The Smashing Machine is Benny Safdie’s debut solo feature starring Dwayne Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr, a championship caliber figure in the early days of UFC. The film follows his rise and fall as well as his relationship with then girlfri...

Our third season of the Patreon exclusive RETRO/RANKED series is coming to a close on the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson. You could absolutely say ranking his filmography is like one battle after another with much debate spanning ac...

As previously discussed in the first two episodes of this summer mini-series, we’re tracking box office for the movies on our radar between the first weekend of May and the end of August, with each team member on the show preparing a list of th...

This is a preview podcast. To listen to the full show, watch on video, and see the rest of the Stranger Things recap mini-series, subscribe to our Patreon.Things are getting stranger!! Just as we are set to kick off spooky season in Octo...

One Battle After Another is written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. Inspired by the 1990 novel Vineland by Thomas Pynchon, the film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Regina Hall, Teyana Taylor, and Chase Infiniti. The ...

In this special edition episode, we dive into the passionate debate that has fans of 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' divided: Team Conrad or Team Jeremiah? Our panelists weigh in on the love triangle that has captivated viewers of the hit Amazon s...

The third season of our Patreon exclusive RETRO/RANKED series is focusing on the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson. We continue collaboratively ranking all 10 of his films by discussing Phantom Thread and Inherent Vice

The 2025 Emmy season has come to a close after the ceremony last week on September 14, and we close out with a recap of the ceremony for everything from the award winners to 45-second speeches and running money counters. We discuss The Pitt vs....

Him is a sports horror film directed by Justin Tipping, co-written by Skip Bronkie, Zack Akers, and Tipping, and produced by Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions. The film stars Marlon Wayans, Tyriq Withers, Julia Fox, and Tim Heidecker. A youn...

Timmy Lee speaks with Japanese director Takahide Hori to discuss his latest stop-motion animated film, Junk World (2025), whi...

Timmy Lee sits down with American film and TV composer, Tyler Strickland, to talk about the music for his latest documentar...

Sara Ciplickas sits down with Vancouver Actor, Comedian & Filmmaker Panta Mosleh, who recently premiered her most recent directorial effort Pride & Prayer at the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Mosleh is also featured in A24's Eterni...

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is directed by Kogonada and written by Seth Reiss. The film stars Margot Robbie, Colin Farrell, Kevin Kline, and Phoebe Waller-Bridge and is described as follows: two strangers who meet at a mutual friend's wedding ...

The 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close and we are here to recap our team’s experience at the festival as we had 10 people on the ground at the festival. We’ll cover our overall impressions of the festiva...

The Awards Season Draft returns for round 2! After the inaugural episode of the series saw us competitively draft winners across the awards circuit from 2015-16, we now jump ahead to cover the 2022-23 season. Our draft options include Oscar win...

The Long Walk is a 2025 American dystopian survival thriller film co-produced and directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by JT Mollner. It is based on the 1979 novel of the same name by Stephen King (under his pseudonym Richard Bachman)...

Nandita Joshi is joined by director Zahraa Ghandour about her powerful feature-length documentary debut, Flana, where she opens up ...

Orphan, the latest from director László Nemes (Son of Saul, TIFF ’15, which won the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film; Sunset, TIFF ’18), takes place amongst the ruins of the violently suppressed Hunga...

With Venice and Telluride Festivals wrapped up and TIFF in progress with many of our members in attendance, our team reviews the news and reactions out of Venice and Telluride, including the Golden Lion winner. We also discuss some in-progress ...

The Conjuring: Last Rites is directed by Michael Chaves and written by Ian Goldberg, Richard Naing, and David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick. The film is the ninth installment in The Conjuring Universe. Based on the true-life investigations of the S...

With Venice and Telluride already underway, we’re now discussing the fall festivals specifically through the lens of the Toronto International Film Festival. We have ten team members who will be in attendance at the 50th edition of TIFF and tod...

Caught Stealing is directed by Darren Aronofsky, from a screenplay written by Charlie Huston, and is based on Huston's book of the same name. The film stars Austin Butler, Regina King, Zoë Kravitz, Matt Smith, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D'Onofrio,...

To hear more bonus conversations like this, subscribe to our Patreon for as little as $1/month for early access and video episodes. Ahead of our Honey Don't! review we discuss:Hamnet, Hedda, Is This Thing On? First Looks

TRT After Dark returns for Round 2 this month featuring an unstructured and uncensored conversation on the state of Hollywood. We discuss topics ranging from the theatrical success of KPop Demon Hunters and Netflix's wider strategy wit...

Before we review Darren Aronofsky’s Caught Stealing next week, we’re discussing his career up to this point through his 8 eclectic feature films in his filmography that often feature provocative and controversial themes of death, addiction, and...