Catherine Shoard

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180 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 17 Jul

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Today in Focus · The Odyssey: is Nolan adaptation worth the hype? - The Latest · 17 Jul 2026 podcast

And Penelope also condemns one of her own female servants to death, which is a bit...

it's not in the poem it's not nice so yeah it all coalesces around this idea that matt damon's hero is an amazing fella and he's really really remorseful about all that death he caused and he's sort of plagued with guilt and ptsd and and also feminism and that's not that's not how he is in the poem it's sort of all right to do that because reinterpret it but it does kind of chuck the women out with the bath water you know it's not it's not really nice no and and

They're going to have to get a lot of sort of rich bums on seats because, yeah, but the thing about IMAX prices is that they're more expensive.

The tickets are so much more.

So they don't have to sell quite so many tickets.

They won't struggle.

I mean, it'll need it cost about 250.

They'll need to make about 600 to break even once you've accounted for ticket sales and marketing costs.

They'll do that.

It'll make 200 million over its opening weekend.

I would say you don't absolutely have to go and see it in IMAX.

In some ways, it might be better not to because it is sort of a big experience.

And although the IMAX works really well in the sort of grand spectacle scenes, lots of boats and water and all that business, lots of it's close up.

And with that, it's like looking in a mirror when you do your makeup in a mirror and it's a sort of 12 magnification mirror and that's really horrible sights.

It's like that.

And so you're looking at people's pores the whole time and it's quite a sweaty film.

So you're sort of distracted by that.

So in a way, you don't have to see it and IMAX might be better not to.

That's right.

Mary Beard has said she wants a Wuthering Heights effect and I think he's done that and good on him.

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