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Movie of the Year: 2006BrickThe Brick podcast episode of Movie of the Year arrives just in time to appreciate one of 2006's most audacious genre experiments. Ryan, Mike, and Greg are joined by Pete Wright of TruStory FM to dig into Rian Johnson's neo-noir debut, a film that transplants the hard-boiled world of Dashiell Hammett into the hallways and parking lots of a Southern California high school. Few films from this era take a bigger swing, and fewer still land it this cleanly.About Brick (2006)Brick is a neo-noir mystery thriller written, edited, and directed by Rian Johnson in his feature directorial debut. The film opened in New York and Los Angeles on April 7, 2006, distributed by Focus Features. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Brendan Frye, a teenage loner who pushes his way into the criminal underworld of his high school to investigate the disappearance -- and eventual murder -- of his ex-girlfriend Emily, played by Emilie de Ravin. The supporting cast includes Lukas Haas as the drug kingpin known only as the Pin, Nora Zehetner as the duplicitous Laura, Noah Fleiss as the enforcer Tug, and Richard Roundtree as a vice principal navigating the chaos from the margins.Johnson wrote the first draft in 1997 immediately after graduating from USC School of Cinematic Arts. He spent the next seven years trying to get it made, with every financier asking him to set it in college instead of high school. He ultimately raised approximately $450,000 from friends and family, shot the film in 20 days, and spent three months rehearsing with the cast beforehand. The score -- inventive and deeply atmospheric -- was composed by Johnson's cousin Nathan Johnson using traditional instruments alongside improvised ones including filing cabinets, kitchen utensils, and tack pianos, all recorded on an Apple PowerBook.The film drew on hardboiled classics, particularly the novels of Dashiell Hammett, and won the Special Jury Prize for Originality of Vision at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. It holds an 80% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and earned three stars from Roger Ebert, who called it a rich source of dialogue and behavior. You can read Ebert's full review at RogerEbert.com. Brick has since become a cult classic and a clear blueprint for Johnson's later work on Knives Out.Find the full cast and crew listing at Brick on IMDb.Guest Panelist: Pete WrightPete Wright is a podcaster, author, educator, and co-founder of TruStory FM, a podcast production network he has built over more than three decades in media. He has logged thousands of episodes across more than three dozen shows covering film, ADHD, creative process, brand storytelling, and the craft of audio production. His work spans journalism, corporate communications, and graduate-level teaching, where he spent fifteen years working with students on storytelling and media production.Among his best-known projects is The Next Reel Film Podcast, a deep-dive film discussion series that serves as his primary film-critical home. He also co-hosts Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast alongside Nikki Kinzer, an award-winning show with over a million annual downloads and 29 seasons of episodes since its 2010 launch. In 2024, Pete and Nikki co-authored Unapologetically ADHD: A Step-by-Step Framework for Everyday Planning on Your Terms, a practical guide grown directly from the podcast's community and themes. His debut science fiction novella, Lattice, was published in 2026. Pete's most recent podcast venture is Headstone, a personal series about legacy, memory, and the stories we leave behind. He is based in Portland, Oregon. This Brick podcast episode marks his first appearance on Movie of the Year.Brick Podcast Discussion: Noir in High SchoolThe central creative gamble of Brick is not simply that it applies film noir conventions to a high school setting. More precisely, it applies them without irony. Johnson made a deliberate choice to play every scene completely straight, and the cast follows his lead without a single wink at the camera. Consequently, the absurdity of the premise becomes the engine of the film's tension rather than its release valve.This Brick podcast opens with a foundational question: does the noir-in-high-school conceit actually work? The genre's grammar depends heavily on power asymmetry, corruption, and the lone investigator operating outside institutional structures. High school provides all three. Brendan's relationship with the vice principal mirrors the classic detective's uneasy truce with law enforcement. The Pin's basement headquarters functions as the smoky back room. The femme fatale and the enforcer play their archetypal roles without adjustment.Johnson drew specifically on the novels of Dashiell Hammett -- particularly the Continental Op stories -- and encouraged his cast to read Hammett rather than watch noir films. He wanted the stylistic choices to come from the source material, not from imitation of existing screen adaptations. That decision gives Brick a distinctive texture. Moreover, the dialogue mixes actual period noir slang with invented high school vernacular in a way that creates its own self-consistent world. As Roger Ebert noted, the story never fully clarifies itself while it unfolds, but it delivers a rich supply of behavior and incident along the way.Genre Bending: What the Brick 2006 Film Is Actually DoingBrick belongs to a specific 2006 moment when genre recombination was operating at a high creative pitch. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang had landed the previous year playing similar games with noir self-awareness. Sin City had arrived with a maximalist visual approach to the same source material. Brick chose a third path: minimal budget, straight-faced commitment, and an insistence that the formal constraints of the genre could do meaningful emotional work if you simply trusted them.The genre-bending discussion on this Brick podcast examines how Johnson uses the noir framework not as homage but as architecture. The structure of a hardboiled mystery -- the inciting mystery, the series of contacts, the betrayal, the revelation -- maps onto adolescent social hierarchies with surprising precision. Furthermore, the paranoia endemic to the genre translates naturally into the heightened social surveillance of high school life, where everyone watches everyone and information is currency.The Spaghetti Western and Anime InfluencesJohnson has cited Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Westerns and Shinichiro Watanabe's Cowboy Bebop as visual influences alongside the noir literary tradition. That combination matters, because it explains why Brick never feels purely retro. The film's rhythm and its relationship to violence carry a different energy than classic noir. Notably, Johnson used shoes as a design element for each character, treating footwear as an immediate visual shorthand for who each person is. It's a small detail that reflects how thoroughly he thought through every layer of the film's visual language.Additionally, the score by Nathan Johnson uses invented instruments -- wine-o-phones, tack pianos, kitchen utensils -- to create an atmosphere that nods to classic noir without reproducing it. The result is a film that works as genre exercise, coming-of-age story, and tone poem simultaneously.The Treatment of Women in BrickNoir has always had a complicated relationship with its female characters, and Brick inherits that complication without fully interrogating it. Emily exists primarily as a body -- a mystery to be solved, a loss to be avenged. She drives the entire plot but occupies very little of the film's actual screen time. Laura is more present, but her function remains rooted in the femme fatale archetype: beautiful, manipulative, ultimately revealed as the architect of the tragedy.The Brick podcast addresses this directly. Does Johnson's decision to play the genre completely straight mean he also reproduces its blind spots uncritically? The case for the defense is that Brick is a formal exercise, and the female characters serve genre functions that the film deliberately signals as such. The case against is that signaling an archetype and interrogating it are different things, and Brick largely declines to do the latter.Moreover, the pregnancy subplot -- Emily is pregnant with Tug's child, a revelation that triggers her murder -- adds a layer of consequence to the female characters' bodies that the film handles with notable brevity. It functions as a plot mechanism more than a human reality. The discussion examines how this choice shapes the film's emotional center, which ultimately rests entirely with Brendan's grief and not with Emily's life or Laura's survival.Nevertheless, Nora Zehetner's performance as Laura earns genuine complexity within the constraints the script gives her. The hosts explore whether that performance transcends the archetype or simply executes it with exceptional skill.Rushmore: 2006 It BoysThe Taste Buds carve out space in this episode for a Rushmore segment dedicated to the It Boys of 2006 -- the young male actors whose stars were ascending in that specific cultural moment. Brick arrives at a fascinating point in Joseph Gordon-Levitt's career trajectory, before Inception and The Dark Knight Rises made him a mainstream anchor, when he was still operating in the cult-film

Your Broken Hero. Emo's Not Dead cruise captain, viral internet comedian and... our new colleague!?, Matt Cutshall, is our guest on Episode 337 of Sappenin' Podcast! This week, it was announced that we are joining forces with E.N.D as their official podcast partners, to celebrate, the head honcho himself joins us for a rare interview on the brands connection to the scene, swapping the fringe for a microphone and taking over the sea, one boat at a time. In this conversation, Cutshall opens up on the cult following to his 'felt emo might delete' videos, befriending The Used, Underoath and Yellowcard, poking fun at the genre from a place of love, alternative gateways, his time in It Boys, getting back on stage with Your Broken Hero, cruise bellyflops, marrying Ariel Vandenberg, mental health battles vs the gift of laughter, tighty whities, meeting Robin Williams, the one band who refuse to embrace their emo legacy, festival plans, coffee addiction and more! Turn it up and join Sean and Morgan to find out Sappenin' this week!Follow us on Social Media:Twitter: @sappeninpodInstagram: @sappeninpodSpecial thank you to our Sappenin' Podcast Patreons:Join the Sappenin' Podcast Community: Patreon.com/Sappenin.Kylie Wheeler, Janelle Caston, Paul Hirschfield, Tony Michael, Scarlet Charlton, Dilly Grimwood, Mitch Perry, Nathan Crawshaw, Molly Molloy, James Bowerbank, Amee Louise, Kat Bessant, Kieran Lewis, Alexandra Pemblington, Jonathan Gutierrez, Jenni Robinson, Stuart McNaught, Jenni Munster, Louis Cook, Carl Pendlebury, James Mcnaught, Martina McManus, Jason Heredia, John&Emma, Danny Eaton, RahRah James, Sian Foynes, Evan, Ollie Amesbury, Dan Peregreen, Emily Perry, Kalila Keane, Adam Parslow, Josh Crisp, Vicki Henshaw, Laura Russell, Fraser Cummings, Sophie Ansell, Kyle Smith, Connor Lewins, Billy Hunter, Harry Radford, George Evans, Em Evans Roberts, Thomas O'Neill, Sinead O'Halloran, Kael Braham, Jade Austin, Charlie Wood, Aurora Winchester, Jordan Harris, James Page, Georgie Hopkinson, Helen Anyetta, John Wilson, Lisa Sullivan, Ayla Emo, Kelly Young, Jennifer Dean, Tj Ambler-Shattock, Chaz Howkins, Michael Snowden, Justine Baddeley, David Winchurch, Jim Farrell, Scott Evans, Andrew Simpson, Shaun Croucher, Lewis Sluman, Ellie Gowers, Luke Wardle, Grazyna McGroarty, Nathan Matheson, Matt Roberts, Joshua Lewis, Erin Howard,, Chris Harris, Lucy Neill, Amy Thomas, Jessie Hellier, Stevie Burke, Robert Pike, Anthony Matthews, Samantha Neville, Sarah Maher, Owen Davies, Bethan Downing, Jessica Tiernan, Danielle Oldershaw, Samantha Bowen, Ruby Price, Jule Ferl, Alice Wood, Billy Parmiter, Emma Musgrave, Rhian Friggens, Hannah Kenyon, Patrick Floyd, Hayley Taylor, Loz Sanchez, Cerys Andrews, Dan Johnson, Eva B, Emma Barber, Helen Macbeth, Melissa Mercury, Joshua Ryan, Cate Stevenson, Emily Moorhouse, Jacob Turner, Madeleine Inez, Robert Byrne, Christopher Goldring, Chris Lincoln, Beth Gayler, Lesley Dargie-Walker, Sabina Grosch, Tom Hylands, Andrew Keech, Kerry Beckett, Leanne Gerrard, Ieuan Wheeler, Hannah Rachael, Gemma Graham, Andy Wastell, Jay Smith, Nuala Clark, Liam Connolly, Lavender Martin, Lloyd Pinder, Ghostly Grimoire, Amy Hogg.Diolch and Thank You x Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Den heiligen St. Chickenfinger ass aus dem Marianengraben operstanen a prett fir d'Bear-Week!  Mam Porno-Halsduch, Schimmel un der Mauer a bad Allies starte mir an déi nei Woch. Et gëtt ënnert dem Pentagramm gejaut, eng Jesus-Obsessioun aus der Primaireschoul nees ausgepak a géint e Kand gepöbelt. Mat dobäi sinn och d'Rihanna, dem Ryan seng It-Boys an en Touch Gebills. Et gi Lidder fir aus der Dusch ze sprangen, Frae-Flops an e Kanister Theaterblutt. Blame it on the rain!

Julia and Miranda discuss the It Boys & Girls of this past year! Discussions of Jacob Elordi, Renee Rapp, Ayo Edebiri, Paul Mescal, Rachel Zegler, Harris Dickinson, Charles Melton, and others send these two into a frenzy! Even more so than usual!! Ep. Recorded on Jan. 19, 2024. Follow us on Instagram! @the.p.in.rasp@juliapeterkins @miranda.macgillivrayBaby Carl's Happy ApocalypseBaby Carl and Bill roadtrip in Vermont interviewing friends about their happy apocalypses!Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifySupport the show

Hosts Laura and Emily are obsessed with a new movie that's out this week, so we kick things off with a recommendation. And there are two actors, our current It Boys of the moment, Jeremy Allen White from The Bear and Barry Keoghan from Saltburn, who have both been recently accused of leaving their partners and children at the height of their fame. They're not the first A-List actors to be accused of this, but as we look deeper into the facts, it appears there could be more to this story. THE END BITS Subscribe to Mamamia GET IN TOUCH: Feedback? We're listening. Call the pod phone on 02 8999 9386 or email us at thespill@mamamia.com.au WANT MORE? Follow us on Instagram...https://www.instagram.com/thespillpodcast/?hl=en Read all the latest entertainment news on Mamamia... https://mamamia.com.au/entertainment/ Subscribe to The Spill Newsletter... https://mamamia.com.au/newsletter CREDITS Hosts: Laura Brodnik & Emily Vernem Producer: Tahli Blackman Audio Producer: Scott Stronach Mamamia acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the Land we have recorded this podcast on, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation. We pay our respects to their Elders past and present, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.Become a Mamamia subscriber: https://www.mamamia.com.au/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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The late '90s were all about teens. As millennials learned to drive, they began shaping pop culture. We even created a magazine for them. On the cover of TEEN PEOPLE's June/July 1999 issue: Julia Stiles, Brandy, and 19 other It Boys and It Girls — all under 21. Julia talks to us about 10 Things I Hate About You, Heath Ledger, and whether or not she dated Joseph Gordon-Levitt in her college years. Then, we test her 90s pop knowledge and find out Julia is more Ani DiFranco than Joey Tribbiani. Oh, and remember The Tom Green Show? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heute bei Busenfreundin zu Gast: Moderatorin, Schauspielerin und Kolumnistin Collien Ulmen-Fernandes. In dieser Episode werden Klischee-Kisten geöffnet und direkt wieder zugeknallt. Warum gibt es IT-Girls und keine IT-Boys? Warum erntete Collien Hate-Spech als in der Presse stand, dass sie ihr KInd angeblich genderneutral erziehe? In ihrem ZDFneo-Format "No more Boys and Girls" recherchierte Collien zu tradierten geschlechtertypischen Attributen und erzählt in dieser Episode von ihren Erfahrungen. Außerdem erfahren wir, ob sich die ehemalige Viva-Moderatorin ein Revival mit ihren alten Kolleg:innen vorstellen könnte.Audio ab!-----------wwww.busenfreundin-magazin.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Emo's Not Dead. Internet personality sensation and awesomely talented human Matt Cutshall is our guest on Episode 89 of Sappenin' Podcast! The 'Felt Emo Might Delete Later' cult leader is doubling up on the eyeliner as he talks to us about the rejuvenation of everything alternative. Get those skinny jeans on and prepare for a wild ride as we get all the gossip on his insane career of acting, comedy, creating viral content, how these emo videos actually started, re-inspiring the scene, working with bands like The Used and Hawthorne Heights, future dream collaborations, his time as a vocalist in signed and internationally touring band It Boys, Slam Dunk Festival adventures, opening for Jeffree Star and Brokencyde, potentially getting back into music, his wonderful fiancé Arielle Vandenberg, their new Riled Up podcast, making screamo coffee, merch, exciting future plans for the END brand, how social media has effected his mental health, DM messages, and a whole lot more of pure sad boi chaos! MakeDamnSure to Tell All Your Friends about this one, it's straight from The Black Parade. Phenomenal stories from such a rad guy, you won't believe what he has to say. Grow out your fringe and join Sean and Morgan to find out Sappenin' this week!Follow Us on Social Media:Twitter: @sappeninpodInstagram: @sappeninpod Special thank you to our Sappenin' Podcast Patreons:Join the Sappenin' Podcast Community: Patreon.com/Sappenin.Kylie Wheeler, Mayumi Liwayway, Emma Barber, Mitch Perry, Shani-Maia Boxill-Anderson, Amy Chilvers, Dayna Lasnover, Amandine Urbano, Janelle Caston, Drew Styles, Samantha Spray, Dilly Grimwood, Nathan Crawshaw, Kelly Young, Kelly Irwin, Scarlet Charlton, Simon Amos, Jenni Munster, Cate Stevenson, Amy Campion, Emily Senogles, Lucy Deards, Martina McManus, Erin Howard, John&Emma, James Oakley, Louis Cook, Marcie Jacobson, Kieran Lewis, Sarah Stewart, Jordan Birchard, Mike Cunningham, Jamie O'Jaime, Paddy The Magnificent, Carl Pendlebury, Kelly Emma Cannon, Livvy Cropper, Paul Hirschfield, Becky Magliocco, James McNaught, Lydia Henderson, Ricky McClurg, Amy Thomas, Scott Jones, Tallulah Grant, Stuart McNaught, Tony Michael, Jenni Robinson, Jamie Bloor, Sarah James, Michael Engler, El Douglas, Mark Hendy, Loz Sanchez, Natasha Morris, Kelly Mallery, James Bowerbank, Mikey White, Becky Handy, Kevin Clarke, Jean Davies, Cerys Andrews, Michael Crosby, Let it Flow Yoga, Rhys Bernardo, Samuel Griffiths, Liam Connolly, Jordan Harris, Conor Mould, Kyle David Smith, James Page, Kat Bessant, Justin Dunn, Samantha Neville, Ash Foster,, Gabby Byrne, Nora Pickler, Chris Harris, Sophie Thompson, Scott Evans, Geoff Halbherr, Danny Eaton, Jessie Hellier, Neil Reid, Emily Dixon, David Winchurch, Kelly Tyrer, Hannah Rachael, Justine Baddeley, Anthony Matthews, Nuala Clark, Owen Davies, Angharad Richards, Samantha Bowen, Sandra Kucharczyk, Gavin Butler, Jennifer... See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On today’s episode, Matt and Arielle are riled about rats, fighter jets, pop stars, song lyrics, and balls. The hosts answer questions we’ve always wanted the answers to, including what Arielle would do if Matt sent a full nude to their group chat, if it’s OK to ask someone out at the gym, and why nice guys finish last. Matt debates releasing a new single from It Boys! and Arielle reveals the bookstore moment that has affected her to this day. The two also come up with a new line to a hit Backstreet Boys song that may just beat the original.You can find Arielle on the 'gram @Arielle and Matt @MattCutshall. Please be sure to rate, review, and subscribe so we can continue to get riled!

Matt Cutshall is a Social Media Influencer. At the age of 17, he was hired by Radio Disney to host live events. Five years later, he started a pop rock band (IT BOYS!). A few years after the band broke up, the short-lived social media app Vine (that boomed the 'social media celebrity') was created. So many people spend so much time on their phones. Matt, with his ability to make funny short-form content, found a way to make a living doing it. And he's damn good at it.

NEW YEAR NEW ME!! Babblement is back with a New Year extravaganza - we love extravaganza's now. We really get into the trenches about Jools Holland's Hootenanny, Ryan exposing himself involuntarily and Lee playing the 'southern card' to prevent being smashed with a truncheon. We round off the year with the worst Tinder Nightmare, F**ked It Boys and Beakles About. As always, you're in for a real treat as we sing AGAIN. Always the same.... you can get in contact in all the following ways; Instagram and Twitter @babblementpod, Facebook fb.me/babblmentpod or email us babblementpod@gmail.com. If you're feeling extra nice, rate and subscribe on iTunes, it is the season of giving after all.

Murray Hill is a New York City nightclub pioneer who emerged out of the underground drag scene of the 1990s. A comedian and variety show host in the shticky tradition of ’60s borscht belt and Vegas comics of yore like Don Rickles and Dean Martin, he is a performer New York Magazine named “One of the 50 Most Iconic Gender Benders of All Time,” PAPER declared “One of the Top 10 ‘It’ Boys in NYC Nightlife History,” and BUST celebrated as one of our special “Boys du Jour.” These days, Murray is setting aside his usual hosting duties and taking center stage in his own autobiographical comedy show, “About To Break,” running at Joe’s Pub in NY September 20 to 29. And on this episode of the “Poptarts” podcast, he fills us in on how he collaborated with Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman!!!!) to make this show a reality.

Episode 4 BURSTS into your ear cavities with discussions about Flappy Paddle Gearboxes, Anusol and Bryan Cranston (he isn't on the show..can you IMAGINE?!) OBVIOUSLY, the Hate List is back in full swing - this week features a particularly unhappy objection to 3 Cheese Crisps. Finally, there's an "F****d It Boys" that you will NOT want to miss... If you want to get in touch follow us on Instagram and Twitter @babblementpod Facebook fb.me/babblmentpod or email us babblementpod@gmail.com

We'll begin with Qualifying for the Camping World 500 from the Phoenix International Raceway. Joey Logano takes the pole with Ryan Blaney on the outside of the front row. We'll discuss what we think we'll see at Phoenix and who surprised us in qualifying.  Plus we'll break down last weekend's race from Las Vegas Motor Speedway, including the scuffle between Kyle Busch and Joey Logano. Who was right, who was wrong and is there anything that should have been handled differently?  Plus did NASCAR do the right thing by not penalizing anyone? Is Have at It Boys, back?  Roger Penske made interesting comments about the costs of being a car owner in NASCAR. We'll take a look at his comments and discuss whether or not we like his ideas and what other things NASCAR can do to cut costs?  We'll also take your phone calls at 917-889-8280!

This week Mike and Sean tackle David Fincher's big hit Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike along with the late George Sluizer's 1988 film about a missing woman, The Vanishing. They'll also recap Sean's trip to the 2014 Vancouver International Film Festival, celebrate Independent Video Store Day with their Essential Films You Can Only Get at Scarecrow Video, and discuss the concept of "It" while making their picks for modern day It Girls and It Boys on the 150th birthday of writer Elinor Glyn. All this and Mike finally watched Boyhood too.