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Movies and Tea

Brainstew Productions

It’s about film fans getting together and creating the audio experience of that post movie coffee and pie (or tea in our case) discussion as we work through the select filmographies of the directors whose work interests us with each season being dedicated to the work of a different director. As such we look forward to you joining us and hopfully hearing your own thoughts on the movies we cover or even movies / directors you like to hear us discuss on future episode. Welcome to the booth

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Movies and Tea #30 - Brokeback Mountain

Movies and Tea ·

2020/03/17

Having already looked at a character dealing with complex emotional issues in "Hulk" for his next film Ang Lee didn't stray far from these ideas as he tackled an adapation of Anne Proux novel about two cowboys finding each other at the titular mountain range and their struggle to deal with thier feelings over the course of two decades as they make regular trips back. We also look at it's place in New Queer Cinema aswell as the impact it had on the cinematic and social landscape when it was released

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00:53:24

Movies and Tea #29 - Hulk

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2020/02/24

Choosing to follow up his critically acclaimed and genre reviving "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" with a comic book movie was certainly a unique choice for Ang Lee, despite the fact he's never been restricted to any perticular genre and certainly it was this unrestricted world view that he brough to his unique adaptation of the popular Marvel character. Released before the superhero boom, here his sins of the father style approach to the Hulk origin story brought a unique spin on the character but

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Movies and Tea #28 - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

Movies and Tea ·

2020/02/12

Having made a Western with "Ride With The Devil" it seemed almost fitting that Ang Lee would choose to follow it up with an Eastern as he pitched the film as "Sense and Sensibility" with sword fighting as he brought together Wuxia fight scenes and lavish production design in a film which not only revitalised the intrest in Wuxia film but also helped open the door for a revived interest in Asian cinema.

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00:56:26

Movies and Tea #27 - The Ice Storm

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2020/01/19

Set over the thanksgiving weekend of 1973, Ang Lee here sets out to capture the changing times of the era as two upper class families attempt to find themselves in surburban hell set against a backdrop of adultery and key parties here Lee brings together an impressive cast for his adaptation of the Rick Moody novel. Norman from Flickhunter joins us once again to the discuss the film and explore the various plot threads within this tale of family dysfunction.

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Movies and Tea #26 - Sense and Sensibility

Movies and Tea ·

2020/01/12

Having captured the attention of the mainstream studios with his "Father Knows best" trilogy Ang Lee would choose to follow it up with an adaptation of Jane Austin's classic novel with a film which would revive intrest in period dramas.

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01:45:41

Best of the Decade (2010's)

Movies and Tea ·

2020/01/01

With the decade coming to a close we each share our top 10 films from the decade but what will be the film which claims the top spot on our lists?

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Movies and Tea #25 - The Father Knows Best Trilogy

Movies and Tea ·

2019/11/29

Kicking off Season 4 and our season long re-evaluation of the filmography of Ang Lee. First up we have three films connected by thier themes rather than characters as we look at Pushing Hands, The Wedding Banquet and Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

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After Hours #10 - Donnie Darko

Movies and Tea ·

2019/11/10

Wrapping up our After Hours episode is the cult favourite "Donnie Darko" from Elwood's favourite director Richard Kelly in which the time traveling demonic bunny Frank warns Donnie that the world is going to end in 28 Days, Six Hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds while putting him on the path to finding out how. A film which blend together elements of teen comedy, science fiction, family drama, horror, and cultural satire into one truly unique experience. We also announce which director we will be

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After Hours #9 - Tigers Are Not Afraid

Movies and Tea ·

2019/10/27

On this episode we discuss the directorial debut of Issa López which not only has seen her draw comparisons to the Guillermo del Toro but also his admiration aswell as her film blends fairy tale fantasy against the harsh reality of the Mexican drug wars as a young girl called Estrella returns home to find her mother missing and persumed to have been kidnapped by the local drugs cartel currently terrorising the city. Now joining a group of orphaned street kids and empowered with the gift of three

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00:47:11

After Hours #8 - The Shallows

Movies and Tea ·

2019/10/17

Shark Week #3 is here and this time it's the turn of "The Shallows" Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra who despite giving us films such as Orphan and Non-stop is also the director responsible for the likes of "Goal 2: Living the Dream" and "The House of Wax" remake which so memorably was sold on the prospect of seeing Paris Hilton die. So with the prospect of a bikini bottom clad Blake Lively cashing in the pretty girl dollars alongside a rather large shark as selling the movie you might expect the

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00:52:55

After Hours #7 - I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband...

Movies and Tea ·

2019/10/11

On this special bonus episode we look at the documentary "I Used To Be Normal: A Boyband Fangirl Story" which poses the question Is there a point were you outgrow boy bands? This is just one of several questions posed by director Jessica Leski in her debut film as she attempt to explore not only the appeal of boy bands but also what sparks such devotion in their fanbases. This she achieves by following four intergenerational women who all consider themselves to be obsessed fans of their chosen boy

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Movies and Tea #24 - The Beguiled

Movies and Tea ·

2019/10/07

Using the Civil war as her backdrop Sofia Coppola with the Beguiled continued her evolution in style with a remake of Don Siegal's original 1971 film only this time shot from the women's point of view than the man's as the arrival of Colin Farrell's solider of fortune at a girls school begins to stire feelings in both the students and teacher alike. The film being viewed by Coppola as a way to cleanse herself after 2013's "The Bling Ring" from what she terms was "Such a tacky, ugly world"

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Movies and Tea #23 - The Bling Ring

Movies and Tea ·

2019/09/26

Drawing inspiration from the Vanity Fair article The Suspects Wore Louboutins here Sofia Coppola joined mini-trend of movies based of magazine articles alongside Michael Bay's "Pain and Gain". The film would also mark Coppola's first experiment with shooting on digitial as she charts the crime spree of a group of teens who broke into and robbed the homes of thier favourite celebrities. Norman from Flickhunter joins us once again to the discuss the film aswell as question Emma Watson's rumoured Oscar

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Movies and Tea #22 - Somewhere

Movies and Tea ·

2019/09/11

After the mixed reception to "Marie Antoinette" returned with "Somewhere" a film similar in style to "Lost In Translation" while also working memories of her own childhood growing up on her father's sets as she here we follow Upcoming badboy Actor Johnny as he reconnects with his daughter Cleo and perhaps inturn finds what's missing in his own life.

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Movies and Tea #21 - Marie Antoinette

Movies and Tea ·

2019/08/28

Originally envisioned as Sofia Coppola's second feature but stuggling with Historical true and an imposing roster of character which would lead Coppola to begin work on a parallel project which evolved into "Lost In Translation" whose success would inturn revamp this project. Setting out to not create another stuffy costume drama Coppola here blends the contempory with the traditional as lavish gowns and powdered wigs are sound tracked to a combination of New Wave and Post Punk as the film follows

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Movies and Tea #20 - Lost In Translation

Movies and Tea ·

2019/08/16

After the success of The Virgin Suicides for her follow up Sofia Coppola drew inspiration from her father filming a real Suntory whiskey commercial with Akira Kurosawa in the 1970’s to crafts a tale which is not only a love letter to Tokyo but also one of two lost souls in a city were neither of them speak the language while generally confounded by the world around them leaving them to dwell on their own personal issues. A premise which you hardly expect to turn into a huge hit for Coppola not only

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Movies and Tea #19 - The Virgin Suicides

Movies and Tea ·

2019/08/05

Kicking off our season long re-evaluation of Sofia Coppola's filmography we kick things off looking at her 1999 debut film "The Virgin Suicides" as she builds upon her first short "Lick The Star" as a group of boys attempt to solve the mystery behind the Lisben sisters from the effect they had on thier lives through to the girls taking thier own. We not only look at the film and question who Coppola intended the film for but also establish the key themes of her work aswell as how she was able to

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01:29:46

After Hours #6 - Love, Death + Robots (Season 1)

Movies and Tea ·

2019/07/26

To wrap up season #2 this final bonus episode has us looking at "Love, Death + Robots" for our first boxset binge. A project from David Fincher and Tim Miller whose initial plans to remake "Heavy Metal" were mophed instead into this anthology of short animated tales with seemingly limitless scope for the stories which can be told as we discover from this first season. So get ready for alternative histories, monsters, shocking twists and of course love, death + robots!!

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00:38:29

After Hours #5 - Europa Report

Movies and Tea ·

2019/07/11

On this episode we check out the indie sci-fi found footage movie "Europa Report" which recounts the fictional story of the first crewed mission to Europa, one of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter. We question if sci-fi can effectivly be done on a budget aswell as the effectivness of the found footage genre plus more.

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After Hours #4 - Deep Blue Sea

Movies and Tea ·

2019/06/26

Welcome to our seasonal "Shark Week" episode as after we had so much fun with "The Meg" last season why not look at a shark movie every season. On this episode we revisit the 90's classic "Deep Blue Sea" as a team of scientists find themselves stuck in a rapidly deteriating underwater facility while surrounded by super inteligent sharks!! We question what it is about this film which made it such a cult classic, Samuel L. Jackson's favourite death scene and how much of the film did the sharks

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