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TAKEONECinema.net presents The Xenopod: the podcast where we watch and analyse all the Alien franchise films in release order.
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The Heistpod 2: OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001) (opens the original)
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Simon and Jim return to discuss Steven Soderbergh's OCEAN'S ELEVEN, the first in his trilogy of Ocean's films. They discuss the film's huge jump in quality from the 1960 original, the stylishness and confidence of Soberbergh's filmmaking and the importance of the music in setting that tone, the extremely tight script, and the surprising lack of common ground between the original film and this remake. OCEAN'S ELEVEN really establishes how to make a heist film in the 21st Century. They also discus
The Heistpod 1: OCEAN'S 11 (1960) (opens the original)
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TAKE ONE Presents... returns for another job, this time sticking up the Ocean's franchise and taking all the critical insight we can get from this franchise. In this first episode, Simon and Jim set out the plan for the series and then go back further than they've ever been to discuss 1960's OCEAN'S 11. They discuss the personal and political lives of the Rat Pack aka. the Clan, how this film came to be and the many writers that contributed to it, the languid pacing for a heist movie, the film's
Pod With Us If You Want To Live 7: Outro (opens the original)
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In this epilogue to their Terminator series, Simon and Jim wrap up their thoughts on the franchise as a whole, explore what the directors of these films went on to do, give their final rankings of the films in the franchise, and expand on their thoughts on the impact of capital on this franchise through how the rights were passed around in a way that makes the franchise more of a commodity than a creative endeavour. Our Letterboxd rankings for the Terminator franchise are available at https://le
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