A sonic memoir about meeting a real demon while making a horror movie in Latvia. Created by TOMMY BERTELSEN Original Music by MICHAEL SHUMAN Produced by ISAIAH SMALLMAN and BRYCE MCGUIRE
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Filmmaker Lou Howe, producers Ben Howe and Luca Borghese, and actor Rory Culkin discuss their film Gabriel. First-time writer-director Lou Howe’s drama focuses on a vulnerable and confused young man who longs for stability and happiness.
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Director Andrew Disney, writer Bradley Jackson, and actors Jake Lacy, Brian McElhaney, Nick Kocher, Kate McKinnon, Jay Pharaoh, Beck Bennett, and Nikki Reed discuss their film Intramural. The movie is a hilarious sendup of inspirational sports movies, focusing on a hapless intramural football team that reunites for one final showdown.
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The Apple Store celebrates the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival with an event series featuring the amazing talent behind many of the festival favorites. Subscribe to the podcast to hear behind-the-scenes stories and insights from these fantastic filmmakers and actors.
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Director David Mackenzie and actor Jack O’Connell discuss their film Starred Up. This tense and unpredictable drama explores the life of a young offender so violent and volatile that he is “starred up” — prematurely moved to an adult prison.
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The Apple Store celebrates the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival with an event series featuring the amazing talent behind many of the festival favorites. Subscribe to the podcast to hear behind-the-scenes stories and insights from these fantastic filmmakers and actors.
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Director Louie Psihoyos, producer Fisher Stevens, and subjects Travis Threlkel, Shawn Heinrichs, and Leilani Münter discuss their gripping environmental documentary 6. The film utilizes state-of-the-art equipment to show never-before-seen images that will change the way we understand the issues of endangered species and mass extinction.
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First-time director Gia Coppola and actors Emma Roberts and Nat Wolff discuss their film Palo Alto. This vibrant and cinematic immersion in the high school experience follows overlapping stories of teens and the adults around them in the titular town.
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Filmmaker Ryan Piers Williams, actor-producer America Ferrera, actor Jon Paul Phillips, and Producer Kwesi Collisson discuss their film X/Y. The character-driven drama centers on the shifting sexual and romantic relationships among four restless New Yorkers searching for a sense of intimacy and self-identity.
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Catch the latest action from the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival starting on April 22. Get a peek behind the scenes from some of the film industry's leading actors, writers, and directors. Hear what they're up to and learn how they brought their stories to the big screen. Also enjoy talks from the 2007 and 2008 series, included here as well.
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A podcast by NextBestPicture.com that reviews the latest film releases and discusses various topics within the world of film and the awards race.
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Filmmakers Marshall Curry and Matthew VanDyke discuss their riveting documentary Point and Shoot. The film follows the true story of a young man from Baltimore whose wanderlust leads him to Libya, where he joins the rebel army in its effort to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
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Get a glimpse of the work by some of this year's filmmakers, including the documentary films Ballet 422 (director Jody Lee Lipes) and An Honest Liar (director Justin Weinstein). Also showing in the Sneak Peek are the narrative features Below Dreams (writer/director Garrett Bradley), Summer of Blood (writer/director Onur Tukel), and Match (writer/director Stephen Belber).
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Writer/director/star Jon Favreau discusses his culinary adventure Chef. The film follows a talented chef who has a social media-fueled meltdown, then hits the road with his son and sous chef to launch a food truck business.
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Conversations recorded live at the Tribeca Festival with the best in the business. For more follow us on Twitter @TribecaAudio.
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WNYC is partnering with the Tribeca Film Festival for the second year in a row to bring exclusive recordings of panels, discussions and interviews straight to your podcast feed. Hear conversations about the festival’s selected films, as well as the entertainment industry at large, with such luminary voices as George Lucas, Courtney Love, and Christopher Nolan. Find the full selection of talks here, along with 2014’s panels, and subscribe to the podcast to hear them all.
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Writer-director Angus MacLachlan and actors Paul Schneider, Melanie Lynskey, and Audrey Scott discuss their film Goodbye To All That. The story follows a recently divorced man who is thrust into the uncharted territory of single fatherhood, and—even more frightening—getting back into the rather unpredictable dating pool.
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Join filmmaker and actor Ed Burns as he discusses his new film, Newlyweds. Referred toas a “companion piece of sorts” to his previous work, Sidewalks of New York, which followed the interwoven lives and lovesof six New Yorkers, Newlyweds takes place entirely in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York City.
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Director John Butler and actors Hugh O’Conor and Peter McDonald discuss their slapstick comedy The Bachelor Weekend. In the film, a foppish groom-to-be on a bachelor camping weekend discovers that he and his genteel friends are no match for his future brother-in-law, an uncouth bully.
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Actor Eva Mendes and writer-director Massy Tadjedin discuss their provocative romantic drama, “Last Night”. The story follows a married couple who, apart for one night, are faced with a temptation that may decide the fate of their marriage.
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Join filmmaker Gaukur Úlfarsson and Icelandic comedian Jon Gnarr as they discuss their documentary, “Gnarr”. Following his country’s economic meltdown, Gnarr formed a punk political party and ran for mayor of Reykjavik. When support for Gnarr’s mayoral bid snowballs, what began as a joke quickly captures the imagination of a nation desperate for a change.
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Join actor Will Ferrell and filmmaker Dan Rush as they discuss their new drama, Everything Must Go. After losing his wife and job, Nick Halsey (Ferrell) holds a yard sale on the front lawn, and with the help of a neighbor, begins to start over.
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Join the talented director as he discusses his film Flowers of Evil. Set in Paris, this experimental drama organically incorporates YouTube documentation of Iran’s 2009 post-election demonstrations and the government’s brutal reprisals into a tender love story between an Algerian-French hotel bellman and an Iranian student.
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Starring Elizabeth Henstridge, Jeff Ward, Gregory Stees and Emma Roberts, Conference Call follows Julie Burke as she partners with eccentric entrepreneurs "The Toade Bros.” Julie patiently helps the Toades desperately pitch their half-baked ideas to a string of bewildered investors. Poring over hours of cringeworthy recorded phone calls from this oddball tech company, our (fake) investigative podcaster, Charlotte Dunn, delivers a story of incompetence, fraud, and betrayal. After the Toades m ...
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Join filmmaker James Westby and the lead cast of the new black comedy, “Rid of Me”. After being dumped by her husband, Meris (Katie O’Grady) takes a job as a candy store clerk, opening unexpected worlds into Portland’s underground punk scene and putting her on a bumpy road toward self-discovery.
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The director Deborah Chow, acclaimed actor and his co-star Isabelle Blais discuss their new drama, “The High Cost of Living”. One night, Henry’s (Braff) and Nathalie’s (Blais) lives tragically collide, forcing them both to confront loss, love, and life—and to decide whether the high cost of living is worth the price.
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This director discusses his film “Talihina Sky: The Story of Kings of Leon”. One of the world’s biggest rock bands, Kings of Leon returns to Talihina, Oklahoma, for their annual family reunion. The documentary examines the band’s roots and explores how a strict Pentecostal upbringing preceded their unlikely transformation.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Meet the Filmmakers: "Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest"
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The talented actor and filmmaker discusses his documentary film “Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels ofA Tribe Called Quest” together with band member Phife. The film documents the inner workings and backstage drama of the band A Tribe Called Quest, and explores what’s next for these pioneers of alternative rap.
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Join actor Thomas Haden Church ("Sideways") and filmmaker Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais as they discuss their black comedy, "Whitewash." In the film, a man trying to survive a harsh Canadian winter finds himself in a complicated situation when a meeting with a stranger leads to an accidental death.
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Join filmmaker Lance Edmands, producer Kyle Martin, and actors Amy Morton ("Up in the Air"), Louisa Krause ("Martha Marcy May Marlene"), and Emily Meade ("Sleepwalk with Me") as they discuss their rural drama, "Bluebird." In the film, one woman’s tragic mistake shatters the community of a Maine logging town.
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Join director Lenny Abrahamson ("Adam & Paul," "Garage") and actor Jack Reynor as they talk about their new film, "What Richard Did." The film follows gifted student Richard Karlsen (Reynor), whose final summer before university is thrown into chaos by an accidental killing.
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Join filmmaker Danny Mulheron ("Rage," "Meet the Feebles" screenwriter) and actor Kate Elliott for a discussion about their outrageous comedy "Fresh Meat." The film follows a gang of criminals who take a M?ori family hostage, only to discover that their “victims” might actually be cannibals.
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Join actor Zoe Kazan, producer Steven Berger, producer Robin Schorr and filmmaker Jenée LaMarque as they discuss their drama, "The Pretty One." The film explores the consequences of a woman’s decision to assume her more successful twin sister’s identity after the sister’s death.
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Join actor Penn Badgley ("Gossip Girl") and filmmaker Daniel Algrant as they discuss their film "Greetings from Tim Buckley." The drama chronicles musician Jeff Buckley’s efforts to come to terms with his late father’s legacy, leading up to Jeff’s legendary 1991 performance of Tim’s songs.
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Join producer Adrian Grenier (star of "Entourage") and filmmaker Matthew Cooke as they discuss their revealing documentary, "How to Make Money Selling Drugs." The film examines the war on drugs through a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
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Join director Tom Berninger, executive producer Marshall Curry ("Street Fight," "If a Tree Falls"), producer Carin Besser, producer Craig Charland and Matt Berninger (lead singer of The National), as they discuss their documentary, "Mistaken for Strangers." Shot while Tom was working as a roadie for his brother Matt’s band, the film offers an inside look at the critically acclaimed indie rockers during their recent "High Violet" tour.
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Join writer/director Jared Moshé and actors David Call and Barlow Jacobs for a moderated discussion with Brian Brooks about their new film, "Dead Man’s Burden." Set in the aftermath of the Civil War, the film tells the story of Martha (Clare Bowen) and her husband Heck (David Call), whose struggle to make ends meet on their New Mexico homestead is complicated by the return of Martha’s brother Wade (Barlow Jacobs), believed lost in the war.
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Sandbox is a podcast from the Columbia University School of the Arts' Digital Storytelling Lab that explores new forms and functions of storytelling.
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Stance is an independent award-winning arts, culture and current affairs podcast run by New York based journalist and curator Chrystal Genesis. An episode is released on the 1st of every month. Stance is produced by Chrystal Genesis, Zara Martin and Saskia Sewell. stancepodcast.com @stancepodcast Guests so far include musicians Four Tet, Jamila Woods, Róisín Murphy, Amber Mark, Caribou, Kaytranada, Jessie Ware, Tricky and Nao, authors Yaa Gyasi, Sayaka Murata, Elif Shafak & Valeria Luiselli, ...
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Mentors on the Mic: Your guide to pursuing a career in the Entertainment industry
Michelle Simone Miller
Join actress and host Michelle Simone Miller and hear from the most interesting people in Entertainment, as well as the inside scoop on all of your favorite films and TV shows. Each week Michelle talks to Directors, Producers, Network Execs, Actors and more, to learn how they started, how they moved up, and any tips they've learned along the way. Mentors on the Mic is the place to find Mentorship without having to ask for it.
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Episode 438 - 2025 Cannes Film Festival Sidebars, Tribeca Festival Lineup, "Another Simple Favor," "The Life Of Chuck," "Him," & "The Roses" Trailers
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1:55:44For Episode 438, I am joined by Dan Bayer, Katie Johnson, Cody Dericks, and Tom O'Brien to discuss the 2025 Cannes Film Festival sidebar sections (Directors' Fortnight, Critics' Week, and ACID) and the 2025 Tribeca Festival lineup announcement. We also reveal the winner of last week's poll asking, "Which Film From The 2025 Cannes Film Festival Are …
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Interview With "Dune: Prophecy" Showrunner Alison Schapker
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17:38"Dune: Prophecy" focuses on the early beginnings of the Bene Gesserit — a formidable order wielding immense social, religious, and political influence over Frank Herbert's "Dune" universe. The sci-fi series serves as a prequel to Denis Villeneuve's "Dune" and "Dune: Part Two," set roughly 10,000 years before the events of those films. Showrunner, w…
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Interview With "Andor" Season 2 Composer Brandon Roberts
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34:22"Andor" Season 2 is one of the most brilliant and best television shows of 2025. Closing out what began in Season One and adding a whole new layer of appreciation for "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" while providing the best characters and story the franchise has ever seen, the new season has already garnered significant critical acclaim. One praised…
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For this week's main podcast review, Sara Clements, Josh Parham, Giovanni Lago, Joselyn Safadi, and I are reviewing and discussing the latest film from Ryan Coogler, "Sinners," starring Michael B. Jordan, Hailee Steinfeld, Miles Caton, Jack O'Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, Jayme Lawson, Omar Miller, Buddy Guy, Delroy Lindo. A blending of different genres f…
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Interviews With "The Legend Of Ochi" Director/Writer Isaiah Saxon And Stars Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard & Emily Watson
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24:57"The Legend Of Ochi" had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and received positive reviews for its visuals, performances, use of puppetry, animatronics, matte painting, and fantasy story of found family and connection. Feature debut filmmaker Isaiah Saxon and stars Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, and Emily Watson were all kind enoug…
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Interview With "The Ugly Stepsister" Director/Writer Emilie Blichfeldt And Stars Lea Myren & Thea Sofie Loch Næss
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27:53"The Ugly Stepsister" had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival in the midnight section, where it received positive reviews for its style, performances, and body horror retelling of the fairy tale Cinderella from the point of view of Elvira (the ugly stepsister) who competes against her beautiful stepsister in a bloody battle for be…
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Interview With "The Diplomat" Season 2 Director Alex Graves
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23:05"The Diplomat" is one of Netflix's hottest shows as its first season garnered star Keri Russell award nominations from the Screen Actors Guild, Golden Globes, and Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series. The second season premiered to critical acclaim once again and has so far received more Critics' Choice, Golden Globe…
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Interview With "Grand Tour" Director/Writer Miguel Gomes
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23:16"Grand Tour" had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Director award for Miguel Gomes. The film follows a man in 1918, Rangoon, who abandons his fiancée on the day they are to be married. He flees in a state of melancholy, contemplating her condition. Determined to be married, his fiancée follows his trail. Gom…
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Interviews With "Government Cheese" Star David Oyelowo & Co-Creator/Writer Aeysha Carr
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31:02"Government Cheese" is the newest comedy series from Apple TV+, which just had its first four-episode premiere today. Starring and executive produced by David Oyelowo, the series follows the Chambers family, an African American family living in the San Fernando Valley in 1968, and the chaos that arises after burglar-turned-inventor Hampton Chambers…
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Interviews With The Cast & Director/Co-Writer Of "The Wedding Banquet"
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40:04Andrew Ahn's remake of "The Wedding Banquet" had its world premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its performances from its delightful cast, sharp writing, and sensitive direction. A remake of the 1993 film, it tells the familiar story, but this time primarily from the women's perspective, thus updating …
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Interview With "The Shrouds" Director/Writer David Cronenberg
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22:19"The Shrouds" had its world premiere at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it received mixed reviews but has steadily been growing in appreciation (as all David Cronenberg films do) as it screened at more film festivals, including TIFF and NYFF Film Festivals. The film is Cronenberg's most personal to date as it deals with the grief he went throu…
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"Sinners" is the newest film by director Ryan Coogler, and it's quite unlike anything else you'll likely see this year. It is a Deep Jim Crow South-era gangster film that turns into a vampire action horror film with its soul infused with blues music. It stars a wonderful cast led by a fantastic dual performance from Michael B. Jordan. Cast members …
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Interview With "Warfare" Stars D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai & Kit Connor
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15:52"Warfare" is the newest film by director Alex Garland, who co-directed it with Iraq war veteran Ray Mendoza. It's a re-enactment of an encounter Mendoza and his platoon experienced on November 19th, 2006, in the wake of the Battle of Ramadi, as they use memories from Navy SEAL team Alpha One to reconstruct the event in real-time as it happened for …
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Episode 437 - The 2025 Cannes Film Festival Lineup, Best Stunt Design Oscar, "The Phoenician Scheme" & "Havoc" Trailers
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2:03:25For Episode 437, I am joined by Nadia Dalimonte, Katie Johnson, and Megan Lachinski to discuss the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and the long overdue announcement of the Best Stunt Design Oscar. We also reveal the winner of last week's pollfor the release of "Warfare," asking, "Which Is Your Favorite Project Alex Garland Has Written And/Or Directed?" a…
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For this week's main podcast review, Katie Johnson, Josh Parham, Alyssa Christian, Daniel Howat, and I are reviewing and discussing "The Amateur," starring Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Michael Stuhlbarg, Holt McCallany, Julianne Nicholson, and Laurence Fishburne. Based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell, which wa…
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Ep. 69: Style, Sound & Self-Expression w/ Musician & Artist Goya Gumbani
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18:01Musician and artist Goya Gumbani joins Chrystal Genesis in New York’s East Village ahead of his live show to talk sound, style, Miles Davis, and his new album, Warlord of the Weejuns. In this episode, the Brooklyn-born, South London-based artist reflects on the cultural influences behind his dreamy, laid-back record, where the storytelling of New Y…
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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture For this week's second podcast review, Josh Parham, Dan Bayer, Brendan Hodges, Daniel Howat, and I are reviewing and discussing the latest film from Alex Garland and co-directe…
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THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST. NOT THE FULL REVIEW. Please check out the full podcast review on our Patreon Page by subscribing over at - https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Our 2009 retrospective is continuing with one of the best films of the year, one which greatly benefitted from the Academy expanding the Best Picture field to ten nominees: Joe…
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Interview With "Sacramento" Filmmaker Michael Angarano
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21:51"Sacramento" had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, receiving strong reviews for its acting, writing, and direction from Michael Angarano. The independent film is very personal for the television and film actor as it also stars his wife, Maya Erksine, and tells a story about two friends who take an impromptu road trip from Los Angeles…
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Interview With "One To One: John & Yoko" Co-Director Kevin Macdonald
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19:48"One To One: John & Yoko" had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and went on to screen at the Telluride and Sundance Film Festivals, receiving strong reviews for its audio mastering of the concert footage and recording tapes featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Co-directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards, the follows the couple o…
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Interview With "The Amateur" Director James Hawes
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17:38"The Amateur" is a new American vigilante action spy thriller film directed by James Hawes ("One Life" & "Slow Horses") and written by Ken Nolan and Gary Spinelli, based on the 1981 novel of the same name by Robert Littell which was previously adapted into a Canadian film that same year. It stars Rami Malek, Rachel Brosnahan, Caitríona Balfe, Jon B…
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Interview With "Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale Of A Writer Who Decided To Write About A Serial Killer" Director/Writer Tolga Karaçelik
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20:00"Psycho Therapy: The Shallow Tale Of A Writer Who Decided To Write About A Serial Killer" had its world premiere at the 2024 Tribeca Festival, where it received positive reviews for its twisted, darkly comedic story and performances from Steve Buscemi, John Magaro and Britt Lower. Director and writer Tolga Karaçelik was kind enough to spend some ti…
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Episode 436 - 2025 Cannes Predictions, CinemaCon Recap, "Tron: Ares," "M3GAN 2.0," "Fountain Of Youth" & "Bring Her Back" Trailers
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2:03:38For Episode 436, I am joined by Daniel Howat and Katie Johnson to discuss what we think will be announced this week for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival and recap what was announced at CinemaCon this week. We also reveal the winner of last week's poll, asking, "Which Is Your Favorite Film From Q1 2025?" and pose this week's poll question for the relea…
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For this week's main podcast review, Katie Johnson, Giovanni Lago, and I are reviewing and discussing "A Minecraft Movie" starring Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Danielle Brooks, Emma Myers & Sebastian Hansen. Adapted from the immensely popular 2011 video game Minecraft by Mojang Studios, the film is directed by Academy Award-nominee Jared Hess and celeb…
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Interview With "The Friend" Filmmakers Scott McGehee & David Siegel
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19:41"The Friend" had its world premiere at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its performances from Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, and the Great Dane Bing, and the writing and direction from filmmakers Scott McGehee & David Siegel that made audiences laugh and cry. Based on the 2018 novel by Sigrid Nunez, the film tells…
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Interview With "Freaky Tales" Filmmakers Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
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20:44"Freaky Tales" had its world premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it received positive reviews for its homage to 80's genre films and Oakland, California, with a game cast who were all tuned in to filmmakers Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck's distinct vision for the anthology film. Starring Pedro Pascal, Jay Ellis, Normani Kordei Hamilton, D…
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