Click here to send us a message! As we head into the final stretch of #Pride2024 we’re taking a look at a couple of movies that attempt to dramatize the very concept. In 2014, action film director Roland Emmerich tried, and failed, to tell the legendary story of #Stonewall via a white-washed tale of privilege. A year later came a film called #Pride that tell ... Show More
Jan 2025
Mufasa: The Lion King with Barry Jenkins and Ben Affleck (Ep. 525)
<p class="p1">Director Barry Jenkins discusses his new film, Mufasa: The Lion King, with fellow Director Ben Affleck in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses employing the VFX team from the Avatar films to create the world, working with bo ... Show More
34m 42s
Nov 2023
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that rem ... Show More
1h 5m
Dec 2023
The Color Purple With Blitz Bazawule And Gina Prince-Bythewood (Ep. 456)
Director Blitz Bazawule discusses his new film, The Color Purple, with fellow Director Gina Prince-Bythewood in a Q&A at the DGA theater in Los Angeles. In the conversation, he discusses the importance of sketching in his artistic process, how his background in music prepared him ... Show More
32m 59s
Nov 2023
Michael Newton, "It's a Wonderful Life" (British Film Institute, 2023)
Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life is one of the best-loved films of Classical Hollywood cinema, a story of despair and redemption in the aftermath of war that is one of the central movies of the 1940s, and a key text in America's understanding of itself. This is a film that rem ... Show More
1h 5m
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/158520/open_sms">Click here to send us a message!</a></p><p>With Paul Thomas Anderson's newest <em>One Battle After Another </em>in theaters and heavily favored in the Awards conversation, Brian and ... Show More
<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/158520/open_sms">Click here to send us a message!</a></p><p>Just in time for Halloween, we're revisiting two of our favorite classic 90's horror flicks. Fresh off an Academy Award for <em>Pulp F ... Show More
