The Beatles Films Podcast

We're on about Julie Taymor's 2007 Beatles jukebox musical, starring Jim Sturgess, WITH Evan Rachel Wood, AND Joe Anderson, BUT Bono. Is it problematic to repurpose songs with a specific meaning to su...

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We're discussing the 2001 TV documentary released alongside the Paul McCartney/Wings retrospective compilation. Does it do a good job of changing public opinion post-THAT Alan Partridge joke? What's t...

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The Magic Christian, starring Ringo Starr and Peter Sellers, was the reason The Beatles were up against a deadline to record Let it Be. But it was also an actual film that you can watch and everything...

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We discuss Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle's 2019 film Yesterday, in which Jack (Himesh Patel) wakes up to find he's the only person who remembers the Beatles. Does its premise stand up to scrutiny? Ha...

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John Lennon and Paul McCartney's last meeting was on 24 April 1976. Michael Lindsay-Hogg's 2000 VH1 TV movie presents a fictionalised account of it, but is it a fair depiction of their relationship at...

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Welcome to The Beatles Films Podcast! Matt and Ed explain what the whole thing's about (I mean, the title sort of gives it away, but still). We're professional film writers and Fab Four fans and each ...

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