Episode 8 Film 2012

Hello and welcome to the programme, if you want to get in touch,

details are on the screen. Coming up: all is fair in love and

espionage. Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy *

In This Means War. Jennifer Aniston and Paul ride are

suffering from Wanderlust. should make love some time.

And things Burrell added control in Project X. -- spiral out of control.

Plas Edgar Wright talks to us about the making of Shaun Of The Dead. If

Such a delicate touch! Sheer magnetism, darling. Plenty more of

that later. Charlie Higson told us why he loves to play seven. First,

Shaun Of The Dead, starring Tom Hardy, Reese Witherspoon and Chris

You're my best friend. I would take a bullet for you. What would happen

if James Bond was best friends with I was doing the same thing. You

want to see her? That is Lauren They respect each other, but would

one have acquiesced to the other? Never!

You date her. What does that mean? I think we should lay down some

ground rules. Let her decide. But left the best man win. It is like

the classic straight man, funnyman. He wants to have a family, led a

solid wife -- life with his wife and kid. His colleague is like a

labrador, let's play, let's have fun. Lauren is the woman who makes

their friendship stronger. He teaches them what it means to be

Really? Have you ever killed anybody with your bare hands?

this week. We were having a great time making

a picture like this. Life is very difficult to stop we have all had a

great deal of tragedy in our lives. We can all do a bit of dreaming.

That wonderful. So you are not I imagine this is your film of the

year. At the EU know me so well! This is like if fiendish Hollywood

film, the perfect beach movie and rum,. As a film, it is mostly more

enjoyable than being kicked between the legs. As an experiment, it is

doomed to fail. The action elements do not work. It is sloppy and

flaccid. A great action movie is a great thing but it needs to be

added with a scalpel and this is edited with a fish slice. The

romance is rather strange, because there is a love triangle at the

centre of the movie. There is only one side of that. He doesn't mean

it. It doesn't involve Reese Witherspoon. The romance is so

overheated that if I were a woman and my boyfriend didn't deceive the

movie, I would raise a quizzical eyebrow afterwards and wonder if

they won't try to tell me something. We do you think, Claudia? Only just.

We have had a lot of tweeds. Andrew Jones says, at this is painful.

Gail Smith says, this is not tinker, tailor. Life is about expectations,

so I went in like that. It is not great, but I liked the fact that it

is a nonsense. The job is a nonsense, the house, the boys at

the CIA is sit around at desks, and occasionally Angela Bassett says...

What about international terrorism! No, it is an absolute nonsense.

Chelsea Handler saves it for me, she is hilarious. She has a couple

of moments, but they are laugh out loud. Once you get it into your

head about the tiny hands, you never look at anything else.

Somebody says, why is she listening to that old man? I quite liked the

fact that it is all out ridiculous. What Reese Witherspoon where it

doesn't make sense. She constantly dresses as if she's going to a

black-tie ball. I'm not going to argue with that. But I think Tom

Hardy is better than this. Everyone associated with it is better, I

take on board what the director says one East is not everything has

to be about the human condition, but surely a movie should be more

than a barely adequate way to fill the time on a long-haul flight

between finishing the in-flight magazine Andy Baddeley and kicking

in. Breaking news that quite on the poster if they want! To a mention a

Hitchcock film and talk about chatting up a goal in a video shop,

because that is what they do in 2012! He says the great thing about

Hitchcock is he could make these movies which were action movies,

romances, thrillers, blended into one. You think, oh my God, this is

what they think they are doing here. But to create a movie like a

Hitchcock movie, you need to have such delicacy, lightness of touch.

This is like watching a didn't making a souffle! Let's move on.

am not very good with a souffle. Next, Project X, the story of a

group of teenagers who want to throw the ultimate house party.

It is my birthday today. You should swing vital stop it is on Beacon

Street. That is your party? See you guys tonight then!

Project X is the story of these three kids from an anonymous call

the one to make a name for themselves. They have the

opportunity to throw a party, they want to change something in their

lives. The whole idea is to get pictures to recognise this. How do

you not to the point? It is the ideal scenario 20 teenager, you

parents Garway, you have a certain amount of time. -- your parents go

away for the weekend. The party because bigger than it anything

they had imagined. It is more crazy that it is even funny. It is just

like, what is going on in this movie! It is not a straight out

comedy, honestly, it is really just a maybe about a few bad decisions

and things spiralling out of control. My dad will go crazy if

anything happens to my car. -- his car. I like the idea of some of

these partygoers being part of the moody, let's give them cameras,

phones. It was amazing, there is a lot of the ditch to go through, but

you find that little gem. -- a lot of footage to go through. It is

Look at her! We should it mostly chronologically, so the

transformation of our physical appearances was real. It is time to

shut it down. Shut down or I am calling the cops. It is all on

tape! All I got was you punching his face. This was a real house,

real people partying. That really added to the whole chaos and the

real Miss of this movie, which gives it the texture it has.

will have a whole day. What if my parents see it? This high school

party, have you seen the footage? This film is absolutely not by me.

I am and little old lady. And I was on the side of that poor neighbour

who was tasered. We are all on his side. I was very anxious, and they

are creating a mass, this is a very bad. I did not what -- don't know

what insurance company will cover this. The characters are repellent,

I could talk to you for now about the depiction of women in it. --

have fallen apart. But the point is, if I was 17 and I sneaked into this

film with four of friends, with weird hot dogs, I imagine that I

had died and gone to heaven. It is a nonsense. There is no character,

no story. I think one moment, they say, party till the break of dawn.

You think, that is a moment. But this promise not for people like me.

The Oscars last week, there was a huge celebration of the past, but

the elephant in the room was the box office figures across America,

the end degeneration seem to be getting away. So what do the job

catches do, the perfect time to unveil Project X. It is a time to

start off with a stone the Yorkshire terrier on a bouncy

castle. A garden gnome are full of Ecstasy and the right chord

arriving. But that is it. That is what is grimly interesting. You try

and review this film, you think of it, performance, characterisation,

number of this matters. -- none of this matters. I have feeling this

film is going to be hugely successful. It to music is good,

the director has struck lot of videos. Her you are watching it,

you think, I have never been to a party like this. But you think,

that was a whole youth I didn't have. It is so strange seeing a

film made up entirely... Jackass was so real and imaginative, but

this is made up of clips from people's cameraphones on YouTube

commander had this horrible feeling, if the Oscars was all about cinemas

past, you have the strange feeling that this is maybe the future of

cinema, in which case I may take up rambling. This is fine for this

film to have an audience, but if you're on legal, to see this film,

it means you are to hold for it. Now time to the top five, now the

top five film teenagers. Teenagers - can't live with them,

can't make them tidy their rooms, and you cannot begin to

excruciating -- understand their excruciating text speak. They are

usually smarter and sassier on film. Here are my top five.

At No. 5, Jim Stark in Rebel Without A Cause. The cinema has

been full of surly, rebellious teenagers, but one of the first and

best remains James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause. The film was one

of the first which showed him railing aimlessly at his school

mates, parents, his life, everything. You are tearing me

apart! What? You say one thing, everybody changes back again!

Deanna died a month before its At 4, it is Superbad. I am McLovin.

He is a hapless geek, whose journey of discovery as two bumbleing cops

show him the time of his life is heart-warming. How is it going with

the ladies? It is not the going with the ladies I care about. It's

the coming! I get it! It features tonnes of cracking dialogue - this

is important - it sounds like stuff that a teenager might say. I've got

a bona. Good. So it is not Shakespeare. At three, it is Carrie

in Carrie. Take Carrie, a sweet soul... It is Carrie... Carrie is

abused at home by her nut-job of a mum, shunned by her teachers and

bullied by her classmates. She is a melting pot of Torment and rage

which boils over at the school prom. At two, it is Olive in Easy A. Here

is a teenager who can restore faith in the future of the human race.

She's smart, articulate and schooled enough in pop culture to

know that she is living her life inside a John Hughes' movie.

Whatever happened to chivalry? I want John Cusack holding a Boombox

outside my window. I want Jake waiting outside the church with me.

I want Judd Nelson thrusting his fist in the air because he knows he

got me just once. No, no, John Hughes did not direct my life.

one, it's Marty McFly in Back To The Future. The hero of Robert

Zemeckis' time-travel flick is special. He is smart, resourceful

and self-possessed enough to be best friends with a crazy white-

haired old man. Wait a minute, Doc, are you telling me you built a Time

Machine? He's also seriously cool, whether he is taking care of

bullies, Marty is the ultimate teenager. He invented the Blues.

You know that new sound you were looking for? Listen to this!

the skateboard, and the concept of repeats! Great Scott, he is

amazing(!) Brilliant. We have had so many e-

mails. One has to be Ferris Bueller. Saturday morning detention has

never been so fun. That is only a few. Thanks very much. Next,

Wanderlust, a comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd.

ready for your meeting? Yeah. them dead, all right? I'll call you

later. Know what I want to do? I want to take off that robe. Why are

you not at work? I got fired! Linda and I are this couple who is kind

of, I kind of think hanging by a thread. As soon as we can get back

on our feet, we'll come back to New York. Atlanta is the best place for

us to be. The bottom drops out of their life. They stumble into a

bed-and-breakfast which is this commune and they have an amazing

night there. It is coming after us! He wants to make a suit out of our

skin. You guys OK? There he is, my homeless brother. Where's your

cardboard box? Your body is... think you are making everybody

uncomfortable. When it is such a nightmare, George's brother, Rick...

You want me to enter this data? questioning me? Are you serious?

They final decide why not, let's go for it and move into this place.

Welcome to the community. It is not like we are signing a lease. We

will give it a month... Two weeks. I felt very close to Linda, coming

out of your shell and getting out of the rules and letting your guard

down. George, I hear Eva asked to have intercourse with you? What?

Yes, thanks(!) That was what I was going to tell you. Apparently, they

practice free love. She's found her, as Paul would say, her Wanderlust.

She doesn't want to leave, she's contributing, she is finally being

part of the community and helping and giving and making a difference.

This place is incredible. I feel I'm part of something that is real.

What is this? I can fly! You can't. I believe I can fly. If you are

going to get literal with an R Kelly song do Trapped in a Closet.

I'm not having an on-air nervous breakdown. There is something that

was very funny. You have this New York couple whose lives are

unravelling and there is a pace and a rhythm that feels like a

screwball comedy. After that, their lives take a different take and

they end up in this old-fashioned New York commune. The comedy is

often a bit creaky, it is a bit repetitive, bup there is a lot of

funny stuff -- but there is a lot of funny stuff in there as well. I

am detecting a lot of hostility from you. Yes, correct. Why so

hostile? Well, it is not funny enough! It is not funny enough and

I found it ever so painful. The screening, everybody else was

laughing so maybe there is something wrong with me! LAUGHTER

Don't! Don't tweet about that! Be a love. The point is, it is not funny

enough. I think if I'm honest, I have a problem - I love her as

Rachel Green, but Jennifer Aniston, it is the same mannerisms. Paul

Rudd is great. The stereotype of this commune come think and fast

and in a minute somebody will make a gift out of twigs and oranges -

there it is. In a minute, there will be a naked guy making wine -

oh, there it is. I just found it - it's sad because you think it is

going to be funnier and it just isn't funny. Life is very short.

I'm not going to spend much of it defending Jennifer Aniston. I will

stick up for her seeing as she "trips her balls off". Paul Rudd is

in every American comedy that has come out over the last ten years.

His timing here and his responses are fantastic. Listen, this isn't

Some Like It Hot, this isn't Airplane, but there is a warmth to

it - even the minor characters get something to do. There are some

classic lines. Another week I would be less charitable about it. Listen,

it is perfectly decent. I will settle for that. There is a bigger

conversation to be had about who these films are for, both Reese

Witherspoon's film, This Means War, and this one. I don't think they

have done very well. We will have to ask Charles Gant. I don't know

who they are for. They should be aimed at me? It is Hollywood's

problem. Yeah. The film which we are reviewing this week is Project

X, that will make money. Next, Charlie Higson, author of the Young

Bond series tells us why 007 will James Bond has been a huge part of

my life. I can actually remember the first film I went to see in the

cinema, it was Thunderball. I can vividly remember everything about

that night, the excitement of it, the scale, the music, the action,

the jet-pack. The villain's boat that splits in half. The underwater

scenes where you haven't got a clue who anybody is. For me, and for

everyone else in the '60s, James Bond was the coolest guy in the

world. He must have followed us. think he got the point! And James

Bond has managed to remain being the coolest guy in the world by

constantly adapting to the times. Sean Connery's '60s bond handed

over to Roger Moore's camp '70s disco Bond and then we had Timmy

Dalton's politically correct Bond, the '90s gave us Pierce Brosnan's

designer Bond and Daniel Craig has brought the character right up-to-

date with his portrayal of James Bond. He perfectly captures these

murky uncertain times in which we are living. Like everybody else, my

James Bond will be the one that I grew up with. I'm much obliged.

all began in 1962 with the release of Dr No. While they were filming

it, there were no great expectations. Certain things came

together on that film to create the perfect storm. Sean Connery had an

animal sexuality, he knew how to wear a suit, fire a gun and deliver

a one-liner. It's a Smith and Wesson and you have had your six!

Sean Connery was... Bond, James Bond. And then there was Ursula

emerging from the sea in the Caribbean. It led to a succession

My favourite Bond Girl - Diana Rigg and Ava Green were classy, Britt

Eckland appealed to my teenage years, but I'm going to go for

Madeleine Smith because Roger Moore got to try out a gadget - a watch -

that unzips dresses. Such a delicate touch. I can't find one

anywhere! The next killer ingredient was Ken Adams' amazing

sets and there will never be a better set than the volcano in You

Only Live Twice, the ultimate Bond villain's lair. Many of the Bond

interiors have been shot here. What made the film stand out right from

the start was the use of genuine exotic foreign locations. James

Bond has been everywhere and done I only have to hear those opening

twangy guitar notes and I am back there as a seven-year-old boy in my

seat, in wonder at James Bond. Add in M, Moneypenny, the villain, the

cars, the guns, the gadgets, you have the most enduring hero in

You expect me to talk? No, Mr Bond, He has no wife and kids, no boring

domestic life and he is allowed to kill people - fantastic. Brilliant.

Next, Carancho, a thriller about an ambulance-chasing personal injury

Apology for the loss of subtitles for 109 seconds

In an odd week, finally we get to a film which is worth the ticket

price. I should explain a bit about the plot. It is about ambulance

chasers in Buenos Iris, doesn't sound exciting, but it really is.

It is a warped love story, and the end is the best climax ever. Well,

not ever! But this week. We have talked a lot about Hollywood and

its failings, one of the things they used to do well in the Fifties

was churn out these tough films about real issues, which were

gripping dramas which were not afraid to have characters with

murky pasts. Hollywood doesn't make those often any more, but

thankfully, someone does. Film two is a punchy little film noir. --

film two. He has got this great are haunted presence, he is haunted and

great for the role. You so wanted to work. He is so well cost, there

is a love story, it is the one chink of light in this otherwise

dark moody. I wish I could get another director in to watch this.

What is your film of the week? is this one. But I'm going to stick

up for Wanderlust. What I was obviously in a slightly odd mood!

Now it is time for director's cut. Edgar Wright talks twice about

Shaun Of The Dead. Some strong When we first pitched it, we said

it was like life is sweet with zombies. We didn't want it to be a

So, to be true to form to the sum the films we loved, most of the

The first day of the shoot was this shot where he walked from his house

to the corner shop and back. I remember wandering out on a Sunday

morning, just walking up the road and across the street to the corner

shop and back again without seeing any cars. What if you walked out

here and there were zombies, what if you saw it from the point of

view of somebody who was hung over It could bigger based on the

distance between the two locations. We couldn't find a flat we liked

and a corner shop we liked. So we had to make that interesting. The

cameraman on the film said that he believed the shot would be cut out,

his be said there was no way it would stay in the movie. I said, I

am going to make it is as -- interesting. So why did it with

some background jokes, because I was annoyed at this guy had

suggested it would be cut out. It has been a funny sort of day.

When I look back did come are the thing I most proud of is the scene

with his mum. It was kind of distressing to shoot, as well,

because it was her last seen. So literally, her laughter shock when

she was on -- her last shot when she was on the screen was heard

getting shot. She is not going anywhere! She is my mum! He was

right towards the end of the shoot, everybody was really tired. You can

see that Simon is really emotional. Because we were kind of tired and

We relied may be too heavily on some very lovely fans of Space that

he came out and worked for essentially nothing. They were

pouring on those windows for two weeks street. When they eventually

came into the pub and attacked Dylan, you can see this bloodlust

rising, because they were trying -- finally getting to do something.

They are a bit crazy because they had been waiting around along time.

Can I have two sugars? Adventurist! I might pop into the garden for a

bit. The joke is that he gets the best of both worlds, he gets to

live with his girlfriend, but keep his best friend, his childhood

Some people have said that it is a romantic comedy between two dies,

which they think is probably pretty accurate. -- two dies. Brilliant.

You can see more of that interview on our website. That is all for

tonight. Playing as at, a look at the branded the trailer for --

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called the Avengers initiative. thought I didn't qualify.

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