This week on Tonight's Second Feature, James & Rhys go back 66 million years to watch The Lost World (1925).

Amidst the pioneering silent epics of the 1920s, Hollywood would release the first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. In London, Professor Challenger announces that prehistoric creatures are alive and flourishing in the Amazon jungle and declares his intention to mount an expedition proving his point. Journalist Edward Malone volunteers to go and convinces his newspaper to fund the journey. Paula White hopes to find her father, a missing explorer. They and others undertake the voyage and witness dinosaurs and humanoids doing battle in a magnificent landscape.

• (00:00) - Intro
• (43:13) - Film chat
• (01:44:37) - Odyssey

• https://movies.fandom.com/wiki/The_Lost_World_(1925)
• https://letterboxd.com/film/the-lost-world/crew/
• https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arthur-Conan-Doyle&ved=2ahUKEwjWiIjm0MuUAxVwaHADHUqUK8oQFnoFCIsBEAE&usg=AOvVaw0fq3GRRcsKpYZFK-CcuBor
• https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/arthur-conan-doyle
• https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/The_Lost_World
• https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/wiki/The_Lost_World#I._There_are_heroisms_all_round_us
• https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2025/03/the-lost-world-is-100-years-old-and-still-roaring/
• https://wordsworth-editions.com/the-lost-world/
• https://arthurconandoyle.co.uk/author
• https://blogs.westlakelibrary.org/2022/05/beyond-sherlock-holmes-the-other-writings-of-arthur-conan-doyle/
• https://www.mbebooks.com/blog/a-look-back-at-arthur-conan-doyles-lesser-known-work/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7sj4zCXMHs
• https://maxs-blogo-saurus.com/2025/02/08/the-complete-history-of-the-lost-world-1925-100th-anniversary-special-part-1/
• https://www.bewaretheblog.com/2020/06/willis-obrien-1925s-lost-world-and.html
• https://www.bewaretheblog.com/2016/04/marcel-delgado-artist-that-built-king.html
• https://simanaitissays.com/2025/12/03/the-lost-world-1925-part-1/
• https://silentfilm.org/the-lost-world/
• https://grokipedia.com/page/Arthur_Edeson
• https://www.nytimes.com/1925/02/09/archives/the-screen-a-vonderful-farce.html
• https://homesteadmuseum.blog/2022/05/21/thats-a-wrap-in-the-portrait-gallery-with-a-studio-portrait-of-screenwriter-and-director-harry-o-hoyt-1925/

Tonight's Second Feature is Created, Produced & Hosted by James Hewitt, and Rhys Strang.

Movie behind the scenes researched by James Hewitt

Podcast Cover Art by Mihaly Csordas, https://www.instagram.com/sawdustnui/?hl=en

This week, on Tonight's first feature, we dive into TWO MOVIES! That's right, folks, we are double featuring Mother Mary 2026 (dir. David Lowery) & Obsession 2026 (dir. Curry Barker).

David Lowery is an American filmmaker known for his independent features, such as A Ghost Story and The Green Knight, as well as his mainstream large-budget studio films, including Pete's Dragon. He is back with Mother Mary starring Anne Hathaway & Michaela Coel.

Obsession is Curry Barker's first theatrical feature released worldwide to immediate financial and critical success. Barker alongside his creative partner Cooper Tomlinson whom he met in film school began his career in sketch comedy posting videos on their youtube channel “Thats a bad idea”. His horror short “The Chair” got the attention of “47 meters down” producer James Harris who approached Barker to finance a script, out of all his ideas, Obsession stood out to him.

References:

• https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-curry-barker-obsession-1236596466/
• https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl1837858817/
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G5CjgPw1x4
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqYHOsuje1E

Tonight's Second Feature is Created, Produced & Hosted by James Hewitt and Rhys Strang.

Movie behind the scenes researched by James Hewitt

Podcast Cover Art by Mihaly Csordas, https://www.instagram.com/sawdustnui/?hl=en

• (00:00) - Intro

On this week’s Tonight's Second Feature James & Rhys dive into season 1 with Silent Spectaculars. Up first we silently watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 1920. Considered the first German expressionist film, its striking visual style, and physiological narrative is still felt throughout modern horror.

Rhys will take us on our first stage of the journey towards the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. First we talk the book and learn what the odyssey is.

References:

• https://www.jahernandez.com/posts/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-1920
• https://www.nga.gov/stories/articles/what-german-expressionism-8-things-know
• https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Cabinet-of-Dr-Caligari
• https://www.classicmoviehub.com/blog/silents-are-golden-a-closer-look-at-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-1920/
• https://www.moma.org/collection/terms/die-brucke-the-bridge
• https://www.bohema-wien.com/artikel/german-expressionism
• https://theasc.com/article/german-cinema-comes-to-hollywood/
• https://colorculture.org/cinematography-analysis-of-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-in-depth/
• https://colorculture.org/cinematography-analysis-of-the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-in-depth/
• https://grokipedia.com/page/Carl_Mayer
• https://filmstarpostcards.blogspot.com/2021/09/gilda-langer.html
• https://carrieannebrownian.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/the-cabinet-of-dr-caligari-part-ii-behind-the-scenes/
• https://www.classic-monsters.com/werner-krauss/

Tonight's Second Feature is Created, Produced & Hosted by James Hewitt, and Rhys Strang.

Movie behind the scenes researched by James Hewitt

Podcast Cover Art by Mihaly Csordas, https://www.instagram.com/sawdustnui/?hl=en

• (00:00) - Intro