Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Jay Coyle, This Just In is a subset of The 250 podcast, looking at notable new arrivals on the list of the 250 best movies of all-time, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users.
This time, Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049.
Notes:
- Recorded 12th October 2017.
- Blade Runner 2049 at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on the box office disappointment of Blade Runner 2049.
- Charles Gant at The Guardian on the over-performance of Blade Runner 2049 at the U.K. and Irish box office.
- Sam Adams at Slate on the spoiler phobic marketing of Blade Runner 2049.
- Denis Villeneuve talks to The Toronto Star about spoiler culture.
- Michael Green and Hampton Francher talk to The L.A. Times about the ending to Blade Runner 2049.
- Michael Green talks to Entertainment Weekly about the ending to Blade Runner 2049.
- Alissa Wilkinson at Vox‘s discussion of Blade Runner 2049‘s religious imagery and themes.
- Darren on Ridley Scott and Darren Aronofsky’s preoccupation with biblical creation myths.
- Todd VanDerWerff at Vox on Blade Runner 2049‘s subversion of the archetypal “chosen one” narrative.
- Brenden Gallagher at Vice on how Blade Runner 2049 is trapped inside its own memories and nostalgia.
- Todd VanDerWerff at Vox on how Alien: Covenant is a metaphor for the perils of directing a big-budget science-fiction film in a nostalgia-driven culture.
- Jen Chaney at Vulture on the modern nostalgia for the eighties.
- Darren on contemporary cinema’s preoccupation with an eighties that never ended.
- Anna Smith at The Guardian on the portrayal of women in Blade Runner 2049.
- Julia Alexander at Polygon on the pop culture trope of the “algorithm-defined fantasy girl.”
- Nate Jones at Vulture on the digital recreation of Sean Young for Blade Runner 2049.
- David Sims at The Atlantic on the real and the unreal in Blade Runner 2049.
- Roger Deakins talks to Variety about shooting Blade Runner 2049.
- Jared Leto talks to Wall Street Journal about his work on Blade Runner 2049.
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the m0vie blog 
are you reviewing this movie? I’d love to hear your thoughts, especially because I felt like you captured so many of my concerns with this movie (and issues that other critics seem to have overlooked).
I would hope to at some point, but the schedule’s been a bit hectic of late. I wouldn’t hold out too long waiting for the review.
I was really hoping for a review, but I guess this will do.
There might still be a review, but I am trying to stay on top of everything at the moment.