Podcast appearances and mentions of chloe zhao

Still glowing from her first appearance at the London Film Festival (!), Ayisha is joined by Chris Connor to break down the festival's attraction, its unique openness to the general public and their spoiler-free thoughts on some of the high-profile films at this year's festival.You can support us here & subscribe to our Newsletter here.Host: AyishaGuest: Chris ConnorProduction by: Bankole Imoukhuede

We've been sitting on this idea for a while, but with Chloe Zhao's Oscar hopeful Hamnet opening this month, it seemed like as good a time as any to finally move forward with one of the biggest topics a film podcast can tackle: big-screen adaptations of the work of Elizabethen/Jacobean playwright William Shakespeare, the most-adapted writer in film history on top of being the most famous name in the history of both English drama and English literature. Such a grand subject deserves a bigger crowd, so this week, Tim is joined by no fewer than three Alternate Ending regulars: Gavin McDowell, Brian Fowler, and Caleb Wimble. Together they discuss what makes a good Shakespeare movie, what we should do with adaptations that discard the original text, and why there are such a disproportionately high number of good Macbeths. Before the main event, our regular movie roundtable covers a wide range of movies, as wide as the number of genres good old Billy S. touched on his career: Brian has caught up with Black Phone 2, Gavin celebrates Armistice Day with nice, pleasant WWI/Armenian genocide movie, 2016's The Promise, Caleb has checked out the brand-new Predator: Badlands, and thanks to Patreon supporter Robin Zimmerman, Tim is here to discuss 2015 cult film Turbo Kid.

We've been sitting on this idea for a while, but with Chloe Zhao's Oscar hopeful Hamnet opening this month, it seemed like as good a time as any to finally move forward with one of the biggest topics a film podcast can tackle: big-screen adaptations of the work of Elizabethen/Jacobean playwright William Shakespeare, the most-adapted writer in film history on top of being the most famous name in the history of both English drama and English literature. Such a grand subject deserves a bigger crowd, so this week, Tim is joined by no fewer than three Alternate Ending regulars: Gavin McDowell, Brian Fowler, and Caleb Wimble. Together they discuss what makes a good Shakespeare movie, what we should do with adaptations that discard the original text, and why there are such a disproportionately high number of good Macbeths. Before the main event, our regular movie roundtable covers a wide range of movies, as wide as the number of genres good old Billy S. touched on his career: Brian has caught up with Black Phone 2, Gavin celebrates Armistice Day with nice, pleasant WWI/Armenian genocide movie, 2016's The Promise, Caleb has checked out the brand-new Predator: Badlands, and thanks to Patreon supporter Robin Zimmerman, Tim is here to discuss 2015 cult film Turbo Kid.

In this episode of the It's the Pictures podcast, Max Covill is joined by guest Amelia Emberwing to delve into the collaborations between director Yorgos Lanthimos and actress Emma Stone. Before that they discuss The Mummy 4 news, Chloe Zhao and Manga adaptations, and a new Miss Piggy movie.  They explore the films, including 'The Favourite' and 'Poor Things', discussing themes, performances, and the unique storytelling styles of Lanthimos. The conversation also touches on the recent films 'Kinds of Kindness' and 'Bugonia', analyzing their narratives and the implications of their endings.  Chapters 00:00 Introduction to the Podcast and Guest 01:07 Exploring Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone's Collaborations 02:38 News in the Entertainment Industry 17:35 Deep Dive into 'The Favourite' 27:12 Analysis of 'Poor Things' and Its Themes 35:03 Visual Storytelling Techniques 38:58 Critique of 'Kinds of Kindness' 40:45 Discussion on 'Bugonia' 43:10 Character Analysis and Themes 46:25 Spoiler Discussion on 'Bugonia' 53:54 Final Thoughts on Yorgos Lanthimos' Work 59:48 What We've Been Watching, including Hazbin Hotel and Nobody Wants This Website: https://itsthepictures.libsyn.com/ itsthepictures.com Download the episode today, and find us on Bluesky, Instagram, and Letterboxd.  Like the show? Review us on iTunes! We are also available on Stitcher, Spotify, and Letterboxd.  Stock Media provided by SoundAttack / Pond5

Well, here we are. Chloe Zhao's Hamnet - one of the most critically acclaimed movies of the year - premiered at the BFI London Film Festival two weeks ago. Since it's premiere at Telluride back in late August, this movie has been billed as a locked-in OSCAR contender and potentially one of the biggest threats to WIN Best Picture. Reviews like that always get on my nerves because it's classic film festival overhype. You watch a movie surrounded by all the cast & crew and thousands of like-minded movie fans and, inevitably, the hype is going to be through the roof. All that being said, I watched this movie at a film festival as well... so I'll be telling you all today whether the hype was real. I've been a little nervous going into Hamnet because, while the trailers have excited me and the reviews were certainly promising, I am neither a Chloe Zhao guy or a Shakespeare guy. Zhao's movies have always felt cold to me and I truly believe that Nomadland is probably one of the worst Best Picture winners.... of all-time! But, I'm happy to report that Hamnet is the first time that I've truly been able to connect with one of her movies. Find out why in this review!Hmanet:Directed by: Chloé ZhaoScreenplay by: Chloé Zhao, Maggie O'FarrellBased on the novel "Hamnet" by Maggie O'FarrellProduced by: Liza Marshall, p.g.a., Pippa Harris, p.g.a, Nicolas Gonda, p.g.a., Steven Spielberg, p.g.a., Sam Mendes, p.g.a.Executive Producers: Laurie Borg, Kristie Macosko Krieger, Chloé ZhaoMusic by: Max RichterDirector of Photography: Lukasz ZalEdited by: Alfonso Gonçalves, Chloé ZhaoCasting by: Nina GoldProduction Design by: Fiona CrombieCostume Design by: Malgosia TurzanskaCast: Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, Joe Alwyn, Jacobi Jupe, David Wilmot, Bodhi Rae Breathnach, Olivia Lynes, Freya Hannan-Mills, Noah JupeSynopsis: The powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

It's that time of year! With so many new films, television, music, theater and art coming out this season Chioma sat down with Taylor Antrim, Deputy Editor at Vogue, and Chloe Schama, Senior Editor at Vogue, to get the ultimate breakdown of everything they can't wait to watch, read and see this fall. There's a stacked film lineup for the rest of 2025. We're looking forward to Marty Supreme starring Timothee Chalomet and Gwenyth Paltrow and The Testament of Ann Lee starring Amanda Seyfried, along with Chloe Zhao's Hamnet starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley.Our editors are also looking forward to new seasons of some of their favorite shows, like Season 3 of Belfast-based cop drama Blue Lights, Season 2 of Nobody Wants This, and Season 3 of The Diplomat. For books, Chloe highly recommends Heart the Lover by Lily King.There's also so much more we discuss, tune into the episode to hear more of what we're looking forward to this fall!The Run-Through with Vogue is your go-to podcast where fashion meets culture. Hosted by Chloe Malle, Head of Editorial Content, Vogue U.S.; Chioma Nnadi, Head of British Vogue; and Nicole Phelps, Director of Vogue Runway, each episode features the latest fashion news and exclusive designer and celebrity interviews. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

By Walt HickeyWelcome to the Numlock Sunday edition.This week, I spoke to Alyssa Rosenberg, Sunny Bunch and Peter Suderman, the three panelists of the outstanding film podcast Across the Movie Aisle. I really enjoy the show and have been a longtime fan of their individual work.I think that they're a group with genuinely diverse opinions but who have a lot of love for cinema and as a result have some of the most deeply interesting conversations about the art form of any show I listen to. The show just split off from The Bulwark's network and is striking it out independently. Do check them out!This interview has been condensed and edited. Hey, Across the Movie Aisle. Thank you so much for coming on Numlock. I really appreciate it.Absolutely.Thank you for having us.Yes, this is the first three-on-one conversation that I've ever done here, so we're gonna have to juggle a bit. Either way, I am just such a fan of the show. I really, really enjoyed it, subscribed to the Bulwark for it when I heard that you guys were going independent. I was really excited to see what was motivating that, what opportunities you were seeing out there. It's just such a really fun program, and I think it's so unique in the space.Before we get into talking about the movies, do you wanna talk a little bit about where this show came from, where it started, then what you would say your perspective on the film industry is?Sonny: Sure.Alyssa: Who wants to tell the story?Sonny: The origin of the show was back in 2019. I started working for an independent film studio that's based in Dallas, where I live now. I moved here for the job. The pitch was, “it's like Fangoria,” but for action movies and thrillers and heist movies, that sort of thing. And one of the things I wanted to do when we came over was a little podcast network. We were gonna have some shows, some storytelling things, et cetera. And one of the things I had wanted to do for a while (and hadn't really had an outlet for) was a show I had envisioned as like Crossfire or McLaughlin Group or something like that, but by way of movies.So Across the Movie Aisle — I've always shorthanded it as Siskel and Ebert meets Left Right Center. And the idea here is that I am a conservative. I don't know how other people would describe me, but I still think of myself as a center-right person. Alyssa is the center-left person.Peter: Would you even say that you are a neoconservative?Sonny: Well, I'm a neoconservative with libertarian tendencies, which is a funny thing.Peter: “You work at the Weekly Standard,” is a good way to think about your politics? And they basically haven't changed since you worked at The Weekly Standard. Is that fair? That's the long and the short of it.Sonny: Then Peter is whatever Peter is. I'll let him define himself. But the idea here was you have three people with differing political views talking about movies and other stories about movies. The show has two segments. The first is called Controversies and Nontroversies. The second is a review. And the Controversies and Nontroversies segment was initially thought of as we tackle some dumb internet outrage of the day and decide if it's really worth being mad about.And that evolved into something slightly different, right? Right, guys? I feel like it's now more about the business of Hollywood.Alyssa: Yes, exactly. But I think it's worth noting that our story actually starts way before 2019. The three of us were all critics in some respect or other. I was over at ThinkProgress running their culture and sports verticals. Sonny, were you at the Weekly Standard when we started or were you at the Free Beacon then?Sonny: I think I was at the Washington Free Beacon when we met. So it must've been 2012 or 13.Alyssa: The three of us were going to screenings every week and somehow just gravitated towards each other. We would sit together. We were the people who were hanging out and hashing things out together after the screening ended. When I moved to the Washington Post, I ended up bringing Sonny over as a contributor to the blog that I was working on there. They were invited to my wedding. We were authentically contentiously friends years before we started the podcast.I think that's been a little bit of the special sauce for us, right? We are capable of having conversations that are somewhat harder to have elsewhere because (even before we started working together) there were five, six years of trust built up in in-person conversations and discussions over beers at the really terrible bar near the former AMC in Friendship Heights. Nobody is here on this podcast to blow each other up. But it's also not like “We're friends for the camera!”I think the show has always been like both a reflection of our dynamic. It's also the way that we hang out every week, even though Sonny lives in Dallas, and Peter lives in Boston some of the time. So for me, it's like my night out.I mean, as a listener, I really find the appeal to be exactly that. I think that having different perspectives on something as universal as film makes the show super compelling to listen to, even if I don't always necessarily agree with the perspective on it. What makes movies just so good to view from multiple different angles? There are lowercase “c” conservative films, there are lowercase “l” liberal films, that stuff. How do you guys find approaching the current state of the film industry from these different points of view?Peter: Alyssa talked about how our story goes back even before 2019, when the podcast started. And just for people who may not be familiar with the dynamic of Washington that all of us came up in in our 20s, Alyssa was working for ThinkProgress, which was the journalism arm of the Center for American Progress, which is this leading democratic or democratic affiliated think tank. Sonny was working for the Weekly Standard and then for the Washington Free Beacon, these feisty, conservative journalistic outlets.I actually started writing movie reviews for National Review for a couple of years. When I moved over full-time to Reason Magazine, which is where I've been for more than 15 years now, and also to the Washington Times, which is someplace that both Sonny and I wrote for. It's a conservative-leaning paper that has undergone many transformations. If you live in Washington, your social circle and your conversations and your life are so frequently segmented by politics.What we liked about being friends with each other and seeing movies with each other was that we saw that it didn't have to be the case. Movies and art and pop culture, even disagreements about them, were ways that we could come together and maybe not even agree, but like learn about each other. We're really good friends, but we also like each other's minds. This is something that is really important and drew us all together. I have learned a lot about movies from Sonny. I have learned about culture from Alyssa. I don't know if they've learned anything from me. Maybe they've been annoyed about how I'm fine with A.I.Having those perspectives, it's not just that it's like, “Oh, that's nice that you're a little different.” This is a learning opportunity for all of us. It also makes the act of watching movies together much richer. When you're watching the movie, if you're watching it next to Alyssa, I know what she's thinking. Maybe not what I'm thinking, but it's like having another set of eyes. If you're a critic, if you're somebody who likes movies, if you are somebody who likes movies for the social aspect of them, seeing them with somebody else and talking about them afterwards just makes it so much more enjoyable. The fact that we then get to have that conversation in public for an audience that seems to enjoy this is really rewarding.Alyssa: I have a very hard time with certain kinds of violence in movies. But I can sit in a theater with Peter, and he can tell me when I need to cover my eyes, but also when I'm gonna be okay when it's over. And he's always right, right? And that's the thing that we get.Peter: But also when we see the Taylor Swift movie, I show up, and Alyssa has friendship bracelets for us. Everybody's bringing something to the party here.Alyssa: Peter, you joked about whether or not we've gotten anything from you. And I actually think that in some ways, I'm the one of us whose politics and aesthetics have changed most as a result of doing the show with both of you. I came up in an era of lefty cultural criticism when there were real incentives for tearing things apart. And I think I, in some ways early in my career, helped advance a fairly doctrinaire vision of what political conversations about art should be. And I have some regrets about some of the things that I wrote and some non-regrets too. I did a lot of work at that point in my career that I liked a lot.But one of the things I've come to believe in my conversation with these guys is that art is at its most politically powerful not when it affirms an agenda or a worldview that is defined by a political movement, but it is at its most powerful and interesting when it creates space for conversations that are not possible in conventional political formats and political venues. I think the unpredictability of movies and the inability to shove movies neatly into a partisan schema is where their power comes from.It is not in being subordinate to an agenda, but in opening the space for new possibilities. And I think that having a space to come to that conclusion made me a better critic and a better person. Maybe less employable as someone who writes about this stuff full-time in a predictable way. But I really enjoy seeing the world through the lenses that Peter and Sonny helped me apply to all of this.Peter: And just to underline that really quickly, a little bit more. One of the things that brings all of us together is that we are all three people who moved to Washington to work in political journalism, to work in discourse about politics. We have very strongly held beliefs. At the same time, I think all three of us come to movies, to art and to culture thinking, “You know what, you can make good art. You can make a great movie that maybe I find doesn't in any way align with my beliefs, right?” It has nothing to do with my political world or is even critical of my political worldview, but it's still a great movie.And this is a thing that you see very rarely in Washington and political discussions of art and film, but also in criticism. You have so much criticism that is out there, especially in the movie criticism world, that is just straightforwardly, politically determined. I don't think that that is the best way to approach art and to live a life that is about art because. Of course, it engages with politics. And of course you have to talk about that. And of course, you have to deal with that, but it's not just politics. If what you want from a movie is for it to be an op-ed, then what you want isn't a movie, it's an op-ed.I think that's really interesting. And actually, let's dive into that real quick. We'll go around the horn, perhaps. Peter, you brought it up. What is an example of a film or a piece of media that maybe either subverts or goes upstream compared to your personal politics that you nevertheless enjoyed? Or you, nevertheless, in spite of where you were coming from on that, really tended to like?Peter: So we all had mixed reactions to Paul Anderson's, P.T. Anderson's One Battle After Another, which is quite a political film, just came out. All of us thought that on a micro level, scene by scene, as a piece of filmmaking, it's genius. But on a macro level, its big ideas are kind of a mess. I go back to another Paul Anderson film from the aughts, There Will Be Blood, which is fairly critical of capitalism and of the capitalist tendencies that are deeply rooted in America. And it's not just a polemic, just an op-ed. It's not something that you can sum up in a tweet. It is quite a complex film in so many ways. And I'm a capitalist. I am a libertarian. I am a markets guy. And it is, I love that movie.Sonny and I frequently have arguments over whether There Will Be Blood is the first or second best movie of the last 25 years or so. Sonny thinks it's maybe the best. I think it's the second best. This is a movie that I think offers a deep critique of my ideology and my political worldview. But it is so profound on an artistic character narrative, just deep engagement level. I could talk about it for a long time. It's a movie I really love that doesn't support what I believe about politics in the world.Yeah, Sonny, how about you?Sonny: Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor is commie agitprop, but it's also very good. It's one of those movies where the lesson of the movie is literally “The elite overclass needs to be taught how to pee correctly in a bucket, so as not to annoy the normals.” But it's a beautiful movie, including the bucket. You don't have to agree with a film's politics to recognize that it is a great movie. It certainly doesn't hurt. I flipped through my rankings, and a lot of it does line up.But another one is JFK. Oliver Stone's JFK is a movie that is nonsense as history. If you look at it as a history text, you are reading the film wrong. What it excels at and the way that it is great is that it's the absolute perfect distillation of sitting next to an insane conspiracy theorist and hearing them ramble. The way that Oliver Stone edits together all of these disparate ideas — the way he edits is like hearing a conspiracy theorist talk.The way a conspiracy theorist talks is that they overwhelm you with information. They will just throw out random things and be like, “And this is connected to this, and this is connected to this.” And you are not able to actually judge these things because you have no idea really what they're talking about. You're not steeped in this stuff like they are, but it all sounds right. And all of a sudden, yeah, I believe that the military industrial complex murdered JFK at the behest of a fascist homosexual conspiracy, which is just another amusing little element to JFK by Oliver Stone.Those would be two examples, I would say.I love that. Alyssa, how about you?Alyssa: I would say Dirty Harry. I did a huge project about 10 years ago on depictions of the police in pop culture. And the ways in which law enforcement, as an industry, has actually really shaped their depictions on film. And look, I don't think the police always get everything right. And I think that shooting people is not a viable solution to a crime, especially without a trial. But God damn, does Clint Eastwood make like a sweater and a blazer and a real big gun look awesome, right?Sonny: Those are things that look awesome. Of course, they look awesome on Clint Eastwood.Alyssa: Of course, they look awesome, but they look especially awesome on Clint Eastwood. And they look even more awesome when he's shooting a crazed hippie who has commandeered a busSonny: Full of children.Alyssa: Yes, a bus full of children. The evil hippie deserves to get shot, and Clint Eastwood is the man to set things right. The thing about aesthetics is that they can get you to set aside your politics momentarily in a theoretical way. But I also think that good movies can get you access to spaces and mindsets that you might not have access to otherwise.When you asked that question, the movie that I immediately thought of, not necessarily of challenging my politics, but like bringing me a place I can't go, is Alex Garland's Warfare from earlier this year. It is one of the best movies I've seen this year. And also a movie about (both as a social and cultural environment) an all-male combat unit in the US military and a situation (the war in Iraq) that I have no access to. I cannot go there. My being in the space would fundamentally transform the space. And that opening sequence with this platoon watching this music video in a weird, sexualized group bonding ritual, I just found fascinating and oddly touching in a way that I think is interesting to watch, especially if you're steeped in left-leaning critiques of traditional masculinity in all-male spaces.And I found that movie, despite how harrowing it was, kind of beautiful and tender to watch in a way. And I just felt very grateful for it.Awesome. Yeah, again, I really appreciate how much thought goes into viewing not only movies as cultural entities, but also their space in politics, but also how the culture can overwhelm that. I really think that you guys have such fun takes on this. I wanna back out a little bit and talk a little bit about this year and this moment. I think one thing I really enjoy about your show is that it's obvious how much you guys really enjoy going to the movies, enjoy consuming this stuff. I know that there's a lot of fairly understandable doom and gloom sometimes around the movie industry, around the exhibition industry. A lot of that, I think, comes from some of the more industry side of things and infects the viewing public's view.I'll just throw it to you. What is a trend or something going on these days within movies or Hollywood that you actually think is a good thing, that you're actually enjoying? Or a transitional moment that you think could be fun? I guess, Sunny, I'll start off with you. I don't know.Sonny: That's a hard question to answer because everything is bad right now.Alyssa: To be clear, this is Sonny's default position about all eras and all things. All things.Peter: He's a cheerful man.Sonny: All things, really. No, everything is bad. But if I were looking at a few green shoots, I like the rise of the draft house style theater, a combination of dining, bar, movie space. I know some people have issues with the waiters scurrying back and forth. And it's not my real cup of tea either, but that's all right. You mentioned this question right before we started taping. I was trying to sketch something out, so I didn't have nothing.But I do think the rise of the boutique Blu-ray and 4K UHD retailers has been a good thing. I don't know that it's enough to save physical media in the film context, but the rise of your Vinegar Syndromes. Criterion, of course, is the longest player in this space, and they've been doing it since the days of Laserdisc. They're very good at what they do, and they have a great catalog.But even smaller places, like your Vinegar Syndromes or your Shout Factory and your Scream Factory. The studios themselves are getting into it. Lionsgate has their Lionsgate limited thing that they do, which is just sucking money out of my pockets. A24 has also been good in this space. I like the idea that there is a small but committed cadre of collectors out there. And it's not just ownership for the sake of ownership. It's not the high fidelity, “the things you own matter. So you should show them off so everybody can see them and see how cool you are” kind of thing. There are actual quality differences to having a disc as opposed to a streaming service, which always come in at lower bit rates, and they look and sound worse.But this is so niche. Very few people who collect this stuff (Blu-rays, 4Ks, et cetera) really understand how niche they are.If you look at the monthly pie chart of sales of discs every month, it's still 50 percent DVD, 20 percent to 25 percent Blu-ray, and then 25 percent to 30 percent 4K, depending on what's out at any given time. But 50 percent of discs are still being bought by people browsing Walmart shelves, like “Ooh, I'll watch this new movie for $5. Sure, why not?”Yeah, having something for the sickos is always something viable, right? Peter, I'll throw it to you.Peter: So, on this podcast, I have probably been the biggest MCU, Marvel Movie Universe booster. What I think is a good thing that is happening right now is that the MCU is in a decline, or at least a reset period. It's not overwhelming Hollywood in the way that it was throughout the 2010s. It's hurting theaters and exhibition because those movies are not performing the way they used to, and that's a downside for real.But what it is doing is creating a space for young filmmakers and for young acting talent to rise up without having to immediately be sucked into the MCU or something comparable, like the DC movies that were trying to start up and never really got going. Now they've rebooted the DC universe with the James Gunn Superman film. But, it really felt like in the 2010s, anyone who was in their 20s or 30s and was a really promising actor or a really promising director was gonna make one or two movies. And then they were gonna get sucked into the Marvel or maybe the Star Wars machine, one of these big franchise things.It wasn't like even 25 years ago when Sam Raimi was making Spider-Man films, and they were very distinctly Sam Raimi films. I mean, you watch the Dr. Octopus POV sequence in Spider-Man 2, and it's the same thing he was doing in Evil Dead, except he had $150 million to make that movie, right?These weren't even altruistic superhero films. They were just being brought in to lend their names a small amount of flavor to whatever it was they were doing. And now, in an era in which the MCU is not gone, but is diminished, a lot of acting talent and a lot of directing talent are going to be free to spend that formative period of third, fourth, fifth, sixth movies to make the things that they wanna make and to experiment.Like I said, this does have downsides. This is not great for theatrical exhibitors who are suffering right now because there are fewer movies and because the big movies are not as big. But in that space, you get the opportunity to try new things. And I love seeing new things, and I love watching new talent develop.That is cool. I like that. Alyssa?Alyssa: I'm glad you said that, Peter, because what I was gonna say is I am delighted to see some of the directors who did time in the MCU or other franchises coming back and making original movies. Obviously, Sinners is one of the big success stories of the year. It's also a success story because Ryan Coogler is not only making franchise movies.I saw Seeing Fruitvale, which turned Fruitvale Station, at the Sundance Film Festival. It was like a seminal moment for me early in my career as a critic. I was like, “Holy God, this guy is great.” Even though I like what he did with the Rocky movies and I like the first Black Panther, I just felt this sense of profound regret for him getting diverted from telling these original stories. I'm really excited for Chloe Zhao's Hamnet. I expect to be emotionally incapacitated by that movie. Honestly, it is great for people who love movies that Immortals was just such a disaster.Peter: Eternals.Sonny: Eternals, that's how good it is we can't even remember the title.Alyssa: Yes, Destin Daniel Cretton is working on a Shang-Chi sequel, but he is also collaborating with Ryan Coogler on a project that I think is drawn from their childhoods.Sonny: He's directing a new Spider-Man movie right now.Alyssa: But there's other stuff coming. There's the possibility of life outside franchises. And, I'm excited to see what some of these folks do when they're not in front of a green screen and when they're telling stories about actual human beings. I am excited to just see more movies like Weapons, like Materialists, coming from younger directors who are still figuring things out, but have interesting things to say. And this year, at least, appears to be able to do okay at the box office.I love that. People are recovering from their exile in Atlanta and have a chance to make some cool movies. You guys have been so generous with your time. I do want to just finish on one last note: where do you assess Hollywood's position within the world to be?Obviously, in the States, they've had a lot of pressure from things like TikTok coming from below, things like the federal government coming from above. But even internationally and geopolitically, you've seen international players start to compete with Hollywood at the Oscars. For instance, in Best Animated Film last year, as well as some big markets shutting down for them, like China is not really doing anything. From a political perspective, where do you assess the state of Hollywood right now?Peter: From a political perspective, I think Hollywood is going to start producing movies that read less overtly liberal, less conventionally left-leaning. I think we're already seeing some of that. I don't mean that Hollywood is suddenly going to be MAGA, that it's suddenly gonna be like reading Buckley's National Review or anything like that. I just mean that at the margins, you're gonna see more movies that don't toe the line in the way that you saw movies before. There was a moment, especially right before and right after the pandemic, where it really felt like too many movies were towing a very predictable left-of-center political line. And it was obvious and there was no nuance to it.Again, I do not oppose movies that may have a different worldview than mine, but it felt like they were running scared in a lot of cases. I mean, in sports, if your team is behind, that's the time when you try new stuff. You don't use the same strategy if you are losing. Hollywood's losing right now. They're losing economically and they're losing as a cultural force. While that's in some ways not great for the art form, that is going to be good for experimentation. And that's gonna be formal and craft experimentation. That's going to be talent. We're going to see new and interesting people. And that's also going to be ideas both for stories and for politics and ideology.Sonny: A big question is what happens with the retrenchment of the global box office? Because I do think, for a long time, you could count on basically two-thirds of the box office of a major Hollywood release coming overseas and one-third coming domestically. And those numbers have, in some cases, inverted. It's closer to 50/50 for more of them. It's not universally true. F1 did more business overseas than domestically, which you might expect for something that's based on F1 racing. But the big question is what happens if the rest of the world is like, “We're not that interested in the big Hollywood blockbuster stuff that we have been eating up for the last 15 or 20 years”?This goes hand in hand with Alyssa's point about originals. That's probably a good thing, honestly. It's probably a good thing to get away from the theory of the movie industry being like, “We need to make things that appeal despite language barriers.” Language matters; words matter. And tailoring your words to the correct audience matters. American movie studio should tailor their stuff to American audiences.Alyssa: And also getting away from the idea of appealing to the Chinese censors who controlled which American movies got access to Chinese markets, which was not the same thing as appealing to Chinese audiences. But yeah, I totally agree.My father-in-law works in the foreign exchange industry, and he said something that I've been thinking about a lot. They're just seeing real declines in people who want to come here or feel comfortable coming here. Until July, I was the letters editor at The Washington Post, and it was astonishing to me just how much rage Canadians were feeling towards the United States. I don't know that these will translate into a rejection of American movies. American culture exports have been unbelievably strong for a long time.But I do see an opening for Korean pop culture, which has already been very popular abroad. I think there's a real chance that we will see a rejection of American culture in some ways. And, it will take Hollywood a while to respond to that. It always lags a little bit. But I do think it would be very interesting to see what more aggressively American movies look like. And I think that could take many forms.But scale is in many ways the enemy of interestingness. If there is not and opportunity to turn everything into a two billion dollar movie because you sell it overseas, what stories do you tell? What actors do you put on screen? What voices do you elevate? And I think the answers to those questions could be really interesting.Peter: I agree with all of this in the sense that I think it will be good for the art form, like I have been saying. But there's a cost to this that all of us should recognize. When budgets get smaller and the market shrinks, that is going to be bad for people who work in the industry. And in particular, it's going to be rough for the below-the-line talent, the people whose names you see at the end credits — when these credits now scroll for 10 minutes after a Marvel movie because they have employed hundreds, maybe even a thousand people.And there was a story in The Wall Street Journal just this summer. You mentioned the time in Atlanta about how Marvel has moved most of its production out of Atlanta. There are people there who had built lives, bought houses, had earned pretty good middle-class incomes, but weren't superstars by any means. Now they don't know what to do because they thought they were living in Hollywood East, and suddenly, Hollywood East doesn't exist anymore.We may be in a position where Hollywood West, as we have long know it, L.A., the film center, also doesn't exist anymore, at least or at least as much smaller, much less important and much less central to filmmaking than it has been for the last nearly 100 years. And again, as a critic, I like the new stuff. I often like the smaller stuff. I'm an American; I want movies made for me. But also, these are people with jobs and livelihoods, and it is going to be hard for them in many cases.Sonny: Oh, I'm glad to see the A.I. King over here take the side of the little guy who's losing out on his on his livelihood.Peter: I think A.I. is going to help the little guy. Small creators are going to have a leg up because of it.Sonny: Sure.All right. Well, I love some of those thoughts, love some of those lessons. Publicly traded companies are famously risk-taking, so we're going to be fine, definitely. Either way, I really do love the show. I really, really enjoy it. I think it's one of the best discussion shows, chat shows about any movie podcast out there. It is really, really fun. It is very cool to see you guys go independent.I just want to throw it to you a little bit. What is your pitch? What is the show? Where can they find it? What's the best way to support it? And where can they find you all?Sonny: The show's a lot like this, like what you just listened to.Alyssa: Peter has developed this catchphrase when Sonny asked him how he's doing to kick off the show, and he always says that he's excited to be talking about movies with friends. We want to be your movie friends. You should come hang out with us. Hopefully, we will be going live a little bit more, maybe meeting up in person some. I will hopefully be doing some writing for our sub stack, if you have missed my blatherings about movies and movie trends.But yeah, come hang out with us every week. We're fun.Sonny: Movieaisle.substack.com. That's where you should go. You should I'm I'm I'm sure I'm sure there will be a link to it or something. Movieaisle.substack.com is where it lives now. We'll have a proper URL at some point.Terrific. And wherever you get your podcasts?Sonny: And wherever you get your podcasts!That's great. Peter, Alyssa, Sonny, thank you so much. This is really, really fun. Again, I really dig the show so much. I'm very, very happy for you guys being able to spring out independent. So really, thanks for coming on.Edited by Crystal WangIf you have anything you'd like to see in this Sunday special, shoot me an email. Comment below! Thanks for reading, and thanks so much for supporting Numlock.Thank you so much for becoming a paid subscriber! Send links to me on Twitter at @WaltHickey or email me with numbers, tips or feedback at walt@numlock.news. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.numlock.com/subscribe

A new season of The Awardist kicks off with host Gerrad Hall, EW Sr. Writer Joey Nolfi, and Sr. Editor Joyce Eng breaking down all of the early action on the road to the 2026 Oscars. We're talking about early frontrunners — including Paul Thomas Anderson's 'One Battle After Another,' led by Leonardo DiCaprio, to Chloe Zhao's 'Hamnet' starring the one-to-beat Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal — the movies that gained the most out of the fall festival circuit, the big contenders still to come, and who might be a dark horse, including 'KPop Demon Hunters.' Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the conclusion of the 50th edition of TIFF (TIFFTY), we look back at some of the films we saw, discuss the winners of the People's Choice Awards and name our own top 3 films. Joining Dakota and Jeff is Thomas Stoneham-Judge the owner of For Reel and Darren Zakus the lead critic at Movie Scene Canada.Movies discussed include The Christophers and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Dakota), Dead Man's Wire and The Ugly (Jeff), Hedda and Tuner (Thomas), Carolina Caroline and Obsession (Darren). Read about Chloe Zhao making history being the first two time PCA winner. Read Dakota's reviews of Rental Family, The Smashing Machine and Nouvelle Vague.Read Jeff's reviews of The Testament of Ann Lee, Sacrifice and Dry Leaf.Read Darren's reviews of John Candy: I Like Me, Modern Whore and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. Read Thomas' 6 Must See Hidden Gems From TIFF.Follow Darren Zakus on ⁠Twitter⁠ and ⁠Instagram⁠. Follow For Reel on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠. Follow Thomas on ⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠. Follow Jeff's podcast Classic Movies Live on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Check out Dakota's Letterboxd list of films watched.Follow Contra Zoom on⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Threads⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Check out more great Contra Zoom content on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠That Shelf⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠!Listen to Contra Zoom on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Anchor⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Google Play⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Overcast⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Breaker⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and more!

We're a little late to the party, but, hey, we were busy--we finally talk 'Together', and 'Weapons' Two buzzy horror films. We also look back at 1994s 'The Crow.' And also, Brock apologizes to Chloe Zhao. He hopes she forgives him.   Support Why Does the Wilhelm Scream Keep in touch and read more at whydoesthewilhelmscream.com on instagram and threads @whydoesthewilhelmpod  Find out more about upcoming Reel House screenings, and support the next generation of film lovers, at reelhousefoundation.org and on facebook/Instagram reelhousefoundation Artwork by @_mosla_

Director/star James Sweeney's sophomore follow-up to Straight Up made a spalsh at Sundance this January, winning the Audience Award and a lot of buzz about Dylan O'Brien's dual roles as twins Roman and Rocky. Director and writer Bryan Fuller, whose feature debut DUST BUNNY recently premiered at TIFF, joins us to see what all the fuss is about. Then we share some of our favorite dark comedies.What's GoodAlonso - Hobnobs (and Hobnob Fever!)Drea - Competitive nonsense (windowdressing, bedmaking, etc)Bryan - a murder of yard crowsKevin - no more waspsITIDICTIFF Wraps Up, Chloe Zhao's Hamnet Wins Audience AwardParamount Wants to Buy Warner BrosRemembering Robert RedfordStaff PicksDrea - Predators (2025) (and Love and Monsters)Alonso - Chain ReactionsBryan -  The Last VikingKevin - Alien Follow us on BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, or LetterboxdWithKevin AveryDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeProduced by Marissa FlaxbartSr. Producer Laura Swisher

We went to Telluride! The 52nd annual Telluride Film Festival was an incredible experience. The festival had everything from Shakespeare to Springsteen. Christian and Scott are joined by new friend of the show Hunter Williams to discuss everything they saw, including new films from Chloe Zhao, Edward Berger, Guillermo del Toro, Yorgos Lanthimos, Kelly Reichardt, Richard Linklater, Noah Baumbach, and more.   Which Telluride movie are you most excited to see? Let us know at cinemaontappodcast@gmail.com

Reboot It: ETERNALSEternals was the MCU's first true bomb, and a dark portent of struggles to come! Phases 4 and 5 have left Kevin Feige and Co. on their heels. Now, rumors swirl that the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe may be rebooted in the wake of "Avengers: Secret Wars"! Which means our resident mogul and genius David Zaslav has decided to throw his hat in the ring for the rights to Chloe Zhao's erstwhile supergods. But as the Reboot Crew stews over too many characters, limited source material and comics' least compelling conflict - we just may discover an entirely new approach to ALL of Marvel's cosmic characters. Watch out for Deviants and Celestials, because we're diving in deep.The Reboot Crew is:BILLY BUSINESS (https://bsky.app/profile/billyapatterson)ED GREER (  / edgreerdestroys  )RON SWALLOW (  / ronswallow  )PRODUCER BILL (  / seebilldraw  )Make sure you check out:DOUG DEFENDS feat. Billy Biz: ‪ @DougDefends THE GREATEST POD: @thegreatestpod5755 THE GREATEST POD PATREON:   / thegreatestpod  

In the second installment of this summer's Little Gold Men book club series, David, Richard, and Rebecca are joined by VF's Hillary Busis to discuss Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, which explores grief and hope from the perspective of William Shakespeare's wife. At the end of the episode, O'Farrell herself joins David and Rebecca to talk about Chloe Zhao's movie adaptation starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In the second installment of this summer's Little Gold Men book club series, David, Richard, and Rebecca are joined by VF's Hillary Busis to discuss Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet, which explores grief and hope from the perspective of William Shakespeare's wife. At the end of the episode, O'Farrell herself joins David and Rebecca to talk about Chloe Zhao's movie adaptation starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Tyler Coates joins Katey and Christopher Rosen to look at the slates for three indie labels owned by studios that all hope to stake their claim in this year's awards race. Searchlight Pictures, the only one of the three to ever win best picture, is hoping to win hearts with Rental Family, while Focus Features is going heavy on auteurs with Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia and Chloe Zhao's Hamnet. Meanwhile Sony Pictures Classics has a tried-and-true formula for getting their films in front of voters, and have a heavy historical drama, Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut, and much more.  The episode also includes Katey's conversation with Stephen Graham about his labor of love turned worldwide phenomenon, Adolescence. He calls the experience of making the show like working with a theater troupe, and talks about how he built the confidence to build the series around a series of astonishing single-takes, and why he thinks the show has hit such a nerve since it debuted on Netflix earlier this year.  Subscribe to Prestige Junkie After Party, where you can get video versions of future episodes and lots of special bonus content. ⁠Join us there!⁠ ⁠⁠Subscribe⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ to the Prestige Junkie newsletter.  Follow Katey on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow The Ankler. 

Elle fixe la voiture devant, la main crispée sur la portière...Victoire, Pascale et Jeanne comparent le récit Sur la route de Madison de Robert Waller James à son adaptation cinéma par Clint Eastwood. En août 1965, Robert Kincaid s'embarque pour un reportage photo des ponts couverts de l'Iowa, et fait la rencontre de Francesca Johnson, dont le mari et les enfants sont absents pour la semaine. C'est le début d'une passion incandescente de quatre jours qui les marquera pour le reste de leurs vies...Le film de Clint Eastwood est-il fidèle au livre dont il est tiré ? Réponse dans l'épisode !4 min : On commence par parler du récit Sur la route de Madison de Robert James Waller, paru en 1992.44 min : On enchaîne sur l'adaptation en film sortie en 1995 et réalisée par Clint Eastwood avec Meryl Streep et Clint Eastwood.1 h 40 min : On termine sur nos recommandations autour des passions amoureuses, des cowboys et de l'Amérique profonde.Avez-vous lu ou vu Sur la route de Madison ?Recommandations :Titanic, un film réalisé par James Cameron (1997)L'homme qui murmurait à l'oreille des chevaux, écrit par Nicholas Evans (1995)L'homme qui murmurait à l'oreille des chevaux, réalisé par Robert Redford (1998)Out of Africa, réalisé par Sydney Pollack (1985)The Rider, réalisé par Chloe Zhao (2017)

Back in the mists of time, Maggie O'Farrell was one of my very first guests on The Shift. So, as she celebrates the 25th anniversary of the publication of her very first novel, After You'd Gone and we wait with bated breath for the movie of her smash hit bestseller Hamnet (starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, directed by Oscar-winning director of Nomadland, Chloe Zhao, and co-written by Maggie and Chloe), I thought now was a good time to revisit our conversation from back in 2020. Since then Maggie has of course written the bestselling The Marriage Portrait and gone on to sell hundreds of thousands of copies of Hamnet. Here are the original show notes: This week's guest is the award-winning novelist, Maggie O'Farrell. The author of eight novels, most recently the stunning Women's Prize winner, Hamnet, and one of my favourite memoirs of all time, I Am, I Am, I am. And now she's written a children's book, the absolutely gorgeous Where Snow Angels Go, which is a banker for a Christmas Day teatime animation a la The Snowman if ever I saw one.  While Maggie noses through my bookcase and plays with Sausage the (tail-less) cat, we talk being a social media refusenik, giving voice to women's stories, saying good riddance to the male gaze, why she never thought she was the marrying kind. Oh, and why she still secretly fears someone might take her Women's Prize away! Frankly, if Maggie O'Farrell has imposter syndrome, what hope is there for the rest of us? * You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at The Shift bookshop on Bookshop.org, including Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait by Maggie O'Farrell and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me. * If you enjoyed this episode and you fancy buying me a coffee, pop over to my page on buymeacoffee.com. • And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com • The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Juliette Nicholls at Pineapple Production. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In our first dedicated foray into the MCU, Craig, Dave, Stef, and special guest, Katie Smith-Wong, are challenged to discuss the controversial comic book adaptation - Eternals (2021).We talk about its place in the MCU, its characters, and Chloe Zhao's influence on the movie. Plus, Katie and Stef are challenged to name numerous movies in just a minute in order to be crowned this episode's Endgame winner!#Eternals #MCU #Marvel #ChloeZhao #AngelinaJolie #Marvel #MarvelMovie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris and Andy talk about the trailers for ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps' (11:57) and ‘Captain America: Brave New World' (18:47) and discuss whether the MCU might be getting good again. Then, they discuss the news that Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao is involved in a potential ‘Buffy' reboot (30:16), before breaking down the latest episode of ‘The Pitt' (41:47). Hosts: Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald Producer: Kaya McMullen Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sean and Amanda discuss the latest out of the guild award nominations and what it portends for Oscar chances (1:00). They then look ahead to the rest of 2025 and share their 25 collectively most anticipated movies of the year (31:00), including new films from favorites of the show like Paul Thomas Anderson, Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater, Bong Joon-Ho, Steven Soderbergh, and Luca Guadagnino, as well as long awaited follow-ups from exciting young directors like Chloe Zhao, Celine Song, Joseph Kosinski, and more. Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Senior Producer: Bobby Wagner Video Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We have a very special guest who was kind enough to help Natalie determine her definition for “the female gaze” once and for all. Morgan is the host of the podcast, Female Gaze: The Film Club, where she and her guests discuss films directed by female filmmakers. Natalie and Morgan will discuss the nuances and differences they see when female filmmakers are the ones capturing women's experiences. Directors of note will be Greta Gerwig, Sophia Coppola, Natalie Morales, Chloe Zhao, and more! Are you able to sit in a movie theater and determine if a movie is directed by a woman just by the tone and choices made?Make sure you have subscribed to us on Patreon! Every tier has a 7-day free trial and it is the only place to find our free blog posts, Tolerator Check-In episodes, and The Misogyny Meltdown. Follow us at @menivetoleratedpod on Instagram! All ways to support the show can be found at https://linktr.ee/menivetoleratedpod. Join the newsletter so you never miss any update we have on Team Tolerator!Support Our Guest:Natalie's Episode of Female Gaze: The Film Club: Plan BInstagram: @femalegazethefilmclub

Subscriber-only episodeSend us a Text Message.Greetings to our Bonus Content subscribers! If you enjoyed our recent episode spotlighting Chloe Zhao, you'll love this interview with Academy Award-Winning producer Mollye Asher. Mollye produced Songs My Brothers Taught Me, The Rider, Nomadland, and several other incredible projects. In this 2021 interview, she chatted with our very own Nicholas Ybarra to discuss the making of Nomadland. Stick around through the end of the episode, and you can hear her do her own mini-Gimme Three also!Thank you for listening and subscribing to our bonus content. Sign up for our Patreon for exclusive Bonus Content.Follow the podcast on Instagram @gimmethreepodcastYou can keep up with Bella on Instagram @portraitofacinephile or Letterboxd You can keep up with Nick: on Instagram @nicholasybarra, on Twitter (X) @nicholaspybarra, or on LetterboxdShout out to contributor and producer Sonja Mereu. A special thanks to Anselm Kennedy for creating Gimme Three's theme music. And another special thanks to Zoe Baumann for creating our exceptional cover art.

Send us a Text Message.We continue our weekly tribute to female filmmakers for Women's History Month. This week, we highlight the first three films of Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao. Songs My Brothers Taught Me, The Rider and Nomadland have each garnered several awards and have helped make Zhao one of the most well-respected filmmakers working today. Join us as we chat all things Zhao and let us know what you think about these immersive films. Support the Show.Sign up for our Patreon for exclusive Bonus Content.Follow the podcast on Instagram @gimmethreepodcastYou can keep up with Bella on Instagram @portraitofacinephile or Letterboxd You can keep up with Nick: on Instagram @nicholasybarra, on Twitter (X) @nicholaspybarra, or on LetterboxdShout out to contributor and producer Sonja Mereu. A special thanks to Anselm Kennedy for creating Gimme Three's theme music. And another special thanks to Zoe Baumann for creating our exceptional cover art.

The longest month of the year is finally over. It contained a long list of news and trailers to mull over. Join us for a bumper episode where we discuss the Oscar nominations, attractive movie/TV actors and whether it's Netlix's responsibility to feed the hungry. Craig McKenzie can be found on this very site and over on We Are Starfleet on the We Made This podcast network. Welcome to Bo Nicholson. His projects can be found on his Linktree. Aaron Billingham can be found on this very site. Izaak Stoakes can be found on his Twitter. 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We have our first double header @EchoChamberFP https://www.instagram.com/echochamberfp/ episode of 2024!!! In 'Part ONE' we have two from 20th Century Studios one from 2022 and then another with New Regency from 2023. Signature Entertainment, Lipsync Productions & Sky Cinema bring us an action sequel, while StudioCanal & Amazon MGM Studios have a new romantic adventure. AND, 3B-Produktion, Real Fiction Filmverleih & MetFilm Sales have a documentary about a film maestro in cinemas right now!!! In 'Part One' we have: Avatar: The Way of Water Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/I19mcDVG4PQ Theatrical Release Date: 16th December 2022 Digital Release Date: 6th December 2023 Director: James Cameron Cast: Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldaña, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Kate Winslet, Cliff Curtis, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Edie Falco, Brendan Cowell, Jemaine Clement, Jamie Flatters, Jeremy Irwin, Britain Dalton, Chloe Coleman, Trinity Jo-Li Bliss, Jack Champion, Bailey Bass, Filip Geljo, Giovanni Ribisi, Running Time: 192 min Cert: 12a Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/_ciBXV3MGGc?si=09PX_I9ooH3DXi05 Digital Platforms: Apple TV, Prime Video, YouTube, Google, Vudu, Vubiquity, Cox, and Comcast Website: Here. https://www.disney.co.uk/movies/avatar-the-way-of-water ---------------- One More Shot Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/a9YIy887RPQ Digital Release Date: 12th January 2024 Director: James Nunn Cast: Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Alexis Knapp, Meena Rayann, Waleed Elgadi, Hannah Arterton, Tom Berenger, Jill Winternitz, Cassidy Little, Aaron Toney, Edward Linard, Christos Dante, Tom Leigh Running Time: 103 min Cert: 18 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/QaxJFknK1WE?si=NrmX10HXWpL771LA ---------------- Role Play Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/r2EeVNhx0Fg Digital Release Date: 12th January 2024 Director: Thomas Vincent Cast: Kaley Cuoco, David Oyelowo, Connie Nielsen, Bill Nighy, Rudi Dharmalingam, Lucia Aliu, Regan Bryan-Gudgeon, Simon Delaney, Stephanie Levi-John, Jade-Eleena Dregorius Running Time: 101 min Cert: 12a Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/Bv67rkuWoMg?si=Imsx04yEFOlCN5mc Website: Here. https://press.amazonstudios.com/us/en/original-movies/role-play ---------------- The Creator Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/cAPkB9Kj-r4 Theatrical Release Date: 29th September 2023 Digital Release Date: 17th January 2024 Director: Gareth Edwards Cast: John David Washington, Gemma Chan, Madeleine Yuna Voyles, Ken Watanabe, Allison Janney, Sturgill Simpson, Veronica Ngo, Amar Chadha-Patel, Marc Menchaca, Robbie Tann, Ralph Ineson, Michael Esper, Mackenzie Lansing Running Time: 133 min Cert: 12a Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/DYo4QTsBqP8?si=JruS7v_A4VDNnIi7 Digital Platforms: Apple TV, Prime Video, YouTube, Google, Vudu, Vubiquity, Cox, and Comcast Website: Here. https://www.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/the-creator ---------------- Werner Herzog: Radical Dreamer Watch Review: Here. https://youtu.be/t_EKGf_JNbg Theatrical Release Date: 19th January 2024 Buy Tickets via BFI: Here. https://whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/default.asp?BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::permalink=werner-herzog-radical-dreamer Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: 19th February 2024 Director: Thomas von Steinaecker Cast: Werner Herzog, Lena Herzog, Tilbert Herzog, Christian Bale, Nicole Kidman, Joshua Oppenheimer, Robert Pattinson, Patti Smith, Carl Weathers, Wim Wenders, Chloe Zhao, Lucki Stipetic, Volker Schlöndorff, Lotte Eisner, Lucia Lalor, Guillermo de Oliveira, Martje Grohmann, Thomas Mauch, Paul Holdengräber, David M. Wilson, Peter Zeitlinger Running Time: 102 min Cert: 15 Trailer: Here. https://youtu.be/MISuaIHtyhU?si=78xPgye-opkRPC00 Pre-Order Blu-ray via BFI: Here. https://shop.bfi.org.uk/werner-herzog-radical-dreamer-blu-ray.html Website: Here. https://www.metfilmsales.com/werner-herzog-radical-dreamer ---------------- *(Music) 'Da Joint' (Instrumental) by EPMD - 2020 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/eftv/message

The Video Monsters are back in the saddle again, out where a movie is a movie. Where the podcasters feed on analysis, yes indeed, we're back in the saddle again. So grab your pet racoon, put on some chaps, and watch out for barbed wire on your way to meet us at the rodeo for tonight's bucking discussion of Chloe Zhao's THE RIDER (2017). If you enjoy this episode, come join the Video Monsters crew on Discord - be a part of the discussion and listen in live when we record our episodes!! Go to linktree.com/videomonsterpod for the link to Discord, our socials, the most recent Popcorn Punchout poll (when active), and occasionally some highlighted episodes!! Video Monsters is brought to you by the Chattanooga Film Festival and Central Cinema in Knoxville, TN. Follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, or online at chattfilmfest.org and centralcinema865.com. Links for each of these can also be found on our pages, so be sure to follow us at videomonsterpod on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram as well. music for Video Monsters by Evan Simmons

Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Some Like It Scott! On this week's episode, the two Scotts earnestly bear their souls and memories of their pre-teen years with a review of Kelly Fremon Craig's long-awaited sophomore outing, the adaptation of the beloved Judy Blume novel, ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME MARGARET. After discussing whether Rachel McAdams is the greatest mom of all time, whether this will be Abby Ryder Fortson's breakout role, and the power of Blume's source material, the co-hosts turn their attention to news that Pedro Pascal has been added to the GLADIATOR sequel cast, as well as Paul Mescal's pairing with Jessie Buckley for Chloe Zhao's SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE-esque film, HAMNET. See time codes below:   7:01 - ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET. review 56:47 - Pedro Pascal cast in Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR sequel 1:01:20 - Paul Mescal + Jessie Buckley in Chloe Zhao's HAMNET   Next week: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 (Theaters)   Patreon: www.patreon.com/MediaPlugPods

Hello and welcome to an all new episode of Some Like It Scott! On this week's episode, the two Scotts test their nightmare comedy bona fides with a review of Ari Aster's third film, the Odyssean epic, BEAU IS AFRAID. After discussing Joaquin Phoenix's performance, Aster's numerous themes, and whether the film might just have been "too much", the co-hosts turn their attention to the news of Robert Pattinson's casting in Chloe Zhao's upcoming Dracula film, as well as Charli XCX's addition to the cast of FACES OF DEATH remake from HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE's Daniel Goldhaber. See time codes below:   4:24 - BEAU IS AFRAID review 1:00:15 - Robert Pattinson in Chloe Zhao's Dracula movie 1:06:17 - Charli XCX in Daniel Goldhaber's FACES OF DEATH remake   Next week: ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT'S ME, MARGARET. (Theaters)   Patreon: www.patreon.com/MediaPlugPods

Welcome To The Madness!! Vampires and demons are rampant on the new Monday Madness as Morgan and Jeannine have a Horror filled show ahead! Full reviews for RENFIELD with Nicholas Hoult and Nicolas Cage playing Dracula, and EVIL DEAD RISE, the new grounded gorefest instalment into that movie series make up our 'Let's Talk' this week and another quick fire game closes out the show! There's also a few trailers to discuss including a big, exciting looking extended teaser for THE MARVELS bringing Captain Marvel, Monica Rambeau and Kamala Khan together for a space hopping adventure, as well as a return to The Further with INSIDIOUS: THE RED DOOR and a particularly intriguing adaptation of a single chapter of Dracula, THE LAST VOYAGE OF DEMETER starring Corey Hawkins and Liam Cunningham! There's casting rumours too with yet another Dracula based movie seemingly on the horizon direct by Chloe Zhao and possibly bringing ROBERT PATTINSON back to the world of the undead as well as a heavy rumour from the MCU that ADAM DRIVER could become our Reed Richards! Our Youtube Channel for Monday Madness on video, Watchalongs, Live Discussions & more: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvACMX8jX1qQ5ClrGW53vow⁠⁠⁠⁠ The It's A Wonderful Podcast Theme by David B. Music. Donate: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ItsAWonderful1⁠⁠⁠⁠ Join our Patreon: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/ItsAWonderful1⁠⁠⁠⁠ IT'S A WONDERFUL PODCAST STORE:  ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://its-a-wonderful-podcast.creator-spring.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sub to the feed and download now on Anchor, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Amazon Music & more and be sure to rate, review and SHARE AROUND!! Keep up with us on Twitter: Podcast: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ItsAWonderful1⁠⁠⁠⁠ Morgan: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/Th3PurpleDon⁠⁠⁠⁠ Jeannine: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/JeannineDaBean_⁠⁠⁠⁠ Keep being wonderful!! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsawonderfulpodcast/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/itsawonderfulpodcast/support

The dudes discuss Zack Snyder's JUSTICE LEAGUE and Chloe Zhao's ETERNALS. JL-14:25 Eternals-1:24:25 Not intended for children. The views expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of their employers. Twitter: https://twitter.com/TwoDudes7 Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Two-Dudes-One-Double-Feature-Podcast-108846657540306 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/twodudesonedoublefeature/?igshid=17oyviqg0pxno&fbclid=IwAR13Qy_UYaRmxREDtBlpA7zWovszRFB_C3QTB7xTbbDXZnvMZrWeATkCHHg Richard's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Channel23hahaha Joey's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkFZy6PEmCY2SPScOAWkXbg?view_as=subscriber

Mel, Quark, and Ramon run down their list of Oscar who WILL wins and who SHOULD wins before the March 13 (PH time) ceremony. Will Everything, Everywhere take everything all at once? Will Austin Butler's Elvis accent take him all the way to the podium? Will Top Gun: Maverick win anything? PLUS - Quark's dispatch from the always fun Independent Spirit Awards, where he hobnobbed with Michelle Yeoh, The Daniels, Paul Mescal, Chloe Zhao, and more! What did Todd Field really have to say about the ending of TAR? PRESS PLAY! Endslate is an ANIMA podcast. Stalk the hosts! Mel Alcaraz: @mel_alcaraz Ramon De Veyra: @ramondeveyra Quark Henares: @quarkhenares Follow us on Twitter @endslatepod, or join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/endslate for a safe space discussion on pop culture. For inquiries and feedback, email us at endslatepod@gmail.com.

Jamison Bar-SO-tee and Blake Call-yer welcome Nate Pee-kwette onto the show this episode for a rousing conversation about a profound film by director Chloe Zhao, The Rider. We dig into why Nate picked the film, the fine line it walks between documentary and fiction, and the the numerous ways it addresses masculinity and "individualistic Manifest Destiny." It's a delightful conversation and we were so pleased to have Nate on to chat with us. Other topics we tangent into: intentional Christian communities, being from South Dakota and the Texas Panhandle, and Terrence Malick's filmography. References: The Rider - Chloé Zhao, Brady Jandreau, Joshua James Richards, and Alex O'Flinn Q&A --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/flybyfilms/message

Patty and JD review the movie, The Eternals directed by Chloe Zhao.

On this episode of the Penny Bloom Podcast, hosted by Colton Robertson and Joseph George, we continue our 52 year journey through film with 2020's "Nomadland" directed by Chloe Zhao.

Emmy and Tony Award nominee Brian Tyree Henry is a versatile actor whose career spans film, television and theater. He currently stars alongside Donald Glover in the Emmy, Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning series “Atlanta.” Henry portrays ‘Alfred Miles,' Atlanta's hot of the moment rapper who is forced to navigate fame while remaining loyal to family, friends and himself. He has received Emmy, SAG, Critics' Choice and MTV Movie & TV Award nominations for his work including films like If Beale Street Could Talk. In 2021, Henry starred in four feature films, including Marvel's “Eternals,” directed by Chloe Zhao. This summer, Henry starred as Lemon in the hit feature film “Bullet Train” alongside Brad Pitt. This October, Henry stars opposite Jennifer Lawrence in A24's “Causeway,” now streaming on Apple TV+. Host: Jamie Music by: Sammus Edited by: Jamie Broadnax 

Eternals is possibly Marvel's most divisive film. Critics didn't seem to care for it; it has the lowest Rotten Tomatoes score of any Marvel movie at 47%. Yet it's different than any Marvel movie that came before it. With a very large cast of characters, Eternals is directed by Academy Award winner Chloe Zhao who, as Stew says, "manages to deliver a diverse, high concept, philosophical superhero film." What do you think of Eternals? Let us know! Cinema Heroes YouTube Instagram Twitter

MultiVersus! A fun "Brawl" style fighter game, that not only packs a ton of action, but gathers all of WB's top characters and has them work in almost perfect synchronicity. On the other side of WB in movie land, sh*t seems to be hitting the fan! So kick back or get moving, and enjoy our weekly schtick on nerd news! And if you don't mind, please share this with one other person this week! Trailers: -Cyberpunk: Edgerunners News: -Godzilla vs. Kong sequel filming -The Orville on Disney+ -Deadpool 3 news; Zazie Beets returns & Ryan Reynolds training -Chloe Zhao to direct Eternals 2 -Mohamed Diab & Oscar Isaac make TikTok vid in Cairo -The Flash (CW) Final Season -Lady Gaga confirmed for Joker 2 -Batgirl movie canceled Reviews: -The Gray Man -The Bear Comic Book Club: -The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes, Issues #1-8, by Neil Gaiman -The Savage She-Hulk, Issue #1-6 Stan Lee (1980) If you like what you hear, please like, follow, and subscribe! Just how we like chatting with our friends, please share this with yours. Feel free to follow us on: Twitch: Joy Schtick Show (Live Mondays @8PM PST) Twitter.com JoySchtickShow Apple Podcast: Joy Schtick Show Google Podcast: Joy Schtick Show Anchor: Joy Schtick Show Spotify: Joy Schtick Show Hope you enjoy, and if you feel like submitting topics or asking questions to be discussed on further episodes, you can email us at: JoySchtick.Show@gmail.com Peace out and make it a great rest of your week! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Episode 39 finds your intrepid Team Vintage Sand doing a deep dive into the work of one of our most promising young filmmakers, 2020 Best Director Oscar-winner Chloe Zhao. Although she has only done four feature films to this point, she has already established a distinctive painterly and brilliant visual style, and, as no less an authority than Frances McDormand put it, has shown herself able to successfully walk the line between sentiment and sentimentality. We take an auteurist approach to Zhao's work by dividing her young career into two distinct parts. She began with two very low-budget films, Songs My Brother Taught Me and The Rider, using non-actors essentially playing themselves. Notably, both were set in the unique and wonderful landscape of the Pine Ridge Reservation in the Black Hills of South Dakota, a location that is becoming to Zhao what Monument Valley was to John Ford. Her Oscar winner, Nomadland, was a transitional work, featuring old pros McDormand and David Strathairn mixed in with non-actors. This unexpected success then led to her chance to be part of the MCU with Eternals, a huge-budget film that many connoisseurs of the genre consider to be the worst of the Marvel films. So our fundamental question is simple: how do the visual and thematic elements that made her first two films so uniquely personal and intimate carry over into the second pair of films, done on a much different scale? As frequently happens, there is some dissent within Team Vintage Sand. Michael, and to a lesser extent John argue, as do many, that Zhao's films suffer from her insistence on non-actors, and that Songs and The Rider would have been better had Zhao populated her film with professional actors. I'm not bothered as much by it, but I see where they're coming from, especially since they are both trained actors. That being said, there is no doubt that Zhao has a phenomenal eye and that she is an artist to be closely watched; for us, she is one of the few young directors who has earned a lifetime ticket, which simply means that if she's directing a film, we'll be there opening weekend. So sit back, enjoy, and we'll see you all down the road.

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Thomas Flight and Tom van der Linden discuss the psychology of immortality, the implications of anthropomorphizing the cosmos and moralizing existential matters, and humanity's place in the universe in Chloe Zhao's Eternals.Listen to our episodes a week early, and completely ad-free, on Nebula by signing up for Curiosity Stream: http://curiositystream.com/cinemaofmeaningCheck us out on YouTube:Thomas Flight: https://www.youtube.com/c/ThomasFlightLike Stories of Old: https://youtube.com/c/LikeStoriesofOldFollow us:Tom van der Linden https://twitter.com/Tom_LSOOThomas Flight https://twitter.com/thomasflightSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

A short, spoiler free review on Eternals followed by a post viewing discussion. Written and directed by Chloe Zhao, starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Don Lee, and Barry Keoghan A group of immortal beings created by celestials, live on Earth and fight the Deviants. Rated: PG-13 REEL-View Rating: ⭐️ 5/10 Length of film: 2h 36m Time Stamps for this episode: 0m 0s - 5m 18s Spoiler Free 5m 19s - 10m 54s *Spoiler Alert* Viewable In/On: Disney+ Rent or Buy on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3zfetye TRANSCRIPTION IN PROCESS Show Notes: · Transcription via Descript · Intro music by Wataboi / Outro Music by TimTaj – Pixaby - https://pixabay.com/music/ · Contact me by email at klchaney@reel-film-reviewed.productions or message me on Twitter @reelfilmpkc · Check out the REEL Film Reviewed Website: https://reel-film-reviewed.productions/ for episode releases, episode transcriptions, exclusive Merch from the REEL Merch, upcoming films, advertising opportunities, and much more, thank you for supporting! · Subscribe to REEL Film Reviewed for exclusive access to all episodes and membership benefits such as live chats with me and REEL Merch discounts - https://reel-film-reviewed.supercast.com/ · If you're enjoying REEL Film Reviewed, visit https://linktr.ee/REEL_Film_Reviewed to see how you can support the show and see multiple listening platforms!

Feel that feminine power!!!! This week we celebrate writers/directors Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) & Chloe Zhao (Nomadland)! These trailblazers were up for multiple Oscar categories, but this week we are talking about the Best Director category of the 2021 Oscars!

This week, we groan eternally about Marvel's biggest gamble The Eternals with the help of Rob from VHS Club! They bet big on Oscar winning director Chloe Zhao known for her grounded style and the writer of Peter Rabbit 2. What could go wrong? How do we fix this cosmic mixup? Listen in!  Follow us @screenfixpod

How is ETERNALS like eating tapas in New York? Believe it or not, that question is answered in this week's episode, alongside a Sundance recap, blockbuster casting news, and more with Hollywood Reporter TV Critic Angie Han.  And of course, your Hall of Excellence champion (category: Badass Denzel Performance) is revealed!What's Good MentionsAlonso - honeycrisp applesDrea - refurbishing videosIfy - Grand Crew and recipe bindersAngie - Gelly Roll metallic pensITIDICJason Momoa Is Joining the Fast FamilyNightmare Alley Gets a Second Life in Black & WhiteStaff Picks:Ify - After YangDrea - Beyond the Infinite Two MinutesAlonso - Date and SwitchAngie - The Outside StoryBuy Alonso's book - I'll Be Home for Christmas MoviesSupport our sponsors!DoordashGet 25% off and zero delivery fees on their first order of $15 or more, when you download the DoorDash app and enter code MAXFILM.Lumi LabsGet free shipping and 30% off your first order at MicrodoseGummies.com with code: MAXFILMWith:Ify NwadiweDrea ClarkAlonso DuraldeAngie Han

On this episode of The Geek Buddies, hosts John Rocha, Michael Vogel and Shannon McClung discuss the leaked photos from Spider-Man No Way Home, Patty Jenkins and Lucasfilm delaying Rogue Squadron, Chloe Zhao directing Kevin Feige's Star Wars film, the trailers for Stranger Things 4 and Being the Ricardos, and what we can expect from Disney Plus Day.Remember to Like and Share this episode on your social media and to Subscribe to The Outlaw Nation YouTube channel below.#SpiderMan #Marvel #StarWarsTo become a Patron of John Rocha and The Outlaw Nation, go to https://www.patreon.com/johnrocha​​​​​​Follow John Rocha: https://twitter.com/TheRochaSays​​​​​Follow Michael Vogel: https://twitter.com/mktoonFollow Shannon McClung: https://twitter.com/Shannon_McClungTrailer Reactions from The Outlaw: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...Film and TV Reviews from The Outlaw: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...The Geek Buddies playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...The Outlaw Nation Show playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...The Jedi Way playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...John and Wendy Explain the World playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message

The Geek Buddies aka John Rocha, Michael Vogel and Shannon McClung are here LIVE to bring you their SPOILER review of Marvel's ETERNALS! They'll discuss the acting, script, cinematography, score, plot points, and direction. Plus they'll get into the divisive reaction about the movie from viewers and critics.Marvel's ETERNALS is now in theaters from Oscar winning director Chloe Zhao and starring Gemma Chan, Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lia McHugh, Brian Tyree Henry, Lauren Ridloff, Barry Keoghan, Don Lee, Kit Harington, Salma Hayek, and Angelina Jolie.#ETERNALS #Marvel #Review  #ChloeZhao #GemmaChan #AngolinaJolie #SalmaHayek #BryanTyreeHenry #KumailNanjianiJoin The Outlaw's Patreon at: https://patreon.com/JohnRochaFollow John Rocha: https://twitter.com/TheRochaSaysFollow Michael Vogel: https://twitter.com/mktoonFollow Shannon McClung: https://twitter.com/Shannon_McClung--- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/the-geek-buddies/message

This is the spoiler review for Eternals, please check out the non-spoiler version if you have not seen the movie. This conversation will not only cover some thoughts on particular events in the film (including post-credit scenes) but mostly deal with the high concepts that director Chloe Zhao was shooting for in the film.This show is part of the Spreaker Prime Network, if you are interested in advertising on this podcast, contact us at https://www.spreaker.com/show/5939723/advertisement

Heroes Reforged reviews the latest entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Chloe Zhao's ETERNALS. We break down the story, characters and post-credit scenes, discuss our favorite and least favorite moments, and how this film adds to the greater MCU. The review features a non-spoiler and spoiler section as well. Subscribe on YouTube --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/heroesreforged/support

Marvel's third film of 2021 may be its most divisive yet. See where Dan fall on Chloe Zhao's Eternals, a bold new entry in the MCU canon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices