Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this episode, we’re talking about Billy Wilder’s 1960 comedy drama The Apartment. Inspired by Noel Coward’s Brief Encounter, the film was nominated for ten Oscars and won five, though the subject matter was regarded as a pretty controversial turn for Wilder after his box office smash Some Like It Hot. The movie was later developed into the mu...
Dec 23, 2021•47 min
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. *This is the second of four Christmas bonus episodes for Christmas 2021 - series two coming in 2022!* In this episode we’re going to be the fly in the ointment, the monkey in the wrench, the pain in the ass of 1988’s Die Hard. Directed by John McTiernan, written by Jeb Stuart and Steven De Souza and based on the 1979 novel Nothing Lasts Forever ...
Dec 16, 2021•59 min
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. *This is the first of four Christmas bonus episodes for Christmas 2021 - series two coming in 2022!* In this episode we’re talking about the most divisive film of the 21st century, Richard Curtis’ all-star 2003 festive platter Love Actually. Is this movie the John Lewis Pulp Fiction, Middlemarch for the Great British Bake Off generation or is it...
Dec 09, 2021•1 hr 54 min
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this episode, we’re talking about Reginald Hudlin’s 1992 movie Boomerang. With a story by Eddie Murphy and a screenplay by Saturday Night Live writers Barry W. Blaustein and David Sheffield, this was megastar Murphy’s first time taking the lead in an adult romantic comedy and became the 18th most successful film at the US box office that year...
Nov 11, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this episode, we’re talking about the hugely influential and gigantic box office hit The Graduate from 1967, directed by Mike Nichols with a screenplay by Buck Henry and Calder Willingham, based on the novel by Charles Webb, this film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, winning Best Director for Nichols. Tonight we’ll be pouring a scotch ...
Oct 28, 2021•48 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this episode, we’re talking about Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 hit Point Break. With a screenplay by W. Peter Iliff and giving Keanu Reeves his first-ever role in an action film, Point Break has been referred to by Rolling Stone magazine as the ‘wet western’ that might be ‘the greatest female-gaze action movie ever’. Pulling on Ronald Reagan and Ri...
Oct 21, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 5
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this episode, we’re talking about David Frankel’s The Devil Wears Prada from the year 2006. With a screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna and based on Lauren Weisberger’s 2003 novel rumoured to be based on her time working under Vogue editor Anna Wintour, this film earned Meryl Streep and legendary costume designer Patricia Field Oscar nominations...
Oct 14, 2021•47 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this episode, we’re talking about Richard Donner’s Superman from the year 1978. With a screenplay by Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman and Robert Benton; based on the DC Comics character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, this would come to be recognised among many as the godfather of superhero films. Helping us fight for truth an...
Oct 07, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this episode, we’re talking about Roger Michell’s Notting Hill from the year 1999. Written by Richard Curtis and hotly anticipated after the monster smash Hugh Grant star vehicle that was Four Weddings and a Funeral five years before, at the turn of the millennium Notting Hill became the highest-grossing British film of all time. The Pandora’...
Sep 30, 2021•41 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to 'Don't You Want Me?' - a podcast series taking a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. In this first episode, Rich and Cat are talking about the fizzing central relationship in Martin Campbell’s Casino Royale from the year 2006. With a screenplay by Neil Purvis, Robert Wade and Paul Haggis, this marked Daniel Craig’s debut as the nation’s favourite MI6 agent. Rich and Cat will be raising their vodka martinis to James, played by Da...
Sep 23, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 1
DON'T YOU WANT ME? Catrin Lowe and Rich Nelson take a lighthearted look at the most relatable, intriguing and dysfunctional relationships in film. Series one includes ten episodes, starting with Casino Royale (2006). Future episodes to feature West Side Story (1961), Superman (1978), Point Break (1991) and more. ============================================== Produced by Catrin Lowe and Rich Nelson Theme music by Paul Abbott (on Instagram @paulmdabbott ) Design by NOAKE (on Instagram @n_o_a...
Sep 15, 2021•47 sec
