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On this week’s podcast Alex spoke with Hope Dickson Leach the director of The Levelling.

We discuss working with Game of Thrones star Ellie Kendrick, the subjects of death and grief and of course Alex our in-house thesp had to find out if there was a hint of Shakespeare in the film.

Set after the 2014 Somerset floods, The Levelling is the story of a young woman returning to the family’s dairy farm following the tragic death of her younger brother.

We also review Mindhorn, a new British comedy starring by Julian Barratt, and Citizen Jane: Battle for the City, an inspirational documentary about Jane Jacobs a journalist and activist who fought to save her New York community.

With 18 Oscar nominations and three wins to their name, we were very lucky to speak to Dogwoof, one of the world's leading distributors of documentary films.

Under their belt they have worked on Iris, Weiner, Blackfish, The Act of Killing and The Black Panthers: Vanguards of the Revolution to name but a few of their incredibly large and high quality collection.

We speak about their most recent films Citizen Jane and Whitney: Can I Be me and why they consistently have the most amazing posters in modern cinema.

Take a look at their incredible posters here:

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An interview with the local Liverpool producers of Terrence Davies' new film, A Quiet Passion.

We discuss working with Terrence, a producers role and the history of Hurricane Films. We also get a scoop on their new prison drama, a biopic of Scouse Thai kick boxing champion, Billy Moore.

Alex also reviews Disney's latest live action remake, Beauty and the Beast.

Interview with the director and star of Free Fire, Ben Wheatley and Michael Smiley. As well as talking about the film we discuss Michael's cameo in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and get a world exclusive scoop as Ben Wheatley tells us about Mega Evil Motherf*****s, an ultra-violent clay animation project we've been excited about for far too long.

Interviewed all the way from La La Land we have a very special interview with the amazing Anna Biller, director of The Love Witch and Viva. We also review Logan, Hugh Jackman's last outing as Wolverine, and preview the superb Elle, starring Isabelle Huppert.

This week there's an interview with Niall McCann, director of Art Will Save and his latest feature, Lost in France, the nostalgic story of a Glaswegian record label and a gig they played 20 years earlier. The film features performances and interviews with Mogwai, Franz Ferdinand, The Delgados and RM Hubbert. Catch it with a live satellite supergroup gig on 21st February at FACT.

We also Review T2: Trainspotting and Jackie, and preview Toni Erdmann, The Lego Batman Movie, Loving and Fences.