‘The Witches’ and Robert Zemeckis
Oscar Wild
English - October 29, 2020 08:35 - 44 minutes - 36.2 MBVisual Arts Arts TV & Film Film History Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In the last Halloween-themed episode (for now), Nick and Sophia pay tribute to Robert Zemeckis to highlight his latest HBO Max release, “The Witches,” starring Anne Hathaway, Octavia Spencer, and Stanley Tucci. After an initial mini-retrospective and a return of Nom or Bomb (4:47), they partake in another movie trade discussion of “Death Becomes Her” (11:21) and “What Lies Beneath” (32:33), accompanied by a comparison of Nicolas Roeg’s original and Bob’s adaptation of “The Witches” (16:45).