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A comedic take on a murder mystery had so much potential, but unfortunately, the creators of SEE HOW THEY RUN wasted it with what can only be described as lazy writing and lazy editing. This is what happens when the writers of murder mysteries aren't also superfans of the genre, or when they try to cut corners. This week, Valerie discusses the unfortunate skinny wrist reveal, and Melanie walks us through all the clues and red herrings. Do you agree with their analysis?

"If you're serious about getting published, be honest with yourself about the gaps in your knowledge. We all have them. It's okay." Valerie Francis

Related Story Nerd Episodes

Crooked House (Season 9, Episode 901)

Death on the Nile (Season 2, Episode 207)

Knives Out (Season 1, Episode 107)

For information about Valerie's upcoming webinars, visit: www.valeriefrancis.ca/webinars

For access to writing templates and worksheets, and more than 70 hours of training (all for free), subscribe to Valerie's Inner Circle: www.valeriefrancis.ca/innercircle

To learn to read like a writer, visit Melanie's website: www.melaniehill.com.au

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This week we dive into the lives of the March daughters, Meg, Jo , Amy, and Beth. We're discussing the 2019 film Little Women, adapted for the screen and directed by Greta Gerwig. 

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If you're writing a character-driven story with a female protagonist, or a female POV character, this episode is a must for you. With only one viewing it's easy to miss the storytelling goodness of Lady Bird because it doesn't offer up the kind of story Hollywood has trained us to expect (i.e., external action, male protagonist, hero's journey-style stories). What it does give is a nuanced, complex female protagonist whose internal conflict drives the story. Yay, Greta!

For access to writing templates and worksheets, and more than 70 hours of training (all for free), subscribe to Valerie's Inner Circle: www.valeriefrancis.ca/innercircle

For information about Valerie's upcoming webinars, visit: www.valeriefrancis.ca/webinars

To learn to read like a writer, visit Melanie's website: www.melaniehill.com.au

Follow Valerie on X, Instagram and Threads @valerie_francis

Follow Melanie on X Instagram and Facebook @MelanieHillAuthor

For information about Valerie's upcoming webinars, visit: www.valeriefrancis.ca/webinars

For access to writing templates and worksheets, and more than 70 hours of training (all for free), subscribe to Valerie's Inner Circle: www.valeriefrancis.ca/innercircle

To learn to read like a writer, visit Melanie's website: www.melaniehill.com.au

Follow Valerie on X, Instagram and Threads @valerie_francis

Follow Melanie on X, Instagram and Facebook @MelanieHillAuthor

In this week's Reference Max we review the succinctly creepy world in Scavengers Reign, embodied yelling couple tropes in Foe, shifted the lens of Indian cinema in Brand Bollywood Downunder and got down and dirty with The Big Dog.

GIVEAWAY DETAILS (AUS) ONLY - CLOSES 29 NOV

Thanks to Kismet Films and NixCo, we are running our biggest giveaway yet with FIFTEEN double passes to see UPROAR. Julian Denison stars as Josh, a young man finding his place in 1981 New Zealand. UPROAR is in cinemas November 30.

Head over to our Twitter or Instagram to enter.


References made in the reviews

Brand Bollywood Downunder review by Dilpreet Kaur Taggar

Smoke & Mirrors interview with Director, Anupam Sharma

The Big Dog has extended their cinema run check out the link for details on screenings (AUS).

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Lion  director Garth Davis talks about his new film Foe, a sci-fi starring Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan, plus two producers behind some of the best Asian cinema of the last decade.

It's no Twilight, but we still need to talk about The Host (2013). No, not the Bong Joon Ho horror — we mean the Stephenie Meyer movie adaptation. That's right, it's time for another Fifth Tuesday, a.k.a. one of our non-spooky bonus episodes, and given that this film features a bonafide intergalactic invasion, we knew it would be the perfect way to close out Alien Month. After four weeks of figuring out all the various ways humanity might put a stop to attacks from outer space, it was time to ask the really important questions: What happens when the aliens win? Also, what if they're sort of sexy? With Saoirse Ronan doing her best bad Southern accent and Diane Kruger serving cunt in a ribbed white tank top, our latest installment of Spooky Tuesday does the work to tackle all the important topics: communism, supernatural love squares, and the true test of any romance.   

Resources:

https://stepheniemeyer.com/the-books/the-host/the-host-playlist/

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/07/stephenie-meyer-id-like-to-be-remembered-for-writing-the-host-but-itll-be-twilight 

It seems absurd that a podcast devoted to parents rekindling their love for cinema has taken three hundred and fifty something episodes to get around to discussing the Top 5 Births but here we are. Most of our examples are either comedies or horrors which tells you everything you need to know about our experiences or parenting in general.
 
While the rest of the world goes BARBIE crazy, we thought we would take a look back at writer/director Greta Gerwig's solo feature debut LADY BIRD, in which the self-monikered high schooler attempts to navigate the cliques of her senior year at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic High School, whilst dreaming of escape to college in New York, much to the disapproval of her domineering mother (Laurie Metcalf). 
 
We've seen the coming-of-age story told many times before but mostly from a male perspective and never one with such a rich and painful mother daughter relationship at its core. By equal measure funny, moving, and heart-breaking, with a terrific script full of powerful, real sounding lines and textured, layered characters, LADY BIRD is never better than when Metcalf is on screen as the emotionally abusive Marion who is at the centre of the movie’s thesis on love and attention. Sadly this didn't connect with all of us; if I'd have let them, my co-hosts would have gone on for ages about things they didn't like: Sidey thought it was pretentious though the film wears it's meaning front and centre and there weren't enough lasers or sport-cliches or something for Dan.
 
Our final section of the show is dedicated to answering one of life’s ultimate and most profound conundrums: IS IT CAKE?. Based on a brief online fad from a few years back, hosted by a man who doesn't appear to even know the meaning of the word comedy, it's 45 minutes long, the title has a question mark in it: there's a lot to potentially hate in this, and Sidey and Dan do in fact hate it. Not me though, the cakes look and sound amazing, the contestants are interesting and for some inexplicable reason, the light entertainment family element just works. Plus you can stab literally anything now and pretend you were just playing the game.

We love to hear from our listeners! By which I mean we tolerate it. If it hasn't been completely destroyed yet you can usually find us on twitter @dads_film, on Facebook Bad Dads Film Review, on email at baddadsjsy@gmail.com or on our website baddadsfilm.com.

Until next time, we remain...

Bad Dads

Priscilla LOVES Greta Gerwig and Jess has not seen any of her films, so it's a quick crash course on the talented actor turned writer/director (2:13) before they both discuss what they think Greta's upcoming 'Barbie' could be about (10:49).

Hosts: Priscilla Budigoma and Jessica Samba
Production by: Bankole Imoukhuede and Chinedu Iheji
Theme Music: Mia Sugunasingha

Jessica St. Clair is a writer and actor who you've definitely seen or heard, be it on her own shows with Lennon Parham (Best Friends Forever, Playing House), countless TV and movie appearances, or on her podcast with June Diane Raphael, The Deep Dive. She and Jordan bond over the messy, weird details of deep best friendship across lots of movies and TV shows, but especially past Feeling Seen favorites Anne of Green Gables (1985), When Harry Met Sally (1989), and Lady Bird (2017).

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about Mission Impossible 7.1

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Jessica St. Clair

Lady Bird is Greta Gerwig's 2017 masterpiece debut. It's legitimately a perfect movie. That is all that needs to be included in the shownotes.

In this episode, Andreina and Gabriela discuss the 2020 film Ammonite with a very special guest.

Ammonite tells the story of 19th-century British paleontologist Mary Anning.  An imaginary retelling of a brief period of her life, the film is directed by Francis Lee and stars Kate Winslet in the role of  Mary Anning and Saoirse Ronan as Charlotte Murchinson, her lover.

Join us as we discuss this period film mixing science, history, and romance in the South West of England. In the process, we explore the dichotomy between artistic vision vs reality, period film clichés, and what dignifies or not a character.

***Spoiler alert! While reviewing this show we go through key scenes and may reveal the ending, so be warned of spoilers!***

Sources & further readings:

Article with film’s synopsis prior to release

Interview with Kate Winslet on LGBTQ+ Representation and Honouring The History of Mary Anning

Behind the scenes

Hoy en menos de 10 minutos Andrés Addiction te recomienda cinco cintas que celebran a las mamás como los verdaderos seres de luz... o de oscuridad que son, depende el género.

Greta Gerwig's film LADY BIRD has the main character audition for Merrily We Roll Along. Sam Herriman joins Kyle to discuss the movie, the relationship it has to Sondheim's musical, and the deeper connections to Sondheim it has.

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We are using three productions to frame our discussion of Merrily We Roll Along.

The Original Broadway Cast (1981) starring Jim Walton, Ann Morrison, and Lonny Price.

You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/merrily-we-roll-along-original-broadway-cast-recording/738703005

Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/3KZq3isCTbYMzGvnXkTfNr?si=u2vq6PhGTCeyOW9W8mTnhw

Or buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Merrily-Roll-Along-Original-Broadway/dp/B01KB0V58O/

The Off-Broadway Revival cast (1994) starring Malcolm Gets, Amy Ryder, and Adam Heller.

You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/merrily-we-roll-along-the-new-cast-recording-1994-off/1440771486

Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/51xg0INwgGytnQTHm2N0Tc?si=Vv_WetrCQ9OaTmgtpBTpZQ

Or buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Merrily-Roll-Along-Cast-Recording/dp/B000026G4K/

The Encores! revival (2012) starring Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

You can listen to it on Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/ca/album/merrily-we-roll-along-2012-new-york-cast-recording/542006479

Or listen to it on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/album/2ouySS4WHFplUHtwduvPKx?si=SLaweV0XRomMEvIPXqlpDA

Or buy it on Amazon: https://www.amazon.ca/Merrily-Roll-Along-Encores-Recording/dp/B007Q1IT1I/

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The Montana winter isn’t the only thing ice-cold and unrelenting in God’s Country, directed by newcomer Julian Higgins and starring Thandiwe Newton. We’ve got Vulture’s TV critic and film writer Roxana Hadadi along to unpack all that this indie is bringing us. (Btw, today’s conversation is relatively spoiler-free.)

Then we’ll play a word quiz inspired by the title of this week’s movie.

What’s Good
Alonso - Hallmark’s upcoming slate, especially The Holiday Sitter
Drea - Kitchen deep clean
Roxana - newly planted White Oak tree

ITIDIC

1. Tom Hardy Quietly Entered a Local Martial Arts Tournament Last Week
2. Jon Hamm Gave Back Over Half His Salary to Extend Confess, Fletch Shoot Saoirse Ronan will lead the cast of Steve McQueen’s upcoming World War II Movie

Read the short story Winter Light

Sound of Metal is out on Criterion with an intro essay by Roxana Hadadi

Staff Picks
Drea - Athena (2022)
Alonso - Benediction (2022)
Roxana - Athena and The Battle of Algiers (1966)

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With:
Alonso Duralde
Drea Clark
Roxana Hadadi

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

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Drea Clark
Alonso Duralde
Ify Nwadiwe

Produced by Marissa Flaxbart
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher

Robert is stuck in the closet and Orson recounts his gamble on his namesake greyhound in Ipswich... it's still running.

In this episode:

• Warner Bros. ditch Batgirl before it's release!
• Trailer Droppings: See How They Run (Tom George)
• Schwarzenegger farted in Miriam Margolyes' face - a guide to on-set flatulence
• Are the Blockbuster video stores making a comeback?!
• Moofie Review: Shakespeare in Love (1998, John Madden)

Our next Moofie Review will be... A League of Their Own (1992, Penny Marshall)

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Matthew Jenkin
Luke Joslin
Toby Truslove
Michala Banas

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Greta Gerwig’s solo directorial debut tells the story of Lady Bird (nee Christine) in her final year of high school – dabbling with not just a new name, but also new boys, new hobbies, pushing the boundaries of her old relationships, and somehow disappointing her mother just by being herself (and applying to out-of-state colleges). Relatable much? Mary Kate Wiles (Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Fairly Odd Parents: Fairly Odder) definitely thought so.

Then, Jordan has one quick thing about her recent SDCC Panel (on Bold New Voices in Horror).

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With Jordan Crucchiola and Mary Kate Wiles