‘Focus’ With Bill Simmons and Wesley Morris

The Rewatchables

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.6 • 13.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The Ringer’s Bill Simmons and The New York Times’s Wesley Morris can convince anyone of anything after rewatching the 2015 comedy crime drama ‘Focus,’ starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie. Producer: Craig Horlbeck Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You know, we love movies on the rewatchables. We also love documentaries. We haven't done a lot of
0:04.7	documentaries in the rewatchables. I don't even know if we've done any, but did you know
0:09.0	the music box series on HBO, which we did at Ringer Films. I'm the executive producer along with
0:14.3	a few others. It premieres November 18th on HBO and HBO Max. That is a Thursday night.
0:21.6	We've already put up Woodstock 99, which you might have seen over the summer. And now it
0:26.3	lives on HBO Max. Check that out. People loved it. The second one is going to be jagged. It's about
0:32.3	a Lannis Morissette. It premieres November 18th, 8 p.m. on HBO and then as well on HBO Max.
0:39.3	Five straight Thursdays, five straight music films, a Lannis, DMX, Kenny G, Robert Stigwood,
0:47.9	Juice World. So that is it. The music box series you can find out on HBO or HBO Max.
0:58.5	We're also brought to you by the Ringer podcast network. I hope you're checking out the prestige
1:03.2	TV show podcast where we are doing succession. We did some yellowstone. We've done curb
1:08.8	enthusiasm. We lit up the morning show early last week. That was not a great show. We had fun
1:16.3	talking about it. But check out if you like this podcast, you'll probably like the prestige TV
1:20.2	pod. Hey, one programming note, heading into Thanksgiving week. We are not going to run the
1:25.1	rewatchables on Monday of that week because I have, I think I'm doing three straight days of
1:30.8	podcast on my podcast. So I didn't want to compete against myself. So the rewatchables would be
1:35.7	running later that week heading into heading toward the weekend. And we'll have a good one.
1:41.7	I'll make it worth your while. So you won't get it on Monday night like you usually do, but you'll
1:45.5	get it a little bit later that week. And then we'll eventually shift back to a normal schedule
1:50.3	after the Thanksgiving break. So one of you be aware that also wanted you to be aware. I think
1:56.0	you know this, but the entire rewatchables archive over four years of movies that we've done over
2:01.2	210 movies at this point, you can find it on Spotify. If you want to hear anything from the last
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