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Fade To Black

By Amon Warmann, Hanna Flint, and Clarisse Loughrey

Fade To Black is a weekly film culture podcast co-hosted by film critics Hanna Flint (@hannaflint), Clarisse Loughrey (@clarisselou) and Amon Warmann (@amonwarmann). It takes a deep dive into the latest movie news, hot cinema takes and reviews the best new releases all in one place.

It also gives listeners a chance to hear from some of the brightest stars of cinema through exclusive interviews with major talent. The podcast champions inclusivity by covering a broad spectrum of film and culture topics so that listeners can discover a diverse range of movies to seek out.
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Fade To BlackApr 25, 2021

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Episode 151: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Road House, Robot Dreams with Gil Kenan and Benedict Wong
Mar 24, 202401:43:05
Episode 150: Drive-Away Dolls, Banel & Adama, Monster, with Ramata-Toulaye Sy

Episode 150: Drive-Away Dolls, Banel & Adama, Monster, with Ramata-Toulaye Sy

This week, Amon interviews Ramata-Toulaye Sy about her feature debut, BANEL & ADAMA (07:01) while we review the film (26:04). We also take a look at Hirokazu Kore-eda's MONSTER (56:49) and go on a road trip with DRIVE-AWAY DOLLS (33:37).

Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:12:52), we talk the highs and lows of this year's Academy Awards.


Mar 17, 202401:44:24
Episode 149: Origin, Frida, Damsel, with Ava DuVernay and Giancarlo Esposito
Mar 10, 202401:52:22
Episode 148: Dune: Part Two, Four Daughters, Lisa Frankenstein with Kaouther Ben Hania
Mar 03, 202402:01:00
Episode 147: Wicked Little Letters, Perfect Days, Memory
Feb 25, 202401:15:01
Episode 146: Madame Web, The Taste of Things, Bob Marley: One Love, with S.J. Clarkson
Feb 18, 202401:35:21
Episode 145: The Iron Claw, Occupied City, Your Fat Friend with Sterling K. Brown
Feb 11, 202401:28:40
Episode 144: American Fiction, The Zone of Interest, Argylle, with Jeffrey Wright and Matthew Vaughn
Feb 04, 202401:55:25
Episode 143: All of Us Strangers, The Colour Purple, Samsara with Andrew Haigh, Danielle Brooks & Corey Hawkins
Jan 28, 202402:00:20
Episode 142: The Holdovers, Mean Girls, The End We Start From, with Da’Vine Joy Randolph
Jan 21, 202401:28:18
Episode 141: The Boys in the Boat, Poor Things, The Disappearance of Shere Hite, Marvel’s Echo, with Joel Edgerton, Grant Heslov, and Sydney Freeland
Jan 14, 202402:26:01
Episode 140: Rebel Moon - Part One, Maestro, The Boy and the Heron, Godzilla Minus One, with Lee Child and Sam Fell
Dec 16, 202302:14:03
Episode 139: Wonka, Leave the World Behind, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget with Mathew Baynton and Paterson Joseph

Episode 139: Wonka, Leave the World Behind, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget with Mathew Baynton and Paterson Joseph

This week, Clarisse sits down with some of the villains of WONKA, Mathew Baynton and Paterson Joseph (12:54), while we review the film (31:23); plus we LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND (47:36) and fly the coop and tackle CHICKEN RUN: DAWN OF THE NUGGET (01:06:59).

Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:16:17), we chat fandoms vs critical assessment.

If you would like to donate towards humanitarian aid in Gaza please visit https://www.map.org.uk/

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-desperate-need-lifesaving-support


If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod


Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint


If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!

Dec 10, 202301:33:47
Episode 138: Eileen, American Symphony, Candy Cane Lane, with Adura Onashile and Savanah Leaf
Dec 03, 202301:43:24
Episode 137: Wish, Napoleon, The Eternal Daughter, with Jennifer Lee, George C. Wolfe, and Colman Domingo
Nov 26, 202302:00:50
Episode 136: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Saltburn, May December, with Roger Ross Williams
Nov 19, 202301:14:59
Interview Special: Composer Natalie Holt Talks Loki Season 2
Nov 17, 202301:02:30
Episode 135: The Marvels, Anatomy of a Fall, The Killer, with Nia DaCosta and Laura Karpman
Nov 12, 202301:39:10
Episode 134: How to Have Sex, Bottoms, The Royal Hotel, with Christos Nikou
Nov 05, 202301:56:05
Episode 133: Five Nights at Freddy’s, Pain Hustlers, Cat Person, with Kitty Green

Episode 133: Five Nights at Freddy’s, Pain Hustlers, Cat Person, with Kitty Green

This week, Clarisse chats to director Kitty Green about the real-world horrorscape of THE ROYAL HOTEL (14:25). Meanwhile, we spend FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S (27:42), as the viral video game sensation finally makes it to screens; while we meet some PAIN HUSTLERS (48:49) in Netflix’s Emily Blunt and Chris Evans-starring pharmaceutical drama, and take CAT PERSON (01:09:15) out on a date, as Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun star in the big-screen adaptation of Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker short story. 

Plus, in our HOT TAKE (01:34:30), we ask: are there too many damn superhero origin stories?  

This podcast was recorded during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist.

If you’d like to support the striking forces please consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund 

If you would like to donate towards humanitarian aid in Gaza please visit https://www.map.org.uk/

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-desperate-need-lifesaving-support 

Some more useful links on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114702

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/

Films to watch about Palestine:

Farha (2021)

Eleven Days in May (2022)

Mayor (2020)

The Present (2020)

Tantura (2022)

If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod

Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint

If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!

Oct 29, 202301:52:53
Episode 132: Killers of the Flower Moon, Nyad, The Pigeon Tunnel with Julie O’Keefe and Jacqueline West

Episode 132: Killers of the Flower Moon, Nyad, The Pigeon Tunnel with Julie O’Keefe and Jacqueline West

This week, we get to know the man behind spymaster John Le Carre, in documentary THE PIGEON TUNNEL (10:23). We follow the a perilous journey of one woman's mission to swim from Florida to Cuba in NYAD (33:36) and after Clarisse talks to Jacqueline West and Julie O’Keefe about the costumes on KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (52:34) we get into Martin Scorseses' latest biographical epic (01:27:23).


Plus, in our hot take, we discuss what's the best way to tell the stories of the grossly marginalised (01:57:24).


This podcast was recorded during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist.


If you’d like to support the striking forces please consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund


If you would like to donate towards humanitarian aid in Gaza please visit https://www.map.org.uk/

https://www.unicef.org/emergencies/children-gaza-desperate-need-lifesaving-support



Some more useful links on the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/03/1114702

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/


Films to watch about Palestine:


Farha (2021)

Eleven Days in May (2022)

Mayor (2020)

The Present (2020)

Tantura (2022)


If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod


Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint


If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!

Oct 22, 202302:26:56
Episode 131: Sumotherhood, London Film Festival 2023, with Adam Deacon
Oct 15, 202359:26
Episode 130: The Exorcist: Believer, Loki: Season 2, Fair Play, with Chloe Domont

Episode 130: The Exorcist: Believer, Loki: Season 2, Fair Play, with Chloe Domont

This week, Clarisse gets her Alden Ehrenreich fill as we check out FAIR PLAY (08:36) and Amon interviews its writer and director Chloe Domont (12:20) [NB: The answer to the final question at (29:50) is quite spoilery!]. Spooky season is in full swing with our review of THE EXORCIST: BELIEVER (53:20), and with LOKI back for season 2, we give our first impressions of the Disney+ series (01:13:41).

Plus, in this week’s HOT TAKE (01:46:47), we talk the power of three and the trend of announcing trilogies before the first film has landed.

This podcast was recorded during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist.

If you’d like to support the striking forces please consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund

If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod

Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint

If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!

Oct 08, 202301:59:09
Episode 129: The Creator, Saw X, The Old Oak, with Gareth Edwards
Oct 01, 202301:37:09
Episode 128: Dumb Money, Expend4bles, Strange Way of Life, with Craig Gillespie
Sep 24, 202301:38:19
Episode 127: A Haunting in Venice, Cassandro, Brother, Lucky Number Slevin, with Paul McGuigan
Sep 17, 202301:51:36
Episode 126: Past Lives, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3, A Life on the Farm, with Celine Song and Mimi Leder
Sep 10, 202302:03:23
Episode 125: Passages, Cobweb, The Equalizer 3, with Ira Sachs and Antoine Fuqua
Sep 03, 202301:46:23
Episode 124: The Blackening, Theater Camp, Scrapper

Episode 124: The Blackening, Theater Camp, Scrapper

This week, we review satirical horror THE BLACKENING (04.01), satirical musical THEATER CAMP (18.49), and the not-so-satirical comedy-drama SCRAPPER (33.21), the feature debut of last week’s guest, Charlotte Regan.


Plus in our hot take – lightsabers and lothcats at the ready! – because we’ll be having a SPOILER-FILLED discussion of the first two episodes of Disney+’s AHSOKA (54.58).


This podcast was recorded during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors currently on strike, the movies being covered here wouldn't exist.


If you’d like to support the striking forces please consider donating to the Entertainment Community Fund


If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod


Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint


If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!


Here’s the link to apply for the LFF Critic Support Fund too.

Aug 27, 202301:20:31
Episode 123: Blue Beetle, Lie With Me, Strays, with Ángel Manuel Soto and Charlotte Regan
Aug 20, 202301:47:15
Episode 122: Haunted Mansion, Gran Turismo, L'immensità with Justin Simien
Aug 13, 202301:33:40
Episode 121: Joy Ride, Kokomo City, Meg 2: The Trench, with Adele Lim
Aug 06, 202301:28:01
Episode 120: The Beanie Bubble, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, Talk to Me with Geraldine Viswanathan
Jul 30, 202301:47:54
Episode 119: Barbie, Oppenheimer, They Cloned Tyrone with Ludwig Göransson
Jul 23, 202302:14:39
Episode 118: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Elemental, Shabu, with Peter Sohn and Hayley Atwell
Jul 09, 202301:56:23
Episode 117: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Wham!, with Mads Mikkelsen and James Mangold
Jul 02, 202301:33:08
Interview Special: Anya Chalotra and Freya Allan Talk The Witcher: Season 3
Jun 30, 202322:38
Episode 116: Asteroid City, Nimona, No Hard Feelings
Jun 25, 202301:24:01
Episode 115: The Flash, Pretty Red Dress, Inland, with Dionne Edwards
Jun 18, 202301:44:21
Interview Special: Daniel Pemberton Talks Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse
Jun 13, 202339:58
Episode 114: Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Medusa Deluxe, Chevalier, with Anthony Ramos, Dominique Fishback, and Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Jun 11, 202301:52:12
Episode 113: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Boogeyman, Reality, with Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, and Daniel Kaluuya
Jun 04, 202301:50:11
Episode 112: Master Gardener, Sisu, The Little Mermaid

Episode 112: Master Gardener, Sisu, The Little Mermaid

This week, we review Paul Schrader’s latest man in a room, MASTER GARDENER (10.05), get our hands dirty with Finnish World War II bloodbath SISU (30.11) and go under the sea for Disney’s live-action THE LITTLE MERMAID (45.45).


And in our HOT TAKE (1:05:33), we discuss if diversity is enough to warrant a remake.


If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod


Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint


If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!


May 28, 202301:20:58
Episode 111: Fast X, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, Beau is Afraid, with Erige Sehiri
May 21, 202301:50:32
Episode 110: Book Club: The Next Chapter, The Mother, Dead Shot, with Nina Menkes
May 14, 202301:33:43
Episode 109: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Return to Seoul, Harka with Lotfy Nathan
May 07, 202301:18:10
Episode 108: Rodeo, Peter Pan & Wendy, Polite Society with Lola Quivoron

Episode 108: Rodeo, Peter Pan & Wendy, Polite Society with Lola Quivoron

This week, Hanna chats to Lola Quivoron about her fast and furious feature debut RODEO (06.07) which we also review (06.58). David Lowery returns with his latest classic update for Disney, PETER PAN & WENDY (40.23) and we take a look at Nida Manzour’s high-kicking action caper POLITE SOCIETY (01:03:01).


And, in our HOT TAKE, we talk about the art of adaptation (01:23:25).


If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod


Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint


If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!


Apr 30, 202301:41:40
Episode 107: Evil Dead Rise, Missing, How to Blow Up a Pipeline with AV Rockwell, Alice Birch and Rachel Weisz
Apr 23, 202301:47:19
Episode 106: Renfield, Cairo Conspiracy, One Fine Morning, with Chris McKay

Episode 106: Renfield, Cairo Conspiracy, One Fine Morning, with Chris McKay

This week, we get our holy water ready as Clarisse chats to Renfield director Chris McKay (07.40) and we review the new Dracula movie (25.22). We also check out Egyptian thriller Cairo Conspiracy (41.50); Mia Hanson-Love’s latest drama One Fine Morning (53.54); plus, in our HOT TAKE (01.11.41), we take a look back at a massive weekend at Star Wars Celebration.

If you’d like to join the conversation or suggest a Hot Take for the gang to discuss tweet us at @FadeToBlackPod

Follow us: @amonwarmann, @clarisselou, @hannaflint

If you like the show do subscribe, leave a review and rate us too!

Apr 16, 202301:33:25
Episode 105: The Super Mario Bros Movie, Air, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Apr 09, 202301:17:04