This week, Clarisse talks COCAINE BEAR with screenwriter Jimmy Warden (05:10), while - in our review (24:44) - we decide once and for all whether that bear really did cocaine. Plus, we talk found families in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s BROKER (37:21) and arranged marriage in rom-com WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT? (48:00) Also, Amon speaks to Ashley Madekwe about Netflix’s thriller THE STRAYS (1:03:33). Plus, in our HOT TAKE (1:18:05), with #BaftasSoWhite trending once more, we ask whether the organizati...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 35 min•Ep. 99
This week, Amon sits down with Jonathan Majors to talk Kang in ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA (09:00) plus we review the first film in phase 5 of the MCU (25:00). We go on a domestic journey with MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON (54:00), give our verdict on THE SON (1:08:00), Florian Zeller’s follow-up to The Father and Hanna speaks to Clint Dyer, the Deputy Artistic Director of The Royal National Theatre, about bringing a cinematic approach to his film production of Shakespeare classic, OTHELL...
Feb 19, 2023•2 hr 14 min•Ep. 98
This week, Amon sits down with Justice Smith to discuss the many twists and turns of Apple TV+’s SHARPER (14:02), while we review the glistening torsos of MAGIC MIKE’S LAST DANCE (30:52), the tough conversations of WOMEN TALKING (49:43), and the closeted sexualities of BLUE JEAN (01:12:27). Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:25:03), we discuss whether it’s hypocritical for outspoken actors to work with problematic directors? If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to dis...
Feb 12, 2023•1 hr 39 min•Season 1Ep. 97
This week, Hanna talks to Darren Aronofsky about his Oscar contender THE WHALE (08:36) and we review his latest drama (21:18). We also pay a visit to M. Night Shyamalan’s apocalyptic thriller KNOCK AT THE CABIN (38:32), follow a dramatic court case in SAINT OMER (53:33), and Clarisse talks to Harvey Guillén about his new role in PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH (01:12:42), which we review too (01:27:39). Meanwhile, in our HOT TAKE (01:42:35), we discuss the latest DC announcements! If you’d like to ...
Feb 05, 2023•1 hr 55 min•Season 1Ep. 96
This week, we board PLANE (29:53), while Amon speaks to its stars, Gerard Butler and Mike Colter (09:36). Plus, we’re invited back into Steven Spielberg’s childhood for THE FABELMANS (43:14), join Jennifer Lopez and Josh Duhamel for a SHOTGUN WEDDING (1:03:18), and witness ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (1:14:55) of Nan Goldin’s life in Laura Poitras’s new documentary. Meanwhile, in our HOT TAKE (1:25:28), we pick apart those Oscar nominations. If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest...
Jan 29, 2023•1 hr 43 min•Ep. 95
This week, Hanna chats to director Emily Atef about her film MORE THAN EVER (07:25), a drama about love and death set against the Norwegian mountains, while we review the film (29:24). Plus, we dive into BABYLON (37:07), Damien Chazelle’s grand ode to Hollywood’s silent era; domestic violence drama ALICE, DARLING (01:08:24), with Anna Kendrick; and HOLY SPIDER (01:22:06), while tells the story of one of Iran’s most infamous serial killers. Meanwhile, in our HOT TAKE (01:36:21), we start Fade to ...
Jan 22, 2023•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 94
This week, Clarisse chats to costume designer Mary Zophres about her Silent-era costumes in Babylon (07:00). We put on our dancing shoes for M3GAN (27:00), dissect some toxic workplace culture in Tár with Cate Blanchett (46:00) and decide whether The Old Way is the right way in Nicolas Cages’ latest (1:13:00). Meanwhile, in our HOT TAKE (1:29:00), we discuss the comeback of the divisive Golden Globes. If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us a...
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 49 min
We’re back! Our first episode of 2023 has Amon speaking to Mamie Till-Mobley herself, Danielle Deadwyler (10:03), while the pod team discusses Chinonye Chukwu’s portrait of a mother’s love and resilience in historical drama TILL (27:44). Tom Hanks gets grumpy in A MAN CALLED OTTO (44:22), Sam Mendes pens his love letter to cinema in EMPIRE OF LIGHT (58:39), and a teenage girl finds the unlikeliest of allies in Spanish horror PIGGY (01:14:10). Clarisse also speaks to THE PALE BLUE EYE star Harry ...
Jan 08, 2023•1 hr 58 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Hi listeners! With Christmas on the horizon, we thought we'd leave you with one last present in the form of an interview special with the great Charlie Cox! Amon caught up with him to chat about his new show, Treason - which is streaming on Netflix now - and Cox also shared his thoughts about the past and future of Daredevil. It's a fun one! All that's left for the Fade To Black team to say is to wish you Happy Holidays! We hope you all have a spectacular end to 2022. Catch ya on the flipside. F...
Dec 23, 2022•19 min
This week, after 13 long years, we return to Pandora with AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER (29:52), while Amon talks to Colonel Miles Quaritch himself, Stephen Lang (14:12). We lace up with historical drama CORSAGE (56:00), find the doughnut hole in the doughnut's hole with Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY (1:15:11), and get existential with BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (1:59:56), as Hanna talks to the man behind it all, the one and only Alejandro González Iñárritu (1:39...
Dec 17, 2022•2 hr 33 min•Ep. 91
This week, Amon has been on an interview spree! He chats to Brian Tyree Henry about drama CAUSEWAY (11:00), Guillermo Del Toro and Mark Gustafson about PINOCCHIO (49:00) and director Antoine Fuqua about EMANCIPATION (1:31:00). We review the stop-motion endeavour (30:00) and historical slave drama (1:50:00) as well THE SILENT TWINS (1:11:00). Plus, we give our hot takes about WONDER WOMAN 3 after DC cancelled it (2:03:00). If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang ...
Dec 11, 2022•2 hr 20 min•Ep. 90
This week, Amon talks to Rebecca Hall about horror RESURRECTION (04:34); He’s making a list, he’s checking it twice, David Harbour’s Santa Claus is coming to town in VIOLENT NIGHT (30:03); Noah Baumbach faces the apocalypse in his adaptation of Don DeLillo’s WHITE NOISE (42:11); We click our heels together three times and enter the world of LYNCH/OZ (53:42); It’s YOUR CHRISTMAS OR MINE? (01:04:19) with Asa Butterfield and Cora Kirk; And Amon has a chat with Margaret Brown and Joycelyn Davis abou...
Dec 04, 2022•1 hr 50 min•Season 1Ep. 89
This week, Clarisse speaks to STRANGE WORLD co-directors Don Hall and Qui Nguyen (11:56), and the pod team discuss Disney’s latest animated adventure (33:58). We devour Luca Guadagnino’s new film, BONES AND ALL (47:28), and tackle Maria Schrader’s take on the New York Times investigation that exposed Harvey Weinstein’s crimes in SHE SAID (58:34). Then Amon speaks to MATILDA THE MUSICAL star Andrea Riseborough (01:20:07), and we give our own revolting review of the latest Roald Dahl adaptation (0...
Nov 27, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 88
This week, Amon journeys through James Gray’s childhood memories as the pair chat ARMAGEDDON TIME (09:06). Meanwhile, the pod team make a wish on Disney+ sequel DISENCHANTED (27:00); take a break with Charlotte Wells’ debut AFTERSUN (42:14); test their faith with Netflix’s THE WONDER (56:48); and find Letitia Wright stuck between a rock and a hard place in immigration drama AISHA (01:11:54). Then Amon speaks to critic Elvis Mitchell about his sweeping film essay portrait of Black cinema in IS TH...
Nov 20, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 86
This week, Hanna speaks to director Sally El Hosaini about the remarkable true story behind her drama THE SWIMMERS (08:40), we meet MY FATHER’S DRAGON (27:58), thanks to Cartoon Saloon’s latest, and we go all out on BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER (44:12), as Hanna meets Namor himself, Tenoch Huerta (01:15:46). And, in our HOT take, we’ll be sounding the spoiler klaxon on WAKANDA FOREVER (01:25:18) and talking the future of Black Panther. If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Ta...
Nov 13, 2022•1 hr 44 min•Season 1Ep. 86
This week, we get WEIRD (04:44) with the Al Yankovic Story; Bill Nighy stars in LIVING (23:03), an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s masterful Ikiru; we celebrate Jennifer Lawrence’s full-blooded return in CAUSEWAY (39:43); and Millie Bobby Brown is on the case in ENOLA HOLMES 2 (55:25). Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:11:11), can Guy Ritchie really deliver on the promise of a live-action Hercules? If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBla...
Nov 06, 2022•1 hr 25 min•Season 1Ep. 85
This week, we contend with some major, horrifying red flags in Barbarian (7:10), check out some bromantic gay love in Bros (27:43), and have our sick bags at the ready as we enter the Triangle of Sadness (44:27). Plus, in our HOT take, we discuss the future of DC with the announcement that James Gunn and Peter Safran are taking the reins (1:03:49). If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod Follow us: @amonwarmann , @clarissel...
Oct 30, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 1Ep. 84
This week, Hanna speaks to John Patton Ford (06:18) about his crime thriller EMILY THE CRIMINAL led by Aubrey Plaza. We dissect Jamie Lee Curtis’s final (so she says!) outing as Laurie Strode in HALLOWEEN ENDS (25:10). Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson have a major fall out in THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (44:29), and Park Chan-wook delves into film noir with DECISION TO LEAVE (01:03:11). And in our HOT TAKE (01:20:28), we decide whether Dwayne Johnson really changed the hierarchy of power in BLACK...
Oct 23, 2022•1 hr 53 min•Season 1Ep. 83
This week… Amon speaks to The Woman King’s own Thuso Mbedu (8:21), while we review Gina Prince-Bythewood’s historical epic (23:09). We tackle the documentary NOTHING COMPARES (42:20), which draws a straight line between the revolutionary politics of Sinéad O'Connor and today’s pop divas. And, AWOOOOOOOOOO! The beast is released in Marvel’s one-take Halloween special, WEREWOLF BY NIGHT (50:30). Plus, in our HOT take, we discuss Chris Pratt and his Super Mario Bros vocal work (1:08:37) If you’d li...
Oct 09, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Ep. 82
This week… with the London Film Festival around the corner, Hanna chats to director Youssef Chebbi about his Tunisia-set crime-thriller Ashkal (13:47); We take a trip into the fictionalised, nightmare world of a cultural icon in Andrew Dominik’s BLONDE (37:35); Say cheese and SMILE – Halloween starts *now* with Paramount’s latest horror venture (01:09:08); The witches are back! And here to put a spell on you in HOCUS POCUS 2 (01:25:23); And Amon speaks to director Reginald Hudlin about capturing...
Oct 02, 2022•2 hr 28 min•Season 1Ep. 81
This week… Reginald Hudlin captures the legacy of Sidney Poitier in his new Apple TV+ documentary, SIDNEY (07:52), and Olivia Wilde welcomes us to Victory, the town that seems a little too good to be true, in her psychological thriller DON’T WORRY DARLING (20:20). Plus, we take a trip back to 1290 for Lena Dunham’s medieval romp, CATHERINE CALLED BIRDY (45:59). And, in our HOT TAKE, Diego Luna ignites the spark that'll light the fire of rebellion in Disney+’s latest Star Wars series, ANDOR. Clar...
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr 51 min•Season 1Ep. 80
This week… the Fade To Black Podcast was LIVE from Kings Place for the London Podcast Festival! Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù joined us onstage (04:23) to talk MR. MALCOLM’S LIST and GANGS OF LONDON. Then the team book their TICKET TO PARADISE (31:49) for the new George Clooney and Julia Roberts rom-com; decide if Hanna Bergholm’s new body horror HATCHING (46:45) is EGG-excellent or not; and discuss Owen Kline’s coming-of-age debut, FUNNY PAGES (01:00:53). Then, in our HOT TAKE (01:12:03), we talk about al...
Sep 18, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Season 1Ep. 79
This week… Amon chats to THE Howard Shore (11:17) about his score for CRIMES OF THE FUTURE, and then the team reviews David Cronenberg’s latest film (34:00). It’s a Gen Z bloodbath in Halina Reijn’s murder-mystery slasher flick BODIES BODIES BODIES (50:16), and when you wish upon a live-action remake, you get Robert Zemeckis’ PINOCCHIO (01:04:38). And, in our HOT TAKE (01:28:03), we pick apart the racist backlash to Prime Video’s new series THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER. And we’re do...
Sep 11, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 1Ep. 78
This week, Clarisse chats to Alexandra Anger and Monica Pavez, the team behind all those uncanny prosthetics in David Cronenberg’s new body horror, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (08:44). We review George Miller’s THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING (32:39) dreams of love between a woman and a magical Djinn. Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain bring death and white privilege to the Moroccan desert in John Michael McDonagh’s THE FORGIVEN (51:13). … plus, in our HOT take (1:06:49), we delve into the first two ep...
Sep 04, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 77
This week, Amon has a chat with Sharlto Copley about BEAST (16:05), and then the team talk about Idris Elba going mano a mano with a lion in Baltasar Kormákur’s latest (36:18). We see how many of the requirements we check off on MR MALCOLM’S LIST (50:40), as we review Emma Holly Jones’s Regency comedy. And Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas turn the lens on themselves in filmmaking satire OFFICIAL COMPETITION (01:06:04). Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:17:07), with The Sandman, House of the Dragon, an...
Aug 28, 2022•1 hr 34 min•Season 1Ep. 76
This week, Hanna chats to the debut filmmaker behind British period romp MR MALCOLM’S List Emma Holly Jones (9:36). We check out Netflix’s latest Brit social thriller I CAME BY (42:38) starring George McKay and Kelly McDonald. Esther is back in the horror prequel ORPHAN: FIRST KILL (58:53) and plus, in our HOT TAKE (1:15:19), we discuss the arrival of She-Hulk - the latest Disney+ series And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast Festival on Thursday September 15! Book your tickets her...
Aug 21, 2022•1 hr 42 min•Ep. 75
This week… Jordan Peele is back and you’ll never look up at the sky the same way again with his latest horror, NOPE (6:30); Romain Duris builds a monument for future generations and future Instagram users in EIFFEL (25:22); and Ari Folman’s reimagines the story of Anne Frank’s imaginary friend Kitty in WHERE IS ANNE FRANK (38:31). Plus, in our “HOT TAKE” (50:23), we ask: should critics be more empathetic towards how hard it is to make a film? And we’re doing a live podcast at the London Podcast ...
Aug 14, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 74
This week… we make a special announcement about our first live podcast next month! Then Amon chats to Dan Trachtenberg about his latest directorial effort, PREY (12:20), and the pod team review the new Disney+ (grumble) thriller (32:07); then it’s all aboard David Leitch’s BULLET TRAIN (46:48) – next stop, murder and mayhem in this all-star action vehicle; and a 15-year friendship carries a Palestinian refugee’s dreams of seeing her homeland again in documentary FADIA’S TREE (01:06:42). Plus, in...
Aug 07, 2022•1 hr 47 min•Season 1Ep. 73
This week, Ron Howard takes a deep-dive into the 2018 Tham Luang cave rescue in THIRTEEN LIVES (12:37); Panah Panahi takes us on the trip of a lifetime to Iran’s border in his debut HIT THE ROAD (29:26); And documentarian Sara Dosa captures a romance between two daring volcanologists in FIRE OF LOVE (45:12). Plus, in our ‘HOT TAKE’ (01:00:10), we talk about the dire state of the VFX industry and how studios, most especially Marvel, continue to exploit artists. What’s the real cost of a good time...
Jul 31, 2022•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 72
This week…Ryan Gosling is back and feeling the kenergy in Netflix’s THE GRAY MAN (08:20); we go WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (33:22) - whatever a crawdad is – in Olivia Newman’s adaptation of an all-time bestseller; and filmmaker Jean-Jacques Annaud revisits the dramatic events of April 15, 2019, in NOTRE-DAME ON FIRE (49:59). … and in our ‘Hot Take’ (01:08:50), we ask the question: is Marvel’s Phase Four doing its heroines dirty? Or has the MCU finally gotten female superheroes right? And we’re doin...
Jul 24, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 1Ep. 71
