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The Fall is the story of an injured stuntman (Lee Pace) in the early days of Hollywood who forms a friendship in hospital with a younger girl (Catinca Untaru) by telling her a fantasy story, which we then see in flashback.

Directed by Tarsem Singh, who’s previous work includes The Cell and numerous award winning commercials and music videos, it was largely funded out of his own pocket and took many years to make.

I recently spoke to Tarsem in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:

You can also download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

N.B. We conducted the interview in a hotel with a rather loud swimming pool in the background, so apologies for the background noise.

The Fall is out at selected UK cinemas from today

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Official site for The Fall and the IMDb entry 
> Tarsem Singh at the IMDb 
> Check out the R.E.M video for Losing My Religion which Tarsem directed in 1991
> Find a local cinema showing The Fall via Google Movies 

Brideshead Revisited is the first feature film adaptation of the Evelyn Waugh’s classic 1945 novel of the same name. 

Set in a pre-WWII England, it tells the story of a young man named Charles Ryder (Matthew Goode) who becomes friends with an aristocrat named Sebastian Flyte (Ben Whishaw).

Charles is then introduced to Sebastian’s family and becomes entranced by his sister Julia (Hayley Atwell) and their large and beautiful estate, despite disagreeing with their religious views and cold manner - embodied by their matriarch, Lady Marchmain (Emma Thompson).

Directed by Julian Jarrold, it explores the decline of English aristocracy, catholicism, the conflict between love and duty and the social changes brough about by World War II.

I recently spoke to Matthew Goode and Hayley Atwell about the film and you can listen to the interviews here:

You can also download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Brideshead Revisited is out at UK cinemas from this Friday

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Official site for Brideshead Revisited
> Matthew Goode and Hayley Atwell at the IMDb
> Find out more about the original novel and the famous 1981 TV adaptation at Wikipedia

This week on the review podcast we examine Tropic Thunder and Linha De Passe.

Download and subscribe to the review podcast via iTunes by clicking here

> Download this review as an MP3 file
> Tropic Thunder and Linha De Passe and at the IMDb
> Get showtimes for these films at your local cinema via Google Movies

Linha de Passe is the story of four poverty-stricken brothers who live in a favela neighborhood in São Paulo, struggling to fight for a better life after their father dies.

Directed by Walter Salles and Daniela Thomas, it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival back in May where one of its stars, Sandra Corveloni, won the award for Best Actress.

Walter has directed a number of acclaimed films since the 90s such as Foreign Land (1996), Central Station (1998) and The Motorcycle Diaries (2004).

I recently spoke to him about his latest film and we discussed various aspects of the movie such as football, shooting in São Paul without a permit and whether or not he has seen Steven Soderbergh’s Che yet.

Listen to the interview here:

You can also download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Linha de Passe is out at UK cinemas from this Friday

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> Walter Salles at the IMDb
> Official UK site for Linha de Passe

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is the film adaptation of the best selling book by John Boyne which explores the Holocaust from the perspective of a young boy named Bruno (Asa Butterfield) who befriends someone his own age (Jack Scanlon) across the fence of a Nazi prison camp.

It opened in the UK this week and I recently spoke to the actors David Thewlis (Father), Vera Farmiga (Mother) and Rupert Friend (Lt Kotler) who all star in the film.

Listen to the interviews here:

You can also download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is out now at UK cinemas

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga and Rupert Friend at the IMDb
> Official UK site and IMDb entry for The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

I got some great news today - our podcasts got featured on the front page of iTunes podcast section.

Many thanks as always to Matt Deegan (who set them up and hosts them on his server) and Rendah Heywood (who is the voice you hear at the beginning and end of each one).

Plus, I should also mention the good folks over at Loudblog & WordPress (for creating the open source software that powers it all) and the person at Roland who invented the Edirol R-09 recorder, the brilliant device on which I record everything.

I was also curious as to what the most listened to were, so here are the ten most popular podcasts since they started in April 2007:

1. Stephen Morris on Joy Division (2146)
2. James McAvoy on The Last King of Scotland (967)
3. David Holmes on Ocean’s Thirteen (836)
4. Simon J Smith on Bee Movie (747)
5. The DVD Review: Hot Fuzz & Apocalypto (702)
6. Nikki Blonsky, Amanda Bynes, Elijah Kelly and Zac Efron on Hairspray (678)
7. The Cinema Review: Enchanted / Bee Movie / Youth Without Youth (662)
8. Suzanne Lloyd on Harold Lloyd (587)
9. John Curran and Edward Norton on The Painted Veil (582)
10. Sylvester Stallone on Rambo (569)

This week saw the UK release of the horror movie Eden Lake, which stars Kelly Reilly and Michael Fassbender as a couple who are terrorised by a gang of youths in a remote country location.

I recently spoke to the director James Watkins and we discussed various aspects of the movie and the different challenges in bringing it to the screen.

Listen to the interview here:

You can also download it as a podcast via iTunes by clicking here.

Eden Lake is out now at UK cinemas

> Download this interview as an MP3 file
> James Watkins at the IMDb
> Official UK site and IMDb entry for Eden Lake