Best ROGUE COMMENTARY Podcasts (2024)

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Stigmata (1999) with Director Rupert Wainwright 2:12:26

1M ago2:12:26

2:12:26

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This episode is really personal for me, not only because Rupert Wainwright has been a good friend of mine for 25 years, but because Stigmata is the reason we met. While working on Divine Rites: The Story of Stigmata, a documentary about the film …

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) with Author Damien Lewis 1:34:18

3M ago1:34:18

1:34:18

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusiveaudio commentary podcast hosted by David Hughes. For this episode, I’m joined by Damien Lewis, author of the non-fiction book The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, the first third of which is now a major motion picture directed by Guy Ritchie. I read – no, devoured the book before I saw the film, b…

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The Last Screenwriter (2024) with Director Peter Luisi 1:13:57

4M ago1:13:57

1:13:57

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, we’re joined by Swiss director Peter Luisi for a fascinating discussion about his new film The Last Screenwriter, the first film scripted entirely by A.I. – specifically ChatGPT4.0 Now, before you grab your pitchforks and burnin…

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Baghead (2023) with Director Alberto Corredor 1:30:17

7M ago1:30:17

1:30:17

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusiveaudio commentary podcast hosted by David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by director Alberto Corredor for a peek under the hood of his terrific 2023 horror movie BAGHEAD. When I first saw the film, reviewing it for Time Out, it had a very late embargo, which normally means you c…

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Moonstruck (1987) with Critic Jen Johans 1:42:10

7M ago1:42:10

1:42:10

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m thrilled to welcome Jen Johans, award-winning writer, film critics, essayist and historian, and host of the excellent Watch With Jen podcast. Now, that has really good guests, but Jen must be short forJenerous because she al…

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American Star (2024) with Screenwriter Nacho Faerna 1:47:13

8M ago1:47:13

1:47:13

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, ⁠⁠⁠David Hughes.⁠⁠⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome Gonzalo López-Gallego and José David Montero, director and cinematographer respectively of the terrific neo-noir American Star, in which Ian McShane plays an ex-soldier-turned-hitman who travels to…

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American Star (2024) with Gonzalo López-Gallego & José David Montero 1:49:05

8M ago1:49:05

1:49:05

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, ⁠⁠David Hughes.⁠⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome Gonzalo López-Gallego and José David Montero, director and cinematographer respectively of the terrific neo-noir American Star, in which Ian McShane plays an ex-soldier-turned-hitman who travels to F…

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Deliver Us (2023) with Lee Roy Kunz 1:43:07

9M ago1:43:07

1:43:07

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, ⁠David Hughes.⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome Lee Roy Kunz, co-writer, co-director and star of the impressive horror movie Deliver Us (2023), which – as you know, because you wouldn’t listen to an audio commentary without seeing the film first – c…

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The Big Man and Other Stories (1990) with Director David Leland 1:57:24

10M ago1:57:24

1:57:24

Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, ⁠David Hughes.⁠ This is a bittersweet episode; basically an edited and extended version of the audio commentary I recorded with director David Leland eighteen months before his death on Christmas Eve at the age of 82. The commentary was ostensibly for h…

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The Wicker Man (1973) with author John Walsh 1:40:30

1y ago1:40:30

1:40:30

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, ⁠David Hughes.⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by John Walsh, author of the exceptionally detailed, exhaustively researched and endlessly entertaining The Wicker Man: The Official Story of the Film, just out from Titan Books. We’re going to be wa…

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Hudson Hawk (1991) with Screenwriter Daniel Waters 1:44:26

1y ago1:44:26

1:44:26

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome the legendary Daniel Waters, screenwriter of Heathers, Demolition Man, Batman Returns and the film we’re here to talk about today: Hudson Hawk. It's well known that Hudson Hawk went wildly off the rails …

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Sneakers (1992) with film critic Priscilla Page 2:02:46

1y ago2:02:46

2:02:46

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome esteemed critic and essayist Priscilla Page for a walk through Phil Alden Robinson’s unimprovable 1992 classic Sneakers. The commentary was recorded for Plumeria Pictures’ formidable 30th anniversary Blu…

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Cape Fear (1991) with Screenwriter Wesley Strick 2:09:02

1+ y ago2:09:02

2:09:02

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. On this episode, we take a deep dive into Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 thriller Cape Fear, itself based on John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners, in which lawyer Sam Bowden and his family are terrorised by Max…

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Knock at the Cabin (2023) with author Paul Tremblay 1:37:57

1+ y ago1:37:57

1:37:57

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome author Paul Tremblay for a walk through M. Night Shyamalan’s film Knock at the Cabin, adapted from Paul’s novel The Cabin at the End of the World. Being a fan of the book before I saw the film, I was fas…

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Electric Malady (2022) with director Marie Lidén and cinematographer Michael Sherrington 1:26:12

1+ y ago1:26:12

1:26:12

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This is our first episode to feature a documentary, which is not surprising because documentaries normally speak for themselves. But I think Electric Malady is such a unique presentation, I was really keen to discover the story of how it came to …

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Hudson Hawk (1991) with Steven E. de Souza 1:40:42

1+ y ago1:40:42

1:40:42

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome back my screenwriting hero and mentor Steven de Souza, who not only wrote some of our all-time favourite action movies – Die Hard, 48 Hours, Commando and, yes, The Running Man – but also several early, f…

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A History of Violence (2005) with screenwriter Josh Olson 1:45:06

1+ y ago1:45:06

1:45:06

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This episode is sponsored by boutique Blu-ray label Plumeria Pictures, whose latest release is The Big Man, aka Crossing the Line, an underrated 1990 drama with a blistering lead performance by Liam Neeson, and a cast that includes Joanne Whalley…

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Streets of Fire (1984) by author and critic Walter Chaw 1:35:50

1+ y ago1:35:50

1:35:50

Hello! Welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This episode is sponsored by boutique Blu-ray label Plumeria Pictures, whose latest release is The Big Man, aka Crossing the Line, an underrated 1990 drama with a blistering lead performance by Liam Neeson, and a cast that includes Joanne Whal…

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Call Jane (2022) with screenwriter Hayley Schore 1:57:48

2y ago1:57:48

1:57:48

Hello! Welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Hayley Schore, co-screenwriter of Call Jane, Carol director Phyllis Nagy’s under-appreciated 2022 film about the "Janes", the underground group that gave Chicago women access to abortions in the …

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The Stylist (2020) with co-writer/director Jill Gevargizian 1:45:56

2y ago1:45:56

1:45:56

Hello! Welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. In this episode I’m very excited to be joined by screenwriter Jill Gevargizian, co-writer, director and producer of 2020’s brilliant Kansas City-set horror film The Stylist, in which a profoundly disturbed hair stylist, played by the phenomena…

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The Big Man (1990) with screenwriter Don Macpherson 1:53:14

2+ y ago1:53:14

1:53:14

Hello! Welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. In this, the 21st episode, I’m very excited to be joined by screenwriter Don Macpherson, who skilfully adapted William McIlvanney’s brilliant novel The Big Man into the hugely underrated film of the same name, directed by David Leland and star…

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Bull (2021) with writer-director Paul Andrew Williams and Neil Maskell 1:29:35

2+ y ago1:29:35

1:29:35

Hello! Welcome to the latest – as in very late – edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. On this episode, I'm delighted to welcome writer-director Paul Andrew Williams and actor Neil Maskell for a journey through the making of the brutal, brilliant British revenge thriller Bull. For best results, cue it up to t…

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Let's Scare Jessica to Death (1971) with writer-director John Hancock 1:31:25

3y ago1:31:25

1:31:25

Hello! Welcome to the latest – as in very late – edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. On this episode, I'm delighted to welcome writer-director John Hancock – 82 years of age and still going strong – for an exclusive Zoom-enabled dive into one of my all-time favourite horror films, Let's Scare Jessica to Dea…

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Werewolves Within (2021) with screenwriter Mishna Wolff 1:31:36

3+ y ago1:31:36

1:31:36

Hello! Welcome to a brand new episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. On this episode, I'm delighted to bring you screenwriter Mishna Wolff's exclusive audio commentary for the whip-smart horror comedy Werewolves Within. Usually you can listen to one of our podcommentaries by themselves, but this one's a little sparse, s…

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Rent-A-Pal (2020) with Jon Stevenson, Brian Landis Folkins and Jimmy Weber 1:52:29

3+ y ago1:52:29

1:52:29

Hello! Welcome to the first episode of Season Two of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. On our Season Two premiere, I'm delighted to bring you the exclusive audio commentary for one of 2020's best psychological thrillers (or horror movies, if you see it that way), Rent-A-Pal, featuring writer/director/producer Jon Stevenson, a…

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The Reckoning (2020) with Neil Marshall and Charlotte Kirk 1:51:45

3+ y ago1:51:45

1:51:45

Hello! Welcome to the latest – 16th! – episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. As a big fan of Neil Marshall, from Dog Soldiers to The Descent, Doomsday – not to mention the epic "Blackwater" episode of Game of Thrones – I'm delighted to join Neil and his co-writer/lead actor (and fiancée) Charlotte Kirk for a feature-le…

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Wrong Turn (2021) 1:54:13

3+ y ago1:54:13

1:54:13

Hello! Welcome to the latest – 15th! – episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. As soon as I finished the brilliant Wrong Turn reboot, I got straight in touch with director Mike P. Nelson to see if he'd be willing to record a commentary for us – and I was blown away when he not only said he would love to, but that he woul…

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The Owners (2020) with Julius Berg 1:30:37

3+ y ago1:30:37

1:30:37

Hello! Welcome to the latest – 14th! – episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. I really enjoyed French director Julius Berg's 2020 horror movie The Owners, starring Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy and Rita Tushingham, and I was thrilled when Julius agreed to record an exclusive commentary – in flawless English – for the…

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A Ghost Waits (2020) with co-writer/director Adam Stovall 1:17:20

3+ y ago1:17:20

1:17:20

Hello! Welcome to the latest episode of the brand new audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. I was really impressed by Adam Stovall's directorial debut paranormal romance A Ghost Waits, which has been a hit with festival audiences and appeared on a number of Top 10 lists from horror fans and critics. Despite having begun filming in th…

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Alone (2020) with director John Hyams 1:38:23

4y ago1:38:23

1:38:23

Hello! Welcome to the latest episode of the brand new audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. I was really blown away by John Hyams' 2020 suspense thriller/psychological horror Alone, loosely based on the 2011 Swedish film Försvunnen (Gone), and I'm really grateful to Hyams for agreeing to record an exclusive commentary for the film, w…

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Criminal Audition (2019) with Samuel Gridley and Luke Kaile 1:34:58

4y ago1:34:58

1:34:58

Hello! Welcome to a brand new episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. On the first episode of 2021, I'm delighted to welcome Samuel Gridley and Luke Kaile, the brains behind Criminal Audition, the low-budget black comedy you can find here (US) or here (UK). Massive thanks to Samuel and Luke for agreeing to record the com…

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Black Bear (2020) with Lawrence Michael Levine and Matthew L. Weiss 2:04:41

4y ago2:04:41

2:04:41

Hello! Welcome to a very exciting episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. One of my favourite films released this year (in the US, at least) was Black Bear, a merciless examination of the personal cost of making art from life experience, featuring a tour de force performance from the reliably brilliant Aubrey Plaza, with…

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Die Hard (1988) with Steven E. de Souza 2:12:22

4y ago2:12:22

2:12:22

Hello! Welcome to a very special Christmas episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. It's beginning to look a lot like a pretty bleak Christmas for many of us, so I'm especially thrilled that my screenwriting hero and long-time benefactor (he's contributed to almost all of my books) Steven E. de Souza, has gifted us with h…

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Saint Frances (2019) with Kelly O'Sullivan, Alex Thompson and Nate Hurtsellers 1:41:45

4y ago1:41:45

1:41:45

Hello! Welcome to a very special episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. My favourite film released in the UK in 2020 was Saint Frances, written by Kelly O'Sullivan (who also plays the lead role) and directed by Alex Thompson. I really wanted Kelly and/or Alex to record a commentary for the podcast, and when I found out …

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The Glass Man (2011/2020) with Cristian Solimeno & Andy Nyman 1:51:17

4y ago1:51:17

1:51:17

Hello! Welcome to a very special episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. On this episode, I'm delighted to present an exclusive audio commentary for writer-director Cristian Solimeno's psychological thriller The Glass Man, which was first screened in 2011, but only just released – in the UK at least – at the tail end of …

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Untogether (2018) with writer-director Emma Forrest 1:57:03

4y ago1:57:03

1:57:03

Hello! Welcome to a very special episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. When I first had the idea for Rogue Commentary, the very first person I thought to ask – and, in fact, did ask – to record a commentary for me was this episode's very special guest, Emma Forrest. Maybe it was because I had loved her film, Untogether…

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Before I Go To Sleep (2014) with author S J Watson 1:28:20

4y ago1:28:20

1:28:20

Hello! Welcome to this special bonus episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, we thought we'd try something different: instead of a commentary by a filmmaker, we decided to ask author S J Watson to talk us through the 2014 film adaptation of his novel Before I Go To Sleep. Watson didn't have much to do w…

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Death of a Vlogger (2019) with Graham Hughes and Joma West 1:30:24

4y ago1:30:24

1:30:24

Hello! Welcome to Season 1 Episode 4 of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode – which you can also enjoy as a video podcast (I refuse to say "vodcast") on our YouTube channel – I'm delighted to present a brand new commentary for the critically-acclaimed 2019 micro-budget horror film "Death of a Vlogger" (2019) wi…

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Heart and Souls (1993) with director Ron Underwood 1:45:29

4y ago1:45:29

1:45:29

Hello! Welcome to the third episode of the audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This episode we're blessed with a brand new director's commentary for "Heart and Souls", the whimsical, high-spirited 1993 comedy-drama directed by Ron Underwood (Tremors, City Slickers) and adapted – by Tremors screenwriters S.S. Wilson and Brent Maddoc…

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Soft Top Hard Shoulder (1992) with Stefan Schwartz and Richard Holmes 1:30:56

4y ago1:30:56

1:30:56

Hello! Welcome to the second episode of Rogue Commentary, the audio commentary podcast. This episode heralds a Triumph of British filmmaking as we delve into that rarest of subgenres – the British road movie – with "Soft Top Hard Shoulder" (1992), starring Peter Capaldi, Frances Barber, Simon Callow, Jeremy Northam and Phyllis Logan. We're delighte…

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Paperhouse (1988) with Bernard Rose and Matthew Jacobs 1:32:57

4y ago1:32:57

1:32:57

Hello! Welcome to the very first edition of Rogue Commentary, a brand new bi-weekly podcast featuring exclusive audio commentaries for cult and classic movies from the people who made them (and other interesting people). We kick off with a classic British horror movie "Paperhouse" (1988) and we're delighted to be joined in this inaugural episode by…

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