Film 2014 - Season 1

Season 1

Episodes

Episode 1
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh are joined by guest critic Antonia Quirke to look at the latest film releases. Under consideration is Inside Llewyn Davis, the new film from the Coen Brothers starring Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan. Plus Kenneth Branagh directs Keira Knightley and Chris Pine in action thriller Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.

Episode 2
Claudia Winkleman, Danny Leigh and guest critic Tim Robey discuss new crime thriller Out of the Furnace, starring Christian Bale and Woody Harrelson. Other films featured in the programme include relationship comedy That Awkward Moment, starring Zac Efron, and action drama Lone Survivor, with Mark Wahlberg.

Episode 3
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh take a look at Dallas Buyers Club, starring Matthew McConaughey as 80's Aids activist Ron Woodroof. Plus The Invisible Woman, written and directed by Ralph Fiennes and examining Charles Dickens' extra-marital affair with a younger woman; and the 2014 reboot of RoboCop.

Episode 4
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh review World War II comedy-drama The Monuments Men, which features an impressive ensemble cast and is directed by - and stars - George Clooney.
Plus, Nick Frost gets his groove and dancing shoes on for salsa dancing comedy Cuban Fury and French director Claire Denis directs dark family drama Bastards.

Episode 5
Film 2014 returns to review the latest movie releases. Under consideration this week is Lars von Trier's controversial Nymphomaniac Volumes One and Two, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg alongside an ensemble cast. Tilda Swinton stars in Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive, and Colin Farrell leads the cast of fantasy drama A New York Winter's Tale.

Episode 6
Claudia Winkleman and Danny Leigh return for another episode of Film 2014. Under consideration this week is Non-Stop, an action thriller set on a transatlantic flight, starring Liam Neeson and Julianne Moore. Plus a discussion about the runners and riders for this year's Oscars. Danny Leigh interviews much-loved film director and screenwriter Wes Anderson about his career.

Episode 7
Under consideration this week is The Grand Budapest Hotel, the much-anticipated new film from writer-director Wes Anderson. Plus reviews of Jonathan Glazer's sci-fi thriller Under the Skin, starring Scarlett Johansson; and the sequel to 300, 300: Rise of an Empire. Claudia and Danny also take a look ahead to some of the big films due for release over the summer.

Episode 8
Film 2014 is back with Antonia Quirke and Danny Leigh taking a critical look at the week's film releases, including Christopher Nolan's sci-fi epic Interstellar and Keira Knightley's rom-com Say When. Plus Benedict Cumberbatch, star of The Imitation Game, on why he's desperate to play someone stupid! Erudite Peter Bradshaw, film critic from the Guardian, guests on the sofa.

Episode 9
Antonia Quirke and Danny Leigh take a critical look at this week's film releases starting with Oscar hopeful The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley. Plus James Gandolfini's last film, crime drama The Drop, co-starring Tom Hardy. Film critic Roger Ebert is remembered in the big-screen documentary about his life, Life Itself.

Episode 10
Antonia Quirke and Danny Leigh take a critical look at this week's film releases including the return of Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part One. Plus The Homesman - written, starring and directed by Tommy Lee Jones and being trumpeted as the world's first feminist western!
Joining them on the sofa is Sunday Times movie doyenne Camilla Long.

Episode 11
The Film 2014 team take a look at the week's new films, including the big screen version of Paddington starring Hugh Bonneville and Nicole Kidman, as well as the return of Jennifer Aniston in Horrible Bosses 2. Returning to the sofa is film journalist Kevin Maher.

Episode 12
The Film 2014 team take a look at the week's film releases including tense submarine drama Black Sea, starring Jude Law, and Juno director Jason Reitman's new film Men, Women and Children. Making his sofa debut is film journo Ashley Clark.

Episode 13
The Film 2014 team take a critical look at the latest film from Middle Earth, The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Director Ridley Scott talks about new swords and sandals epic Exodus: Gods and Kings.
Joining them in the studio is the Daily Telegraph's Robbie Collin.

Episode 14
The Film 2014 team take a critical look at the latest films over the Christmas and New Year period, including Birdman starring Michael Keaton, the new Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything starring Eddie Redmayne, and Angelina Jolie's new biopic Unbroken.
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