Film Fallout Podcast #44 – 20th Century Assassins of La La Land

<p>Alright&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s the last podcast of 2016&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ve still got 2016 movies to catch up on including some that don&&num;8217&semi;t technically get a full release until 2017&period; But until then&comma; enjoy this jam-packed edition of the podcast&period; Christopher Cross and Dylan Schwan finally get to have an honest-to-god conversation about <em>La La Land<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; the movie that no one will stop talking about &lpar;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;la-la-land-review-tiff-2016&sol;">read Chris&&num;8217&semi;s review here<&sol;a>&rpar;&period; Has Chazelle managed to outdo his previous film&comma; <em>Whiplash<&sol;em>&quest; And how has he taken the movie musical and made it such a smash hit&quest; We discuss all of this and more&period; Plus&comma; Dylan has a giveaway&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>That&&num;8217&semi;s right&period; If you can name <strong>which other two films&comma; besides <em>La La Land<&sol;em>&comma; both Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone have co-starred in<&sol;strong>&comma; you can win yourself a digital copy of the soundtrack&period; You also have to live in the United States &lpar;we&&num;8217&semi;re Canadian and just as baffled as you are by the restriction&rpar;&period; Send your answer to <strong>christopher&period;cross&commat;bagogames&period;com<&sol;strong> before <strong>January 3rd<&sol;strong> to get entered in the contest&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But if contests aren&&num;8217&semi;t your thing&comma; that&&num;8217&semi;s cool&period; Dylan saw the IMAX clip of Christopher Nolan&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Dunkirk <&sol;em>that has been playing before some screenings of <em>Rogue One&colon; A Star Wars Story<&sol;em>&period; We also talk about Justin Kurzel&&num;8217&semi;s <em>Assassin&&num;8217&semi;s Creed<&sol;em> adaptation&comma; Mike Mills&&num;8217&semi;s <em>20th Century Women<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Train to Busan<&sol;em>&comma; <em>Blue Jay<&sol;em>&comma; and for those who have been waiting&comma; we also finally discuss <em>Westworld<&sol;em>&period; That last one is enough content for one episode&comma; but we&&num;8217&semi;re giving you that and more&excl; We also have to make up for the lack of news and blu-rays&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Next week we&&num;8217&semi;ll be back to discuss the year in television and probably some other stuff&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;