Flasz On Film

Uncut Gems Podcast (August 2025 Round-up)

1st Sep 2025

1–2 minutes

With the back-to-school season on our doorstep and August now firmly in the past, it is time to have a good look at what we happened over at the Uncut Gems Podcast and its Patreon bonus content over the course of last month.

Following the 2025 vibe of choosing a new director to talk about for each month of the year, we decided to follow up our July with Richard Lester (Ju-Lester?) with an entire month of great chats about one of the less talked about directors of the 1970s, namely George Roy Hill. We thought it would be a good idea to take a closer look at a section of his filmography and attempt to contextualize his place among the greats of his time, how he might have been a New Hollywood-adjacent guy on the inside of the studio system and how some of his movies managed to become the biggest success stories of their time without drawing too much attention to the director himself. Therefore, we chose to talk about his breakout anti-western hit Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, his genre-bending anti-war epic Slaughterhouse-Five, his neck-breaking stuntman piece The Great Waldo Pepper, his gritty sports movie Slap Shot and his attempt at an 80s comedy Funny Farm. Over on our Patreon we also recorded a bonus conversation tying into this series where we dissected George Roy Hill’s biggest caper hit The Sting.