Hey, everyone. Genevieve here with a quick heads up that we encountered some recording difficulties during this pair of episodes, so you'll likely notice that Tosh's audio sounds significantly different from the rest of ours. We hope it's not too distracting and promise that we'll sound like ourselves again by the next episodes. Thanks for listening.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a Movie of the Week podcast devoted to a classic film and the way it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release.

I'm Tosha Robinson here again with...

Genevieve Kosky.

Scott Tobias.

Thank you, Phipps.

In our last episode, we revisited Cameron Crow's Almost Famous, his autobiographical film by a 15-year-old rock critic, pulled up to the Big League when Rolling Stone sticks him on a tour assignment with a troubled band and a manic pixie band aide.

This week, we're looking at a similar story from a different time and place.

Camel Muran is a British broadcaster, writer, and humorist, whose 2014 novel How to Build a Girl is heavily based on her own life as a teenage music writer in the British Midlands, complete with a huge family, grinding, an enthusiastic sexual awakening, some struggles with her body image, and a dad who saw himself as a great lost rock hero.

The film version, directed by Koki Giedroik, is a perky slightly over-the-top comedy about

reinvention, both through music and through fashion, attitude, and words. Like William and

almost famous, Joanna Morgan, played by Booksmarts at Beanie Feldstein, is recognized early for

her writing talent, and she falls in among older, more cynical male writers in music magazine,

where her writing pays the bills and turns things

around for her struggling family. And like William, she falls for a figure in her new music world,

rocker John Kite, played by Game of Thrones Althe Allen. Like William's crush object, John is

supportive and kind, but not really available to Joanna in the way she wants, and her angst underlines

a lot of the story.

Joanna's story goes in a different direction from Williams, but she has to navigate a lot of the

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