Episode 4: The Letterman Late Night Legacy

Writer/director Sir Kenneth Branagh joins us for a conversation about his semi-autobiographical new film “Belfast” and much more! ‘Belfast” is nominated for 7 Academy Awards including, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Picture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 Feb 202227min

A conversation with newly minted Oscar nominee Eskil Vogt! Vogt was just nominated for Best Original Screenplay, together with director Joachim Trier, for ‘The Worst Person in The World’. The film was also nominated for Best International Feature. We talk about his long collab with Trier, ‘The Worst Person in the World’, as well as his new film, his second feature as writer/director, the supernatural horror film ‘The Innocents’. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

10 Feb 202229min

Erik Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of Awardswatch.com, joins us to to talk about the Oscar nominations 2022! The surprises, the snubs and state of the race. The 94th Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 27, 2022. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

8 Feb 202249min

This week on Pop Culture Confidential, actor Jamie Dornan, star of ‘Belfast' the critically acclaimed and semi autobiographical film by Kenneth Branagh! Dornan joins us to talk about returning to him hometown for this movie, playing Branagh’s father, his intense year, Bond rumors and much more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Feb 202222min

Director & co-writer Joachim Trier ( ‘Reprise’, ‘Oslo, 31 August’ ) joins us to talk about his critically acclaimed new feature “The Worst Person in the World”, life, love and rom coms! “The Worst Person in the World” is Norways Oscar submission 2021 & actor Renate Reinsve won the award for Best Actress at Cannes this for her performance as Julie. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

1 Feb 202230min

This week we are at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival! We are excited to be joined by Ryan McQuade, editor at InSessionFilm, host of the Chasing The Gold podcast and covering Sundance for AwardsWatch.com! We are a little more than half way through the virtual festival, Christina & Ryan sit down to talk about some the incredibly interesting movies at this years' fest. The most about buzzed films, which films they loved and which ones they just can’t wrap their heads around! Twitter @ryanmcquade77 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

26 Jan 20221h 7min

We are thrilled to be joined by EP Jessica Rhoades (Sharp Objects, The Affair) and creator, showrunner & EP Patrick Somerville (The Leftovers, Maniac) to talk about their groundbreaking series “Station Eleven”. On making a post apocalyptic show about joy and healing during an actual pandemic. On themes of grief and living in the now. And so much more. “Station Eleven” is streaming on HBOMax. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

20 Jan 202238min

Thrilled to welcome NPR TV critic Eric Deggans back to the show for a new year of television! In this episode we talk about some of the most anticipated new shows coming the first half of 2022. Notorious scandals like the story of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee’s stolen sex tape in the upcoming Hulu series 'Pam & Tommy’, Julia Garner as con artist Anna Delvey in ‘Inventing Anna’ (Netflix) created by Shonda Rhimes, Amanda Seyfried as disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in ‘The Dropout’  (Hulu).  Plus Jason Katims' (Friday Night Lights) new show ‘As We See It’ a comedy-drama series about living on the autism spectrum (Amazon Prime), ‘House of Dragon’ (HBOMax), ‘The Gilded Age’ (HBOMax) and much more!  Eric Deggans talks about his favorites, some disappointments and what to expect coming your way! Listen now. Twitter: @Deggans Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

9 Jan 202234min