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14th Feb 2024

Brotherly Love 1 - The Hudsucker Proxy vs Dumb & Dumber

This week on The Pod Charles Cinecast, we present a brand-new miniseries – BROTHERLY LOVE – where we'll once a month be pitting some films from filmmaking brothers the Coen Brothers vs. the Farrelly Brothers. Both sets of brothers saw some of their best films come out between 1994 - 2003, and we'll be taking a look into this small window of time to see who is the best of the brother filmmakers (I mean, we know who it is... it's just for fun. You know... for kids?)

In the debut episode, we'll be looking at two films from 1994, with Joel and Ethan Coen's first big budget studio film, THE HUDSUCKER PROXY, vs Peter and Bobby Farrelly's debut feature, DUMB & DUMBER.

Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman lead the Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy, about a mailroom clerk who is plucked from obscurity to be the president of a major corporation in order for the scheming board to take over full control of the company's stock. A throwback to the screwball comedies of the 30s and 40s, the film failed at the box office, but became a big cult hit. But, is the fast-talking comedy enough to take on the Farrelly's breakout first feature?

In Dumb & Dumber, Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels are two moronic buddies who take a briefcase across the country to return it to a woman they think lost it, getting mixed up in a kidnapping plot and a whole load of other shenanigans. It's incredibly dumb, but still packs in plenty of laughs 30 years later. The film was the crowning achievement in Jim Carrey's massive run of 1994 (which also saw him star in Ace Ventura and The Mask) that would see him become one of the biggest stars of the 90s.

Which brother will win Brotherly Love, and be crowned the best brother filmmaking duo of the 90s? Tune in to find out...

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Jonathan Foster

An American Werewolf in London.

Born and raised in Southern Virginia, Jonathan now calls London home. As a member of the Marketing & PR Team at the Prince Charles Cinema for 6 years, Jonathan began Hosting, Producing, and Editing The Pod Charles Cinecast - a weekly podcast detailing the eclectic programme of London's best independent cinema and lives of the wonderful people who help run the place.

Aside from hosting podcasts, Jonathan is an aspiring voiceover artist and also the founder, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the South East London-based psychedelic garage rock band TALL.