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Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast

A podcast on the career of Saoirse Ronan and the changing state of the movie star in the 21st century. Hosted by Cole & Connor. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:35:21

Winter's Tale

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2024/02/17

This week, the great Charlie Schumann joins us for the tenth anniversary spectacular look at notorious bomb Winter's Tale. A sweeping epic in which Colin Farrell plays an immigrant street thief who befriends a magic horse (?) and discovers he's a pawn in the eternal battle between God and Satan (??) and then lives for a century so he can fulfil his destiny (?????????????), the film was received with much derision and quickly forgotten save for the odd meme or two. We touch on its reputation and

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1:53:53

Saving Mr. Banks (Part 2)

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2024/02/09

This week, the great Jeff Sweeney (of the Travolting podcast) joins us to look at failed Oscar contender Saving Mr. Banks, the deeply Disneyfied (and maybe evil?) biopic of Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers and her feuds with Walt over the famous 1963 film version. We grapple with our complicated feelings about the legacy of the Disney corporation, have an oddly contentious debate over Paul Giamatti's entire body of work, and reckon with a moving and close to home Colin Farrell performance as

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2:06:14

Saving Mr. Banks (Part 1)

Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast ·

2024/02/09

This week, the great Jeff Sweeney (of the Travolting podcast) joins us to look at failed Oscar contender Saving Mr. Banks, the deeply Disneyfied (and maybe evil?) biopic of Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers and her feuds with Walt over the famous 1963 film version. We grapple with our complicated feelings about the legacy of the Disney corporation, have an oddly contentious debate over Paul Giamatti's entire body of work, and reckon with a moving and close to home Colin Farrell performance as

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2:16:24

Epic

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2024/02/02

This week, we're shrinking ourselves down to insect size to explore a world of wonder (and mostly get distracted by tangents), as we take a look at Epic. A misbegotten franchise starter from now defunct studio Blue Sky (best known for the Ice Age franchise), the film stars Amanda Seyfried as an ordinary woman who discovers a microscopic adventure occurring in the forest by her house and Colin as a general attempting to protect a kingdom from a evil warlord. We talk about celebrity voice casts in

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2:13:52

Dead Man Down

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2024/01/26

This week, we continue our journey into the doldrums of Colin's middle period with a look at Dead Man Down, a muddled attempt by original Girl With the Dragon Tattoo director Niels Arden Oplev to inject European art film flair into the DTV crime thriller mold. We discuss the film's incoherent plotting and tone, once again tackle the question of Colin Farrell in action hero mode, and break down co-star Noomi Rapace's odd run as a failed Hollywood leading lady. Plus, because you try talking about this

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3:38:13

Seven Psychopaths

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2024/01/19

This week on the podcast it's the Oops! All Rushmores special! The great Sean Fahey joins us, and he wanted to spend the episode playing everyone's favorite game. So join us as we delve into a multitude of careers, from luminaries like Christopher Walken all the way to beloved character actors like Kevin Corrigan. Also we briefly find time to discuss Seven Psychopaths, Martin McDonagh's 2012 follow-up to In Bruges, and try to figure out just what's going on with Colin Farrell's career. Connor feels

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1:54:04

Total Recall

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2024/01/13

This week, we are very grouchy because we have to talk about the 2012 remake of Total Recall. Join us as we ruminate on Len Wiseman's weirdly short career, rant about the fetishization of fidelity, and remember we have free license to talk about the Paul Verhoeven original. Spoiler alert: we mostly just talk about that one. That movie rocks. How could you not? Cole has a take so spicy he had to cut it out of the episode. Connor can't stop thinking about Arnold Schwarzenegger's body. Hosted on Acast

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2:58:01

Fright Night

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2024/01/05

This week on the podcast, we're ostensibly talking about Fright Night, the 2011 vampire action thriller remake starring Colin Farrell and directed by Craig Gillespie. But here's the thing: that movie very bad and we don't want to talk about it. You know what movie is good actually? Fright Night, the 1985 vampire horror movie starring Chris Sarandon and directed by Tom Holland. That's the one we want to talk about. Along the way we'll survey the history of vampire movies, eulogize Anton Yelchin, and

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2:57:36

Horrible Bosses

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2023/12/29

This week, the great Dan Moore joins us to begin our descent into the real nadir of Colin's professional career with Horrible Bosses. A hit ensemble comedy from 2011, we dig into who among the cast is bad (most of them), who among the cast is good (contentious), and just how much worse the cultural landscape was twelve years ago. Plus, long-awaited Rushmores for Donald Sutherland and Jamie Foxx, and a whole lotta tangents - listen, you wouldn't wanna talk about this movie either. Don't get mad at

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2:11:30

London Boulevard

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2023/12/22

This week, we're diving into London Boulevard, the directorial debut of The Departed Screenwriter William Monahan. Despite being familiar territory, the film, in which he plays a reformed gangster who falls for a movie star (Keira Knightley), mostly just vanishes the second it's released, and we dig into why, talking the baffling lack of chemistry between the leads, the generic nature of everything onscreen, and the film's callous use of sexual assault. Along the way, we're also praising Colin's

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2:44:58

The Way Back

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2023/12/15

This week, Mark Tilley returns to the pod to help us discuss Peter Weir's final film, The Way Back, the ostensibly true story of an escape from a Siberian gulag and the long march to freedom. We can't agree if this movie is any good or not, but we can agree that flash in the pan star Jim Sturgess has nothing on Colin's scene stealing Russian gangster. Along the way, we're talking Ed Harris, we're talking Saorise Ronan, and we're arguing over what this movie's politics are. Cole thinks people are

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2:08:09

Crazy Heart

Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast ·

2023/12/08

This week, we're taking a look at the beloved, Oscar-winning drama about an aging, alcoholic country singer finding salvation through the love of a single mother - it's Tender Mercies Crazy Heart! The debut film from Scott Cooper, this was sold and received as a powerhouse comeback for Jeff Bridges and, accordingly, that's who we're mostly talking about this week, delving into the ups and downs of his career, and why this movie landed like it did. Along the way we're gonna try to figure out if

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1:45:56

Triage

Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast ·

2023/12/01

We're back! The SAG-AFTRA strike is over, and the boys have returned from hiatus to bring you the light hearted look into Colin Farrell's career that you've come to love. This week, we're taking a look at Colin's forgotten 2009 collaboration with acclaimed Bosnian filmmaker Danis Tanović Triage, a... dour and miserabilist mediation on the traumas of war and the 1988 Anfal genocide. Well, not everything can be light hearted. Frankly, as dumb as we are, we probably still handle the subject matter with

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Hiatus Announcement

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2023/08/15

The show will be going on hiatus for the duration of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Solidarity forever. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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2:19:43

Ondine

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2023/07/29

This week, we're shuffling the release order a little bit to talk about 2009's Ondine. Directed by acclaimed Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan, the film stars Colin Farrell as a reclusive fisherman who rescues a mysterious and possibly magical woman from the sea. We talk about the film's origins as a Writer's Strike project, Colin's real life romance with co-star Alicja Bachleda-Curuś, the legacy of mermaids in films, and the career downturns that befall both Jordan and cinematographer Christopher Doyle

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2:54:11

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

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2023/07/21

This week, the great Rebecca Sweeney joins us for a trip into the mind as we discuss 2009's The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. An attempted return to form for Terry Gilliam after a rough decade, this film's production would be halted when Heath Ledger died halfway through filming, with Colin Farrell being one of several actors bought in to replace the star. We talk about the film's difficult production, other actors who were in the mix, and the muddled but interesting work that results. Along the

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2:22:59

Pride and Glory

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2023/07/14

This week, we take a look at Pride and Glory, Colin's follow-up to the smash success of In Bruges. A New York City crime thriller about a family of cops tested when one of their own turns out to be corrupt, the film comes from journeyman legend Gavin O'Connor, in between his two sports classics Miracle and Warrior. Unfortunately, the movie doesn't live up to the heights promised by the premise and the director, and is mostly just a muddled, boring mess. We talk about Colin's underbaked performance,

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3:06:20

In Bruges

Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast ·

2023/07/07

This week, the great Maya Dawit joins us for a freewheeling discussion of the defining film of Colin Farrell's career, In Bruges! A small, talky crime comedy from a first time director, the film would come out of nowhere and deliver Colin the best reviews of his career and major awards buzz, including a Golden Globe. We have a lot of praise to heap on his revelatory performance and why we think this is the one that made all the difference, and we have a lot of... mixed feelings about the movie at

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2:22:36

Cassandra's Dream

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2023/06/30

In early 2008, after a stint in rehab and a year and a half off screens, Colin Farrell would return by pairing up with another titanic actor for a fatalistic, offbeat European crime film. But this isn't that one, this the other one, the one that fully doesn't exist - it's Cassandra's Dream! The third in Woody Allen's trilogy of London-set thrillers, this movie, about two brothers asked to commit a murder, sits so firmly in the shadow of Match Point that it never really had a chance, and mostly

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3:02:43

Miami Vice

Above the Title: A Saoirse Ronan Podcast ·

2023/06/23

This week on Above the Title, it's the big one, it's the 2006 Michael Mann film Miami Vice. Frankly, we're both nervous to tackle it and probably don't have enough time in three hours to get out all our thoughts. But this is the hand we've been dealt at 11:47 o'clock on a Friday morning, so we're just gonna have to take it to the limit one more time. Cole wonders if he can pull of Crockett's look. Connor has some harsh words for Michael Bay. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more

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