How Movies Can Better Prep Us for the AI Threat
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Nate Soares to talk about his new book, cowritten with Eliezer Yudkowsky, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. It’s a fascinat...
26 Sep 202553min
Why 'Haunted Hotel' Is the Perfect Spooky Season Show
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Matt Roller, the creator and showrunner of the new Netflix animated show Haunted Hotel. We discussed his background in television, how it helped prepare him for t...
19 Sep 202553min
'Andor' and the Accelerationist Moment
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Tony Gilroy to discuss his work on Andor, the hit Disney+ series that’s a prequel to Rogue One but has ambitions beyond telling the backstory of the Death Star. I...
11 Sep 202546min
Does America Need a Film Tax Credit?
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Rep. Laura Friedman, the congresswoman from the area we colloquially refer to as “Hollywood,” to discuss her push for a national film tax credit of the sort used ...
5 Sep 202540min
How an Alamo Founder Is Reinventing Theaters—Again
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Tim League, one of the founders of the Alamo Drafthouse and the man behind Metro Private Cinemas in New York’s Chelsea neighborhood. It’s a pretty cool concept—ha...
29 Aug 202539min
The Wild Career of 'Weapons' Star Toby Huss
On this week’s episode, I’m thrilled to be joined by Toby Huss, star of the summer’s most surprising smash hit, Weapons, as well as the rebooted King of the Hill on Hulu and Americana, in theaters and...
22 Aug 20251h 2min
Ron Howard: The Most Underrated Major Director?
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by New York Magazine’s Bilge Ebiri, who has an enormous, career-spanning interview with Ron Howard in the latest issue. We discussed what makes a Ron Howard movie a ...
15 Aug 202553min
Can 'The Naked Gun' Save Hollywood Comedies?
I asked David Poland (read his Substack!) to come on this week to pick his brain about the state of the big studio comedy, a genre that has diminished in recent years as international grosses became m...
1 Aug 202546min
