Episodes

With the insane amount of choices in the TV landscape, it's easy for good television shows to slip through the cracks. On this episode, special guest Jess Spoll (of TV podcast "Double Take") joins me to discuss the best 3 TV series you're not...

TV's most depressing show we can't stop watching, The Last Of Us has been a massive hit for HBO. Season One concludes, fittingly, with the most upsetting episode yet! All this being said, the execution is so extraordinary that watching the series has...

My guests are Brian Gatewood and Alessandro Tanaka, writers of the new Apple+ film Sharper starring Julianne Moore, Sebastian Stan, Jon Lithgow, Justice Smith and Brianna Middleton. We discuss the film’s genesis, the protective factor of Julianne...

The reader report on the script for Unforgiven is one of the most scathing critiques I’ve ever read. I was able to find the original document on the internet, and it is the central part of this episode, as we break down why Sonia Chernus, an...

Don't be put off by the mixed critical reaction, running time and box office performance - Babylon is FUN, exhilirating, often funny, and perhaps most importantly never boring. It's big and messy and crazy, but I kind of loved it. If you love movies,...

Contact - I went deep behind the scenes on this, the surprisingly tense creation of one of the most altruistic, life-affirming movies ever - later to cause lawsuits from Francis Ford Coppola and George Miller. Key creatives at all levels (cast, crew,...

Christoph Waltz stars in the new Amazon Prime series The Consultant, a bizarre show that I admittedly almost bailed on after the pilot, only for it to completely redeem itself for me with a strong second episode that manages to crystallize all its...

Rather than do a straight Gladiator episode, I decided to go deep on the notoriously troubled production of the film, as well as touch on recent news about the sequel starring Paul Mescal, AND drop some insane true history facts about the absolutely...

Apple+ keeps throwing up impressive content. This is a movie that is impossible to market, and I almost didn’t watch it for that reason. I’m glad I did. Sharper is an incredibly written film that reminds me of great con films of the past, but has its...

Sometimes you're in the mood for a great documentary, something that will teach you about a subject, enrich you as a person, and still entertain you. A bad documentary is like a homework assignment. A stellar documentary can feel life-altering. On...

Two resident Shymalan-heads here just choppping it up. My guest this episode is screenwriter Phil Clarke, and we discuss M. Night's latest film Knock At The Cabin, starring Dave Bautista. Would this movie be 45-seconds-long if it was my family? Are we...

Another spin of the Netflix roulette wheel, this is Synchronic, from the trippy filmmaking duo of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, it is reminiscent of their previous film The Endless but with a bigger canvas and bigger names (Anthony Mackie and...

Adam Prince, former Director of Development for Robert Duvall’s production company, joins the podcast to discuss the great Robert Duvall in general, his perhaps lesser-known anarchic sense of humor in specific (Duvall apparently was a legendary...

Our new Netflix Roulette feature came up with the Liam Neeson film The Ice Road. When you need a grizzled, down-on-his-luck trucker to drive on a melting ice road to deliver vital equipment to rescue trapped miners… look no further than Liam Neeson....

Chiwetel Ejiofor is one of my favorite working actors, with an insane amount of range that David Mamet thought was “impossible” - he’s also part of the school of British actors who are able to do American accents so well they frequently play Americans...

Adam Rosen has edited a series of essays about the greatest bad/good film ever, The Room. A cult phenomenon (I've personally attended one of its Los Angeles Rocky Horror Picture Show style screenings), this movie is objectively problematic, but...

If you really miss Forgetting Sarah Marshall Jason Segel - look no further than the new Apple+ TV series Shrinking, co-starring Harrison Ford (who, despite being 80+, still has a movie-star shirtless scene in the pilot). This show is warm, it’s fun to...

Frank Grillo is one of the hardest-working actors, but he's also legitimately a masterful actor. In this episode, I run down his three movies you have to watch. These three films clearly demonstrate that, in addition to being a credible cinematic...

If you listen carefully, you can hear me shouting in deranged glee, because Mayor Of Kingstown is back for Season 2. To my extreme joy, the show is not only back and better than ever, but has surprisingly taken up the mantle of The Shield, as a pitch...

Douchebag Goes West... is one of the would-be titles for the podcast BJ Novak is making in this unusual film, now available on Amazon Prime, also starring Ashton Kutcher and Boyd Holbrook. Kind of a mystery, kind of a cultural commentary drama, very...

"Happy Wayne Jenkins Day, Motherf**kers" - it's the Jon Bernthal Episode. First, I uncovered a bizarre, incredible series of coincidences (I swear I'm not making this up) that demonstrate that to my great surprise Jon Bernthal and I have more in...

Some cream of the network TV crop here, with the new Fox show Accused (available on Hulu). Michael Chiklis! Jill Henessey! Robert Wisdom! The Homeland team (Howard Gordon, Alex Gansa, Michael Cuesta)! With this collection of talent in front of and...

What did Juno do that was that bad? S.A. Bradley of the Hellbent For Horror podcast joins the show for an unlikely candidate for our longest episode of all time - Neil Marshall's spelunking-gone-wrong film, The Descent. We dive deep into the echoes of...

Ben Foster was my first interview as a journalist eons ago. Ben was one of my favorite actors at that time, and he's still one of my favorite actors. In this episode, I run down the top 3 Ben Foster film performances you have to watch. If you're...