This month, Chad and Elizabeth sit down with author Karina Wolf to discuss midlife crisis and Thomas Vinterberg's 2020 film, Another Round.
This month writer, producer, director, and showrunner Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire, The Terror: Devil in Silver) joins us for a deep dive into the 1990 Sean Connery classic, The Hunt for Red October.
To kick off our upcoming Summer Blockbusters issue, we invited longtime BW/DR contributor Frank Falisi to help us work our way through Disclosure Day, the latest summer blockbuster from the director who all but created the genre more than 40 years ago.
We're back, and just in time for summer blockbuster season! Join Chad Perman and new co-host Elizabeth Cantwell as they talk their way through one of the biggest/best summer blockbusters of all time, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, on the occasion of its 35th anniversary next month.
Not only is this Veronica & Eli’s final episode, it’s also our fourth annual Cruisemas show—join us as we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson's blank check big swing Magnolia and reflect a bit on the end of an era 🥹
In this month's episode, Veronica sits down with Fran Hoepfner, Frank Falisi, and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 63rd New York Film Festival, including looks at Miroirs No. 3, The Mastermind, Late Fame, No Other Choice, With Hasan in Gaza, The Secret Agent, Peter Hujar’s Day, If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, A House of Dynamite, Cover-Up, Duse, and How to Bake a Cherry Pie.
This month on the pod, special guest Adam Nayman—Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of David Fincher: Mind Games—joins us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Seven.
Hello, champagne. This month we welcome back Michael Koresky—MoMI’s senior curator of film, Reverse Shot’s co-founder and editor, and the author of Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness—to discuss Alfred Hitchcock's Rope.
For a taste of summertime sadness, we're looking at Mike Mills’ semi-autobiographical bleak comedy Beginners (2010). We get into: the film’s tonality of “melancholic smile,” non-human actors, is this Mills’s All Fours?, Christopher Plummer’s silent expressivity (and “ascot game”), aging out of the gay bar, and nightclub as metaphor for life.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: film critic Bilge Ebiri—the man, the myth, the legend—joins us to bookend our discussion of all things Mission: Impossible from a couple of summers ago, on the occasion of the final film (?) of a nearly 30 year franchise.
On this month's bite-sized episode, we're zooming in on a snappy/passionate moment from Ernst Lubitsch's effervescent screwball comedy, Trouble in Paradise.
Pop quiz, hotshot: BWDR veteran and De Palma completist Travis Woods joins us for a special conversation on one of our all-time favorites, Jan de Bont’s Speed (1994). We get into: repetition compulsion and classical Hollywood storytelling, Keanu’s peak hotness, Speed’s existential lessons, does Jeff Daniels close his eyes?, Mark Mancina’s love theme, what it means to “become bomb,” and more.