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We’re back after our May Miniseries and it’s Tonys week! Rather than a musical, we’re talking about a movie that disappointed in part because it wasn’t a big screen version of the Broadway smash… In 1998, director Bille August brought a condensed version of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables to the screen. With Liam Neeson headlining as the legendary man imprisoned for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean, the film is a hyper focused version of Hugo’s sprawl that is nevertheless a droning bore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This episode, we talk about August’s two Palme d’Or wins and what this story loses by focusing so closely on only the Valjean\/Javert storyline. We also talk about Neeson’s period between his sole Oscar nomination and becoming an action star, Geoffrey Rush cementing his typecast here, and Uma Thurman back-to-back misfires in Batman and Robin<\/em> and The Avengers<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Topics also include this year’s Cannes, Shine<\/em> as forgotten Oscar winner, and Claire Danes backbackback again.<\/p>\n