Ed Gass-Donnelly / Aaron Poole and Peter Stormare in Small Town Murder Songs
On this week's episode of the Movie Moxie Podcast I had a chance to chat with writer/director Ed Gass-Donnelly and actor Aaron Poole of Small Town Murder Songs, a fantastic film which opens here in Toronto and in Edmonton on Friday February 18, 2011. Also have reviews for Small Town Murder Songs, The Eagle, Gnomeo & Juliet and Cedar Rapids as well as continuing genre exploration by taking on Sword & Sandals Films. Enjoy!
0:00 – 1:00 - Introduction
1:00 – 5:30 – News
5:30 – 28:00 – Ed Gass-Donnelly Interview
28:00 –38:00 – Aaron Poole Interview
38:00 – 41:00 – Small Town Murder Songs Review
41:00 – 48:15 – The Eagle Review
48:15 – 52:00 – Gnomeo & Juliet Review
52:00 – 54:45 – Cedar Rapids Review
54:45 –1:22:00 – Sword & Sandals as a Genre
1:22:00 –1:25:00 – DVD releases
1:25:00 – 1:26:10 – Upcoming up Next Week
1:26:10 – 1:27:29 – Outro
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Show Notes
- Ed Gass-Donnelly has been named by Variety as one of 10 Directors to Watch
- Transcript of Ed Gass-Donnelly interview
- Transcript of Aaron Poole interview
- BAFTA Winners
- Before the Dawn: A Twilight Podcast recent episode where we chat up Romance Films
- Un-Traditional Valentine's Day Film Recommendations
- I mention both my romance and adventure genre explorations on previous podcasts
- Reviews of films mentioned: Small Town Murder Songs, The Eagle, Gnomeo & Juliet, Cedar Rapids
- DVD Reviews: Cactus, Hatchet II, Bitter Feast, Ong Bak 3
- DVD Releases for Feb 15, 2011
- I mentioned my Most Anticipated Films of 2011 List
- I mention the 2011 Book to Film Club which included the upcoming release of I Am Number Four
- I've also created a list of 2011 Book to Film Adaptations List
- Shannon's Definition of Sword & Sandals Films: Films that includes someone wielding a sword and wearing sandals, but also includes gladiator & Greek mythology as well as historically set epic adventurous and biopics set in the Greco-Roman period. They are easy to pick out, but are a micro-genre that tend to fall under the home genres of action, adventure, historical, fantasy or biopic.
- Wikipedia definition of The Peplum (or pepla plural), also known as Sword-and-Sandal, is a genre of Italian-made historical or Biblical epics that dominated the Italian film industry from 1957 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by the "Spaghetti Western". They attempted to emulate, or compete with, the big budget Hollywood Historical Epics of the time, such as Spartacus, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments, just as the Spaghetti westerns were low-budget imitations of the Hollywood Western.
- Greek Mythology:Clash of the Titans (1981), Clash of the Titans (2010), Hercules (1983), Jason in the Argonauts (1963), Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
- Historically Set Fictional Characters: Arn: The Knight Templar, Centurion, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, The Eagle, Gladiator, The Scorpion King
- Historical Figures / Periods: 300, Agora, Alexander, Cleopatra (1963), Julius Caesar (1953), Spartacus, Troy
- New Interpretations: Outlander, Pathfinder, Valhalla Rising (axe & mud!)
- Close, but not quite: Robin Hood (2010)
- Still to See: Sinbad films
- Recommendations by others: Hercules Vs. The Hydra, Hercules and Hercules Unchained, and Hercules in the Haunted World (thanks James from the Criterion Cast for the recommends)
- Rather watch than listen? You can check out my Sword & Sandals Marathon Wrap Up Vlog
- See All Sword & Sandal Films Reviews
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