Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.
This week, a special crossover episode with When Irish Eyes Are Watching, an Irish film podcast wherein Alex, Clíona and Séan take at a look at films connected to the Emerald Isle.
The 250 and When Irish Eyes Are Watching are crossing over for a St. Patrick’s Day treat. Lenny Abrahamson’s Room.
Jack has spent his entire life within the confines of “Room”, the space which comprises the totality of his world. He knows every inch of the ten-by-ten space in which he was raised, in which he lives day-by-day with Ma between visits from Old Nick. However, as Jack turns five, he is forced to confront some uncomfortable realities about the world within which he lives and the world beyond “Room.”
At time of recording, it was ranked the 151st best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 10th March 2018.
- A special podcast episode recorded with Alex and Séan. Clíona was out of the country for recording. They were very gracious hosts, as ever.
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- Room at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
- David Fear at Rolling Stone looks at the development and release of Room, November 2015.
- Emma Donoghue talks to CBC about writing the Room screenplay before the film was even released, February 2016.
- IndieWire shares Lenny Abrahamson’s five-page letter to Emma Donoghue asking to direct Room, February 2016.
- Rachel Simon at Bustle discusses the differences between the book and film of Room, October 2015.
- Emma Donoghue talks to Vulture about cutting the scene that would have revealed Jack’s stillborn sibling, January 2016.
- Sarah Blackwood at The Los Angeles Review of Books on the complicated feminism of Room, November 2015.
- Harold Koplewicz at Time on what parents can learn from Room, February 2016.
- Katie Rife at The A.V. Club on the use of perspective in Room to anchor the film in Jack, February 2016.
- Todd VanDerWerff at Vox on how Room effectively keeps most of its horror out of frame, October 2015.
- Brie Larson talks to News 1130 about bonding with Jacob Tremblay, October 2015.
- Brie Larson talks to The Washington Post about protecting Jacob Tremblay’s innocence while shooting Room, October 2015.
- Jacob Tremblay talks to Variety about working with Brie Larson and the Oscars, September 2015.
- Brie Larson talks to Vulture about her first meeting with Jacob Tremblay, October 2015.
- David Sims at The Atlantic on the cynical Oscar campaigning for Larson and Tremblay, October 2015.
- Caroline Siede at The A.V. Club on Room as part of broader range of stories about women escaping captivity, February 2016.
- Megan Garber at The Atlantic on the wave of stories about women recovering from captivity and trauma, July 2016.
- Francesca Brown at Stylist on the tendency of crime thrillers to marginalise and victimise women for vicarious thrills, May 2018.
- Rebecca Nicholson at The Guardian on crime television’s fixation on women’s dead bodies, August 2017.
- Brie Larson talks to Vulture about her process for Room, May 2015.
- Ira Madison III at Vulture on Brie Larson’s short-lived pop career, November 2015.
- Rodrigo Perez at The Playlist on how Brie Larson became a high-profile feminist icon, February 2019.
- Nate Jones at Vulture on the political and cultural maelstrom over Captain Marvel, March 2019.
- Hoai-Tran Bui at /Film on the changes Rotten Tomatoes is making to prevent online troll mobs, March 2019.
- Lost Toronto offers a shot of Apache Burger in Toronto “then and now”, October 2011.
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