Interviews: Sir Ridley Scott, Kevin Smith, Bring Her Back Writer/Directors, and Friendship Writer/Director + Stranger Things 5, Ariana Grande's Next Movie & More
/Film Daily
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4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2025
⏱️ 132 minutes
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Summary
On the June 4, 2025 episode of /Film Weekly, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by a bunch of people to talk about the latest film and TV news and present interviews with a bunch of directors, including the filmmakers behind Bring Her Back, the director of the Tim Robinson comedy Friendship, Kevin Smith, and legendary director Ridley Scott.
In The News: (~01:10)
- Stranger Things 5 | Date Announcement | Netflix
- https://deadline.com/2025/05/cillian-murphy-daniel-craig-damien-chazelle-movie-1236406062/
- https://deadline.com/2025/05/hershey-movie-alan-ruck-richard-kind-david-costabile-1236412338/
- https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/luca-guadagnino-to-direct-openai-movie-1236236357/
- https://deadline.com/2025/05/ariana-grande-meet-the-parents-movie-1236413786/
- https://deadline.com/2025/06/skydance-ryan-coogler-aneesh-chaganty-doppelganger-1236422221/
- https://www.slashfilm.com/1876101/james-cameron-horror-movie-the-devils-avatar-4-director-question/
Bring Her Back (~19:53)
How it compares to Talk to Me (~20:18)
Sally Hawkins’ performance, and way the film handles grief (23:30)
The movie’s violence/gore (~30:40)
Interview with Danny and Michael Philippou (~38:40)
Friendship (~54:16)
Paul Rudd’s I Love You, Man connection (~59:23)
Some of our favorite moments (~01:03:42)
Interview with writer/director Andrew DeYoung (~01:08:53)
Dogma (~01:26:13)
Where does Dogma stand in Kevin Smith’s filmography? (~01:28:41)
Jason Mewes’ performance (~01:32:37)
The Wild, Complete Story Behind Kevin Smith Reclaiming Dogma For Re-Release
Why Kevin Smith Paid Tribute To John Hughes In Dogma But Still Dumped On Home Alone
Interview with Kevin Smith (~01:33:45)
Kingdom of Heaven (~01:41:15)
Is this Ridley Scott’s best movie? (~01:50:26)
Ridley Scott interview (~01:53:00)
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| 0:56.3 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Slash Film Weekly. It's Wednesday, June 4th, 2025. And on today's |
| 1:01.0 | episode of the show, we're going to be talking about the latest film and TV news, and we'll |
| 1:04.4 | present interviews with a bunch of directors, including the filmmakers behind Bring Her Back, |
| 1:09.0 | the director of the Tim Robinson Comedy Friendship, Kevin Smith, and legendary director Ridley Scott. |
| 1:14.8 | My name is Ben Pearson. I am an editor at slashfilm.com, and we have a jam-packed show for you |
| 1:20.2 | today. And as we settle into this new format, I've been getting a lot of feedback from |
| 1:24.6 | listeners. More than anything else, people have been wondering where Ryan Scott is. |
| 1:28.9 | He has been extremely busy the past few weeks, but I'm going to do my best to get him |
| 1:33.9 | on the show whenever I can. |
| 1:35.1 | I'm going to make a concerted effort to do that next week. |
| 1:37.7 | So fingers crossed, that works out. |
| 1:39.5 | But I've also heard some folks say that they want to hear the news right at the top of |
| 1:44.1 | the show instead of |
| 1:44.8 | putting it after an interview. So let's get that to try today and jump right into the news. So joining |
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