‘Monkey Man’ Is Here! Plus, the Top Five 21st Century Directorial Debuts.

The Big Picture

The Ringer

Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Sean and Amanda dig into the successes and shortcomings of this week’s biggest release at the box office: Dev Patel’s directorial debut, ‘Monkey Man’ (1:00). They discuss, among other things, the unique action put to screen and the movie’s rumored behind-the-scenes studio management. Then—after casually losing their sanity for 15 minutes in the middle of the podcast—they discuss the best directorial debuts of the 21st century (42:00). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Nathan Hubbard, Spring has sprung, the birds are chirping, and the pop girls are popgirling.
0:06.0	Oh, and you know what that means, Nora Princeiotti.
0:09.0	Every single album is back.
0:11.0	This spring is packed with new releases from some of the biggest pop stars in the world,
0:15.2	including our girl Taylor Swift, and we'll be covering it all.
0:18.8	We'll of course break down every angle on the Tortured Poets Department,
0:22.2	and we'll also cover new music
0:23.8	from Beyoncée duelipa Maggie Rogers Casey Musgraves and Ariana Grande.
0:28.9	It's pop girl spring on every single album. New episodes starting March 28th on Spotify
0:34.3	Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.0	I'm sure.
0:38.0	I'm Sean Fennesey I'm Amanda Dobbins and this is the big picture a
0:47.4	conversation show about monkey man today we're talking about Dev Patel
0:51.0	scintillating directorial debut the Indian Action Epic monkey talking about
0:53.4	Dev Patel's scintillating directorial debut, the Indian Action Epic
0:54.3	Monkey Man. We're also gonna talk about our favorite
0:56.8	directorial debuts of the 21st century. This dev film has been
1:01.0	long in the waiting. It started filming quite a long time ago. It has since changed
1:06.5	studios, but I'm curious to see how it stacks up relative to your favorites over the years.
1:13.0	I mean, they're not the biggest action movie fan in the world.
1:15.8	You like when a lizard punches an ape?
1:17.8	I do, and I like intention.
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