Jared Bailey (aka Twitter’s @Stolendans) returns to the podcast from Columbia South Carolina for a show about James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet as the young Bob Dy...
2025-01-13 01:03:10 +0000 UTC View Post
The writer and friend of the pod Adam Jackson returns for a show about what has turned out to be the finale of Sony’s "Spider-Man Movies Without Spider-Man In Them Cinematic Universe", Kraven...
2025-01-01 22:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In part two of our discussion of the Die Hard series, Brian Abrams, the author of Die Hard: An Oral History and I go over the sequels to John McTiernan’s 1988 masterpiece.
The writer Brian Abrams returns to the show from Brooklyn for the first of two episodes on the Die Hard series.
In part one, Brian, the author of Die Hard: An Oral History 2024-12-24 16:00:14 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence.
Aaron and Carlee from the Hit Factory podcast return from San Francisco to discuss one of Anthony Mann’s best films, the psych...
2024-12-17 14:00:13 +0000 UTC View Post
James Majure and I continue our discussion of Michael Mann’s Manhunter, first by exploring Mann’s career-long interest in the 1975 non-fiction book The Home Invaders, a strang...
2024-12-10 14:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
James Majure returns to the pod from Athens, GA for a two-part episode on Michael Mann’s Manhunter, a box office and critical disappointment in 1986 that has emerged over the decade...
2024-12-10 14:00:17 +0000 UTC View Post
The author Jacob Bacharach returns for a show about Ridley Scott’s latest, the big-budget sequel to his Oscar-winning Gladiator.
Set 16 years later, Paul Mescal plays Lucius, the s...
2024-12-02 14:04:07 +0000 UTC View Post
The writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a show to mark the passing of the great Teri Garr, a gifted and influential comic actress and pop cultural icon who worked with everyone fr...
2024-11-26 03:21:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The film writer Corey Atad and I went on opening day to see the new Clint Eastwood courtroom drama Juror #2, which is getting an extremely limited release in North America even though Warn...
2024-11-08 14:26:09 +0000 UTC View Post
On part two of our discussion about The Apprentice, Sami Gold and I discuss the 2024 election and have a more specific conversation about the role of Trump in modern political life and how...
2024-11-02 16:52:51 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence.
Sami Gold, undergraduate political science student at George Washington University and contributor to Liberal Currents, returns ...
2024-11-02 16:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The author and film critic Adam Nayman returns to Junk Filter to discuss the new Jason Reitman race-against-time comedy thriller Saturday Night about the backstage antics leading up to the...
2024-10-28 13:24:50 +0000 UTC View Post
The film writer Meg Shields returns from Vancouver for a spooky season show about one of her favourites, the 1961 Hammer Films gothic horror The Curse of the Werewolf, the first starring role ...
2024-10-26 03:21:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The author Jacob Bacharach returns to continue this podcast’s look at Megalopolis. On this episode we compare Coppola’s latest to another overheated epic about a visionary architect, K...
2024-10-22 15:07:12 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: this episode contains spoilers for Joker 2 and discussions of cinematic sexual violence.
The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns to the podcast to discuss the Reverse Barbenh...
2024-10-11 15:45:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the premiere of NBC’s crime drama Miami Vice with a new episode of Junk Filter’s continuing series on the show. James Majure returns from Athens, Georgia to...
2024-09-30 18:56:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The writer and podcaster Gus Lanzetta returns to the podcast from São Paulo to give our listeners an update on life in Brazil since their Supreme Court banned X: The Everything App from access to ...
2024-09-23 14:14:58 +0000 UTC View Post
CW: This episode contains discussions of graphic violence.
Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine, the hosts of the left politics and culture podcast Pod Casty For Me, invited me on to their show...
2024-09-18 14:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine from the great left politics and culture podcast Pod Casty For Me join me for a deep dive into Gerard Butler’s trilogy of Has Fallen thrillers, which chronicle the ...
2024-09-16 20:26:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Veteran national politics reporter for Semafor David Weigel returns to the show for a discussion of the new conservative political biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as The Great Communi...
2024-09-04 15:53:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Songs excerpted on the episode in order
Peg - Steely Dan
Minute by Minute (Live from the Greek 1982) - The Doobie Brothers
Ride like the Wind - Christopher Cross
Vi...
2024-07-29 18:55:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Fluxblog’s Matthew Perpetua returns to the show to continue our Danpilled series, this time taking a look at one of the main contributors to their sound, the singer/songwriter Michael McDonald, w...
2024-07-29 17:52:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The Milwaukee-based film critic and programmer Chris Cassingham joins the show this week to discuss the great director George Stevens and his 1953 masterpiece Shane, starring Alan Ladd and...
2024-07-23 01:06:13 +0000 UTC View Post
The film writer Corey Atad returns for a show about the return of Kevin Costner to the director’s chair with the first chapter of his planned four-part theatrical western epic Horizon: An Ame...
2024-07-16 15:28:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Sami Gold, an undergraduate political science student at George Washington University and contributor to Liberal Currents joins me from New York City to discuss some key texts of reactionary right-...
2024-07-06 19:58:15 +0000 UTC View Post
In the second half of our discussion about the 2016 FX miniseries American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, Karen Geier and I dig into more of the great performances including Sara...
2024-06-28 15:00:11 +0000 UTC View Post
With the recent death of O.J. Simpson and this month’s 30th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a look at...
2024-06-28 14:55:44 +0000 UTC View Post
The film writer David Jamell Moses joins the show for a discussion about a great nineties film that has been flying under the radar for too long, Boaz Yakin’s debut feature Fresh (1...
2024-06-19 15:36:45 +0000 UTC View Post
The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns for a show about Cannon Films, and the aggressive attempt by “The Go-Go Boys” Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus to bring legitimacy to their schlock studio ...
2024-05-28 00:03:38 +0000 UTC View Post