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B007 Ep 185 – Civil War

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Bina007 reviews writer-director Alex Garland’s near-future political dystopian drama, Civil War.  It stars Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura as journalists travelling by car from New York to Washington DC to interview a fascist president of the USA.  Meanwhile, the Western Forces of Texas and California are readying to invade DC and retake the Capitol. Along the way, our journalists see what happens when institutional law and order breaks down and bigoted individuals fill that vacuum.

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B007 Ep 184 – Back To Black

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Bina007 reviews director Sam Taylor-Wood’s biopic of Amy Winehouse, based on a script by Matt Greenhalgh. The film features a stunningly good performance from Marisa Abela as Amy and an equally compelling Jack O’Connell as her vilified husband Blake Fielder-Civil. This film firmly anchors Amy’s story in her love of jazz and her family’s musical heritage. Controversially, it is kinder to Mitch Winehouse and Fielder-Civil than Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary Amy (see episode 98 of this podcast).  

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B007 Ep 183 – Ripley

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Bina007 reviews the latest iteration of Patricia Highsmith’s stunning crime procedural The Talented Mr Ripley. It is written and directed by Steve Zaillian and stars Andrew Scott as Tom, Johnny Flynn as Dickie and Dakota Fanning as Marge. The eight-part miniseries is out on Netflix today.

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B007 Ep 181 – The Gentlemen (TV)

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Bina007 reviews the new Netflix miniseries from Guy Ritchie. It stars Theo James of White Lotus fame as Eddie Horniman, an aristocratic ex-soldier who inherits his family estate only to discover its housing one of the biggest ganga farms in the UK. 

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B007 Ep 180 – Mary and George

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Bina007 reviews the new Sky/Starz historical drama Mary & George. It stars Julianne Moore as Mary Villiers, who groomed her son George (Nicholas Galitzine) to seduce King James I of England.

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B007 Ep 179 – Dune Part 2

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Bina007 reviews the second part of Denis Villeneuve’s reboot of the iconic Frank Herbert religio-sci-fi epic. The film excels in spectacle and sound but falls down on performance and narrative choice.

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B007 Ep 178 – The Iron Claw

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Bina007 reviews British writer-director Sean Durkin’s deeply affecting wrestling drama The Iron Claw. It tells the real life story of the Von Erich family and deals with toxic masculinity and sibling love. This is an award-worthy movie featuring an astonishing performance from Zac Efron.

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B007 Ep 177 – The Kitchen – The Disappearance of Shere Hite

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Bina007 reviews Daniel Kaluuya’s London-set dystopian drama The Kitchen starring Kano.  Then she reviews  the urgent documentary The Disappearance of Shere Hite at 5m30s. Note the latter is not appropriate listening for children.

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B007 Ep 176 – Society Of The Snow

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Bina007 reviews Spanish director J A Bayona’s new recreation of the famous 1972 Andes air crash disaster, now showing on Netflix. In doing so, Bina discusses the crash and its aftermath in detail that could be a spoiler, and that some listeners might find disturbing.

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