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Warfare with Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza

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Thursday, 17 April 2025 - 1 hour 10 minutes

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‘Warfare’ co-directors Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza join us this week to talk about the astonishing new film that aims to put modern conflict onscreen in the most authentic way possible. With an ensemble cast of soldiers featuring Will Poulter, Cosmo Jarvis, Kit Connor, and Joseph Quinn, the film’s events are based on the real wartime experiences of Mendoza (who is played by D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai). He’s a former Navy SEAL and Iraq veteran who has used his expertise to advise filmmakers presenting war onscreen, including Garland on ‘Civil War’. Now he’s collaborating with Garland again to tell his own story and that of his colleagues in this truly powerful film.


Plus we’ve got reviews of ‘The Penguin Lessons’—the true story of an English teacher in turbulent 1970s South America who unexpectedly befriends the waddling creature of the film’s title, after rescuing it from an oil slick—and ‘Blue Road’, the literary doc on the colourful life of Irish writer Edna O’Brien. Don’t miss an Easter treat in the Laughter Lift this week too...


Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free):

The Penguin Lessons: 08:54

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza Interview: 29:44

Warfare Review: 43:30

Laughter Lift Easter Special: 57:48

Blue Road: The Edna O’Brien Story: 1:00:39


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