Special Report: The Secret World of Roald Dahl
Mike talks with writer Aaron Tracy about his new podcast series, The Secret Life of Roald Dahl, which tells the story of the (in)famous writer who once served in the British Secret Service before beco...
20 Mars 34min
Grace Glowicki on Dead Lover (2025)
Mike talks with multi-hyphenate Grace Glowicki about her new film, Dead Lover (2025). It's a stinky look at a gravedigger (Glowicki) who searches for a love who is taken too-soon.The film is playing t...
19 Mars 23min
Episode 790: The Wild Boys (2017)
Kyler Fey and Michelle Kisner join Mike to dig into Bertrand Mandico's striking 2017 feature debut, The Wild Boys (Les Garçons Sauvages). A fever dream of transgression and transformation, the film fo...
18 Mars 1h 58min
Special Report: Martyn Zub on The Weight (2026)
Re-recording mixer Martyn Zub discusses the new film from Padraic McKinley, The Weight (2026), the story of a battle-scarred veteran in The Great Depression who's hired to help smuggle a fortune in go...
17 Mars 22min
Special Report: The Bride! (2026)
She's been dug up, renamed, reanimated, and gaslit — and Hollywood expects her to be grateful. Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! resurrects the Bride of Frankenstein for a 1930s Chicago that feels equal ...
16 Mars 1h 23min
Special Report: Julie Wyman on The Tallest Dwarf (2025)
Mike sits down with Julie Wyman, director of The Tallest Dwarf — a documentary that is as personal as it is political. When filmmaker and UC Davis professor Julie Forrest Wyman set out to make The Tal...
11 Mars 21min
Special Report: Christine La Monte on Viva Verdi! (2025)
Christine La Monte discusses her career and her latest work producing a pair of opera-themed documentaries, the uplifting Viva Verdi! (2025) and the stunning Ai Weiwei's Turandot (2025). La Monte talk...
5 Mars 48min
Episode 789: Head-On (2004)
Collision as courtship. Self-destruction as intimacy. Fatih Akın’s Head-On (2004) opens with two suicide attempts and spirals into a sham marriage between Cahit (Birol Ünel) and Sibel (Sibel Kekilli),...
4 Mars 1h 5min
