Hello, this is Simon Brew. I'm the editor of Film Stories magazine and a very warm welcome to the Film Stories podcast.

Come with me.

And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

In movies. Movies that had stories.

The story just sucks them in. 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.

That is everything you need to know about me.

The aim of the podcast though, well here's the fun, because we're here to talk of the stories of films.

And in this podcast, I tend to talk development stories, production stories, release stories, marketing stories.

Any tales, really, any little nuances that go to make the films that we know and love, well, sometimes love, just that.

The films that we know and sometimes love.

If you're new to the podcast, hello, if you're not,

hello. But the idea is I tend to talk about pretty mainstream films. I don't do snark.

So if you're looking for someone to punch down on a load of movies, this is the wrong podcast.

I'm afraid. I'm not actually afraid of that. The films I tend to choose are ones also.

I've got some interested in. I've got some

investment in. And I do two per episode, talking of which I'm going to crack on with the first

because I've waffled already a little too much. So let's go back to 2014. I'm going to play

you a clip for the trailer of the first of the two films we're going to talk about. I'll pick up the story the other side of this.

What if I told you that even the worst neighborhood in America could be made completely safe?

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