The Prestige
Join Rob & Sam, two life-long friends, one a veteran of the film industry, the other a Cambridge-educated writer on books, movies and graphic novels. Each week they talk about a film and some of the ideas it throws up.
Recent Episodes:
5.04 – CITY OF GOD (2002) & Corrupt Space - The title for this episode comes from something Rob says towards the end of this chat, which I think sums up this film brilliantly. 
5.03 – 25 WATTS (2001) & Futility - Our film this week is the slacker comedy/drama 25 WATTS, from Uruguay. 
5.02 – THE ACCUSED (2018) & Intensity - After something of a hiatus from the main feed, this week the band is back together with our look at (the most recent, Rob) THE ACCUSED. 
Small Batch – White House Down (2013) & Olympus Has Fallen (2013) - Die Hard In The White House...again? 
5.01 – EMA (2019) & Seeds - We launch into Season 5 (FIVE!!! madness, I tell you) and our ‘world tour’ with a film from the country at the southernmost tip of the Americas, Chile, and Pablo Larraín’s 2019 film EMA. 
200! – 300 (2007) & Fourteen Years - Some six years after our first episode — and fourteen years after the…’discussion’ that prompted us to start doing this podcast (eventually), we’re revisiting Zach Snyder’s 2007 epic 300 
4.50 – MULAN (2020) and Honour - The final film in our Disney-animation-and-remakes sub-season is the 2020 iteration of MULAN. 
4.49 – MULAN (1998) & Gender - Our final Disney film is 1998’s MULAN. After some reviews, we talk about the ways in which this film starts from a position of naivety, but grows into a much more adult movie: which leaves us both intrigued as to… 
4.48 – THE LION KING (2019) and Hyperrealism - This week, after some...reviews of Disney’s most recent take on THE LION KING, we talk about how colour and contrast can make or break a film, the importance of myth to the original movie, and what it means to consider…