Dec 21, 2021
In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, Simon invites Ron's Gone Wrong and Arthur Christmas' Sarah Smith back, to chat about her work and career.
Her story is an incredible one: from her early days on BBC shows, through to making the jump to Aardman, and then launching the UK's first major digital animation...
Dec 20, 2021
In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, two James Bond projects: one got made, one didn't.
2021's No Time To Die was, of course, beset by release delays and and problems. But even before then, it'd been a difficult James Bond movie to put together.
After the success of 2002's Die Another Day, MGM and Eon...
Dec 13, 2021
In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, a pair of Christmas movies, both released in 2003.
Bad Santa was beset by problems. Conceived by the Coen brothers, it had a difficult shoot, lost Bill Murray to another film, and then there were huge battles in post-production.
Post-production was tricky...
Dec 6, 2021
In the new episode of Film Stories with Simon Brew, an Oscar-nominated one-off, and a hit comedy that was anything but a one-off.
After Boogie Nights, writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson had a moment where he could make what he wanted, and get total creative control. It helped that he got Tom Cruise...
Dec 2, 2021
In a special episode of the Film Stories podcast, British writer/director Johannes Roberts takes us though his career to date, and with some candour too.
He talks about the new release Resident Evil: Welcome To Raccoon City, and career-turners such as F, Storage 24 and 47 Meters Down. And he takes us through the lows as...