The Dashwood sisters find their prospects of marriage suddenly diminished by their family loss of fortune, in Emma Thompson’s adaptation of Sense and Sensibility (1995). Thompson won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and is also part of the stellar cast, which includes Kate Winslet, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant and Hugh Laurie. Ang Lee directed what is widely considered to be among the very best Jane Austen adaptations.

Writer and illustrator Lizzy Stewart joins to discuss the film. Lizzy is the author of Alison and There’s a Tiger in the Garden which won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize and a World Illustration Award. Her new book, The Wreck, is available now from Jonathan Cape.

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Guest: Lizzy Stewart

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Tom Cruise is forced to live, die, repeat in the sci-fi action thriller Edge of Tomorrow (2014). Adapted from Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s light novel All You Need Is Kill, the film was directed by Doug Liman from a script by Jez and John Henry Butterworth and regular Cruise collaborator Christopher McQuarrie.

Journalist Drew Taylor and filmmaker Charles Hood, who together are Light the Fuse: the official Mission Impossible podcast, join to discuss the film.

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Guest: Drew Taylor and Charles Hood

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Richard Widmark stars as Harry Fabian, a conman trying to rustle up a few quid to break into wrestling promotion, in Night and the City (1950). Based on Gerald Kersh’s novel of the London underworld, the film was made in England with American money, produced by Twentieth Century Fox and directed by the blacklisted Jules Dassin. Night and the City is atmospheric, exciting and gritty, and according to my guest, ‘may well be the definitive noir film’.

Film historian Foster Hirsch joins to discuss the film. Foster is the author of many books, including The Dark Side of the Screen: Film Noir and Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties.

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Guest: Foster Hirsch

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