Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guests Billie Jean Doheny and Niall Glynn, The 250 is a weekly 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.
So this week, Pitof’s Catwoman.
Patience Phillips is a young woman working as a designer at a cosmetics company. One evening, while working late, Patience hears something she shouldn’t. Hunted by her employer’s security staff, Patience is left for dead and washed away like the trash. However, her would-be murderers are about to discover that Patience has never been more alive.
At time of recording, it was ranked 49th on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show Notes:
- Recorded 7th August 2021.
- Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
- Catwoman at The Internet Movie Database.
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- Matthew Jackson at SyFy looks at the possibility of a Tim Burton and Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman movie, December 2012.
- Xan Brooks at The Guardian reports on Halle Berry collecting her Razzie for Cartwoman, February 2005.
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- Suzan Colon at The Los Angeles Times places Catwoman in the context of Hollywood’s contemporary cat craze, July 2004.
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- Halle Berry talks to Variety about why she made Catwoman, September 2020.
- Sandra P. Angulo at Entertainment Weekly reports on Sharon Stone vetoing the casting of Benjamin Bratt in Basic Instinct 2, March 2001.
- The Irish Examiner reports on rumours of tension on the set of Catwoman, December 2003.
- Sharon Stone talks to The Los Angeles Times about folding her experience of aging in Hollywood into Catwoman, July 2004.
- Muna Mire discusses Catwoman as part of Vulture‘s Friday Night Movie Club, May 2021.
- Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham at The New York Times cover Catwoman for Still Processing, April 2020.
- Halle Berry talks to The Washington Post about feeling stung by Catwoman, May 2006.
- Jodi Guglielmi at People reports on Halle Berry’s defense of Catwoman at the GLAAD Awards, April 2018.
- Steve Rose at The Guardian looks at the legacy of Showgirls, June 2020.
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- The Los Angeles Times profiles Halle Berry, October 2007.
- Douglas Laman at Collider looks back at the explosion of mid-2000s female superhero movies, July 2021.
- Patty Jenkins talks to The Guardian about how the failure of films like Catwoman made it harder to greenlight Wonder Woman, May 2017.
- Alissa Wilkinson at Vox looks at the myth that “black films don’t travel”, February 2018.
- John Rogers talks to Comics Alliance about working on the script for Catwoman, May 2012.
- John August on Twitter recalls pitching Catwoman to Warner Bros. in 1998, August 2018.
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- Pitof talks to Comic Book Movie about the costuming in Catwoman, November 2003.
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- Angelica Jade Bastién at Vulture discusses the empty pop feminism of Wonder Woman 1984, December 2020.
- Catperson by Kristen Roupenian at The New Yorker, December 2017.
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- Production notes for Catwoman‘s use of cats, July 2004.
- “Vampire Baby” by Richard Nibbler on YouTube, January 2013.
- Kevin P. Sullivan at MTV News discusses the legacy of the Catwoman basketball scene, April 2013.
- Corey Kilgannon at The New York Times reports on alligators in the New York sewers, February 2020.
- Keith R.A. DeCandido at Tor.com discusses Catwoman, May 2018.
- Gerard Raiti at Animation World Network discusses the use of special effects in Catwoman, July 2004.
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- Peter Plantec at Animation World Network discusses the “uncanny valley” when it comes to computer animating human characters, December 2007.
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