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The Parent Trap: in awe of Lindsay, Nancy Meyers and Meredith Blake
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - June 26, 2024 03:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsEnding the season on a magical high chosen by the listeners. The more we get into this episode the more magic we realise The Parent Trap (1998) is. After we’ve addressed the ridiculous trauma of it all (erm…the terrible parenting decisions!), we get to the good stuff; the nostalgic joy of this f...
Polite Society: the biggest surprise of the year
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - June 19, 2024 03:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFor film club this week we’re watching Polite Society, last year’s British martial artsaction comedy film from debut feature filmmaker Nida Manzoor. The setup sees Ria, a London-based Pakistani Muslim girl who dreams of becoming one of Britain’s top stuntwomen. But it;s about so much more than...
Jennifer’s Body: butchered by the marketing campaign
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - June 12, 2024 03:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsMean Girls meets Scream? This week we passionately and lovingly rant about the cult classic, Jennifers Body (2009). Turns out back in 2009, the film industry execs, aka the boys, ruined Diablo Cody’s masterpiece. Fresh off the heels of her hit Juno, screenplay writer Cody was given free rein to ...
WWDC24 Keynote
Apple Events (video) - June 10, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★ - 4.1K ratingsWatch the WWDC24 keynote introducing Apple Intelligence, personal intelligence designed to be helpful and relevant to you. Other exciting updates are coming with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, watchOS 11, and visionOS 2.
How To Have Sex: lead actor & BAFTA Rising Star Mia McKenna-Bruce joins us!
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - June 05, 2024 03:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe lure the amazing Mia McKenna-Bruce to our studio to discuss our fave film of last year: How To Have Sex. She stars as the central character of Tara in this stunning film exploring sexual consent, female friendship, toxic friendship, and self discovery. Mia gives us the scoop on filming those ...
Femme: how this gobsmacking neo-noir revenge thriller got made
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - May 29, 2024 03:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWear an extra pair of socks because this film will knock them right off. This week we discuss Femme, the Neo-noir thriller and debut feature from directing duo Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping. In Femme, we see Jules targeted in a horrific homophobic attack, destroying his life and career. Som...
Maestro: getting onscreen ageing so wrong and so right
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - May 22, 2024 05:23 - 46 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we watch Maestro, a film where Bradley Cooper convincingly ages before your eyes across four decades. We address his biographical film about American conductor Leonard Bernstein. In this episode, we learn a lot about Cooper’s career and directing techniques. We finally learn what a con...
The Holdovers: a masterclass in casting and dialogue
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - May 15, 2024 03:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we watch The Holdovers to finally see what all the awards fuss was all about. A film that has so much heart, it follows Paul Giamatti as an unlikeable teacher at a boarding school who is forced to chaperone a handful of students with nowhere to go over Christmas. Convincingly set in th...
The Zone of Interest: when the credits roll and the shame washes over you
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - May 08, 2024 03:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsTalking about Jonathan Glazer’s Auschwitz-set film The Zone of Interest this week was both really hard and in many ways very easy. Easy because it’s a masterclass in sound design and unusual cinematography choices. Obviously film students should be studying this for years to come. But this is no...
Apple Event — May 7
Apple Events (video) - May 07, 2024 14:00 - 38 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 4.1K ratingsWatch the special Apple Event to learn about the newest iPad Air and iPad Pro, and the first-ever Apple Pencil Pro.
Nyad: our most divisive film yet
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - May 01, 2024 03:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFor two of us, this film was deeply inspiring. For one of us, this film was simply not it. Nyad is a 2023 American biographical sports drama about swimmer Diana Nyad’s attempts to swim from Cuba to Florida, starring Annette Bening and Jodie Foster. In this episode we address the controversy of t...
Challengers: Live Podcast at Everyman Cinema
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - April 25, 2024 02:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe visited you lovely lot in Everyman Bristol to watch the sweatiest film of recent years- Challengers (2024)- and record a live podcast with you all. We discuss love triangles, obsession, competition, painfully obvious branding in films, CGI tennis balls in your face, the power of Zendaya’s ons...
May December: A film that gave us a morality crisis
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - April 24, 2024 03:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsNever have we done such a 180 whilst recording an episode. Directed by Todd Haynes, we agreed May December is a gripping and technically brilliant film. By the end of the episode, we question whether we should like it so much. The film is inspired by real scandalous events and based off of real ...
The Iron Claw: the crazy truth, the shattered masculinity and the triumph of Zac Efron
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - April 17, 2024 03:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe buckled ourselves down for a film about shattered masculinity (one of Han's favourite genres) and came away wholly impressed, but conflicted. Why didn't it make most of us cry? What was missing? How can one family have so much tragedy? How did we find ourselves scrutinising male actors' bodie...
Mean Girls: The OG vs the musical
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - April 10, 2024 03:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsOn Wednesdays, we wear pink drop episodes. This week we delve into the MGU (the Mean Girls Universe), and discuss the recent Mean Girls musical adaptation alongside the original. Who else knew Tina Fey’s screenplay is based off a single chapter in a self-help book? We discuss the phenomenal imp...
All Of Us Strangers had all of us crying
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - April 03, 2024 03:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week on film club we're discussing this beautiful, perfectly executed and unexpected ghost story from Andrew Haigh. Lead actor Andrew Scott is perfection, Paul Mescal is sublime. Yes, the internet frenzy is deserved. From depicting grief and loneliness, to homophobia in the 80s, we pull out...
Priscilla: Sofia Coppola was the perfect person to make this
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - March 27, 2024 04:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsFor this week's episode we're not going to beat around the bush; we really loved Sofia Coppola's Priscilla (2023) and if you listen you’ll find out why. The film follows the perspective of Elvis’s teen wife, a rare autobiographical film that actually gives the time of day to a woman of that gene...
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind: chosen by our listeners to rip our hearts out all over again
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - March 20, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week our film was chosen by YOU lovely listeners. We asked for an iconic 90s or 00s film and you really delivered. The cult classic Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film that genuinely keeps on giving, from the gut-wrenching emotional turmoil, to the visual language that was truly...
Wonka: no one's favourite Willy but a pleasant surprise
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - March 13, 2024 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsAn episode Maisie was dreading… until she actually watched the film. And, well, we couldn't dislike it if we tried. Turns out acting royalty and Harry Potter's production team will always work wonders. This week we discuss everything about the undeniably fun, not too sickly, if a little unmemora...
Past Lives: the phenomenal debut from Celine Song and the tearjerker we needed
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - March 06, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWill they/won't they?? Should they/shouldn't they?? This week we discuss Celine Song's phenomenal debut, Past Lives. In a world of explosive franchises comes a quiet original film that entranced us all. We discuss the prep that went into the authentic performances and casting. Plus, Celine Song'...
Saltburn: it's giving the peach scene from Call Me By Your Name
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - February 28, 2024 04:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt's Saltburn week, time to discuss that film that you regret watching with your parents. We are so here for the vulgarity, the Barry, the girlies, the soundtrack and the eyebrow piercings. At times we're a little salty.. is it too predictable? Did the internet ruin it? Listen to find out 💖 Sal...
Poor Things: The hair, the drama and Maisie’s revelation
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - February 21, 2024 04:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis week we go on the wild ride that is Poor Things by Yorgos Lanthimos. It’s a real head-scratcher as we try get to the bottom of what it’s all supposed to MEAN?! In the latest from one of our favourite directors, it’s the costume dept that are our true heroes of this film. We discuss the visu...
Big BAFTA chats
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - February 16, 2024 04:00 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt's BAFTA week baby so for this special episode we are honoured to have our first guests of the season be the future of film, aka the five nominees of the Best British Short Film category. Some of our favourite films from last year started out as a short. Over half of the film industry are thou...
The Twilight episode: two Twi-hards and one Twi-virgin
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - February 14, 2024 04:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsIt’s been 15 years and the Twi-hards amongst us have been lying low. But now, we emerge. The Twi-naissance is here. To celebrate the anniversary year of Catherine Hardwicke’s Twilight, we force Hannah to watch it for the first time. We discuss the chokehold this series had Lowri and Maisie in as...
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie: our verdict
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - February 07, 2024 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsThis episode is brought to you by PROPER snacks, proud makers of PROPERCORN & PROPERCHIPS. The dust had barely settled on Barbie Land. After multiple watches and months of reflection, we look back at the phenomenon of Greta Gerwig’s 2023 hit Barbie and ask the big questions: Why make Ken the be...
We're back with a new season! What films do we have in store for you?
Frank Film Club with Maisie Williams - February 03, 2024 08:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 36 ratingsWe've been laying low these past few months. You film buffs have probably guessed it: we've been silent because we 100% stand with the SAGs + WGAs demands for everyone in this wonderful, but greedy industry. Now that the strikes are over, we are so excited to return to you with a new season and ...
December Fam Jam!
Lasso Cast - December 25, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 129 ratingsFollow us on Twitter @lassocast, @thelassocast on Insta! -Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts if you have a minute to spare! -Check out our new Patreon and support if you are able! -Check out the Hannah and Jason duet, the Will Forte version, and Phil on stage! -You can find Kenny's ...
Apple Event — October 30
Apple Events (video) - October 31, 2023 00:00 - 30 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 4.1K ratingsWatch the special Apple Event to learn about the new MacBook Pro and iMac with the M3 family of chips.
Apple Event — September 12
Apple Events (video) - September 12, 2023 18:30 - 1 hour - Video ★★★★ - 4.1K ratingsWatch the special Apple Event to learn about iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro, Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Ultra 2, and more.
S3E12 - Ted Lasso Goes Home with guest Devindra Hardawar
Lasso Cast - June 20, 2023 14:02 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 129 ratingsFollow us on Twitter @lassocast, @thelassocast on Insta! -Please rate and review us on Apple Podcasts if you have a minute to spare! -Check out our new Patreon and support if you are able! -Check out and support Jon's film project! -Check out The Film Cast and follow Devindra on twitter! -Y...