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The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: A Christmas Carol (1984)
In which George C. Scott gives us a masterpiece of a Carol.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983)
In which Disney takes its first crack at A Christmas Carol.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: An American Christmas Carol (1979)
In which Ethan makes the admittedly perverse argument that one of the loosest adaptations of A Christmas Carol is one of the best.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Rich Little’s Christmas Carol (1978)
The most gimmicky, dated entry on the list is also [record scratch] one of the best?
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: The Stingiest Man in Town (1978)
Walter Matthau as Scrooge! What could go wrong?
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: A Christmas Carol (1971)
A classic of animation, one of the shortest Carols, and one of the best.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Scrooge (1970)
Albert Finney in an all-singing, all-dancing Christmas Carol.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (1962)
In which A Christmas Carol gets animated, and legally blind.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Scrooge (1951)
Many argue this is the best Christmas Carol. How will it fare in the Christmas Carol gauntlet?
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: The Christmas Carol (1949)
A Christmas Carol comes to TV, accompanied by Vincent Price.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: A Christmas Carol (1938)
In which Reginald Owen plays the holliest, jolliest Scrooge of them all.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Scrooge (1935)
Sound comes to A Christmas Carol, as do the loosest interpretations of the spirits ever put to film.
The Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️: Scrooge (1913)
An introduction to the Christmas Carol Advent Calendar™️ and a look at what happens when A Christmas Carol tries silence.
Everything we know about the Blackhat production (UPDATED)
The following is based on behind-the-scenes interviews, production documentaries, production notes, marketing materials and even one or two private conversations.
Everything we know about UNREALISED MICHAEL MANN PROJECTS *UPDATED*
From 1981 to 2023, Michael Mann only made 12 feature films, with the gap between each film widening. However, over these three decades, Mann’s name has been attached to a myriad of fascinating projects. The range of these projects is startling - anywhere from a contemporary media mogul drama to a medieval archer story and everything in between. Below is a list of these projects with brief details, including when they were announced and if any news followed their announcements. There are likely even more films than mentioned here, and one can hope we, as an audience, get to see some of these one day.
THE ROYAL HOTEL w/ KITTY GREEN
To celebrate the release of a new Australian outback thriller THE ROYAL HOTEL, I talk with writer/director Kitty Green about the differences between narrative and documentary cinema, the balance of time and style, Julia Garner choosing her own own love interest, and so much more.
SLANT w/ Sigrid Thornton + Michael Nikou + James Vinson + Monique Fisher
To celebrate the roadshow release of a new Australian Neo-Noir ("Yeah Noir") SLANT, I talk with writer/star Michael Nikou, director James Vinson, producer Monique Fisher and the icon Sigrid Thornton about shooting chronologically, being "in for a penny, in for a pound" making an independent original film and so much more.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One w/Christopher McQuarrie
To celebrate the release of Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One, I speak with one of my favourite filmmakers, the Oscar-winning writer and storytelling laureate Christopher McQuarrie about casting Shea Whigham and Greg Tarzan Davis, bringing back Henry Czerny, and the 'fiat that ate Rome'.
21 Years Of The Dragon Apocalypse: An audio essay on Reign Of Fire
An audio essay on Reign of Fire written and read by Maria Lewis, produced and edited by Blake Howard.
LIMBO w/ IVAN SEN
To celebrate the release of his latest "starkly atmospheric outback noir" LIMBO, I talk with writer/director Ivan Sen (Mystery Road, Goldstone, Beneath Clouds) about his obsession with the Australian justice system, inspiring Simon Baker's career-best performance, drafting GOLDSTONE as the best Australian film of the 21st Century, his love of Peter Weir and the possibility of the third MYSTERY ROAD sequel gracing our cinema screens.