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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 #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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00:54:01

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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00:59:07

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

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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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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

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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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00:59:20

Movies and Tea #18 - The Shape of Water

Movies and Tea ·

2019/05/29

Born out of a failed attempt to remake "Creature From The Black Lagoon", The Shape of Water saw del toro question what would have happened if Kay had actually gone off with the Gill-Man. Unquestionable a unique romantic movie, here we find Del Toro at his most sympathetic for his own gil-man creation while also crafting some of the most visually arresting footage of his career somthing the academy reward his efforts by awarding the film the best film and director awards at the 90th academy

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Movies and Tea #17 - Crimson Peak

Movies and Tea ·

2019/04/22

Having established his "Eye Protein" style while crafting love letters to giant monsters and the things which go bump in the night with "Crimson Peak" his intrest turned to the classic Hammer Horror films while drawing further inspiration from the likes of "House on Haunted Hill" and "The Shinning" to craft a Gothic love story hidden under the geise of a ghost story. Released to middling fanfare the film remains much like his early films somthing of an underdissed entry in his filmography....until

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Movies and Tea #16 - Pacific Rim

Movies and Tea ·

2019/04/05

Having gained both Critical acclaim and mainstream recognition for "Pan's Labyrinth" Del Toro would suprisingly enter into a period of development hell as projects fell through or failed to find studio backing. However out of this period would come his love letter to Kaiju cinema and giant monsters with "Pacific Rim".

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Movies and Tea #15 - Pan's Labyrinth

Movies and Tea ·

2019/03/19

We are joined by Norman from Flick Hunter to discuss Del Toro's Civil War fairytale which would finally make him a recognisable name with mainstream movie goers.

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Movies and Tea #14 - Hellboy 1 + 2

Movies and Tea ·

2019/02/23

Elwood and Kim are joined by Comic Book Movie Expert Bubbawheat (Flights, Tights and Movie Nights) to look at the Hellboy movies.

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Movies and Tea #13 - Blade 2

Movies and Tea ·

2019/02/01

Despite failing to make an impact on the Hollywood system with “Mimic” Del Toro’s work as a director was certainly getting him noticed with his Spanish language films Cronos and The Devil’s Backbone both finding their fans including producer Peter Frankfurt and writer David S. Goyer who invited Del Toro to work on Blade 2 after Stephen Norrington turned down the opportunity to direct the sequel. Now without the meddling of the Weinsteins, Del toro was finally free to bring his visual style to the

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00:59:58

Movies and Tea #12 - The Devil's Backbone

Movies and Tea ·

2019/01/17

Greg (Debatable Podcast / Action a Go Go) joins us for this latest episode as we discuss "The Devil's Backbone" Del Toro's Ghost story set against the backdrop of the Spanish Civil war.

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Movies and Tea #11 - Mimic

Movies and Tea ·

2018/11/20

Having announced himself as an exciting new voice in horror with “Cronos” Del Toro chose to follow it with his first English language feature “Mimic” based on the Donald A. Wollheim short story as Del Toro brought to the screen a tale of shape shifting bugs living in the New York system in a production hampered by the interference of producer Harvey Weinstein leaving Del Toro with a film he was unhappy with until his directors cut finally saw the light of day in 2011.

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Movies and Tea #10 - Cronos

Movies and Tea ·

2018/10/31

Elwood and Kim return from thier break with a new season and a new director's filography to dive into as this season they turn thier attention to the films of the visionary Guillermo del Toro whose love of horror and fairytales have lead to him crafting some of the most original cinema of the last few years. Kicking off this season is Del Toro's feature debut "Cronos" which sees him bring his own spin to the vampire mythos as a clockwork scarab which grants eternal life is discovered by an elderly

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00:43:50

After Hours #3 - Sucker Punch

Movies and Tea ·

2018/09/18

Elwood and Kim take another look at Zack Snyder’s highly diversive “Sucker Punch” a film which has gone on to garner an impressive cult following since it’s release but is it all flair and no substance? Join us in the booth as we dive into this genre jumping world to find out if audiences were too quick to dismiss Snyder’s “Alice in Wonderland with Machine Guns” Come join us in the booth!!

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00:43:56

After Hours #2 - In Your Eyes

Movies and Tea ·

2018/09/18

Join us for another After Hours special as this time Kim picks out this Joss Wheldon scripted romance with a twist “In Your Eyes” to discuss in which two strangers Rebecca (Zoe Kazan) and Dylan (Michael Stahl-David) discover they share a psychic connection which enables them to see and experience the world through each others bodies. Come join us in the booth!!

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00:41:59

After Hours #1 - The Meg

Movies and Tea ·

2018/09/18

Hey folks and welcome to the first episode of “After Hours” a series of bonus shows were we will be looking at the films which mean the most to us, but whose directors don’t need require us to work through the director’s filmography. Kicking things off is “The Meg” whose troubled production history we look into as we finally got to see the rampaging Megalodon brought to the screen. We not only look at the film, but Elwood perhaps geeks out hard on the comparisons to Steve Alten’s books. So come

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Movies and Tea #9 - Pompeii

Movies and Tea ·

2018/09/17

Our season one re-evaulation of the Paul W.S. Anderson filmography comes to a close with a film that sees him taking a note from James Cameron, Anderson’s “Pompeii” sees him deliving a sword and sandel / disaster flick the end result being a film which disappeared off the radar of most movie goers as quickly as it appeared. We also reveal our favourite, worst and hidden gems of his filmography. Come join us in the booth!!

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