over the next week or so.

Next up is the Shark Week After Hours and we did a double feature of the 47 Meters Down films! Head on over to Movies and Tea and give it a listen. Hope you enjoy!

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Shark Week once again comes to Movies and Tea as this time we have not one but two shark movies to discuss as we look at 47 Metres Down were two sisters find themselves trapped 47 metres underwater and surrounded by sharks when thier dive cage sinks.

In the DTV sequel Uncaged. two step sisters and and thier friends set out to explore an underwater tomb only for a cave in to trap them inside with the resident blind cave sharks.

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Movies and Tea #43 – Mank

Next episode of Movies and Tea is here as we wrap up the David Fincher season with his latest film, Mank. Head on over to Movies and Tea to give it a listen and let us know your thoughts on this film.

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Working from a screenplay by his late father Jack Fincher, here Fincher’s bio-picture about screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewich as he attempts to finish the screenplay for “Citizen Kane” against the backdrop of a turbulant time in old Hollywood.

Music on this episode

Cowboys and Indians – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross
All This Time (Happily Ever After) – Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross Mank

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Movies and Tea #42 – Gone Girl

Time for the next episode of Movies and Tea as we wrap up our David Fincher season and also share our favorite, worst and hidden gems of the season! Head over to Movies and Tea to give it a listen! Feel free to share your own picks for David Fincher!

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Bringing our David Fincher season to a close is Gone Girl as he delivers another adult thriller with one hell of a killer twist as Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) soon discovers that his wife Amy’s disappearence might be a cover for much darker intentions.

We also reveal our favourite, hidden gems and worst films of Fincher’s filmography.

Further Viewing

Dark Places
Memento
Nightcrawler
To Die For
Stoker

Music on this episode

Keith Mansfield – Funky Fanfare

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Movies and Tea #41 – The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

The next episode of Movies and Tea is here as we continue on with David Fincher’s season looking at the next film with the adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. Head over to Movies and Tea to give our discussion a listen.

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Originally set to adapt the whole Millenium trilogy we would sadly be left with a what if as Fincher’s english language adaptation of the book fell short of the studios expectations.

We look at the film and try to find out what went wrong as Daniel Craig’s Mikael Blomkvist, a disgraced journalist, teams up with Lisbeth Salander, a computer hacker, to solve the mystery of a woman who has been missing for forty years only to soon discover much darker secrets being hidden by the family.

Further Viewing

Gone Baby Gone
Gone Girl
8mm
The Silence of the Lambs

Music on this episode

Enya – Orinoco Flow
Keith Mansfield – Funky Fanfare
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Immigrant Song

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Movies And Tea #40 – The Social Network

The next episode of Movies and Tea is here as we move forward to the next movie in David Fincher’s films and discuss The Social Network. Head on over to Movies and Tea to give it a listen!

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While the idea of making a movie about Facebook seems like the kind of fodder best suited for a TV movie, in the hands of Fincher while working from a script by Aarron Sorkin it arguably became one of the best films of the last decade.

Here Fincher spins a tale of sucess, greed, envy and betryal. But then you don’t get to 500 millions friends without making a few enemies

Further Viewing

The Big Short
Steve Jobs
Man On The Moon

Music on this episode

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross – In Motion
Keith Mansfield – Funky Fanfare
Vega Choir – Creep

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Movies and Tea #39 -The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Welcome to the next episode of Movies and Tea as we continue with the David Fincher season and discuss The Curious Case of Benjamin Button! Head over to the blog to give it a listen!

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Taking a break from his now trademark dark urban landscapes and the darker intentions of those inhabit them, with this adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald story of the same name he brings his visual bag of tricks to a unique love story in which we follow Benjamin Button a man who is aging backwards and his relationship with the dancer Daisy over the course of his life.

Further Viewing

Age of Adaline
Wait ’til You’re Older
Big Fish
Ash Is The Purest White
Forest Gump
Brokeback Mountain
The Time Travellers Wife

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Keith Mansfield – Funky Fanfare

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Movies and Tea #28 – Zodiac

The next episode of Movies and Tea is here! We move along with the David Fincher films as we discuss Zodiac! Head on over to the blog or any of the podcast platforms to give it a listen! Hope you enjoy!

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On this episode we are joined on this episode by Nicholas Rehak (French Toast Sunday) to breakdown the True Crime Thriller Zodiac following not only the hunt for the illusive serial killer who taunted the police with cryptic cyphers but also the men who tried to track him down and the effect the case had on each of them.

Further Viewing

Seven
All The Presidents Men
Spotlight
Wolf Creek
True Detective (Season 1)
Natural Born Killers
Memories of Murder
Cardinal (Season 1)

Music on this episode

Three Dog Night – Easy To Be Hard
Keith Mansfield – Funky Fanfare
Donovan – Hurdy Gurdy Man

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Movies and Tea #27 – Panic Room

Next up for Movies and Tea Podcast as we continue through David Fincher season is Panic Room! Head on over to Movie and Tea blog to give it a listen! Hope you enjoy!

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Our season long re-evaulation of David Fincher’s filmography continues with “Panic Room” in which a mother and daughter move into a new house with a very unique selling point…. it’s panic room which certainly comes in handy when a trio of men break into the house. The only problem is what they want is in the Panic Room.

We look at the problematic making of, the last minute casting changes and Fincher ever evolving visual style and more!!

Further Viewing

Phonebooth
Don’t Breathe
Flightplan
Inside Man
Escape Room

Music on this episode

Keith Mansfield – Funky Fanfare

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Movies and Tea #29 – Hulk

The next Movies and Tea episode is live as we continue through Ang Lee’s filmography of Hulk! Head over to Movies and Tea to give it a listen and share your thoughts with us!

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As we reach the halfway point for our Ang Lee filmography re-evaulation we come to Hulk which saw Lee choosing to follow up his critically acclaimed and genre reviving Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with a comic book movie. Certainly this was a unique choice despite the fact he’s never been restricted to any perticular genre and certainly it was this unrestricted world view that he brough to his unique adaptation of the popular Marvel character.

Released before the superhero boom, here his sins of the father style approach to the Hulk origin story brought a unique spin on the character but with most comic book movies having largely forgotten this adaptation, was it ahead of it’s time or just plain missing the mark?

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