Tag: Movie
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Jennifer Kent for The Babadook – 496
We’re Babashook we get to speak to writer / director Jennifer Kent for The Babadook 10th Anniversary and chat all things terrifying, how horror is deeply personal, and everyone’s favorite spooky gentleman, Mr. ‘dook. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Jennifer Kent Jennifer worked extensively as an actor in Australia before establishing her career as…
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Bernardo Britto for Omni Loop – 488
Writer / Director (and fellow Fighting Violet) Bernardo Britto joins to talk about his new film Omni Loop and to take a walk down the memory lane of the 8th floor of film school. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Omni Loop A quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) finds herself stuck in a time loop, with…
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Shelly Yo, Guo Guo for Smoking Tigers – 486
Smoking Tigers Writer / Director So Young Shelly Yo and Producer Guo Guo are here to chat making the film on a super constrained budget, childhood traumas (including the SATs), and navigating collaboration. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Smoking Tigers Staggered by the separation of her parents, a Korean-American girl struggles to find herself.…
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TIFF 2024
As we return from TIFF 2024 we present some of the standout films we saw at the festival. This was our inaugural year attending the Toronto International Film Festival (with special thanks to the TIFF and Rotten Tomatoes Media Inclusion Initiative for helping us participate) so we weren’t able to screen everything there (including some…
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Rob Yescombe for Jackpot! – 477
Screenwriter Rob Yescombe drops by to chat going from games to feature films, iconic interview horror stories, and his new film Jackpot!. We also lament the casting for some of his unreleased Star Wars games from LucasArts, swap interview horror stories, and figure out the best possible use for a lottery payout. Listen on Apple…
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Alien: Romulus, Jackpot!, Skincare – 476
We’re bursting at the seams after having seen Alien: Romulus and feel lucky about Jackpot!. Plus is Skincare able to be more than skin deep? Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Alien: Romulus “Alien: Romulus” takes the phenomenally successful “Alien” franchise back to its roots: While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young…
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Borderlands, The Instigators, The Influencer – 473
Borderlands is an entertainment desert. The Instigators is criminally intolerable. Thankfully The Influencer is a captivating social experiment. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Borderlands Lilith (Blanchett), an infamous bounty hunter with a mysterious past, reluctantly returns to her home, Pandora, the most chaotic planet in the galaxy. Her mission is to find the missing…
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Joan Chen for DìDi (弟弟) – 469
Legendary actress Joan Chen is here to talk about her new film DìDi (弟弟), relating to raising her own daughters, and contextualizing success. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about DìDi (弟弟) In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach…
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Trap, DìDi – 468
M. Night Shyamalan tries to foil us into seeing Trap. DìDi is a perfectly put together coming of age film. Listen on Apple Podcasts More about Trap A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they’re at the center of a dark and sinister event. Written and directed by M. Night…
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Kevin Durand, Owen Teague for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
We’re monkeying around with Kevin Durand and Owen Teague at San Diego Comic-Con for Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. More about Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes Director Wes Ball breathes new life into the global, epic franchise set several generations in the future following Caesar’s reign, in which apes are the…