by Ed Williamson and Matt Looker
Two film writers and Fab Four fans discuss movies and TV about, starring, and inspired by The Beatles: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.<hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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April 17, 2025
<p>First question about this new documentary from Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards: is there anything new in it? It's a resounding yes: we discuss the framing device the film uses to evoke the chaos and political turmoil of Nixon-era early 1970s America. One big selling point for the film is also the archive of recorded phone calls between John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Allen Klein, May Pang, and other assistants, and we look at what this reveals about them. And it's interesting to note that this seems remarkably free of airbrushing: there are editorial decisions made here that don't flatter John or Yoko, and we talk about what this means for the creative direction of the Lennon estate.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>As of mid-April 2025, the film is out in UK cinemas. See where it's showing near you: <a href="https://shorturl.at/eFZyD" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shorturl.at/eFZyD</a></li><li>Watch the trailer: <a href="https://youtu.be/oxagfYjeMV4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/oxagfYjeMV4</a></li><li>Details of the live box set to be released in 2025: <a href="https://www.noise11.com/news/john-lennon-reissue-for-2025-will-be-9-disc-live-box-set-20250407" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.noise11.com/news/john-lennon-reissue-for-2025-will-be-9-disc-live-box-set-20250407</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h2>Meet the Beatles Films Podcast</h2><p><br></p><p>The Beatles Films Podcast is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/mrmattlooker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt Looker</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MrEdWilliamson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ed Williamson</a>. We're both film writers and Beatles fans. Between us we've written for <a href="https://theshiznit.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TheShiznit.co.uk</a>, Total Film, Den of Geek and Virgin Media.</p><br><p>But tomorrow may rain, so you'll follow us on:</p><ul><li>Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/beatlesfilmspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/beatlesfilmspod</a></li><li>Bluesky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social</a></li><li>YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BeatlesFilmsPodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@BeatlesFilmsPodcast</a></li><li>Threads <a href="https://www.threads.net/@beatlesfilmspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.threads.net/@beatlesfilmspod</a></li><li>X <a href="https://x.com/beatlesfilmpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/beatlesfilmpod</a></li><li>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/304654901827622/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/304654901827622</a></li></ul><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
April 4, 2025
<p>Sam Mendes has his cast, then: Harris Dickinson as John Lennon, Paul Mescal as Paul McCartney, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Joseph Quinn as George Harrison. What do we think of the official cast announcement? Can fans get past the idea that not every actor looks exactly like the Beatle he's playing? What do these actors' other performances suggest they could do with the Beatles story? Plus we discuss the release strategy, now it's seemingly confirmed that all four films will be released in the same month. How will this work?</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Some of the other films we mention here if you want to check out the actors include Dickinson in Triangle of Sadness, currently on BBC iPlayer: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002645p/triangle-of-sadness" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002645p/triangle-of-sadness</a></li><li>The Banshees of Inisherin, with Barry Keoghan, on Disney+: <a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/en-nz/movies/the-banshees-of-inisherin/7Cj38ALjonSC" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.disneyplus.com/en-nz/movies/the-banshees-of-inisherin/7Cj38ALjonSC</a></li><li>The wonderful All Of Us Strangers, with the double McCartney impact of Paul Mescal and Lennon Naked's Andrew Scott, on Disney+: <a href="https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/all-of-us-strangers/3J3PiHRIdy65" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.disneyplus.com/en-gb/movies/all-of-us-strangers/3J3PiHRIdy65</a></li><li>Mescal's Oscar-nominated turn in Aftersun, on BBC iPlayer: <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001w9pm/aftersun" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001w9pm/aftersun</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h2>Meet the Beatles Films Podcast</h2><p><br></p><p>The Beatles Films Podcast is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/mrmattlooker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt Looker</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MrEdWilliamson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ed Williamson</a>. We're both film writers and Beatles fans. Between us we've written for <a href="https://theshiznit.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TheShiznit.co.uk</a>, Total Film, Den of Geek and Virgin Media.</p><br><p>But tomorrow may rain, so you'll follow us on:</p><ul><li>Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/beatlesfilmspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/beatlesfilmspod</a></li><li>Bluesky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social</a></li><li>YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BeatlesFilmsPodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@BeatlesFilmsPodcast</a></li><li>Threads <a href="https://www.threads.net/@beatlesfilmspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.threads.net/@beatlesfilmspod</a></li><li>X <a href="https://x.com/beatlesfilmpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/beatlesfilmpod</a></li><li>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/304654901827622/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/304654901827622</a></li></ul><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
March 17, 2025
<p>We finish off this season with a look at the film's use of footage that's been colourised from black and white. Was this done, as Iain Lee suggested to Ed on his Talk Radio show in 2016, because American audiences don't like black and white? We think there's a bit of mileage in that: more specifically that the brief here was to present this footage to a new audience with a bit of sheen. We also discuss talking heads in the film like Eddie Izzard, and look at what they contributed, as well as some who appear only in the Blu-ray extras, like Paul Greengrass. </p><p><br></p><ul><li>Here's the full audio of the eight-minute call Ed made to Iain Lee's radio show after they'd both seen Eight Days a Week in the same screening, August 2016: <a href="https://youtu.be/dOggLQlN8GU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/dOggLQlN8GU</a></li><li>The film we mention coming to IMAX briefly in April 2025 is One to One: John and Yoko: <a href="https://www.imax.com/en/gb/movie/one-to-one-john-and-yoko" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.imax.com/en/gb/movie/one-to-one-john-and-yoko</a></li></ul><p><br></p><h2>Meet the Beatles Films Podcast</h2><p><br></p><p>The Beatles Films Podcast is hosted by <a href="https://twitter.com/mrmattlooker" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt Looker</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/MrEdWilliamson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ed Williamson</a>. We're both film writers and Beatles fans. Between us we've written for <a href="https://theshiznit.co.uk/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TheShiznit.co.uk</a>, Total Film, Den of Geek and Virgin Media.</p><br><p>But tomorrow may rain, so you'll follow us on:</p><ul><li>Instagram <a href="https://instagram.com/beatlesfilmspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://instagram.com/beatlesfilmspod</a></li><li>Bluesky <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bsky.app/profile/beatlesfilmspod.bsky.social</a></li><li>YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BeatlesFilmsPodcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/@BeatlesFilmsPodcast</a></li><li>Threads <a href="https://www.threads.net/@beatlesfilmspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.threads.net/@beatlesfilmspod</a></li><li>X <a href="https://x.com/beatlesfilmpod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://x.com/beatlesfilmpod</a></li><li>Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/304654901827622/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/304654901827622</a></li></ul><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
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