The new Coen Brothers film demands to be seen
Happy New Year to you all - it's time to gaze into the future with the last of our panel discussions featuring myself, Xan Brooks, Larushka Ivan-Zadeh and Cath Clarke. We look forward to 2008 and hope it will be an improvement on the 2007 year we just assessed in the previous podcasts.
The first few months promise much - the new Coen Brothers film No Country For Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, Cristian Mungiu's Cannes winner 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and Tamara Jenkins' The Savages are all utterly excellent and demand to be seen.
Then there's Be Kind, Rewind by Michel Gondry, which I loved even if Jack Black overacts a bit. He's partnered by the lovely underplaying of Mos Def who's going to be coolest film star of 2008. As for the big budget stuff, well there's more Harry Potter (yawn), more Narnia (oy vey) and Harrison Ford's back for Indiana Jones and the Bus Pass of Doom.
Meanwhile, content yourself with Hilary Swank - she's our first star interview of the year - as she takes on an untypical chick flick in PS I Love You. She's pleasant enough, even though we both know that after two Oscars for tough female roles, this is one helluva sell-out and already one of 2008's huge fat gobbling turkeys.
And just to remind you how precious a commodity Film Weekly is these days, we've a highlights package of the many famous and talented voices we've had on the show for this, our first anniversary edition. This is just a taste of whom we've had in 12 months: Renee Zellweger, Djimon Hounsou, Noel Gallagher, James McAvoy, Anna Friel, Denzel Washington, Juliette Binoche, Michel Gondry, Jerry Seinfeld, Ewan McGregor, Joe Wright, Shane Meadows, Simon Pegg, Javier Bardem, Lord Attenborough...
Thanks to them, the others we haven't mentioned and mostly thanks to you for listening. Here's to a great 2008 - and happy viewing.
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