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  • What on earth is film 'testing'? | A podcast special, with Kevin Goetz

    What on earth is film 'testing'? | A podcast special, with Kevin Goetz
    Feb 20 2026
    The art of movie testing isn't just about researching finished films. It's also testing the very concept of a movie, that can determine both whether it gets made, and what it gets made for. In a special episode of the podcast, a man who you may not have heard of joins Simon. Yet Kevin Goetz has certainly had some impact on the films you watch. His new book - How To Score In Hollywood, written with Bob Levin - digs into this. And in this special chat, we uncover some of his work... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 3 min
  • Hulk (2003), plus the ongoing sequel problem

    Hulk (2003), plus the ongoing sequel problem
    Feb 16 2026
    It was very different times for Marvel when, in the 1990s, it struck an assortment of deals over screen rights for its characters. For the purposes of this tale, the Incredible Hulk, for whom Universal snapped up the rights. The deal done then continues to have some ramifications now, but the first fruits of it? Ang Lee's 2003 movie Hulk, starring Eric Bana. Arriving the year after Sam Raimi's Spider-man, it turns out there was an early alarm bell that they might have got the tone a little wrong... More on the film, and the ongoing sequel issues, in this episode... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 min
  • The Untouchables (1987), plus the prequel movie that never was

    The Untouchables (1987), plus the prequel movie that never was
    Feb 9 2026
    Brian De Palma's soaring 1987 crime drama The Untouchables nearly went in some very different directions. Jack Nicholson as Eliot Ness? Bob Hoskins as Al Capone? And what's more, the film's legendary sequence on the steps of Chicago's Union Station was pretty much made up on the fly. The story is told in this episode, as well as the brief attempt to get a prequel movie - Capone Rising - off the ground as well. If you enjoy this, please like and subscribe. Doesn't half help independent podcasts when you do that... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 min
  • In conversation with director Angel Manuel Soto | The Wrecking Crew, Blue Beetle, toilet roll

    In conversation with director Angel Manuel Soto | The Wrecking Crew, Blue Beetle, toilet roll
    Feb 6 2026
    Director Angel Manuel Soto has just brought Jason Momoa and Dave Bautista together on the big screen, in the Prime Video hit THE WRECKING CREW. Growing in Puerto Rico, he was some way away from the man who'd direct BLUE BEETLE for Warner Bros and DC. And in this special interview, he tells his incredible film story. And it involves loo roll! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    49 min
  • Fatal Attraction (1987), plus a very nerdy chat with Sam Raimi

    Fatal Attraction (1987), plus a very nerdy chat with Sam Raimi
    Feb 3 2026
    Quite the double dose in this episode of Film Stories. Firstly, the story of how Fatal Attraction came from the roots of a short film at the start of the 1980s. How directors such as John Carpenter turned it down. And how the infamous battle over its ending led to one of the iconic movie thrillers of the 1980s. Then! It's only Sam Raimi! Chatting about Send Help, movie frame rates, For Love Of The Game and futuristic prison movies... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 20 min
  • In conversation with Ric Roman Waugh | Shelter, Statham, the freezing cold and more

    In conversation with Ric Roman Waugh | Shelter, Statham, the freezing cold and more
    Jan 30 2026
    Ric Roman Waugh has directed films such as the newly-released Shelter, along with Greenland, Greenland: Migration, Kandahar and more. And in this far-reaching conversation with Simon Brew, he takes us through his latest film and body of work. Not least the unusual connection between Simon and Ric's fathers, thanks to Paint Your Wagon. A tenuous link, surely, but one the pair get into! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 min
  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Educating Rita (1983) | A mighty messy Star Wars production

    Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Educating Rita (1983) | A mighty messy Star Wars production
    Jan 28 2026
    Two very different films in this latest episode of film history podcast Film Stories. Firstly, it's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an infamously difficult production that saw director Gareth Edwards fashion a war tale in the Star Wars universe - and then reshoots become Hollywood trade press fodder. Coming off the back of two James Bond films meanwhile, director Lewis Gilbert reckoned he might be able to get interest in a film take on hit play Educating Rita back in the early 1980s. He got a short, sharp shock - but a dinner party offered him a very welcome stroke a luck. Stories of both films are told in this episode. Please do the like and subscribe and leaving a nice review thing. Thank you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 14 min
  • Paint Your Wagon (1969), and Dexter Fletcher on The Elephant Man and more

    Paint Your Wagon (1969), and Dexter Fletcher on The Elephant Man and more
    Jan 26 2026
    One of the more bizarre projects to come out of a Hollywood studio in the late 1960s, Paint Your Wagon felt like a turning point movie. Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood - and they're both singing? How did that happen? Turns out it's quite a story. Then, ahead of an appearance at the BFI to talk about his work in David Lynch's The Elephant Man, Dexter Fletcher joins Simon for a chat about it. That, and a bit of Alan Rickman, and inviting Christopher Walken over for dinner... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 h et 19 min