Film Fallout Podcast #33 – The Girl on the Train to Westworld

<p>Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan woke up in the middle of our own houses&comma; with mics in front of us&comma; forced to recount the events of Tate Taylor&&num;8217&semi;s adaptation of <em>The Girl on the Train<&sol;em>&period; Starring Emily Blunt as a raging alcoholic&comma; Haley Bennett&comma; Rebecca Ferguson&comma; Luke Evans&comma; Justin Theroux&comma; and Edgar Ramirez&comma; this thriller is being compared a lot to <em>Gone Girl<&sol;em>&period; Does it hold a flame to the Fincher film&comma; or is it just a pulpy thriller&quest; Tune in to find out&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Plus&comma; Dylan saw the controversial <em>The Birth of a Nation <&sol;em>at the Vancouver International Film Festival&comma; but it also comes out this week&period; Does it warrant all that Sundance buzz that it received&quest; He also watched Ava DuVernay&&num;8217&semi;s Netflix documentary&comma; <em>13th<&sol;em> which looks at the issues of race that have run rampant in America&period; Meanwhile Chris watched the first episode of <em>Divorce<&sol;em>&comma; starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church&comma; which airs on HBO&period; Most importantly&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;re two episodes into <em>Westworld <&sol;em>and it&&num;8217&semi;s time for us both to discuss the new sci-fi show&period; Plenty of food for thought&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We also briefly discuss the sexual assault scandal that has been happening in the film journalism world and why it&&num;8217&semi;s an important discussion to be having&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Next week&comma; we&&num;8217&semi;ll be taking a look at <em>The Accountant<&sol;em>&comma; which continues our streak of seeing films that are probably not good&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;