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Critical Darlings: Sinners And The Academy’s Growing Genre Acceptance with Sam Sanders
This week we’re joined by Sam Sanders of The Sam Sanders Show to discuss Sinners, the most nominated film in Academy Awards history. With sixteen nominations across directing, writing, music, and acting categories, Sinners is a somewhat surprising record breaker, as genre films, ... Show More
1h 28m
Mar 1
The Eleventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Live from our windowless studio in Downtown Brooklyn, it's the 11th Annual Blankies! Joe Reid joins us once again to give out golden Wattos to our favorite films, performances, and craftspeople of the year. Some of our picks are certainly part of the greater award season conversa ... Show More
3h 3m
Feb 26
Critical Darlings: Sentimental Value and Belated Oscar Breakthroughs with Joe Reid
This week we’re in hygge mode, uncovering traumas in our generational home with the host of This Had Oscar Buzz, Joe Reid! One of the breakout Oscar films of the year is Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value, a warm, realist Norwegian film about a difficult but brilliant director (St ... Show More
1h 19m
Oct 2022
Four Favorites with Ana Lily Amirpour: sad cinema, hungry babies, Keanu Reeves and American Psycho
50m 35s
Jun 2024
Knight Service - Joshua John Miller & Mark Fortin (The Exorcism)
Freddy had the pleasure of talking with Joshua John Miller, the director of The Exorcism, and Mark Fortin, the writer. They both talked about their life struggles growing up, what got them into horror, the filmmaking process, and so much more. It was a very thoughtful and insight ... Show More
33m 52s
Sep 2020
Captain Kronos Vampire Killer Episode 240
<p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/89428/height_250_width_250_overlay_Captain_Kronos-SHOWART.jpg" alt="" />Madeline Brumby and Jim discuss a Hammer film that has achieved a large cult following since ... Show More
42m 26s
Jan 2025
Nosferatu (or Yesferatu?) with Robert Eggers
Happy New Year from Mark, Simon, The Redactor and the rest of us on the Take Team! We’re kicking off 2025 with a top-drawer guest—’Nosferatu’ director Robert Eggers. He tells Simon about his new remake of the1922 silent classic, originally by German expressionist director F.W. Mu ... Show More
1h 11m
Oct 2023
#588 — Eddie Izzard, Matt Johnson, Greta Gerwig
It's not so much a hat-trick of amazing guests on this week's Empire Podcast, more a hat-treat as our bumper-sized Halloween edition brings you, tucked away at the episode's end (should you wish to skip there immediately), Ben Travis' warm and wonderful chat with Greta Gerwig, di ... Show More
2h 7m
Oct 2024
The Lost Boys | Episode 434
54m 26s
Oct 2024
Another Transformers Film? What Will Mark Think?
This week’s guest is everyone’s favourite foul-mouthed politico-cum-Time Lord. That’s right, Peter Capaldi is on the show to tell Simon all about Season 2 of his time-bending, psychological thriller show ‘The Devil’s Hour’. Mark reviews ‘Transformers One’, an animated sci-fi acti ... Show More
1h 5m
Jul 2025
Malachi Barton of Zombies 4: Dawn of the Vampires
This week, Tommy is joined by actor Malachi Barton who is currently starring in Zombie 4: Dawn of the Vampires. The Zombies franchise is beloved for not only its infectious music and great dance numbers, but for using supernatural metaphors to tackle so many issues that resonate ... Show More
45m 24s
Aug 2022
Four Favorites with Rebekah McKendry: absurd horror, Hedwig, Suspiria, The ’Burbs
1h 5m
Sep 2024
254. The Addams Family with special guest Once Upon a VHS
<p>"Last night, you were unhinged. You were like some desperate howling demon. You frightened me. Do it again." We watched "The Addams Family" with our friends Michael and Callum from the amazing podcast "Once Upon a VHS" and we have the sudden urge for Girl Scout cookies. We've ... Show More
1h 46m
It’s not “Children of the Damned” nor “Children of the Corn” nor “Corn of the Damned” - it’s John Carpenter’s “Village of the Damned,” goddamnit! Creepy blonde kids with laser eyes! Our guest Amy Nicholson’s (“Unspooled”) boyfriend thinks she looks like one of them. Griffin thinks David’s baby has “Village of the Damned” eyes, too. But is this movie actually ... Show More
<p>“It’s so fun to be bad.” Spooky season continues with filmmaker Ana Lily Amirpour, who talks to <a href="https://letterboxd.com/ggnz/"><u>Gemma</u></a> and <a href="https://letterboxd.com/slim/"><u>Slim</u></a> about her four favorite films—<a href="https://boxd.it/28Vs"><u><e ... Show More
<p><img style= "display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src= "https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/show/89428/The_Lost_Boys.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="188" />In this Halloween Special Episode, Jim reflects on a "vampire" film that greatly impacted him in 1987 - J ... Show More
<p>Never tumble-dry a bra! Film professor, director, <a href="https://www.fangoria.com/podcasts/colors-of-the-dark/"><u><em>Colors of the Dark</em></u></a> podcaster and absurdist horror-comedy fan <a href="https://letterboxd.com/rebekahmckendry/"><u>Rebekah McKendry</u></a> join ... Show More
