In the first part of a 2-part episode, Oscar-winning writer-director Brad Bird and Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino join Gilbert and Frank for an informative and wildly entertaining conversation about their numerous collaborations ("The Incredibles," "Incredibles 2," "Ratatouille," "Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol") complex action plots, "pre-lov ... Show More
Today
GGACP Rewind: Mini-Episode #13: "Being There" & "The Mortal Storm"
In this series of topic-focused mini-episodes, Gilbert and Frank share their love of unheralded films, underrated TV shows, underappreciated pop songs and (often) unknown performers, discussing, dissecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried ... Show More
15m 14s
Aug 20
GGACP Rewind: Episode #54: First Anniversary Special, Part One
To celebrate the podcast’s one-year anniversary, Gilbert and Frank round up an all-star cast of their favorite guests — Craig Bierko, Drew Friedman, Tom Leopold, Bill Persky and Paul Shaffer — for a lively, no-holds-barred discussion of a host of essential topics, ranging from Ge ... Show More
1h 4m
Aug 17
GGACP Rewind: Mini-Episode #12: "Two Seconds" and "Going In Style"
In this series of topic-focused mini-episodes, Gilbert and Frank share their love of unheralded films, underrated TV shows, underappreciated pop songs and (often) unknown performers, discussing, dissecting and (occasionally) defending their handpicked guilty pleasures and buried ... Show More
19m 51s
Apr 2014
The Scriptnotes/Nerdist Writers Panel Crossover Part 2!
Scriptnotes hosts John August (Big Fish; Frankenweenie; Go) and Craig Mazin (The Hangover 2; Identity Thief) join NWP's Ben Blacker to talk about what Craig and John are working on, their writing habits, take questions from the audience, and more. For part one of the podcast, go ... Show More
1h 11m
May 2023
Brad Bird "Flashback Friday"
In this RETRO rerelease of classic episodes of the Bancroft Brothers Animation podcast, we go back to one of are biggest "gets", director BRAD BIRD, from Episode #19! We interviewed him on the cusp of his first live action film, "Tomorrowland"! Hear the genuine fear he had abou ... Show More
58m 59s
Jan 2022
Mike Birbiglia • Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein #183
LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With!
Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with film maker, improv genius and comic MIKE BIRBIGLIA!
This has been a long time coming, ever since the film ‘Don’t Think Twice’ was invoked all those epis ... Show More
1h 12m
Sep 2023
#583 — Mike Birbiglia, Brian Duffield
This week's episode of the Empire Podcast sees comedian, actor, writer, director and future King of England, Mike Birbiglia, drop by the podbooth to have an extended, but very funny, natter with Chris Hewitt about Birbiglia's one-man show, The Old Man And The Pool, which is on no ... Show More
1h 52m
Apr 2015
Janeane Garofalo, Brad Bird and Really Smart Cartoons
Brad Bird, director of The Incredibles and Ratatouille, first caught the attention of Disney after making his first animated film at age 14. Now one of the premier filmmakers in the Pixar camp, Bird is going live-action with the upcoming blockbuster Tomorrowland, based on the Dis ... Show More
50m 58s
Aug 2024
The Michael Keaton Movie Mount Rushmore
With ‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice’ on the horizon, Sean and Amanda enlist the help of Michael Keaton superfan and ‘Blank Check’ cohost Griffin Newman to carve out the Michael Keaton movie Mount Rushmore: an ode to a career with incredible peaks and long, fallow stretches (1:00). The ... Show More
2h 25m