siobhan synnot, thank ou so friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much — friedkin film.ilm. siobhan synnot, thank you so much forjoining _ friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much forjoining us _ friedkin film. siobhan synnot, thank you so much forjoining us on - you so much forjoining us on newsday today. mi; you so much for “oining us on newsday today. 18—year—old ana mayers and her mum keisha schahaff are set to make history, as the first mother and daughter to go to space. they'll also be the first people from the caribbean to make the journey. they won the voyage in a competition. louise hosie reports. welcome to space. it is a once—in—a—lifetime adventure few of us will ever experience. but for keisha and ana, their dream is on the edge of becoming a reality. they are about to become the first ever mum and daughter in space. they will be on board virgin galactic�*s unity spacecraft. to just have the experience to actually go to space and look at our amazing planet from that high and to just breathe that in and to just be in that energy isjust super amazing.

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earlier, i spoke to film critic siobhan synnot. she met him a few times and shared her memories. so much that he persuaded him to put his picture on the front page of my newspaper — quite an achievement if you know my editor! he was as well of course one of the highly regarded directors of the 1970s, up there with spielberg, scorsese, francis ford coppola, and i think his skill was really to treat what other people might have regarded as b—movies with the utmost seriousness. so something like the french connection, a cop movie, could have been a potboiler, but in his hands, it was something far more elevated than that, and he got an amazing performance out of gene hackman despite the fact that gene hackman felt that his character, popeye doyle, was morally referenceable and had to be pushed by friedkin to give —— his character, popeye doyle, was morally reprehensible and had to be pushed by friedkin to give his character its full weight. and the exorcist, he never regarded that as a horror movie, despite the spinning heads and the pea soup. he regarded it as a serious drama, a mo

siobhan synnot, is a film journalist.to the cinema. well, barbie certainly means a shot in the arm for cinemagoers, for cinema owners, forfilm studios, after quite a difficult 2023. films that underperformed included indiana jones and the dial of destiny. but barbenheimer has really been a shot in the arm. and i think a lot of the industry will be looking at this and thinking, what is it that worked? it has made sure that greta gerwig, as you say, the first female director to steer a film on her own into the billion category, she has proved herself to be critically very viable. she has won awards in the past for little women and a ladybird. this shows that she has financial heft as well. it will also result, i think, in an increase in toy movies. but toys with a knowing sight of them. when margot robbie was pitching barbie, margot robbie of course being the star of the film, she said to the studio if you have got a visionary film with big ideas from a goodie director then this film could make a billion. she was saying thi

live now to siobhan synnot, who is a film journalist. thank you very much for talking to us.remember during the pandemic there was a real worry about whether people would ever go back to the cinema. does this mean those fears are allayed? cinema. does this mean those fears are aimed?— are allayed? well, barbie certainly means a shot _ are allayed? well, barbie certainly means a shot in _ are allayed? well, barbie certainly means a shot in the _ are allayed? well, barbie certainly means a shot in the arm _ are allayed? well, barbie certainly means a shot in the arm for - means a shot in the arm for cinemagoers, for cinema owners, for film studios, after quite a difficult 2023. films that underperformed included indiana jones and the dial of destiny. but barbenheimer has really been a shot in the arm. and i think a lot of the industry will be looking at this and thinking, what is it that worked? it has made sure that greta gerwig, as you say, the first female director to steer a film on her own into the billion category, she has proved herself to be critically very viable. she