276 - Diminishing Returns Are Dead (with Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis and more)

Guests: Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis, Calvin Dyson, Judey Bignell, Conor Murray, Grace Miller, Emily Slade, How Didn’t This Get Made? and Nicky Diss

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A seance brings a number of never-heard-before clips back from the dead, featuring Thomas Turgoose, Andrew Ellis, Calvin Dyson, Judey Bignell, Conor Murray, Grace Miller, Emily Slade, Nicky Diss and Cubby R. Broccoli.

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224 - Watchmen (with How Didn't This Get Made?)

Guests: How Didn’t This Get Made? (Sol Harris & Conor Murray)

Films covered in this episode:
Watchmen
Allen: ✰ ✰
Conor: ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 54%

What is this, a crossover episode? Diminishing Returns are joined by How Didn't This Get Made? (who, confusingly, were going by "Development Hell" when this was recorded), the brand-new podcast from Sol Harris and Conor Murray that examines the history of movie projects that never got made.

Why? To examine one of the most infamous cases of a film that nearly never got made, but eventually fought its way out of Development Hell, only to finally make its way up and onto the big screen: Watchmen.

Is there a legitimate place for Zack Synder? Where does the film fit into the DC universe now that The Flash is going to go all Spider-Verse on us? Is the #SnyderCut better? All this and more in this week's edition of Diminishing Returns / How Didn't This Get Made?!

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196 - A Quiet Place (with Conor Murray)

Guest: Conor Murray

Films covered in this episode:
A Quiet Place
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Conor: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 67%

If you listen really carefully, you might hear our A Quiet Place episode, taking on John Krasinski's breakout project as director which became a surprise hit, earning so much money, A Quiet Place: Part II was put almost immediately into production so that it could come out later this week.

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191 - Sonic the Hedgehog (with Conor Murray)

Guest: Conor Murray

Films covered in this episode:
Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie (1996)
Allen: n/s
Conor: n/s
Sol: ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 50%

In a rare turn for Diminishing Returns, we're not only discussing a video game franchise this week, but one that hasn't (really) been adapted into a movie before. Ahead of the coming Jim Carrey vehicle, Sonic the Hedgehog, we're looking back at the franchise's roots (as well as Carrey's career).

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168 - Diminishingump Roasturns (with Calvin Dyson, Dan Straw and Conor Murray)

Guests: Calvin Dyson, Dan Straw and Conor Murray

Films covered in this episode:

Fifty Shades of Black
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Calvin: n/s
Sol: n/s
Overall score: 50%

We're on our Summer hols and Allen actually has some acting work lined up for a change, so here's a very special outtakes episode in which esteemed film-maker Werner Herzog takes a look (listen?) at some previously unheard Diminishing Returns material from the archive.

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115 - Quentin Tarantino Season: Vol. 2 (with Conor Murray)

Quentin Tarantino Season:
Vol. 1
Vol. 2
Vol. 3

Guest: Conor Murray

Films covered in this episode:

Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Allen: ✰ ✰ ✰
Conor: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 74%

Kill Bill: Vol. 2
Allen: ✰ ✰ ½
Conor: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 70%

Grindhouse
Allen: n/s
Conor: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 70%

Planet Terror
Allen: n/s
Conor: ✰ ✰ ✰
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰
Overall score: 60%

Death Proof
Allen: ✰
Conor: ✰ ✰ ½
Sol: ✰ ✰ ✰ ½
Overall score: 47%

Quentin Tarantino Season continues with Volume 2 - although, this is a legitimately new volume. We didn't just record one really long podcast, chop it in half and then release it as two separate episodes. This week, we look at Kill Bill and Grindhouse (Planet Terror and Death Proof) as well as exploring Tarantino's relationship with music and feet.

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