Special guest Tess Lynch joins Megan and Rob to discuss David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake (2018) and Errol Morris's Gates of Heaven (1978)! Why are the fries at In-N-Out so bad? What do we think about the Impossible Burger? What's the best deli in Fullerton? Did we go full Doughboys on this episode of I-5 Cinemabound? Other topics inclu…

Special guest Mary Anne Carter appears on the podcast to discuss Dumb and Dumber (1994) & Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006). How many stars did Megan give Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!? What airline do we want to sponsor our show? Which celebrity Joshs do Megan and Rob have crushes on? Does Mary Anne think Dumb and Dumber is the best movie in J…

Portland artists Jennifer Jones (aka JJ All The Way) and Laura Glazer join Megan and Rob to discuss a common passion: the films of the legendary Agnès Varda! JJ and Laura tell us how their AGNÈS VARDA FOREVER collaborative project came about (you may have seen the flyers around Portland), and we bounce back and forth in conversation between their v…

Creatures from the deep and creatures who creep! On this episode, Bridey Elliott joins us to discuss The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and My Octopus Teacher (2020). Why is Laura Linney stuck in a cold car? How many photographs of Debra Messing can you have in one movie? Which Richard Gere film is the least horny? Is My Octopus Teacher more wholesome t…

This week Megan and Rob take a trip down memory lane to reflect on the legendary 2004 time capsule, Mean Girls (dir. Mark Waters, written by Tina Fey), and then in a similar vein, chat about Samantha Stark's Framing Britney Spears (2021). Our guest host is none other than the incredible Emilly Prado! Emilly made her radio debut a few years back wit…

Special guest and friend of the pod Mary Kobayashi joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) and Dancing with the Birds (2019). On this episode of I-5 Cinemabound, we talk birds of paradise and characters searching for paradise. Is Liam Neeson better in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs than he is in Love, Actuall…

This week Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick get punk af with the multitalented Tea Hacic on two of her favorites, James Merendino's SLC Punk! (1998) and the Punk doc series (2019) from filmmaker Jesse Miller Smith and executive producers Iggy Pop and John Varvatos. Megan also professes her love for Tea's now-defunct-but-still-iconic anonymous Tumblr sex…

Writer and film programmer Jesse Knight joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Kitty Green's Casting JonBenet (2017). It's the season 2 premiere! Jesse dishes on Josh Hartnett's hair! Megan roasts everyone for not knowing enough about Robert Schwartzman! "Butterfly" by Crazy Town gets brought up…

Julia Shapiro (Chastity Belt, Childbirth, Julia Shapiro) joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Jonathan Glazer's Birth (2004) and Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005)! It's the season finale! Timothy Treadwell may have been the grizzly man, but is Werner Herzog the grisly man? Will Julia finish Nicole Kidman's entire filmography this year? Do…

Content warning: This episode includes ample discussion of mass shootings (including a personal anecdote from a survivor), drug use, and death, and may be disturbing to some listeners. In our ninth episode, Megan & Rob kick off 2021 with a discussion of Brady Corbet's VOX LUX (2018) and Sebastian Jones & Ramez Silyan's LIL PEEP: EVERYBODY'S EVERYTH…

Writer and podcaster Molly Lambert joins Megan and Rob to discuss Futureworld (1976) and Conspiracy: The Royal Family! Do public figures have robot doubles? Is Circus Circus secretly owned by a shadowy corporation named Delos? Just how far did the royal family go when it came to Princess Diana? And finally, is the sushi at Disney World any good? Su…

Cette semaine, Megan Hattie reçoit Laura Pertuy (programmatrice, journaliste et traductrice) et Pierre-Henri Kanyinda (écrivain et photographe) en direct de Paris et en plein confinement pour un épisode spécial du podcast... tout en français ! On discute de deux moyens métrages choisis par Laura (Un monde sans femmes de Guillaume Brac, 2011 et Bamb…

Writer and culture critic Fran Hoepfner (Bright Wall/Dark Room) joins Megan and Rob to discuss Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018) and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin’s Free Solo (2018). Is Tom Cruise more of a high five or fist bump kind of guy? Why do we keep forgetting the name of Motherless Brooklyn? Is Alex Honn…

No guests, no rules. 2 narrative films, 2 documentary films, all coincidentally released within the last 5 years! Rob chose the Zac Efron-starring DJ drama We Are Your Friends (Max Joseph, 2015) and Elvira Lind's 2017 documentary Bobbi Jene. Megan chose the mockdoc Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (Akiva Schaffer & Jorma Taccone, 2016) and Garret…

Parisian musician and film buff Guillaume Mathieu joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Werner Herzog's Land of Silence and Darkness (1971) and Richard Curson Smith's BBC telefilm Home (2003)! How much will Megan and Rob haze Guillaume? Who will get closest to doing a Herzog impression? If you're playing a no-nonsense cable guy, are you obl…

Filmmaker Emily Esperanza joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Sergio Leone's For a Few Dollars More (1965) and Morgan Neville's 20 Feet From Stardom (2013)! Is the romantic tension between Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef some of the best in film history? Did Emily meet a ghost in the form of a weary caretaker? Just how much does Megan li…

Hop in the car and cruise onto I-5 Cinemabound! On this episode, New York-based film critic Kristen Yoonsoo Kim joins Megan and Rob to discuss Jacques Demy's The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967) and Agnès Varda's The Young Girls Turn 25 (1993)! Why was there drama surrounding the cutting of a cake? Is Michael Pitt ready to star in a remake of Demy's…

Hop in the car and cruise onto I-5 Cinemabound! On this episode, get to know your hosts Rob Patrick (film programmer/critic) & Megan Hattie (filmmaker/MFA student) as they discuss 4 narrative and documentary films they thought were worth talking about. Rob's Narrative Pick: Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist (Peter Sollett, 2008) Rob's Documentary Pi…