L.A. Times reporter Christopher Goffard of “Dirty John” is back with another riveting podcast from L.A. Times Studios. In “Crimes of the Times,” Goffard goes deep behind the scenes of a new story each week, cutting through common myths and misconceptions to uncover what really happened in the most compelling cases from L.A. and beyond.
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The Best of Coast to Coast AM podcast, hosted by George Noory. A media phenomenon, Coast to Coast AM deals with UFOs, strange occurrences, life after death, and other unexplained (and often inexplicable) phenomena.
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Money Matters has been airing for over a decade, providing important money management education to the Houston community. Originally launching in 2013, the show has evolved to cover a wide range of financial topics beyond just budgeting and saving. From investing and retirement planning the show explores every aspect of personal finance. With an engaging interview format, host Christopher Hensley talks candidly with both financial experts and everyday community members about their experience ...
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Whatever your business conundrum, there’s a TED Talk for that—whether you want to learn how to land that promotion, set smart goals, undo injustice at work, or unlock the next big innovation. Every Monday, host Modupe Akinola of Columbia Business School presents the most powerful and surprising ideas that illuminate the business world. After the talk, you'll get a mini-lesson from Modupe on how to apply the ideas in your own life. Because business evolves every day, and our ideas about it sh ...
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Famous Lost Words” unearths the greatest interviews of all time. Hosted by songwriter and legendary MuchMusic Veejay Christopher Ward and longtime CHUM radio producer (and archivist) Tom Jokic, “Famous Lost Words” is a weekly podcast on the iHeartRadio Canada app. It’s a deep dive into the extensive iHeartRadio archives – featuring classic interviews that haven’t been heard since they first aired.
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Storytelling, insight and compelling perspective on American culture and politics. Glenn Beck's quick wit, candid opinions and engaging personality have made this one of the most popular radio programs in America. Watch The Glenn Beck Radio Program, Monday through Friday, 9am - 12pm ET on BlazeTV. www.BlazeTV.com/Glenn
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CINE ENTERTAINMENT TALK ist der zweiwöchentlich erscheinende Podcast des Entertainment Blog rund um das Thema Film und Fernsehen mit Schwerpunkt auf Action- und Genre-Produktionen von den 80ern bis heute. Seit 2015 haben wir eine Vielzahl an Episoden mit meist über zwei Stunden Laufzeit sowie zahlreiche weitere Specials produziert. Thematisch ist (fast) nichts vor uns sicher. Bis dato haben wir u.a. Tribute an Meisterregisseure wie Wes Craven, Richard Donner und George A. Romero oder die Vit ...
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** Ad-free episodes are available to our paid supporters over at patreon.com/geeks ** Host David Barr Kirtley, author of the book Save Me Plz and Other Stories, talks geek culture with guests such as Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin, Richard Dawkins, Simon Pegg, Bill Nye, Margaret Atwood, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and Ursula K. Le Guin. Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy has appeared on recommended podcast lists from NPR, The Guardian, Wired, The A.V. Club, BBC America, CBC Radio, WVXU, io9, Omni, The St ...
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History is full of the extraordinary. Each week, we'll transport you back in time to witness history's most incredible moments and remarkable people. New episodes Mondays, or a week early for Noiser+ subscribers. With Noiser+ you'll also get ad-free listening and exclusive content on shows across the Noiser podcast network. Click the subscription banner at the top of the feed to get started or head to noiser.com/subscriptions A Short History of Ancient Rome - the debut book from the Noiser ...
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Danny Orleans poses some quickfire questions to your favorite Kids Entertainers.
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Their superheroes are super dead. Trusty sidekicks, Utility Belt Boy and Froglet, host a weekly podcast from their secret hideout, The Watch Basement, in search of a new one. This is There Goes My Hero!
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Philosophy for our Times is a free philosophy podcast bringing you the latest talks and debates from the world’s leading thinkers. We host weekly episodes on today’s biggest ideas in news, society, culture, politics, science and arts. Subscribe today to never miss an episode.
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Amateur enthusiast Jacke Wilson journeys through the history of literature, from ancient epics to contemporary classics. Episodes are not in chronological order and you don't need to start at the beginning - feel free to jump in wherever you like! Find out more at historyofliterature.com and facebook.com/historyofliterature. Support the show by visiting patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. Contact the show at [email protected].
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For more than two decades the Hoover Institution has been producing Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, a series hosted by Hoover fellow Peter Robinson as an outlet for political leaders, scholars, journalists, and today’s big thinkers to share their views with the world.
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The Europeans is a fresh and entertaining weekly podcast about European politics and culture, recorded each week between Paris and Amsterdam with fascinating guests joining from across Europe. This multiple award-winning podcast fills you in on the major European politics stories and other European news of the week, as well as fun and quirky nuggets that have been missed by most media outlets. Hosted by Katy Lee, a journalist based in Paris, and Dominic Kraemer, an opera singer in Amsterdam, ...
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Download and watch full episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher including his New Rules and Overtime segments with his guest panelists. New episodes of Real Time with Bill Maher air Fridays at 10, only on HBO.
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Longtime pals David Spade and Dana Carvey take you behind the curtain of showbiz as they hang out and chat with friends (old and new) from all corners of the entertainment world. Be a “Fly on the Wall” every Thursday as the guys and their guests share stories, tell jokes, do impressions, and deep dive into the comedy mind. On Mondays, join Dana and David to riff on current events, pop culture, trending clips, and answer audience questions. Kick back, relax, and enjoy the comedy, absurdity, a ...
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A conversational history podcast where we take on the weirder aspects of an already weird war.
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Bullseye is a celebration of the best of arts and culture in public radio form. Host Jesse Thorn sifts the wheat from the chaff to bring you in-depth interviews with the most revered and revolutionary minds in our culture. Bullseye has been featured in Time, The New York Times, GQ and McSweeney's, which called it "the kind of show people listen to in a more perfect world."
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Adam Graham continues his journey through Old Time Radio Detective programs from their first available adventure to their final bow in Seasons 1-3 which were released between 2009 and 2012, featuring nearly 800 Old Time Radio episodes. You can listen to the current podcast feed of The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio here. In this volume, you'll hear: Alan Ladd playing Dan Holiday, a reporter-mystery writer who will go anywhere and do anything to those who send him a letter to Box 13. Jack ...
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Financial pundit Quoth the Raven (Christopher Irons) of QTR Research talks finance and social commentary without the bullshit or long bias spin of the cable news networks.
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Narrative is power. It's time that we reclaim our stories and tell the truth about police violence, systemic racism, and power violence. Antwon Rose II, Mark Daniels, Christopher Thompkins, Bruce Kelly Jr., Leon Ford, Jordan Miles, Jonnie Gammage, Derron Grimmet, Maneia "Stoney" Bey, Romir Talley, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Jade Martin, Black Rapp Medusa, and many, many more #SayTheirNames
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I'm Daniel Berrios. This is my journey to learn about the movies - the art form I adore - one review, interview, editorial at a time. Take care of yourselves. Take care of each other. Take care of the movies.
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Dan Horning and Bernie Maopolski discuss the events of ancient history all over the world, decade by decade, starting at 1000 BC and moving forward. We love history! History, History, History! That’s all we think of … History in the morning, History for lunch, History for dinner… even history right before bed! And we talk about all the key people in Ancient History – Julius Caesar, Gilgamesh, Jesus, Budha, Lao Tzu, Confucious, Solon, Pythagoras, Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates, Aristotl ...
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Austin-Weston is the premier cosmetic surgery center serving all of Northern Virginia, Maryland and the DC Metro area. Drs. George Weston, Robert Sigal, Byron Poindexter and Christopher Knotts have fostered a reputation for excellence and are recognized nationally and internationally for innovation, honesty and results. The breadth of surgical experience and the availability of 4 board-certified doctors in group practice, all specialists in cosmetic surgery, means patients receive the best c ...
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Real America with Dan Ball brings you the latest political headlines, by interviewing news makers of the day, to include politicians, lawmakers, pundits, celebrities and social media influencers.
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Tod Worner discusses the culture, faith, literature, philosophy, history, and more in stimulating conversations with renown intellectuals of our time on the Evangelization & Culture Podcast. Tod also shares a reflection of his own and a book recommendation in each episode. Tod curates more content like this in the quarterly print journal of the Word on Fire Institute, Evangelization & Culture. Learn more and become a member at WordonFire.Institute.
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People Talking Sitting Down is a podcast built to peel back the layers of the human experience. Through sharing, connecting, and listening to the experiences of others it is our goal to love, empathize, and think a little differently than usual.
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True Crime Brewery is the true crime podcast that brings you deeply inside of a crime and its investigation. Hosts Jill and her pediatrician husband Dick use their medical knowledge and life experiences to share the stories behind some of the most compelling crimes from all over the world. And, just for fun, Dick uses his secondary expertise as a craft beer lover to review the best beers from the regions where each crime occurred. Meet this true crime obsessed couple at the quiet end of the ...
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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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Understand not only the things happening in our culture but also how they became realized. Seth Gruber positioned himself as an expert on culture at a depth that you haven’t heard before. New episodes of The Seth Gruber Show out every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Emmy Award—winning producer, actor, and comedian Larry Wilmore is back on the air, hosting a podcast where he weighs in on the issues of the week and interviews guests in the worlds of politics, entertainment, culture, sports, and beyond.
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Jeremy Scott and his guests investigate everything between the paranormal and abnormal. We entertain those fringe topics, diving deep into subjects that are very often ahead of their times and censored or even banned from the mainstream.
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Revolution in Military Affairs explores military innovation and modern warfare's evolution. Revolution in Military Affairs adheres to the position that the science of war exceeds the bounds of ideology. As such, Revolution of Military Affairs promotes the marketplace of ideas, and not just the advocacy of preferential thinking. Revolution in Military Affairs emphasizes military theory, dissecting wisdom from strategic minds that guide war. We discuss its relevance to today's challenges. Join ...
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Become an EMPOWERED INVESTOR. Survive and thrive in today's economy! With over 2,000 episodes in this Monday, Wednesday, Friday podcast, business and investment expert Jason Hartman interviews top-tier guests, bestselling authors and financial experts including; Steve Forbes (Freedom Manifesto), Tomas Sowell (Housing Boom and Bust), Noam Chomsky (Manufacturing Consent), Jenny Craig (Health & Fitness CEO), Jim Cramer (Mad Money), Harvey Mackay (Swim With The Sharks & Get Your Foot in the Door ...
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The Flagship Podcast brings you inside stories from the Canadian technology ecosystem. You'll hear from founders, investors, builders and learn about their triumphs, hardships and hard earned lessons. You'll learn about strategies and tactics and about the human side and what it takes to build a thriving technology company which will hopefully help you on your journey.
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Hidden Threads uncovers the untold true crime stories behind private investigators' most chilling and high-stakes cases. Each episode exposes hidden connections, dark secrets, and shocking twists—from unsolved murders and missing persons to betrayals that span decades—while revealing the rare political threads that quietly shape the shadows of justice. Available on ALL Streaming Platforms Spotify • Apple • YouTube • Amazon
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197. ADA: MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT (2025) dir. Yael Melamede
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ADA: MY MOTHER THE ARCHITECT is a documentary directed by Yael Melamede, the daughter of the titular mother, Ada Karim-Melamede. Karim-Melamede is one of Israel's finest architects, receiving the Israel Prize for architecture in 2007, an honor she shares with both her father and brother. She co-designed Israel's Supreme Court with her brother from …
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197. Cannes 2025 Lineup Part Deux | Oscar Voters - Now? - Required to Watch All Nominees Before Voting
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This week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced some new rule changes regarding eligibility and voting for the Oscars. The main change? Oscar voters are, as of this season, REQUIRED to watch all nominees in each category they vote in. Why this wasn't a rule beforehand is beyond me, but y'know, if the best time to throw water at…
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195. Listener Request | I SAW THE TV GLOW (2024) dir. Jane Schoenbrun
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194. Best Picture Showcase - A COMPLETE UNKNOWN dir. James Mangold
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193. Cannes Film Festival Announces 2025 Lineup
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This week, the Cannes Film Festival announced its lineup for their 78th edition. Taking place in the beachside town of Cannes, France from May 13-24, the festival opens up the movie lover's summer to the widest swath of exceptional global cinema, blockbuster premieres and the first glimpses of next year's Oscars contenders. This episode sees me fum…
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192. Best Picture Showcase - WICKED dir. Jon M. Chu
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Just because ANORA wears the Oscars' Best Picture crown doesn't mean the movies nominated turn to dust. In fact, as the Best Picture nominees slowly trickle out to home video, discussing them feels more pertinent. A movie's lifespan isn't limited to the awards calendar, especially when it comes to WICKED. Jon M. Chu's fantasy musical, based on the …
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191. THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA (2025) dir. Samir Oliveros
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THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA stars Paul Walter Hauser as Michael Larson, an ice cream truck driver who travels from Ohio to California with hopes of contesting for the Big Bucks on PRESS YOUR LUCK. What follows is a lucky streak that'll put Larson in the history books...that is, if the game show execs don't discover his secret and pull the plug. Dir…
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190. Interview | THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA Director Samir Oliveros
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Samir Oliveros directs THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA, a comedy starring Paul Walter Hauser as a man who, in 1984, takes game show execs and a studio audience for the thrill of a lifetime as he aims to pocket the most money ever won on PRESS YOUR LUCK. The execs say he must be cheating. The audience cheers him on, a bumbling working-class zero given t…
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189. WOLF MAN Blu-ray Review (2025) dir. Leigh Whannell
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I missed Leigh Whannell's newest film, WOLF MAN, in theaters. Bit of a bummer since he's a director who's earned my highest personal honor of earning my view purely off of goodwill - no trailer, no social media post needed. So what was I to do? Nothing, but that's where Universal Pictures stepped in and (thankfully) sent me a review copy of the WOL…
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188. In Four Films: Tara Giancaspro
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Today on IN FOUR FILMS, we ask Tara Giancaspro: "Using only four films, who ARE you?" She's a New Jersey-based writer, poet, songsmith, pop culture muser, frequent podcaster, actress, production assistant, music video extra and doting mother to two cats, Simone & Lugosi. To call her a multi-hyphenate just feels like I'm underselling it. Tara's four…
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187. Interview | AUDREY'S CHILDREN Director Ami Canaan Mann
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Ami Canaan Mann directs AUDREY'S CHILDREN, the story of Dr. Audrey Evans (Natalie Dormer), an oncologist whose staging system revolutionized the way we treat childhood cancers. Before the '70s, the pediatric neuroblastoma survival rate was 10%. After implementing her work, the survival rate is now over 80%. I interview Canaan Mann about meeting Dr.…
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186. AUDREY'S CHILDREN (2025) dir. Ami Canaan Mann
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AUDREY'S CHILDREN stars Natalie Dormer as Dr. Audrey Evans, the oncologist whose staging system revolutionized how childhood cancers are treated. Before her work in the '70s, these cancers were handled with a sort of one-size-fits-all approach. The result of Evans' research was a categorization of cases, impacted by age, tumor location, length of t…
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185. Interview | HOOD WITCH Director Said Belktibia
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I interview HOOD WITCH writer/director Said Belktibia about his new thriller, which sees Golshifteh Farahani play the target of a literal witch hunt through urban France. She makes a living selling mystical products and alternative healing remedies and after one of her clients dies by suicide, is accused and then chased by the mob. Now, she, along …
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184. HOOD WITCH (2025) dir. Said Belktibia
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HOOD WITCH stars Golshifteh Farahani as Nour, a single mom living in urban France who makes her living selling supplies for alternative healing, witchcraft, spells, you name it. She sees herself akin to the ones who sold shovels during the Gold Rush. If people want to believe, she'll happily oblige them. However, after one of her clients dies by su…
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183. THERE'S STILL TOMORROW (2023) dir. Paola Cortellesi
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THERE'S STILL TOMORROW eclipsed BARBIE at the 2023 Italian box office. How? I can only presume Paola Cortellesi's black-and-white, darkly comedic directorial debut about an abused housewife quietly plotting her escape struck a chord with audiences whose mothers and grandmothers experienced this tumultuous post-WWII Italy. In the Rome of 1946, Ameri…
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182. VOICES CARRY (CINEQUEST 2025) dir. Abby Brenker and Ellyn Vander Wyden
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In Abby Brenker and Ellyn Vander Wyden's VOICES CARRY, which premiered last Saturday, March 15 at the 2025 Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, California, a woman (Gia Crovatin) returns to her lakefront childhood home, confronting the difficult memories of her mother's untimely death. Discovering an old diary in the shed, she's shocked to discover…
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181. ANY DAY NOW (2025) dir. Eric Aronson
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In 1990, millions of dollars worth of art was robbed from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner museum. The crime remains unsolved but provides a backdrop for ANY DAY NOW to explore a story of an insecure 20-something to learn the value of self-respect and the confidence that comes with exercising such respect. Steve (Taylor Gray) is the 20-something i…
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180. Interview | ANY DAY NOW Actor Paul Guilfoyle
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I interview Paul Guilfoyle, star of the new coming-of-age-meets-heist-film ANY DAY NOW about his relationship to Boston as one of its sons, the Dropkick Murphys, classism, the eternal struggle of discovering (or uncovering) one's authentic self & the delicate balance of being both vulnerable and tough on screen. In ANY DAY NOW, Guilfoyle plays art …
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179. THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE (2025) dir. Lior Geller
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To describe Lior Geller's THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE as a rough watch seems an understatement. This tells the story of two Jewish prisoners, played by Oliver Jackson-Cohen & Jeremy Neumark Jones, who escape a Polish Nazi death camp and end up providing the world's first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. And god, what an account. This movie's less th…
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178. Interview | THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE Director Lior Geller & Actor Jeremy Neumark Jones
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On this episode, director Lior Geller and actor Jeremy Neumark Jones join me to discuss their new film, THE WORLD WILL TREMBLE. Based on a true story, the film centers on two men, played by Jones and Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who escape a Polish Nazi death camp, delivering the world's first eyewitness account of the Holocaust. This movie's a devastatin…
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177. Best Picture Showcase - EMILIA PEREZ dir. Jacques Audiard
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EMILIA PEREZ, Jacques Audiard's audacious trilingual crime musical, is our next stop on the Best Picture Showcase! The most critically divisive of the nominees tells the story of a Mexican drug kingpin (Karla Sofia Gascon) who enlists a junior lawyer (Zoe Saldana) to help her transition into living life as a woman via securing gender-affirming surg…
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176. Best Picture Showcase - ANORA dir. Sean Baker
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The next stop for the Best Picture Showcase leads us to the nominee widely considered the frontrunner for this year's Best Picture Oscar, ANORA. This movie, produced, edited, written and directed by Sean Baker, follows the whirlwind romance of a Brooklyn sex worker named Anora (a hot-headed Mikey Madison, and by the way, it's Ani, not Anora, she do…
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S4E21. Interview | COLD WALLET Director Cutter Hodierne & Actors Josh Brener, Raul Castillo and Melonie Diaz
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Today on The Movies, I got a double-interview episode! I interviewed the director and actors from COLD WALLET, a new crypto thriller about a group of Redditors looking for revenge against the influencer responsible for scamming them out of a "life savings" level of money. They break into the influencer's home in pursuit of his cold wallet, a USB dr…
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174. COLD WALLET (2025) dir. Cutter Hodierne
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In COLD WALLET, a trio of Redditors (Raul Castillo, Tony Cavalaro, Melonie Diaz) take it upon themselves to make a crypto influencer (Josh Brener) pay for tanking the coin, freezing user assets and suddenly demanding they owe the app almost double what they paid to get to said position. Their plan? Find the influencer, steal his cold wallet drives …
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173. Best Picture Showcase - CONCLAVE dir. Edward Berger
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The Best Picture Showcase rolls on with Edward Berger's CONCLAVE, a drama about the election of a new Pope after the sudden death of the old Holy Father. Left with the responsibilities of wrangling every cardinal from 'round the world, along with their egos and ideologies, is a soon-to-be-exhausted Cardinal Thomas Lawrence (Ralph Fiennes). As the d…
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172. ARMAND (2025) dir. Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
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ARMAND follows Elisabeth (Renate Reinsve), a single mother of the titular 6-year-old. She's called into Armand's school for a parent-teacher conference alongside Sarah (Ellen Dorrit Petersen) and Anders (Endre Hellestveit) the parents of Armand's best friend, Jon. To say it's bad news is the most severe understatement. Jon has accused Armand of sex…
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171. Interview | LIFELINE Director Feras Alfuqaha
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Feras Alfuqaha loves to gab about moviemaking. His directorial debut, LIFELINE, premieres in select theatres and VOD on February 21st. It's the story of a suicide hotline volunteer (Josh Stewart) who receives a call from someone he believes to be his younger self (Judah Lewis). The caller says they're at a motel with gun in hand; they'll kill thems…
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Feras Alfuqaha's LIFELINE stars Josh Stewart as Steven Thomas. Steven's spending his New Year's Eve volunteering at a suicide hotline during the graveyard shift. He's the only guy in the office during a time of year in which folks tend to really feel their pain. The holidays can be rough on some of us. Steven handles a series of calls but one stand…
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169. Interview | WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM Director Michael Tolajian
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I interview Michael Tolajian, the director of the new basketball documentary WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM, premiering on Max February 17. We talk the personal impact the 1992 Dream Team had on Tolajian, the process of establishing relationships with his documentary subjects, which of his favorite directors could stand a chance in the NBA and a whole. lot…
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168. WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM (2025) dir. Michael Tolajian
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A name like the Dream Team understandably comes with baggage. Who could make up a roster so great, the result can only be described as a dream? In the basketball world, guys like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, John Stockton, Karl Malon-shall I go on? These men were recruited to represent the United States in the 1992 Bar…
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167. I LOVE YOU FOREVER (2025) dir. Cazzie David & Elisa Kalani
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I LOVE YOU FOREVER is an anti-romcom. I don't say this in a way that suggests a cheeky, defiant stance against Valentine's Day. I say this because it weaponizes romcom tropes against us in its telling of an abusive relationship. You can track the trajectory: lonely 20-something girl (Sofia Black D'Elia) meets accomplished 20-something guy (Ray Nich…
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166. Best Picture Showcase - THE SUBSTANCE dir. Coralie Fargeat
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Continuing the Best Picture Showcase, in which I cover this year's Oscars nominees for Best Picture, the road takes us to a tour-de-force of an original, pulse-pounding, "sickly entertaining" movie, Coralie Fargeat's THE SUBSTANCE. This is an audacious, whip-smart body horror movie that's bound to break your heart as much as it'll force you to reco…
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165. Best Picture Showcase - DUNE: PART 2 dir. Denis Villeneuve
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I continue covering this year's Oscars nominees for Best Picture with Denis Villeneuve's DUNE: PART 2, the continuation of Villeneuve's attempt to create high-minded blockbuster fantasy to a new generation. When I was a kid, I had LORD OF THE RINGS. As a 30-year-old, I have this.Think the darkness of EMPIRE STRIKES BACK with the expansive scale of …
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164. The FANTASTIC FOUR Trailer Is Okay, But That's Just Not Good Enough.
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Marvel Studios released the first teaser for THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, premiering July 25th in theaters. After decades of attempts to try and get Marvel's "First Family" right, this movie, directed by Matt Shakman, looks to plant its flag as the first entry in the franchise to satisfy both fans and critics alike.What did I think of the trail…
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163. Best Picture Showcase - THE BRUTALIST dir. Brady Corbet
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Welcome to the Best Picture Showcase, a miniseries on THE MOVIES where I review each nominee for this year's Academy Award for Best Picture. With each installment, I hope to answer the following: 1) What's the movie about? 2) What's it feel like to sit through the movie? 3) Did I like it? 4) Should it and will it win Best Picture? What's my current…
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162. Interview | ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS Director John Makens
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I interview John Makens, the director of ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS. The 81-year-old graphic designer Jim Phillips may not be instantly recognizable, his art - the "Screaming Hand," the "red dot" Santa Cruz Skateboards logo, the myriad of custom skateboarding full-board decals, the cartoonish California outdoor mosaics, the rock poster…
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161. ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS (2025) dir. John Makens
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Jim Phillips is an artist whose cartoonish mosaics of California outdoor life have informed public understanding and appreciation of skateboarding, surfing, hot rod and rock music cultures. In ART AND LIFE: THE STORY OF JIM PHILLIPS, documentarian John Makens tells his story, from the times when Phillips sketched for fiberglas companies amidst a su…
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160. Listener Request | DAWN OF THE DEAD (1978) dir. George A. Romero
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On this episode of The Movies, I fulfill another listener request! My buddy Jarrett Barnard sent me a stone-cold classic to cover: 1978's DAWN OF THE DEAD, directed by George A. Romero. Widely regarded as the best of Romero's DEAD franchise, this film about a group of survivors waiting out the zombie apocalypse inside a shopping mall is a hallmark …
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The nominations for the 97th Academy Awards dropped yesterday morning to the usual flurry of praise and disappointment. (No BABYGIRL? Academy, you will ROT.) Today, I list the Best Picture nominees along with their other nominations, discuss some other movies that jumped out at me and set the stage for the Best Picture Showcase. Before the ceremony…
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158. Interview | BIRDEATER directors Jack Clark & Jim Weir
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On this episode, I interview BIRDEATER directors Jack Clark and Jim Weir. The movie, about a bride-to-be invited to her fiance's unhinged bachelor party, has taken Australian audiences by storm since its Sydney Film Festival premiere in 2023. Featuring at Melbourne International Film Festival & SXSW, the movie's garnered audience and critical prais…
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157. BIRDEATER (2025) dir. Jack Clark & Jim Weir
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In Jack Clark and Jim Weir's BIRDEATER, a Aussie bride-to-be (Shabana Azeez) is invited to her fiance's (Mackenzie Fearnley) "bucks party" - a bachelor party to us in the States, but god, doesn't that just sound cooler? She's not alone, as one of the boys also brings his girlfriend to this cabin in the Outback, but it's more of a friend-of-a-friend…
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156. The 2024 Movies That Stuck With Me
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Sticking with a season-opening tradition, here are the 2024 movies that stuck with me! These are the films I thought about on drives to work and during showers, the ones about which I'd wax poetically to any captive audience I could muster. They made me weep and cackle. They made me whoop with joy. Art requires reflection; this is the cinema I refl…
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Welcome to Season 4 of The Movies! It's wild to think this will be my fourth year reviewing movies, interviewing critics, authors and filmmakers, waxing poetic over the majesty of one Rachel McAdams.This episode sees me addressing the state of my union, sharing goals for the new year (interview Danny Boyle for 28 YEARS LATER, because dear JESUS, th…
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154. Listener Request | FREDDY VS. JASON (2003) dir. Ronny Yu
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FREDDY VS. JASON brings together two titans of '80s horror: Freddy Kreuger (Robert Englund) and Jason Voorhees (Ken Kirzinger). In a bid to regain his strength through surging fear through the souls of Elm Street, Freddy manipulates Jason to doing some killing on his behalf. However, when Jason starts taking the credit and hacking through more of t…
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153. Fantastic Fest #5: WITTE WIEVEN (2024) dir. Didier Konings
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WITTE WIEVEN, directed by Didier Konings, brings my Fantastic Fest 2024 coverage to a belated end.Frieda (Anneke Sluiters) is a pious woman struggling to conceive a child. In her medieval Dutch village, help only comes through God and the Church, via archaic fertility rituals.One day, the local butcher Gelo (Leon van Wass) assaults Frieda, threaten…
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152. Listener Request | TRIANGLE (2009) dir. Christopher Smith
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I kick off the first of 10 listener requests by fulfilling the most important one: my wife's. She chose TRIANGLE, Christopher Smith's 2009 horror film about a mother (Melissa George) whose sailing trip with friends ends with a storm and shipwreck. Their salvation comes in the form of a luxury yacht, but once aboard, the group discovers the yacht's …
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Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- Kate Cobb's directorial debut, OKIE, stars Scott Michael Foster as Louie, a writer returning to his rural hometown after his father's death. Going back home is always complicated, but more so because he's unflatteringly based his stories on said…
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150. Interview | OKIE Director Kate Cobb, Writer Kevin Bigley & Actor Scott Michael Foster
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Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- I got to interview the creative team behind OKIE: director Kate Cobb, writer Kevin Bigley and actor Scott Michael Foster. OKIE stars Foster as Louie, a writer returning to his rural hometown after his father's death. Going back home is always co…
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149. ALIEN COUNTRY (2024) dir. Boston McConaughey
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Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- Before we get started, no, I don't believe there's any relation to Matthew. Boston McConaughey is the director of ALIEN COUNTRY, a sci-fi horror comedy he co-produced and co-wrote with Renny Grames to kick off their production company. It follow…
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148. Interview | I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE Actor Kenneth Trujillo
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Please rate & review The Movies on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you listen to the show! --- I interview Kenneth Trujillo, the lead actor of I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU ALONE, about the process of becoming a mute ex-con in DW Medoff's horror drama. Through his confident performance, he anchors the vicious downer with empathy and cautious hop…
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