Ranked #1
Rishi Rajani on Breaking In, Protest Art, and The Hollywood Mailroom
Rishi Rajani on Breaking In, Protest Art, and The Hollywood Mailroom
Before the age of 30, Rishi Rajani rose to become president of Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad Productions, the company that ... Read more
15 Jan 2020
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43mins
Ranked #2
Alison Brie and Jeff Baena (Horse Girl)
Alison Brie and Jeff Baena (Horse Girl)
"Horse Girl," now in theaters and on Netflix, stars Alison Brie as a young woman who loves horses.That's as much as we c... Read more
7 Feb 2020
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20mins
Ranked #3
Paul Scheer (Unspooled, Black Monday, How Did This Get Made?)
Paul Scheer (Unspooled, Black Monday, How Did This Get Made?)
Paul Scheer is one of the best people on screen (Black Monday! The Disaster Artist!) and in podcasting (Unspooled! How D... Read more
20 Mar 2020
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34mins
Ranked #4
Just Mercy Director Destin Daniel Cretton
Just Mercy Director Destin Daniel Cretton
Director Destin Daniel Cretton had no choice but to make sure Just Mercy, his Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx death row... Read more
11 Jan 2020
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24mins
Ranked #5
Jeff Fowler (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Jeff Fowler (Sonic the Hedgehog)
Sonic the Hedgehog director Jeff Fowler says when he first released images of Sonic — and fans savaged them online — he ... Read more
21 Feb 2020
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26mins
Ranked #6
Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey)
Christina Hodson (Birds of Prey)
Christina Hodson, writer of Birds of Prey and Bumblebee, talks to us about what makes the Clockwork Orange-influenced gi... Read more
7 Feb 2020
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28mins
Ranked #7
Marc Meyers (We Summon the Darkness, My Friend Dahmer)
Marc Meyers (We Summon the Darkness, My Friend Dahmer)
We Summon the Darkness and My Friend Dahmer, two of prolific director Marc Meyers latest films, unfurl almost opposite t... Read more
10 Apr 2020
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44mins
Ranked #8
Rachel Mason (Circus of Books)
Rachel Mason (Circus of Books)
When Rachel Mason was growing up in West Hollywood in the 1980s, her parents, Karen and Barry Mason, went to work each d... Read more
22 Apr 2020
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28mins
Ranked #9
Alexandre Amancio (Assassin's Creed)
Alexandre Amancio (Assassin's Creed)
If you're getting through our global quarantine by playing video games, you're in good company: Alexandre Amancio, the f... Read more
7 Apr 2020
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47mins
Ranked #10
Jon Avnet (Three Christs)
Jon Avnet (Three Christs)
Three Christs director Jon Avnet has one of the most impressive IMDb pages in Hollywood: He produced films from Risky Bu... Read more
23 Jan 2020
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37mins
Ranked #11
Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Carey Mulligan and Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman)
Promising Young Woman stars Carey Mulligan as a young woman who goes to nightclubs and acts too drunk to stand. When nic... Read more
27 Jan 2020
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23mins
Ranked #12
Alexander Monelli and Mark Nelson (At the Drive-In)
Alexander Monelli and Mark Nelson (At the Drive-In)
"At the Drive-In," the new documentary from our guest Alexander Monelli, is about a band of movie lovers who saved a loc... Read more
22 May 2020
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34mins
Ranked #13
Kyle MacLachlan (Capone)
Kyle MacLachlan (Capone)
Today our guest is Kyle MacLachlan, one of our favorite actors ever. He's one of the stars of Capone, in which Tom Hardy... Read more
15 May 2020
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22mins
Ranked #14
Jeff Barnaby (Blood Quantum)
Jeff Barnaby (Blood Quantum)
Blood Quantum, from writer-director Jeff Barnaby, is a crackling zombie set on tribal land — where indigenous people are... Read more
8 May 2020
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37mins
Ranked #15
David Marmor and Alok Mishra (1BR)
David Marmor and Alok Mishra (1BR)
The late screenwriter Blake Snyder famously originated a concept called Save the Cat to describe the moment when a film'... Read more
6 May 2020
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37mins
Ranked #16
Online Film Festival Dos and Don'ts
Online Film Festival Dos and Don'ts
We're in the golden age of online film festivals: For the first time, movie lovers can watch brand-new, lovingly curated... Read more
28 Apr 2020
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32mins
Ranked #17
Sam Hargrave (Extraction)
Sam Hargrave (Extraction)
Extraction is the best action movie of the year.Granted, it's a weird year. But even in a normal one, it's hard to imagi... Read more
24 Apr 2020
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32mins
Ranked #18
Willem Dafoe and 'The Mustang' Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
Willem Dafoe and 'The Mustang' Director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre
The Lighthouse was one of Willem Dafoe's biggest acting challenges: Dafoe and Robert Pattinson are onscreen for almost e... Read more
26 Dec 2019
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43mins
Ranked #19
'Clemency' Stars Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge and Director Chinonye Chukwu
'Clemency' Stars Alfre Woodard and Aldis Hodge and Director Chinonye Chukwu
Clemency is one of the last films to be released in 2019, and it's one of the best films of 2019. This week we talk to t... Read more
25 Dec 2019
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51mins
Ranked #20
Alan Cumming and 'Two Popes' Screenwriter Anthony McCarten
Alan Cumming and 'Two Popes' Screenwriter Anthony McCarten
Alan Cumming and "Two Popes" screenwriter Anthony McCarten are our guests this week.We talk with Cumming -- whose Twitte... Read more
19 Dec 2019
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42mins