Best Filmspotting Network Podcasts (2025)

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#474: Less Than Hero, Pt. 1 — Mystery Men 1:03:36

19h ago1:03:36

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The new THUNDERBOLTS* assembles some leftovers from the Marvel Cinematic Universe who are tough to describe as superheroes but nonetheless step up to save the day when their city needs them, which reminded us of MYSTERY MEN and its negligibly powered not-so-superteam. A flop in 1999, the comedy is as chaotic and sloppy as its titular (with an aster…

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#473: The Dead of Night, Pt. 2 — Sinners 1:16:52

9d ago1:16:52

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Intro: 00:00:00-00:02:03 Sinners Discussion: 00:02:04-00:28:46 Connections: 00:28:47-1:02:37 Your Next Picture Show, next pairing, and goodbyes: 1:02-38-end Director Ryan Coogler has been generous in sharing his many points of inspiration for SINNERS, including the other film in this pairing, but his exceptional new feature is refreshingly singular…

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#472: The Dead of Night, Pt. 1 — From Dusk Till Dawn 1:08:19

16d ago1:08:19

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Comparing 1996's FROM DUSK TILL DAWN to the new SINNERS can feel a bit like, as Scott puts it, comparing “Chopsticks” to Beethoven’s Fifth. But Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s sleazy vampire flick was clearly on Ryan Coogler’s mind when crafting his own film about a pair of brothers who spend one fateful night defending a nightclub from an…

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#471: Body By Cronenberg, Pt. 2 — The Shrouds 1:13:16

23d ago1:13:16

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Over the decades, David Cronenberg has carved a distinctive and provocative filmography out of his interest in human decay and death, up to and including his new THE SHROUDS, a late-career entry in the writer-director’s body-horror canon. It’s a film that left some of us confounded in a way that our returning guest, critic Charles Bramesco, might a…

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#470: Body By Cronenberg, Pt. 1 — The Fly (1986) 1:00:41

30d ago1:00:41

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The way David Cronenberg’s new THE SHROUDS splices together unsettling ideas about technology and bodily transformation made us think of… well, a lot of his filmography, but the film’s visceral interest in how the human body decays feels directly connected to the director’s unlikeliest hit, his remake of THE FLY. We’re joined this week by critic an…

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#469: Mr. and Mrs. Mystery, Pt. 2 — Black Bag 1:12:51

1M ago1:12:51

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BLACK BAG, Steven Soderbergh’s latest 90-minute collaboration with writer David Koepp, is in theory a sprawling international spy thriller, but in practice it’s a more intimate study of how a marriage can thrive in an environment where trusting your spouse is considered a weakness. This week we talk about how that genre disconnect works for and aga…

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#468: Mr. and Mrs. Mystery, Pt. 1 — The Thin Man 1:09:13

1M ago1:09:13

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Steven Soderbergh’s new BLACK BAG is a spy thriller, sure, but it’s also the story of a marriage, and watching its sophisticated central couple banter their way through a sprawling mystery, it’s hard not to be reminded of one of cinema’s most enduring and endearing crime-solving couples, Nick and Nora Charles. So this week we’re going back to their…

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#467: Kill 'Em All, Pt. 2 — Mickey 17 1:21:21

2M ago1:21:21

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Bong Joon Ho’s new MICKEY 17 takes a lot of big swings, from star Robert Pattinson’s vocal affectation to a comedic fixation on “sauce,” all of it in service of big, bold, arguably blunt satire. It all makes for a somewhat messy but highly discussable film, both on its own and in conversation with Paul Verhoeven’s STARSHIP TROOPERS, another big swi…

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#466: Kill 'Em All, Pt. 1 — Starship Troopers 1:02:54

2M ago1:02:54

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This week’s pairing is brought to you by: space bugs! Specifically, space bugs as a metaphor for a fascistic society’s disregard for any perceived-to-be-lower life form, human or otherwise. Inspired by the clear satire of Bong Joon Ho’s new MICKEY 17, we’re revisiting Paul Verhoeven’s STARSHIP TROOPERS, whose satirical intent was less clear to some…

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#465: Late Innings, Pt. 2 — Eephus 1:14:26

2M ago1:14:26

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Carson Lund’s feature debut EEPHUS moves at the same deliberate pace as the trick pitch for which it’s named, leisurely unfolding over the course of a season-ending game between two small-town recreation leagues that’s also probably the last time many on the field will ever play. This week we’re joined again by film critic and baseball lover Tim Gr…

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#464: Late Innings, Pt. 1 — Bull Durham 1:04:32

2M ago1:04:32

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Quietly observing as a small-town recreation league plays out their last game of the season, and likely ever, the new EEPHUS is a feature-length subversion of “the big game,” simultaneously embracing and rejecting such baseball-movie cliches in a manner that reminded us of 1988’s BULL DURHAM. We’re joined this week by pinch-hitter Tim Grierson to d…

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#463: War Bonds, Pt. 2 — No Other Land 1:01:50

3M ago1:01:50

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The story of two journalists reporting on a common cause despite their vastly different backgrounds is what gives NO OTHER LAND its narrative shape — and is what inspired us to pair it with 1984’s THE KILLING FIELDS — but the Oscar-nominated documentary is at heart a story about activism, and the weight of maintaining hope amid a generations-spanni…

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#462: War Bonds, Pt. 1 — The Killing Fields 54:37

3M ago54:37

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Intro & Oscars Chitchat: 00:00:00-00:08:52 Keynote: 00:08:53-00:13:50 The Killing Fields Discussion: 00:13:51-44:37 Feedback & Outro: 00:44:38-end Summary: The Oscar-nominated documentary NO OTHER LAND, a collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers whose common cause and eventual friendship does not change the stark contrast in their p…

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#474: Less Than Hero, Pt. 1 — Mystery Men 1:03:36

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#472: The Dead of Night, Pt. 1 — From Dusk Till Dawn 1:08:19

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#470: Body By Cronenberg, Pt. 1 — The Fly (1986) 1:00:41

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#469: Mr. and Mrs. Mystery, Pt. 2 — Black Bag 1:12:51

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#468: Mr. and Mrs. Mystery, Pt. 1 — The Thin Man 1:09:13

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#467: Kill 'Em All, Pt. 2 — Mickey 17 1:21:21

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#466: Kill 'Em All, Pt. 1 — Starship Troopers 1:02:54

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#465: Late Innings, Pt. 2 — Eephus 1:14:26

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#463: War Bonds, Pt. 2 — No Other Land 1:01:50

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#462: War Bonds, Pt. 1 — The Killing Fields 54:37