Ep 37: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri & Darkest Hour

In Episode 37 of The Electric Shadows Podcast, Robs Daniel & Wallis look at one of the best films of the year and a contender for one of the worst. Impressing them is Martin McDonagh's Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. A dramatic, witty and compassionate tale of a mother's anger at the local police for not finding her daughter's killer, it is a powerhouse of adult storytelling, populated with some of the best characters yet from the man behind In Bruges. At the other end of the spectrum is Darkest Hour. Joe Wright's film presents Winston Churchill as the eccentric man of the people popular history likes to portray him as. It all amounts to little more than Sunday afternoon TV fluff, until Wright and co present a scene so misjudged and tin-eared it ruins their movie. Predictably, the Robs fight this bad filmmaking on the beaches, they fight it in the air, etc. They also look at the politics likely to be dominating this year's Academy Awards, and go back to THAT scene from Darkest Hour for one more drubbing.