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For the season 5 season finale, Writer/Director/Producer Adam McKay returns to the podcast to discuss movies from his favorite year of cinema… 1987.

The Movies That Made Me will return with Season 6 in January. Happy Holidays! Thank you for listening!

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Tin Men (1987)

Billy Jack (1971)

The Menu (2022)

Boyz N The Hood (1991) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

Menace II Society (1991)

Straight Out Of Brooklyn (1991)

Do The Right Thing (1989) – Allan Arkush’s trailer commentary

School Daze (1988)

The Swarm (1978) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

The Squeeze (1987)

Squeeze Play (1979) – Lloyd Kaufman’s trailer commentary

Diner (1982)

Robocop (1987) – Dan Ireland’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray reviews

The Evil Dead (1983) – Fede Alvarez’s trailer commentary

Evil Dead II (1987) – Mike Mendez’s trailer commentary, Alex Kirschenbaum’s review

Broadcast News (1987)

Raising Arizona (1987)

The Princess Bride (1987) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

This Is Spinal Tap (1984) – John Landis’s...

He was ‘the first black punk in Hull’ and was named one of the world’s 50 most beautiful people. But the singer turned his back on pop stardom. He reveals why he’s returning with a gritty musical about a band called The Blacks

There are no film posters up in Roland Gift’s house in Holloway, London, and the platinum discs are all packed away. It’s a home that gives few clues to the remarkable life story the 59-year-old is about to recount: how the “first black punk in Hull” went on to become an international pop and movie star.

“I’ve always been afraid of getting wrapped up with fame and that glamour world,” is how he puts it today. Indeed, even when Gift’s band, Fine Young Cannibals, topped the charts on both sides of the Atlantic with their 1989 second album, The Raw & the Cooked, he...

In his latest interview/podcast, host Stuart Wright talks with writer/director Mercedes Grower about her dark comedy feature Brakes, which stars Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Julia Davis, Kerry Fox, Roland Gift, Paul McGann and Steve Oram.

Brakes is a raw, dark and unconventional comedy from new writer/director Mercedes Grower. Split into two halves it follows the tumultuous stories of nine couples, plunging straight into the brutal and absurd endings of their relationships first, before travelling back to the moments when the spark of love between them first emerged. Using London as their match-maker, each of their stories is unique yet familiar to us all.

Cinema listings from Friday 24 November at www.brakesfilm.com/cinema-listings/

Watch at home from Friday 24 November. See www.brakesfilm.com/watch-at-home/...

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The festival opens with critically acclaimed science-fiction drama,"I Origins," starring Boardwalk Empire's Michael Pitt, The Good Wife’s Archie Panjabi and rising star Brit Marling followed by an opening night gala at Cafe de Paris with Fine Young Cannibal’s Roland Gift to headline, alongside Douglas Hart ( The Jesus Mary and Chain) and Andy Bell (Oasis). The festival will close with a screening of the Dutch film noir thriller "Wolf," with and after party hosted at Leicester Square’s Ruby Blue.

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Raindance’s prestigious international program this year includes the UK premiere of Mexican film "Cesar Chavez," directed by Diego Luna and starring Wes Bentley, America Ferrera and John Malkovich, who will also be making a personal appearance at the screening on Saturday September 27th. Asia Argento’s latest feature "Misunderstood," starring Charlotte Gainsbourg, will also be premiering at the festival as part of Raindance’s Italian film selection.

Other highlights include the world premieres of "Like Sunday, Like Rain" starring Debra Messing and Leighton Meester, and musical comedy "The Beat Beneath My Feet" featuring Luke Perry as a washed-up rock god, as well as drama "Things People Do," with British screen anti-hero Jason Isaacs.

In a change to previous years, the festival program has been segmented by mood and tone, rather than genre; feature films will be categorized as spring, summer, autumn and winter, while documentaries predominantly focus on areas of conflict in the Middle East and women’s rights in Africa. Raindance’s Shorts Program will this year include "Dotty," an experimental short film starring Sadie Frost and her son Rudy Law.

The festival will culminate in the annual Raindance Awards Ceremony on 4th October with a jury made up of influential industry figures including Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock), Alice Lowe ("Sightseers," "Hot Fuzz"), and Amy Hubbard (casting director Homeland and 24).

Raindance will also be running its expert-hosted Events Series which will cover every aspect of filmmaking from the old-fashioned basics to the cutting edge advances. High profile events include, In conversation with Sean Bobbit, cinematographer famed for his work on Academy Award Winning "12 Years a Slave," "Shame" and "The Place Beyond the Pines."

Full details on the program and tickets to the festival can be found at www.raindancefestival.org...

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Metro Manila led the pack on the night with three wins including Best British Independent Film, Best Director for Sean Ellis and Best Achievement in Production.

Clearly stunned, Ellis thanked Bifa for supporting “our little holiday film” when accepting the Best Film prize and - holding back tears - dedicated the award to his mother.

The crime drama, shot in the Philippine capital in the Tagalog language with a local cast and crew, debuted at Sundance in January and is the UK’s submission for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the Oscars...

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