Ep. 71 of The Screen Mash Podcast is all about the 2025 summer movie season: DC vs. Marvel, Legasequels, original horror, and more. @barrettgoetz and @lifeofbrad break down the winners and losers of the summer, as they attempt to extrapolate key themes about what led to success for some films and failure for others.
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With Legasequels, more of Fury Road and Maverick. Less of Ghostbusters and Twisters. 🙏 Clip from episode 70 of The Screen Mash Podcast. 🎧 Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts and Spotify (link in bio)
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Writer Christopher McQuarrie (the recent Mission: Impossible films) said that it actually improved the film, so they kept the bloopers in. Producers had told him during filming that something missing was the criminals "bonding together." And it just so happens the farts delivered exactly what was needed, in showing them laughing at each other.
(Source: CinemaBlend)
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@kaitlyndever has exploded onto the scene the past few years, starring in 2019`s Booksmart, 2023`s No One Will Save You, and of course playing the vengeful Abby in season 2 of The Last of Us this year. But before stardom as an adult she was a working actor as a young girl. In season 8, episode 1 of Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry is in the middle of divorce litigation with Cheryl and shares an attorney with the owner of the LA Dodgers, Joe O`Donnell, played by Gary Cole (Talladega Nights). O`Donnell`s daughter, Kyra, was played by Kaitlyn Devers when she was 14 years old back in 2011. Larry helps her in an awkward time of need as she`s selling girl scout cookies.
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Stiller stated "Completely. It`s when I knew he was an incredible actor" on Twitter, responding to a user who had asked if the dinner scene from Step Brothers (2008) was the reason he ended up casting Adam Scott in Severance years later. Stiller commented further about the scene, which had been making the rounds prompting the conversation: "One of the funniest scenes in all of movies ever made in history of movies being made."
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You can see Williams holding back laughter when he says "Go, go!" Legend. 🤣🙏 Hank Azaria later admitted that the actors were trying to hold back and he was disappointed in himself because he was supposed to be crying.
🎥: The Birdcage (1996)
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From The Screen Mash Podcast Episode 69, reviewing ALL 10 episodes of Severance season 2, COMPLETELY SPOILER-FREE! Listen to the extended spoiler free discussion on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Link in bio. 🎧
Also, shout out to the improvised piano cover of the Severance theme song by heavypiano on YouTube.
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According to director Ben Stiller, a "pogo stick gimbal" was used to film the opening sequence of Severance season 2, episode 1 because a Steadicam was "too hard to run this fast...it`s very cumbersome." Stiller continued: "It`s easier for a cameraman (@grgosevo) to hold a lightweight camera on kind of a stick that he can just literally be running full speed chasing you."
Shooting of the sequence took place over the course of "4 or 5 months" pending the schedule of using the hallway sets, which are usually kept "completely intact."
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Her performance as Sofia Falcone in The Penguin was raw and fierce. It was a breakthrough performance. Jodie was Jodie in a MUCH worse show (True Detective S4). 🥱
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When Matt Damon was in his fifth year at Harvard, as an assignment for a playwriting class, he was supposed to write a one-act play, but wrote a first draft of the Good Will Hunting (1997) script instead:
“So I handed the professor at the end of the semester a 40-some-odd-page document, and said, ‘Look, I might have failed your class, but it is the first act of something longer,” Damon said (via Boston Magazine). As it turns out, Damon’s professor, Anthony Kubiak, wasn’t upset that Damon threw out all of his directions. He called the script “very authentic and real.”
Damon and co-writer Ben Affleck of course ended up winning the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay.
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Emily Blunt’s performance as Kitty in Oppenheimer is deserving of an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Yes, she doesn’t have a ton of screen time in the 3-hour film. Though in terms of exact timestamps, her screen time (16:50) is on par with Matt Damon (17:20) and more than every other supporting character besides Robert Downey Jr. (23:50).
But when she’s on screen she CHEWS it up. Especially in this brilliant final interrogation scene. So cunning. So subtle. So impactful. This is her “Oscar scene.”
But I will soon post another follow up video of Blunt’s performance, featuring a montage of everything BUT this scene (there’s a lot of great moments people don’t usually highlight), to show just how essential she is to Oppenheimer’s story and this film. More Kitty to come!
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