George Harrison: Living in the Material World
We're opening season four with one of the big hitters: Martin Scorsese's 2011 George Harrison documentary. George's life gets a proper going-over for three hours, and we talk about how the film approa...
2 Okt 20231h 31min
Live and Let Die (with Neil Alcock)
To celebrate 50 years since the film's release we've got together with our friend and James Bond authority Neil Alcock for an episode on Live and Let Die. As we'll hear, the theme song by Wings repres...
27 Jun 20231h 11min
Yellow Submarine (Part 2)
In part two we close out our third season with some good old-fashioned British magic realism. Is Yellow Submarine a magic realist piece, and if so are the submarine or the Beatles themselves the condu...
19 Jun 202342min
Yellow Submarine (Part 1)
In the first part of our season finale we're discussing 1968's Yellow Submarine, the Beatles' animated film and, as we outline, their only musical. We talk about how the project came about and how muc...
12 Jun 20231h 2min
All Together Now
Who doesn't love Love? We're talking about the documentary about the Cirque du Soleil show The Beatles: Love. The film is an official Apple product and has talking head input from Paul McCartney, Ring...
5 Jun 202357min
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed (Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados)
Here's a companion piece to last week's episode. In David Trueba's 2013 film, set in Spain in 1966, English teacher Antonio and two young hitchhikers take a road trip to Almeria where he hopes to meet...
29 Mai 202355min
How I Won The War
Onto John Lennon's solo acting debut in Richard Lester's How I Won The War, best known for John having written Strawberry Fields Forever in Spain while shooting it. We talk about how John is a signifi...
22 Mai 202355min
The Linda McCartney Story
We discuss the 2000 CBS TV movie in which Elizabeth Mitchell played Linda McCartney and Gary Bakewell reprised his Backbeat role as Paul McCartney. It's pretty corny of course, and there's a lot wrong...
15 Mai 20231h 6min
