Film Fallout Podcast #22 – The BFG

<p>Spielberg is back with a movie that is clearly a <em>DOOM <&sol;em>reference&comma; but he refuses to acknowledge it&period; Instead&comma; the esteemed director plays it off like its a Roald Dahl adaptation about a big friendly giant &lpar;BFG&rpar;&period; Dylan Schwan and Christopher Cross lift the curtain behind Spielberg&&num;8217&semi;s latest and discuss Mark Rylance&&num;8217&semi;s performance&comma; the history of Roald Dahl adaptations&comma; why this feels like a film that is from another era&comma; and how much we can stomach fart jokes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In fact&comma; we discuss how much we can stomach fart jokes even more when Dylan talks about <em>Swiss Army Man<&sol;em>&comma; starring Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse and Paul Dano as the man who finds him stranded on a beach&period; Also stranded is Blake Lively in <em>The Shallows <&sol;em>&lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;the-shallows-review&sol;">you can find Dylan&&num;8217&semi;s review here<&sol;a>&rpar;&comma; which has her stuck on a rock and fighting for survival against a shark&period; Meanwhile&comma; Chris saw <em>The Phenom<&sol;em>&comma; a movie where Ethan Hawke plays an abusive&comma; alcoholic Dad who used to be good at baseball and now exerts all his energy onto his son&&num;8217&semi;s baseball career&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s also some news and more deaths in Hollywood to cement 2016 as a real bummer&period; Plus&comma; the blu-ray releases are plentiful this week&period; Tune in next week though when we discuss <em>The Secret Life of Pets<&sol;em>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Listen to the podcast below&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lbrack;powerpress&rsqb;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Film Fallout is a weekly podcast about film and television&period; Every week&comma; Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan discuss news happening in the industry&comma; blu-ray releases coming out this week&comma; what they’ve been watching&comma; and then a review of one movie&period; You can listen to it on <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;soundcloud&period;com&sol;filmfallout">SoundCloud<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;itunes&period;apple&period;com&sol;ca&sol;podcast&sol;film-fallout&sol;id942040539&quest;mt&equals;2">iTunes<&sol;a>&comma; or on BagoGames&period; Also <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;instagram&period;com&sol;filmfallout&sol;">follow us on Instagram<&sol;a> for some behind-the-scenes magic&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;