Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and this is the film stories podcast.

Now sometimes I struggle to tee these episodes up. This time though, I've brought in a bit of

help from Val Kilmer to explain one of the films I'm going to talk about. I'm not the first guy who fell in

love of the girl who met in a restaurant who then turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist,

only to lose her to her childhood lover who she'd last seen on a deserted island and who turned out 15 years later to be the leader of the French underground.

Yeah, done a better job than me. I'm going to start the podcast. Come with me. And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

And movies. Movies that had stories.

That this story just sucks a man.

This is just the beginning.

We would be honored if you would join us.

Hello and a very warm welcome to Film Stories with Simon Brew.

I am Simon Brew. As always,

that's absolutely everything you need to know about me. The aim of the podcast, though, well,

I'm here to talk of the stories of film and I talk all sorts. I talk development stories,

production stories, marketing stories, release stories, all the little ingredients that go to make the

films that we know and sometimes love, just that the films that

we know and sometimes love. The films I tend to choose this podcast, they have more of a mainstream

leaning to them than anything else. They're films I'm interested in or invested in to some

degree. And in fact, the two films I pulled together for this particular episode, they're ones

I'm huge fans of, but I just think not enough people

have seen. So let's see if I can do something to convince you if you've not had the pleasure

of either of these to give them a spin. I'll start with the first of the two movies. I'm going to

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