Best Filmspotting Network Podcasts (2024)

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#440: They Mostly Come at Night, Pt. 2 — Alien: Romulus 1:17:55

4h ago1:17:55

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Fede Álvarez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS is at its core an act of homage to the larger franchise, but is that a feature, a bug, or both? That’s a question we attempt to reconcile in our discussion of Álvarez’s acid-blood-soaked film, before comparing how this late-stage sequel compares with the franchise’s original sequel, James Cameron’s ALIENS, in iterating…

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#439: They Mostly Come at Night, Pt. 1 — Aliens 1:12:02

1h ago1:12:02

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Fede Álverez’s ALIEN: ROMULUS is so reference-packed that an argument could be made for pairing it with just about any ALIEN film, but since we’ve already discussed the 1979 original, and because the Next Picture Show bylaws state that if an opportunity to discuss ALIENS arises we must take it, we’re digging into the first of the many sequels this …

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#438: Dial 'M' For Manhunt, Pt. 2 — Trap 1:05:22

12d ago1:05:22

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Is it a bit unfair to compare M. Night Shyamalan’s new grip-it-and-rip-it thriller TRAP to Fritz Lang’s 1931 cinematic landmark M? Sure, but that’s the name of the game here on The Next Picture Show, and for all of TRAP’s faults — which we try not to take too much glee in enumerating in this discussion — it does work, however awkwardly, as an extra…

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#437: Dial 'M' For Manhunt, Pt. 1 — M (1931) 1:03:26

22d ago1:03:26

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The new TRAP, like so many M. Night Shyamalan movies, openly courts comparisons to the work of Alfred Hitchcock, but its focus on the large-scale manhunt for a serial killer combined with its psychological interest in said killer has roots even further back in film history. So this week we reach all the way back to Fritz Lang’s first talkie, 1931’s…

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Announcement: Next Pairing 1:40

7d ago1:40

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No show this week, but NPS co-host Genevieve Koski announces the next pairing, inspired by M. Night Shyamalan's "Trap." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesBy Filmspotting Network

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#436: Killer Instincts, Pt. 2 — Longlegs 1:14:06

1M ago1:14:06

1:14:06

Osgood Perkins’ new LONGLEGS shares some clear narrative and thematic DNA with THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, but it’s much more bizarre and divisive in its approach to horror-adjacent serial killer storytelling than Jonathan Demme’s crowd-pleasing, Oscar-sweeping hit. We’re joined again this week by critic and author Charles Bramesco to talk through th…

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#435: Killer Instincts, Pt. 1 — The Silence of the Lambs 1:05:36

1M ago1:05:36

1:05:36

There’s no doubt that director Osgood Perkins had Jonathan Demme’s THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS in mind when he made the new LONGLEGS, but there are as many fascinating contrasts as there are comparisons between these two films about inexperienced female FBI agents and seasoned serial killers. But before getting into those next episode, this week we’re…

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#434: Full House, Pt. 2 — Janet Planet 1:00:52

2M ago1:00:52

1:00:52

Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker’s filmmaking debut JANET PLANET is sort of a dual coming-of-age story, centering a young girl’s fascination with her single mother who is still figuring out her own place in the world. But it also resists broad statements and neat conclusions, giving us space to unpack our own interpretations of the emotional…

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#433: Full House, Pt. 1 — Together (2000) 59:20

2M ago59:20

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The new JANET PLANET follows a young girl who comes to see the world differently thanks to a succession of people her hippyish single mother brings into their lives, and more specifically into the home they share. Its sense of the fraught sense of intimacy that accompanies cohabitation by family members and lovers brought to mind Lukas Moodysson’s …

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#432: Pixar's Girl Story, Pt. 2 — Inside Out 2 1:18:56

2M ago1:18:56

1:18:56

When thinking of a film to pair with INSIDE OUT 2, we purposefully avoided the new Pixar sequel’s 2015 original because the two are so of a piece, delving into the contrasts between them seemed too much like nitpicking. Still, we attempt to make fruitful discussion out of those nitpicks in this week’s conversation about the new film, and perhaps ev…

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#431: Pixar's Girl Story, Pt. 1 — Brave 1:12:34

2M ago1:12:34

1:12:34

INSIDE OUT 2 is quite literally built around the emotional experience of being a young girl, but it wasn’t too long ago that this was uncharted territory for Pixar. That’s why rather than comparing the animation studio’s latest sequel to the original, we’re reaching a little further back in the filmography to revisit its first attempt to tell a sto…

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#430: Road Warriors, Pt. 2: Furiosa 1:04:11

3M ago1:04:11

1:04:11

The new FURIOSA functions as both a prequel and a sequel within the larger mythology of the MAD MAX franchise, and we’re looking at it from both of those angles this week. First, we talk over why George Miller’s latest might have flopped at the box office (prequel fatigue) and why it feels poised to overcome that reputation in due time (it is the r…

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#429: Road Warriors, Pt. 1: Mad Max (1979) 1:02:39

3M ago1:02:39

1:02:39

There’s a lot of narrative road between 1979’s MAD MAX and the new FURIOSA, but in pursuing George Miller’s decades-spanning franchise back to its starting line, we uncover a lot about what fuels this saga beyond the big, loud cars. For example, there are also big, loud motorcycles. But more importantly, there’s a healthy skepticism toward revenge …

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#440: They Mostly Come at Night, Pt. 2 — Alien: Romulus 1:17:55

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