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This week, What Have I Missed? looks at success from three very different angles - how it’s built, how it’s sold and who ends up carrying the weight of it.

Moneyball rewrites the rules through systems and efficiency, challenging tradition in the quietest way possible.

Winning Time turns victory into spectacle, where image, power and performance matter as much as the result.

And The Smashing Machine strips everything back to the body — endurance, damage and the cost of being valued for how much you can take.

Three stories.

One pressure.

What happens when success demands more than it gives back?

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This week, we’re spending time in worlds where truth doesn’t arrive politely, it slips in through the cracks.

From the brittle manners and quiet cruelties of Gosford Park. To the slow, devastating unravelling of The Mortician. To the cool precision of Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man - where Benoit Blanc returns to peel back another carefully-constructed façade…

Three stories.

Three very different worlds.

One thread running through them all: what happens when the mask finally slips and the truth refuses to stay buried.

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This week, we’re spending time with the work of the late, great Rob Reiner - a filmmaker whose range shaped modern cinema in ways that still echo today.

From the aching nostalgia and fragile loyalties of Stand By Me…

to the perfectly-straight-faced chaos of This Is Spinal Tap…

to the razor-sharp courtroom pressure of A Few Good Men…

Three films.

Three completely different worlds.

One director who knew exactly when to step back and let performance and truth do the work.

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This week, it’s all about systems under strain.

Satire. Power. And the quiet logic that collapses under pressure.

Four Lions - a comedy that strips ideology back to behaviour, exposing how conviction fractures when it’s carried by people who don’t fully understand it.

Succession - a long-form study of inheritance, damage and control - where power is learned early.

Mountainhead - a claustrophobic retreat into wealth and paranoia, four men sealed inside a world they built but no longer recognise.

Three stories.

Three ways of showing how authority, certainty and intelligence begin to fail - slowly, then all at once.

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This week, it’s all about the work that holds its ground. Craft. Control.
And the quiet collisions that shape everything beneath the surface.

A Beautiful Mind - a portrait of brilliance and illness, grounded in some of the most precise filmmaking of its era.

The Studio - a world where art, ego and power wrestle for control, and every decision leaves a scar.

One Battle After Another - a director-driven epic that builds its tension in silences, fractures and the pressure of what goes unsaid.

Three stories.

Three ways of showing how difficult meaningful work is to make and how much it matters when it lands.

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This week - it’s all about what lingers.

Violence.

Memory.

And the histories that never stay buried.

A murder that exposes the truth a town tried to hide.

A masked world wrestling with the weight of its own past.

And a man pulled into a story written long before he entered it.

Mississippi Burning. Watchmen. Sinners.

Three stories. One question.

What happens when the past refuses to end?

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This week - it’s all about Spike Lee.
Heat. History. And the pressure that pushes every one of his stories to the edge.

Where a neighbourhood boils over.
Every choice carries weight.
And one street becomes a battleground for change.

Where the water rises faster than the help.
Systems fail in real time.
And a city is left to survive what it was promised it never would.

Where wealth masks the cracks beneath it.
Power isolates the man who holds it.
And morality becomes a luxury only some can afford.

Do the Right Thing. Katrina: Come Hell and High Water. Highest 2 Lowest.

Three stories. One question.

What happens when the pressure finally breaks?

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This week — it’s all about the chase.
Ambition. Delusion.
And what it takes to stay in the spotlight.

Where risk becomes routine.
A gambler on the edge.
A rapper playing himself.
A star built from VHS dreams.

Where identity is performance.
Every bet is a confession.
Every lyric is a mask.
Every role is a reinvention.

Where success becomes obsession.
The stakes rise.
The seams split.
And staying alive isn’t always the point.

Uncut Gems.
Dave.
MaXXXine.

Three stories. One question.

What happens when the performance becomes the person?

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