Episode 500 celebrations | A long conversation with Kevin Smith

Film Stories with Simon Brew

Simon Brew

Tv & Film, Film History

4.9 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

In the first of a small collection of episodes over the coming weeks to celebrate 500 episodes of Film Stories with Simon Brew, by popular demand it's a return for Mr Kevin Smith. It's a long conversation covering Dogma, The 4:30 Movie, Martin Scorsese's response to Clerks, Robert Redford, Yoga Hosers, Christopher Nolan, Film Stories, the year 2009 and a whole lot more. Thanks to everyone who has supported, in any way, this podcast over its 500 episodes. More episode 500s shortly...! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Brew.
0:03.0	I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine.
0:05.9	And by God, this is a very special episode of the Film Stories podcast.
0:11.8	Come with me.
0:14.0	And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.
0:17.3	And movies.
0:18.5	Movies that had stories.
0:20.1	That the story just sucks a man.
0:22.6	This is just the beginning.
0:25.2	We would be honored if you would join us.
0:32.0	Hello and a very warm welcome to the latest episode of the film stories podcast.
0:39.3	My name is Simon Brew. That's absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast though is
0:44.1	is and always has been given away by the title. I'm here to talk of the stories of films
0:48.5	that I tend to talk about development stories, production stories, marketing stories, release
0:52.1	stories, all the ingredients really that go towards
0:54.5	making the films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that we know and sometimes
0:59.4	love. The films I tend to cover on this podcast lean more towards the mainstream than anything else.
1:04.5	They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some degree. I try not to do snark. I try not to
1:10.1	punch down. This podcast is a celebration of
1:12.7	cinema and a real appreciation that somehow, somehow, films managed to get made. Film Stories is also now
1:20.9	a very, very proud part of the Film Stories Podcast Network, a network of over 50 shows across
1:26.9	films, TV, games.
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