Everyone knows timing is everything. When it comes to your favourite story, how influenced are you by the time in your life that you experienced it? How old you were, where you were, what you were doing - all these these things will shape how you receive and perceive a story.

Publishers and studios strategise around time - release dates and promotional periods will make or break the success of a project. Sometimes this is down to strategy, and sometimes it's pure luck. Not only are you trying to predict the actions of your competitors and market trends, but you also have to anticipate the mood of the audience and the state of the world at large, which is a seemingly impossible task.

In this episode we dig into the stories that won at the box office, and the ones that won our hearts... and whether we still feel the same today.

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