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A one-of-a-kind podcast dedicated to the making and legacy of director Jan de Bont's 1994 summer blockbuster SPEED. Hosted by @kristapley.bsky.social.

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A. J. Black @ajblack.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
10. 50MPH (Kris Tapley) A celebration of Speed reaching 30 which encompassed so much more about cinema, storytelling & the 1990s. A terrific podcast project. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/5...
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Film Interviews Podcast · 53 Episodes · Updated weekly
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 🍾 🥂 Wishing SPEED a happy 30th anniversary with the series finale of 50 MPH! Pop the cork in celebrating the conclusion of a year-long project and settle in for the story behind it all. 50mphpodcast.com/050-one-more...
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50 MPH / One More for the Road - 50 MPH
It's the series finale of 50 MPH! Raise a glass to SPEED on the film's 30th anniversary as we celebrate a year(s)-long endeavor and drive off into the sunset.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 10/06/2024
Next week on 50 MPH…
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 03/06/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 It’s the official 50 MPH commentary track for SPEED! What better way to recap the year than watching along with your humble host, @kristapley, as he tosses out facts and figures while directing you to this or that episode along the way? 50mphpodcast.com/049-the-offi...
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49 MPH / The Official 50 MPH Speed Commentary Track - 50 MPH
The end is nigh for 50 MPH, but before we bring things home, a recap is in order. What better way than the official 50 MPH commentary track for SPEED?
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
"This movie shouldn't be compelling! It's about courtrooms and corporate malfeasance, tobacco scientists and news guys — and it's crackling. And it leaves you in a place of intense emotion and feeling for this character that you followed the whole time." 50mphpodcast.com/048-the-best...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 31/05/2024
"This film could have been a huge folly, and I think it's, instead, maybe the greatest war film ever made. It's this perfect fusion of Malick's spiritual and kind of ecological interests. I think it's one of the greatest movies of all time." open.spotify.com/episode/0Elj...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
"It's this noir pastiche, basically, that never feels pastiche-y. It never feels like they're playing kind of dress-up. It's completely immersed in the style and the rules and the tropes of that genre and plays by them perfectly, but surprisingly, still." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
"I was absolutely mesmerized by this story of connection and human isolation between two souls brought together at random. And the kind of color-coding of it, that a film could use visuals as a kind of language and in such thematic ways." 50mphpodcast.com/048-the-best...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
"It's this sprawling, Altman-esque kind of thing, but it's so infused with who Linklater is. You really feel like a filmmaker is in there talking to you. And he found something special and true and beautiful about nostalgia to work into this movie." open.spotify.com/episode/0Elj...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
"It has the greatest film editing we've ever seen in a movie, some of the best cinematography we've ever seen in a movie. Whatever one might think of the content, there's just something about the power of the image and the power of montage in that movie." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 27/05/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 We’ve charted SPEED’s place among the top action movies and debuts of the ‘90s. Now the discussion turns to the decade’s best films, period, as Variety and Guardian film critic Guy Lodge joins the cause for a year-by-year assessment. 50mphpodcast.com/048-the-best...
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48 MPH / The Best Films of the ’90s - 50 MPH
Rounding out a three-week focus on SPEED's place in the '90s movie canon, 50 MPH welcomes film critic Guy Lodge to discuss the best films of the decade, period.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 24/05/2024
"I find this movie so emotional that it just sort of reduces me to this day. It’s about fighting for your dreams and breaking boundaries and becoming more than what you were supposed to be. It blows me away.” open.spotify.com/episode/5L15...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 23/05/2024
"The primal quality that made cinema, cinema for the last 100 years is people asking that question, 'What is going to happen next?' That addiction to storytelling is the engine of cinema, and that’s what Quentin Tarantino brought back in this film." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
"KEVIN'S GATE, if you will. But I think he showed everyone on that score. I think it gets too much hate largely because of what it beat at the Oscars. It’s just assured filmmaking and I miss this kind of thing." 50mphpodcast.com/047-the-best...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 21/05/2024
“There’s something economical and taut that feels like such a rarity today when I look at this movie. It’s so cool to see all the style that they’re going to apply to THE MATRIX, applied to something this boiled-down.” open.spotify.com/episode/5L15...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
“I thought David Fincher made a remarkable choice. It is suffused with this real horror and kind of shivery dread, but it’s less of a propulsive horror ride than either of the first two. It is a real art film: slow, brooding, quiet.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Continuing a three-week analysis of the ‘90s and SPEED’s place among the era’s most indelible movies, Variety chief film critic Owen Gleibefman joins in to discuss the best directorial debuts of the decade! 50mphpodcast.com/047-the-best...
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47 MPH / The Best Directorial Debuts of the ’90s - 50 MPH
In a continuing series charting SPEED's place in '90s cinema, Variety film critic Owen Gleiberman joins in to discuss the decade's greatest directorial debuts.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 17/05/2024
"You can view this movie as really pulpy, but I think Ed Harris and David Morse’s performances as these conflicted generals transcend summer silliness and turn this movie into a piece of actual legitimate political cinema." 50mphpodcast.com/046-the-best...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 15/05/2024
"This is just a film that encapsulates the bombastic madness and excess of ‘90s action cinema. It’s gleefully disreputable, a movie that is just a big bucket of popcorn flying at you at 100 miles an hour." open.spotify.com/episode/1eK8...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
“It’s interesting that the ‘80s are the classical era in action filmmaking and the ‘90s are postclassical, because my two picks for number 10 are what I would consider two great subversions and analyses of the action genre.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 14/05/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Are you ready for three weeks of '90s natter? We begin with Philip Gawthorne and Liam Billingham, hosts of the Die Hard on a Blank podcast, as they help us count down the decade's best action movies! (Bonus debate: What even IS an action movie?) 50mphpodcast.com/046-the-best...
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46 MPH / The Best Action Movies of the ’90s - 50 MPH
It's time to place SPEED in the context of '90s cinema, beginning with an assessment of the decade's best action movies. Featuring the hosts of Die Hard on a Blank.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 10/05/2024
Buckle up as we SPEED to the finish line.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 09/05/2024
Keanu Reeves: "Let's talk about the fire of Jan de Bont. His dedication and his perseverance and his energy and the inventiveness that he brought to the project." Sandra Bullock: "It’s because of Jan that I have, probably, my career." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 08/05/2024
"He’s so brave. It’s so much fun to watch what he gets into next, because you know the last thing that he finished is not going to be anything like the next thing that he starts." 50mphpodcast.com/045-keanu-re...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 07/05/2024
Keanu Reeves on Dennis Hopper: "He was so good. You feel like, when you’re acting with him, it’s almost improvisational. But he’s so on script, and so ridiculously absurd and fantastic. But he was never condescending to the material." open.spotify.com/episode/26xZ...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
"All of the artists and the crafts people who worked on it, there was a warmth to everyone and a sincerity, and I think that in the fun, in the high-concept, the highbrow/lowbrow of the film, that quality emanates from the film." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 06/05/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 In an exclusive interview, the stars of SPEED, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, talk about taking on a crazy premise, generating sparks together on screen, the film's legacy 30 years later and the "siren call" of one more collaboration. 50mphpodcast.com/045-keanu-re...
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45 MPH / Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: The 50 MPH Interview - 50 MPH
50 MPH presents an exclusive interview with the stars of SPEED, Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, as they look back on the film's making, impact and legacy.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 03/05/2024
"Well, I kind of liked it, but kind of not. It barely has bombs! It’s just a bad guy that’s trying to make a boat run into another boat. It’s barely even like SPEED." Where's the lie? (P.S.: Those are the clay pigeons Alex Shaw shoots. Randomly.) 50mphpodcast.com/044-homestre...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 01/05/2024
"Things change. Fashion changes. Movies are of their time. SPEED is of its time. It advanced upon everything, that era of American action movies, and I think it pushed it to the next level. It’s just such a wonderful ride." open.spotify.com/episode/076R...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 30/04/2024
Hear from SPEED storyboard artist Giacomo Ghiazza in this week’s episode. His work is beautiful.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
"We did big salads, brown rice. I did Szechuan. I had a Bronco. I had a guy in the back there. He would start throwing waters and snacks to people and we’d just go in and out of all the cars." Yes, we've even tracked down the damn craft service guy... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 29/04/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 One more grab bag as we hit the homestretch! Scattered soundbites from the cutting room floor. A second grader takes on SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL. Listener emails and reviews. PLUS: A very special announcement. 😎 50mphpodcast.com/044-homestre...
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44 MPH / Homestretch Grab Bag - 50 MPH
As 50 MPH nears the finish, we pause for one more grab bag of anecdotes, listener emails and our own sequel: a 7-year-old's take on SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL!
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 28/04/2024
50 MPH is at the El Capitan Theatre for tonight’s screening of SPEED!
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
"This is the most disappointing sequel that I can recall. I go back to it every now and then to make sure, and every time I go back to it, it just never works. So, to me, that’s a trilogy from the '80s." 50mphpodcast.com/043-the-most...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 24/04/2024
"I was, like, 'This is going to be great.' And it was not great. They didn't feel like the characters anymore. This doesn't really feel like Harry and Lloyd to me. It feels like the actors doing the Saturday Night Live sketch versions of Harry and Lloyd." open.spotify.com/episode/4jqf...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
“The second one felt like a bad rip-off of THE CRAFT. It abandoned what the first one was, because they didn’t even understand what the first one was. [It] was a random thing they bought at Sundance that ended up being a huge hit.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 22/04/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 On the other side of SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL, we pause with Rotten Tomatoes Awards Editor Jacqueline Coley to discuss the most disappointing sequels EVER. From Indiana Jones to the Blair Witch, where does your (least) favorite rank?
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43 MPH / The Most Disappointing Sequels Ever - 50 MPH
From Indiana Jones to the Blair Witch, Rotten Tomatoes Awards Editor Jacqueline Coley joins the cause to discuss the sequels that let us down the most.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 17/04/2024
"For me, it was about the script. I was totally fine with doing a sequel. I loved the experience of working with Sandra. I loved Jan. But I felt a film called 'SPEED' on an ocean liner was kind of counterintuitive. I couldn’t get on the boat." open.spotify.com/episode/4zNF...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 16/04/2024
“I was never going to do SPEED 2. I didn’t know I had a contract for SPEED 2. I said, ‘No, that’s ridiculous. This is a one-time thing.’ And then somebody came, ‘But it’s in your contract.’ Clearly, I hadn’t read that!” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 15/04/2024
*deep sigh* 🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Let’s get this over with. Grab a Mai Tai and strap in for the account of SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL, the ill-conceived, ill-fated 1997 follow-up to SPEED that crashed and burned like only the biggest Hollywood disasters can.
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42 MPH / Speed 2: Lose Control - 50 MPH
Director Jan de Bont and others unfortunate enough to be involved in SPEED 2: CRUISE CONTROL (plus some who dodged a bullet) discuss the disastrous 1997 sequel.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 12/04/2024
"When I say it moved people's careers, it helped move mine. I would get calls, 'The guy who did SPEED, let's get him.' But I didn't want to be doing all those nuts and bolts. I was able to segue into creative producing." 50mphpodcast.com/041-the-fall...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 09/04/2024
"We sold HARD RAIN, then called THE FLOOD, at Paramount. My joke was, 'Yeah, us going back to Paramount after they put SPEED into turnaround? If we said we wanted to make a movie about a dog with fleas, they would have gone, 'Absolutely.''" open.spotify.com/episode/3fc1...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
“TWISTER came along almost accidentally. I kind of felt that a movie like that has to be treated almost in a similar way [to SPEED] visually. Nobody really wanted to make that movie, either, because it was so complicated.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 08/04/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 In the wake of global success, SPEED puts its various players on the map. A quick jaunt through the professional fallout of a phenomenon and how the film set its cast and crew up for what came next.
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41 MPH / The Fallout of a Phenomenon - 50 MPH
Surveying the aftereffects of SPEED and how its various players parlayed the film's star-making success into their next ventures.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 05/04/2024
"You've got all these guys sitting around who have this whole skill set that can't be exercised any longer because we say, 'Ah, we'll just build it digitally.' And we’re still capable of all that stuff! These things are not just ephemeral. You feel them." open.spotify.com/episode/7hle...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
50 MPH is a Webby Honoree in the Podcasts - Television & Film category! vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
"I think when you approach an action movie, they are all incredible exercises in economy of storytelling in terms of the dramaturgy of it. I think SPEED is one of these perfect perpetual movement machines." podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/4...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 01/04/2024
🚨 NEW EPISODE 🚨 Take it from those in the trenches. Five filmmakers convene to discuss SPEED, Jan de Bont and the ongoing legacy of a classic. Featuring Paul Verhoeven, Guillermo del Toro, Barry Jenkins, Joe Carnahan and… John McTiernan!
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40 MPH / Directors on Speed - 50 MPH
Filmmakers Paul Verhoeven, John McTiernan, Guillermo del Toro, Barry Jenkins and Joe Carnahan chime in on SPEED and fellow director Jan de Bont.
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 28/03/2024
"It was a little bit of sugar to help the medicine go down. What better reason than SPEED? That's kind of the Trojan horse to get people to listen to us talk about other important movies in film history." 50mphpodcast.com/039-fans-fee...
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50 MPH @50mphpod.bsky.social · 26/03/2024
"It’s probably a thousand pieces. It’s a bit over the top. It takes up a lot of my house here and now garage, and my girlfriend is pretty much just getting used to it, I think." -VFX journalist Ian Failes on his epic SPEED collection: instagram.com/youforgotyou... open.spotify.com/episode/2ea1...
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