This month’s micro-episode takes us inside the mysterious, sensual brilliance of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film, The Passenger. We get into: slow cinema that doesn't feel slow, style & aesthetics, the virility of 70s'-era Nicholson, existential malaise, the unique intensity of traveling relationships, and more.
This month we sit down with Vulture critic Angelica Jade Bastién, author of the newsletter Madwomen & Muses. In honor of “cinematic sensuality,” we chat about Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola’s ode to ahistorical melodrama and doomed romance.
On this month's bite-sized episode, we're zooming in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, The Celebration.
This month on the pod, we're analyzing Aaron Schimburg’s Kafkaesque body swap, A Different Man, with critic, actor, and BWDR darling Frank Falisi.
Our first mini-episode of 2025 is all about Billy Wilder’s subversive farce Some Like It Hot. We get into: the unlikely modernity of Hot’s sexual politics, Orry-Kelly’s naked dresses, Wilder’s collaboration with I. A. L. Diamond, is this the greatest comedy of all time, and more.
For our final podcast of 2024, we did your Gladiator II homework for you: rewatching Ridley Scott's original Gladiator (2000) with amateur Russell Crowe historian and podcast extraordinaire Blake Howard.
This month’s mini-episode takes us into the rich opening sequence of Nicolas Roeg’s Venetian nightmare, Don’t Look Now.
On this special mega episode, Veronica sits down with critic Fran Hoepfner and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 62nd New York Film Festival.
This month’s mini-episode takes us into one of costume designer Sophie de Rakoff’s curated picks: Irvin Kershner’s Eyes of Laura Mars, an American giallo with style to spare.
On this month's micro-episode, we're taking a loving look back at the gear-shifting, hybrid charms of Jonathan Demme's screwball noir, Something Wild—and the Ray Liotta entrance that changes everything.
Joining us on the pod is Blank Check co-host & staff writer at The Atlantic, David Sims! In summer’s last gasp, we go back to a flashpoint of summer blockbuster season: Jan de Bont’s 1996 Twister, plus its legacy in this year's Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung).


