Episodes
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
297. Olivia de Havilland
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
Tuesday Jul 07, 2020
This week, Emily and Ed discuss the career of Olivia de Havilland, the iconic actress of classic Hollywood who was also the plaintiff in a lawsuit that fundamentally altered the relationship between actors and studios, and who turned 104 years old this week. They also pay tribute to Carl Reiner, discuss whether or not a Fallout series could be any good, Hamilton being on Disney+, and, sigh, Kanye possibly running for President.
00:00:00 - 00:33:49 - Intro & News
00:33:50 - 00:55:55 - Emily & Ed discuss the career and impact of Olivia de Havilland
00:55:56 - 01:00:17 - SRS Recommends & Outro
Links
"This Profile of Charlie Kaufman Has Changed" by Jon Mooallem
Monday Apr 24, 2017
175. Kevin Costner (with Jack Rhoden)
Monday Apr 24, 2017
Monday Apr 24, 2017
In an episode years in the making, Ed sits down with historian and friend Jack Rhoden to discuss the work of Kevin Costner. In addition to talking about specific films from the actor/director's back catalogue, they examine his status as a movie star, the almost mythic way in which he is used by some filmmakers to evoke a sense of Americana, and the peaks and valleys of a career that has had plenty of both. They also manage to compare Costner to both Lyndon Baines Johnson and indie-rock stalwarts Spoon, which is a pretty decent spectrum.
00:00:00 - 00:06:10 - Intro
00:06:11 - 01:03:21 - Ed & Jack discuss the career of Kevin Costner
01:03:22 - 01:09:23 - SRS Recommends & Outro
Monday Mar 14, 2016
132. Hail, Caesar! and The Coen Brothers
Monday Mar 14, 2016
Monday Mar 14, 2016
To commemorate the release of Hail, Caesar!, which hit UK cinemas this week, Matt and Ed offer their thoughts on the film before going on to discuss the work of Joel and Ethan Coen more generally. In between talking about the brothers' pet themes, their relationship to classic cinema, and the notion of "moral authority" in their films, Matt describes a fever dream that maybe involves Dolph Lundgren, reveals an inside scoop on Harry Styles' acting experience, and the two discover/half-remember the most baffling film ever made.
Monday Dec 14, 2015
122. Michael Winterbottom
Monday Dec 14, 2015
Monday Dec 14, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
118. Madonna
Monday Nov 16, 2015
Monday Nov 16, 2015
It's artist profile time again, and this week Matt and Ed discuss the cinematic work of Madonna. In addition to getting to grips with the (few) highs and (plentiful) lows of her work in cinema, they also try to contextualise her acting and directing in terms of her broader work as a musician and a performer, imagine a version of Swept Away starring Jason Statham, and accidentally create Middle Earth's greatest rapper.
Monday Oct 05, 2015
112. Bette Davis
Monday Oct 05, 2015
Monday Oct 05, 2015
Monday Aug 24, 2015
107. Jerry Bruckheimer
Monday Aug 24, 2015
Monday Aug 24, 2015
For their seventh artist profile, Matt and Ed step a little bit out of their comfort zone by discussing someone who a) isn't an actor or director and b) hasn't made all that much work that they actually like. The person is question is Jerry Bruckheimer, the uber-producer who came to prominence in the 1980s with films like Flashdance, Top Gun and the Beverly Hills Cop series, and who has remained one of the most successful producers in Hollywood for three decades.
As part of the discussion they talk about Bruckheimer's tendency to forge strong working relationships with filmmakers which end the instant a film fails, his working relationship with the late Don Simpson, and try to discover the truth of what really happened on the Titanic.
Show Notes
00:00:00 - 00:01:15 - Intro
00:01:16 - 00:49:02 - Profile of Jerry Bruckheimer
00:49:03 - 00:50:34 - Outro
Monday Jul 27, 2015
103. Eddie Murphy
Monday Jul 27, 2015
Monday Jul 27, 2015
As promised back in the Burt Lancaster episode, Matt and Ed follow-up quickly with an episode of one of the most electrifying and frustrating actors in film history, Eddie Murphy. In addition to discussing his origins as a standup and on Saturday Night Live, they talk about his meteoric rise in the 1980s, his absolute nadir in the mid-'00s, and the reason behind his anticlimactic return to SNL earlier this year.
Monday Jul 13, 2015
101. Burt Lancaster
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Monday Jul 13, 2015
Sunday May 10, 2015
94. Ang Lee
Sunday May 10, 2015
Sunday May 10, 2015
In the fourth SRS Artist Profile, Matt and Ed look at the work of Ang Lee, a filmmaker who has worked in multiple genres, on multiple continents and in multiple languages over the course of his career, creating a body of work which is incredibly diverse yet distinctly his own. They discuss the reasons why his early films, which dealt with cross-generational conflict and Taiwanese identity in the West, made him the perfect choice to direct a Jane Austen adaptation, his ill-advised venture into broad comedy, and his endlessly fascinating take on The Incredible Hulk, which looks even more radical in such a superhero-addled age. They also find time to discuss one of nature's greatest sights: a wild Nick Nolte.
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
90. Susan Sarandon
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
Sunday Apr 12, 2015
For their latest artist profile, Matt and Ed decided to discuss the work of Susan Sarandon. As well as talking about her breakthrough as Janet in The Rocky Horror Picture Show and career highlights from the '80s and '90s, they talk about what the different roles she has played say about sexism in Hollywood and how her choices both play into and challenge it, whether or not her work in an Adam Sandler vehicle can be classified as a transgression against the Orthodoxy, and Ed describes the near breakdown he had while watching the ensemble monstrosity that is The Big Wedding.
Sunday Feb 22, 2015
84. Clint Eastwood
Sunday Feb 22, 2015
Sunday Feb 22, 2015
Tuesday Jan 27, 2015
80. Richard Linklater
Tuesday Jan 27, 2015
Tuesday Jan 27, 2015
In the first of what will become a monthly feature, this episode finds Matt and Ed discussing the career of director Richard Linklater, the veteran of American independent cinema who is currently the toast of the town thanks to the critical and commercial success of Boyhood.