Special Report: Luger (2025)
Mike talks with the creative team behind Luger, a provocative Spanish thriller that blurs the line between obsession, power, and violence. Joining the conversation are filmmaker Bruno Martín, director...
2 Jan 39min
Episode 780: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
Writer, director, and star Joanna Arnow delivers one of the sharpest, most quietly uncomfortable comedies of recent years with The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023), a film t...
31 Dec 20251h 6min
Episode 779: Megalopolis (2024)
Mike Thompson and Rob St. Mary join Mike to step into the rubble, rhetoric, and Roman cosplay of Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed, forty-years-in-the-making cinematic fever dream. A f...
26 Dec 20251h 56min
Special Report: Memoirs of an Invisible Man (1992)
If you're not listening to the Chasing Chevy Chase podcast, here's an episode to whet your appetite... Chevy Chase takes an unexpected turn into sci-fi thriller territory with Memoirs of an Invisible ...
24 Dec 20251h 10min
Episode 778: The Book of Revelation (2006)
Spencer Parsons and Rob St. Mary join Mike to unpack Ana Kokkinos’s unflinching 2006 adaptation of Rupert Thomson’s novel. The Book of Revelation, a film that refuses easy provocation, using intimacy,...
24 Dec 20252h 18min
Special Report: Claudio Fäh on Turbulence
Mike talks with director Claudio Fäh about Turbulence (2025), a tightly constructed thriller set almost entirely in the air. Fäh discusses the film’s development, the practical challenges of staging a...
22 Dec 202521min
Episode 777: The Image (1975)
Radley Metzger pushes the boundaries of erotic cinema with The Image (1975), a film that treats desire as ritual, performance, and provocation. Adapted from the infamous novel by Catherine Robbe-Grill...
17 Dec 20252h 27min
Episode 776: The Story of O (1975)
Jessica Shires and Samm Deighan join Mike for a deep, unflinching look at Just Jaeckin’s The Story of O (1975), the adaptation of Pauline Réage’s notorious novel. Corinne Cléry embodies O with startli...
10 Dec 20253h 36min
