Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest Joe Griffin, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT.
This time, continuing our Summer of ’99 season, M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense.
1999 was a great year for movies, with a host of massively successful (and cult) hits that would define cinema for a next generation: The Blair Witch Project, The Virgin Suicides, Stir of Echoes, Election, The Haunting, Fight Club. The Summer of ’99 season offers a trip through the year in film on the IMDb‘s 250.
After discovering that one of his cases has gone spectacularly wrong, child psychologist Malcolm Crowe finds himself drawn to a suspiciously similar case. Cole Sear is a strange and troubled little boy, haunted by something he refuses to articulate. Can Malcolm save this child, and atone for his earlier failure?
At time of recording, it was ranked 157th on the Internet Movie Database‘s list of the best movies of all-time.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 29th August 2019.
- The Sixth Sense at The Internet Movie Database.
- The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
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- Matthew Jacobs at The Huffington Post reflects on Woodstock ’99 as “the day the music died”, July 2014.
- Brittany Spanos at Rolling Stone offers an oral history of Smash Mouth’s “All Star”, June 2019.
- Adrienne Gaffney at Town and Country Magazine reflects on the last days of John F. Kennedy Junior and Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, July 2019.
- M. Night Shyamalan talks to The Hollywood Reporter about pitching and developing The Sixth Sense, August 2019.
- Emily Todd VanDerWerff at Vox reflects on how The Sixth Sense was a product of its time, August 2019.
- M. Night Shyamalan and Haley Joel Osment reflect on the legacy and history of The Sixth Sense with Variety, August 2019.
- David Sims at The Atlantic discusses the improbable success of The Sixth Sense, August 2019.
- Scott Mendelson at Forbes on how The Greatest Showman became one of the leggiest blockbusters ever, July 2018.
- /Film reports on Kevin Smith’s difficulties directing Bruce Willis in Cop Out, January 2011.
- Alice Jones at The Independent on the difficulty of getting Bruce Willis to promote his own films, February 2013.
- Kirsten Howard at Den of Geek asks what happened to Bruce Willis’ career, January 2017.
- Nathan Rabin at The Dissolve discusses the complicated legacy of M. Night Shyamalan, May 2014.
- Newsweek labels M. Night Shyamalan “the next Spielberg”, August 2002.
- CBS News reports on the hoax perpetuated by Shyamlan and the Sci-Fi channel over The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan, July 2004.
- Alex Pollard at The Independent on how The Sixth Sense has been both a blessing and curse to M. Night Shyamalan, August 2019.
- Catherine Shoard at The Guardian reports on The Sixth Sense being voted the best movie twist ever, July 2010.
- Matt Zoller Seitz at Vulture on spoiler etiquette, May 2016.
- Peter Bradshaw reviews The Dark Knight Rises at The Guardian, July 2012.
- Donald Clarke at The Irish Times on spoiler paranoia, December 2015.
- Vaughan Bell at Scientific American on ghost stories as an expression of mourning and regret, December 2008.
- Stephen Silver at The Philly Voice on The Sixth Sense as a quintessentially Philadelphian horror story, July 2019.
- Mike Hogan at The Huffington Post on seeing Bob Dylan live, December 2017.
- Rick Lyman at The New York Times on the late nineties horror boom, August 1999.
- Virginia Postrel at The New York Times argues that maybe there’s no reason why horror movies were popular in the late nineties, March 2000.
- Dennis Leary argues that “nobody is happy” in No Cure for Cancer, February 1993.
- Tara McKelvey at BBC on how Prozac entered the lexicon during the nineties, April 2013.
- Billy Crystal’s opening monologue at the Oscars, March 2000.
- “Brother Grasshopper” by John Updike at The New Yorker, December 1987.
- Anneliese Cooper at Bustle argues that Genie in a Bottle is about terrible sex, August 2014.
- Darren at the m0vie blog on the intimate horrors of The Sixth Sense, September 2019.
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