Film 2013 - Season 1

Season 1

Episodes

Episode 1
Claudia and Danny return after the Christmas break. Films up for review include the hugely anticipated big-screen adaptation of Les Miserables, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone in Gangster Squad, and Irish drama What Richard Did. Danny also talks to Quentin Tarantino.

Episode 2
Quentin Tarantino returns to the big screen with Django Unchained, starring Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio; John Hawkes and Helen Hunt get up close and personal in poignant drama The Sessions; and Chris Hewitt reveals his top five movie shootouts.

Episode 3
Claudia Winkleman talks to director Steven Spielberg about his latest film Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis. Plus a review of Katherine Bigelow's Oscar-nominated Zero Dark Thirty. Catherine Bray reveals her Top 5 movie mothers and - it may have been a decade, but he is back - Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in The Last Stand.

Episode 4
Bill Murray gets presidential in Hyde Park on Hudson, Denzel Washington takes to the skies in Flight, and Sylvester Stallone is out for revenge in Bullet to the Head.

Episode 5
Anthony Hopkins goes Psycho in Hitchcock, Nicholas Hoult stars in zombie rom-com Warm Bodies and Rafe Spall and Rose Byrne get close in I Give It a Year. Plus Chris Hewitt reveals his top five biopics.

Episode 6
In this episode, Bruce Willis decides it's a Good Day To Die Hard, Paul Rudd gets older in This is 40, there's a look at the world behind the camera in documentary Side by Side, and Saskia Rosendhal stars in Cate Shortland's Lore. Plus Catherine Bray reveals her top five sequels.

Episode 7
Xan Brooks and Robbie Collin join Claudia and Danny to discuss all things Oscar, ahead of Sunday's ceremony. They also review Tom Hanks in Cloud Atlas, Ben Affleck in Terence Malick's To the Wonder, plus Vanessa Redgrave and Terence Stamp in Song for Marion.

Episode 8
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh review Russell Crowe and Mark Wahlberg in thriller Broken City, plus Nicole Kidman in twisted family drama Stoker. The Film 2013 family are also here to preview this summer's blockbusters.

Episode 9
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh review Alfonso Cuarón's box office record-breaker Gravity which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.
Plus, Alec Baldwin and director James Toback team up for documentary Seduced and Abandoned, which takes a wry look at the movie business and the complex world of film finance.

Episode 10
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh cast a critical eye over the latest movie releases. Films reviewed this week include Ridley Scott's The Counsellor, which features an all-star ensemble cast. Jude Law and Richard E Grant team up for Brit flick Dom Hemingway; plus Claudia and Danny take a look at Palme d'Or-winning French love story Blue is the Warmest Colour.

Episode 11
Film 2013 hosts Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh take a look at this week's film releases. Jennifer Lawrence recreates her role as Katniss Everdeen in the much anticipated sequel to The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Parkland recounts the chaotic events that occurred at Dallas' Parkland Hospital on the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated and soon-to-be EastEnder Danny Dyer stars in gritty British revenge drama Vendetta.

Episode 12
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh take a look at the week's film releases. Emma Thompson stars as author PL Travers in Saving Mr Banks, which recounts Travers' battles with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) over the big screen adaptation of her book Mary Poppins. Julianne Moore and Chloe Grace Moretz team up for the remake of classic horror Carrie plus François Ozon's coming of age story Jeune & Jolie, a study of a seventeen year old girl.

Episode 13
Film 2013 casts its critical eye over this week's new cinema releases. Josh Brolin teams up with Spike Lee for vengeance drama Oldboy, a Hollywood remake of Park Chan-wook's 1983 original. Daniel Radcliffe stars as beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings plus director Alexander Payne follows up The Descendants with Nebraska, a quirky father/son road movie.

Episode 14
Film 2013 hosts Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh are joined by guest critic Catherine Bray to review the much anticipated second film in The Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, with Martin Freeman recreating his role as Bilbo Baggins.
Also under consideration is Fill The Void, a film from Israel about a devout Hasidic Jewish 18-year-old girl who is pressured into a marriage with the husband of her late sister.

Episode 15
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh take a look at the latest film releases. These include the return of Will Ferrell as Ron Burgundy in Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, directed by and starring Ben Stiller. Plus a look ahead to some of the films due for release in early 2014.
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