The Love Of Cinema

Hosted by Picturehouse’s very own Sam Clements, The Love Of Cinema podcast discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.

This month we're joined by guest film critics Leila Latif and Rafa Sales Ross to discuss some of the best films and events coming to Pic...

Hope Hopkinson talks to director Darren Aronofsky about his new film, Caught Stealing.  Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) was a high-school baseball phenom who can’t play anymore, but everything else is going okay. He’s got a great girl (Zoë Kravitz), tends bar at a New York dive, and his favorite team is making an underdog run at the pennant.

When his punk-rock neighbor Russ (Matt Smith) asks him to take care of his cat for a few...

Sam Clements talks to director Jay Roach about his new film, The Roses.  Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. 

But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

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Hope Hopkinson talks to writer, director and star of Sorry, Baby Eva Victor about making their feature directorial debut. 

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.

Blending heartache, humour and healing, SORRY, BABY is the stunning and star-making debut from director, writer and actor Eva Victor, also starring Naomi Ackie and Lucas Hedges. 

As sharp as it is tender, SORRY, BABY is a qu...

Sam Clements speaks to director Ari Aster about his new film Eddington, in UK cinemas now after it's world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. 

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Sam Clements speaks to director Chris Columbus about his work directing the much aniticpated adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club, produced by Steven Spielberg. 

Based on Richard Osman’s international bestselling novel of the same name, The Thursday Murder Club follows four irrepressible retirees - Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Ron (Pierce Brosnan), Ibrahim (Ben Kingsley) and Joyce (Cel...

Sam Clements speaks to actors Tom Hiddleston and Chiwetel Ejiofor about working on Mike Flanagan's The Life of Chuck, adapted from the Stephen King story of the same name. 

THE LIFE OF CHUCK is a life-affirming, genre-bending story, based on Stephen King’s novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles ‘Chuck’ Krantz.

Adapted for the screen and directed by regular King...

Sam Clements speaks to writer and director Celine Song about her new film Materialists, recorded live on stage at Picturehouse Central. Please note, this episode was recorded in front of an audience who had just watched Materialists and contains some plot spoilers.  From Celine Song, the Academy Award-nominated writer and director of Past Lives, comes Materialists: the story of a young, ambitious New York City matchmaker torn be...

Hosted by Picturehouse’s very own Sam Clements, The Love Of Cinema podcast discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.

This month we're joined by guest film critics Akua Gyamfi and Victoria Thomas to discuss some of the best films coming to Picturehouse Ci...

Hope Hopkinson talks to director Claude Barras about his new film, Savages.

In Borneo, at the edge of the tropical forest, Kéria is given a baby orangutan.  With the forest under greater threat than ever, Kéria, Selaï and the little primate, Oshi, will have to face many obstacles. 

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Freda Cooper talks to actor Leonie Benesch about her new film, Late Shift.

Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward.  However, today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against the clock. 

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Issy Macleod speaks to directors Danny and Michael Philippou about their new A24 produced film, Bring Her Back. 

A brother and sister uncover a terrifying ritual at the secluded home of their new foster mother.

From the directors of ‘Talk To Me’ comes a soul-shaking possession horror that cannot be unseen.

Sam Clements speaks to actor Ralph Ineson about his new role as Galactus in Marvel Studios' The Fantastic Four: First Steps, starring alongside Pedro Pascal, Vanessa Kirby and Julia Garner. 

Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’s First Family as they face their most daunting challenge yet.

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Hope Hopkinson talks to director Athina Rachel Tsangari and actor Herry Melling about their new film, Harvest.

The latest feature from celebrated filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier, Attenberg), HARVEST is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other. Telling a story steeped in folk horror, and featuring another strikingly memorable performance from Caleb Landry Jones (Nitram), Tsangari presents a ...

DC Studios’ first feature film to hit the big screen, helmed by writer-director James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy, The Suicide Squad), Superman brings the original superhero into a newly imagined universe with a singular blend of epic action, humour and heart.

Working as a journalist and keeping his identity under wraps, Superman (David Co...

Hosted by Picturehouse’s very own Sam Clements, The Love Of Cinema podcast discusses the best new releases, with a little help from some of our favourite film critics and the occasional special guest from the world of cinema.

This month we're joined by guest film critics Anna Smith (Girls On Film podcast) and Sean Wilson (Frame To Frame podcast) to discuss some ...

Lucy Fenwick Elliott talks to actor Fiona Shaw and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz about their new film, Hot Milk.  With a strange illness, a mother and her daughter embark on a journey to the Spanish coast to find a cure, and along the way the daughter discovers another reality far from her controlling mother.

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Lara Peters talks to co-director Fax Bahr about his iconic behind the scenes documentary, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse. 

This documentary that chronicles how Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now (1979) was plagued by extraordinary script, shooting, budget, and casting problems--nearly destroying the life and career of the celebrated director.

Hope Hopkinson talks to director Joseph Kosinski and producer Jerry Bruckheimer about their new film, F1: The Movie. 

Dubbed 'the greatest that never was', Sonny Hayes (Brad Pitt) was Formula 1’s most promising racer of the 1990s – until an accident on the track nearly ended his career.

Thirty years later, he’s a nomadic racer-for-hire when he’s approached by his former teammate Ruben Cervantes (Javier Bardem), owner of a strugg...