Above the Title: A Colin Farrell Podcast

This week, the great Sadie Rose Darwish returns to discuss Greta Gerwig's star-studded 2019 adaptation of Little Women, the movie that stands as the last major work of Saoirse's career (so far). Listen in as we dig into the Florence Pugh of it all, the Timothée Chalamet of it all, the Emma Watson of it all, and, somehow for the first time, the Meryl Streep of it all.

This week, it's yet another failed Saoirse Ronan Oscar contender: the long in development Mary Queen of Scots, a movie that is somehow both incredibly old fashioned and painfully of its moment. Topics include: post-Trump girlboss feminism, SAG/Oscar splits, white boys of the month Joe Alwyn and Jack Lowden, and Margot Robbie as Saoirse's tethered.

it's the titular role

Over the course of her career, Saoirse Ronan has done a large number of short films, music videos, TV appearances, and other ephemera, all of which are too short on their own for a full episode but otherwise fall under the scope of this podcast. This week, we'll be taking a look at all her odds and ends, from her early days as an actor to what is, as of now, the most recent project in which she appears, anchored to a discussion of her sole gig hosting Saturday Night Live. And of course, if we're here to discuss a bunch of random nonsense, you know we had to bring the great Jeff Sweeney along for the ride.

This week, the great Sadie Rose Darwish returns to discuss Saoirse's other, failed 2017 Oscar hopeful On Chesil Beach. The story of ill-matched newlyweds dealing with class and gender expectations in 1960s England, the movie, an adaptation of a novella by Atonement scribe Ian McEwan, marks an attempted return to safe territory for Saoirse to somewhat disastrous results.

This week, the great Morgan Garrity returns to discuss the titular role, the name she gave herself, the movie that will almost certainly go down in history as the defining Saoirse Ronan character - it's Lady Bird!

This week, the great Andrew Kinsella returns to discuss Loving Vincent, a rotoscoped semi-biopic of Vincent Van Gogh that seems to mostly exist just to show off how time intensive it was to make. Listen in as we chat about the movie's laborious production, the career of Oscar Isaac (who's not in this picture), and the Beatles. Both the band and the movies.

We're back! This week, we're talking Weepah Way for Now, a loosely autobiographical star vehicle for pop duo Aly & AJ in which Saoirse plays a ghost. This one seems winsome but gets kinda freaky. If you're wondering why we mostly spend this episode speculating about things that already happened and talking about dead people like they're alive it's because we recorded it in January.

Now this one, this is the big one. It's Brooklyn, the 2015 immigrant drama that saw Saoirse Ronan earn her second Oscar nomination and lay out the template for her movie star career. It's also a movie your hosts like very, very, much. We get into why this is such an endearing picture, along with tangents on Oscars new and old, Florence Pugh, Harry Potter, Brie Larson, Actorle, the literary afterlives of the novel, and the ugly side of black metal.