Best Chris Bastien Podcasts (2025)

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S16: Scaredy Cats #1: Barbarian (2022) [AUDIO PREVIEW] 8:38

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This is an audio-only preview of our new video show, Scaredy Cats. You can watch the whole show (and get the full podcast cut as well) by clicking through and subscribing to the Craven Tier of our Patreon! On the maiden voyage of our new horror movie show, Scaredy Cats, we’re chatting about the total ass-kicker of a horror good time, Barbarian! How…

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S16 Ep828: Leprechaun in the Hood (with James and Chelsea from Dead Meat) 2:02:11

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“The flute makes it good” - Chris, on the music the actors perform On this week’s episode, the 2025 Halloween Spooktacular comes to a close as we invite our buds, Chelsea Rebecca and James A. Janisse from Dead Meat, to chat about the 2000, direct-to-video, horror sequel, Leprechaun in the Hood! How hilarious are the first five minutes of this movie…

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"Everything is Art. Everything is Politics." AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT Dir. MAXIM DEREVIANKO - Highlights

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“So when we decided to do a documentary to follow Ai Weiwei, we knew, of course, it wouldn't be just a simple opera, and we knew he would bring his own very special and original vision. Because, of course, he is not an opera director. From his point of view, it's a challenge, but from another perspective, it’s probably an enrichment for the opera a…

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AI WEIWEI'S TURANDOT 59:36

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“Everything is Art. Everything is Politics. I think art competes with reality. And art will give you the last words.” –Ai Weiwei The renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei has used sculpture, photography, documentaries, and large-scale installations to challenge authoritarian power for decades. But his project at the Rome Opera House, directing Puc…

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S16 Ep827: Thir13en Ghosts (2001) 1:48:10

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“It’s kind of a ghost-Jurassic Park opening!” - Steve On this week’s episode, our 2025 Halloween Spooktacular continues as we dive into some early-aughts horror while chatting about the 2001 remake, Thir13en Ghosts! First off, how incredibly stupid is this official title? Why did they need to give those ghosts dumb ghost names? What kind of sick pe…

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S16 Ep826: Halloween (2007) 1:56:00

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“It’s a white-trash version of one of your favorite horror movies” - Andrew On this week’s episode, our Halloween horror movie marathon is just getting started as we chat about the 2007 Rob Zombie remake, Halloween! Why are we taking an hour to get adult Michael back to Haddonfield? How great is younger Loomis’s hair? Couldn’t we have gotten a bit …

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Guggenheim Abu Dhabi: Innovation, Culture, Legacy - Highlights 13:31

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“At Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, I work with a very international team—people from all over the world, around 50 nationalities in this museum. I’ve never worked in such an environment, and it’s inspiring. When you talk to someone from a different country, you can’t help but be inspired. The most important thing for me is to feel fulfilled, and I find fulf…

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Guggenheim Abu Dhabi's Vision for the Future 1:06:14

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“Guggenheim Abu Dhabi is a unique concept. The idea behind the building itself is a dance. It's a living building because it's a dance between spaces. It's a dance between blocks of spaces and shapes and cones, and it's inspiring for the future because the legacy is a huge factor for every project. It's the legacy for young architects and for other…

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S16: On-Screen Live: Paul Thomas Andersons's 'One Battle After Another' starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Chase Infiniti, Teyana Taylor & Benicio del Toro! 1:05:02

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Originally live-streamed Monday, October 6, 2025 On this week's On-Screen Live, the gang is on-hand to sift through some entertainment news items, analyze the tepid weekend box office numbers, and dig up another gem of a Secret Movie™️, however the biggest goal of this week's show was to chat a blue streak about Paul Thomas Andersons's One Battle A…

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S16 Ep825: Needful Things (1993) 2:02:43

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S16 Ep824: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, W❤️M) [EXTENDED PREVIEW] 11:28

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“Everyone’s sweating like pigs and you can feel it” - Steve On this month’s terrifying We ❤️ Movies episode, we’re goofing on, and gushing over one of the all-time greats, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)! How incredible is the John Larroquette scroll narration? How much of this film’s soundtrack is taken up by people screaming? How horrific is t…

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S16: On-Screen Live: The 63rd New York Film Festival (feat. films starring George Clooney, Adam Sandler, Josh O'Connor, Alana Haim, Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Willem Dafoe, Greta Lee & more! 1:16:52

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Originally live-streamed Monday, September 29, 2025 On this On-Screen Live special, Andrew, Chris & Eric are reporting back from their time spent at the 63rd New York Film Festival! They're sharing their thoughts on some of the films coming down the pike for the end of the year/early next, including new ones from: Kelly Reichardt (The Mastermind, s…

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S16 Ep823: Tron (1982) 1:52:24

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“Bury me at Flynn’s Arcade” - Steve On this week’s show, we’re finally talking about the landmark special effects movie/ride, Tron! This is the film where a computer programmer, played by the handsome as all get-out Jeff Bridges, gets pulled into his own computer system and has to battle for the freedom of… accounting software? How incredible are t…

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Nordic Art & Contemporary Perspectives at the ARKEN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART - Highlights 12:25

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“This awe that I feel every time I meet an artist who has the courage to deal with what it means to be in the world as a human being and to tackle it from different ways and through different media. I always feel that through the collaborations I have with artists, I learn a little bit more about the world, myself, my feelings or emotions, and how …

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The Future of Museums with MARIE NIPPER, Director of ARKEN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART 1:09:12

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“We don't need to find an end solution, but it's a space where we can speculate, imagine, and practice our foresight. We can be part of a bigger imagination together with an institutional framework, which is really what we try to motivate as well when we communicate these exhibitions to our audience and speak with our guests about these works. We c…

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S16 Ep822: Predators (2010) 1:41:33

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“Adrian Brody is too good of an actor to be in a B-movie like this.” - Andrew On this week’s episode, we’re chatting about the outrageously late sequel, Predators! This is the one where a bunch of strangers get dropped into a Predators’ hunting arena planet and have to survive being hunted by our beloved, be-dreadlocked alien warriors! But, why can…

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Art is a Fundamental Element of Life - Gallerist HANNAH BARRY on a Life in Art 34:58

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“There's something fundamental about the value of art and culture. Not just being integrated for vocational reasons, but because the experience of art and having a cultural element in one's life brings enjoyment, learning, relief, or any of the many experiences and feelings that art provides. I think this is quite fundamental as an element of life.…

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S16: On-Screen Live TIFF 2025: New Films Featuring Dwayne Johnson, Bob Odenkirk, Bill Skarsgård, Anya Taylor-Joy, Lee Byung-hun & More! 1:23:38

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Our On-Screen Live coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival has Andrew, Eric & Chris breaking down new films from Gus Van Sant (Dead Man's Wire), Paul Greengrass (The Lost Bus), Alex Winter (Adulthood), James Vanderbilt (Nuremberg), Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice), Ben Wheatley (Normal), Benny Safdie (The Smashing Machine) & more! …

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S16 Ep821: The Conjuring 1:56:09

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“There’s so much door play in this movie!” - Chris On this week’s episode, we’re dipping into horror territory to revisit the film that got the haunted ball rolling, The Conjuring! Before all the nuns and eerie doll spin-offs, Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga hit the screen with this solid entry in the possession genre that features a fun amount of …

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S16 Ep820: On Deadly Ground REDUX 2:06:45

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“It weighs 250 pounds!” - Chris on Seagal’s huge jacket in this movie On the season 16 premiere of We Hate Movies, we’re chatting about the outrageous Steven Seagal directorial debut, On Deadly Ground! Having first talked about this way back at our first ever live show taping, we’re getting our eyes on this one again in-studio over ten years later …

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S16 Ep819: Aliens (W❤️M) [EXTENDED PREVIEW] 9:59

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“She comes out in a mech suit to fold the burritos…” - Eric on Ripley working at Chipotle [This extended preview is only a small portion of our great, hilarious episode covering this fantastic movie! To get access to the whole thing, click through to our Patreon and sign up today!] On this month’s We ❤️ Movies, which also happens to be the season 1…

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S15: Summer Patreon Unlock - Episode #446: The Shining (W❤️M) 2:27:09

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Originally Released October 3, 2019 [EDITOR'S NOTE: Odds are you have already heard this classic W❤️M on The Shining, however we did record a new intro for this one that contains some pretty exciting Patreon-related news! So be sure to check this out and have a great time revisiting a fan-fave WLM classic episode! And get ready, because WHM16 start…

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S15 Ep818: Pretty Woman (Live in Boston) 2:25:57

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Recorded December 4, 2024 at Laugh Boston - Boston, MA “Could I get some ‘directions’ over here?” - Eric On the final Summer Live episode this season, it’s our show from last year in Boston chatting about the rom-com classic, Pretty Woman! What kind of high society rich-guy party hires a close-up magic performer? Why did they write Julia’s characte…

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Art Without Borders - RAJIV MENON'S Vision for South Asian Art 46:31

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“I want people to understand South Asian art as broader than a single gallery or a single artist, but as a larger cultural movement. I want people to encounter art in all parts of their lives, and I’m constantly thinking about new ways to achieve that. I was very aware, as someone launching a South Asia-focused gallery, that this was the cultural d…

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S15 Ep817: Quantum of Solace (Live in Oxford, UK) 1:40:22

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Recorded July 18, 2025 at the Old Fire Station Theatre - Oxford, UK “I do think, every time you need to sing the title!” - Steve on Bond theme songs On this week’s Summer Live episode, it’s our piping-hot pod straight out of Oxford all about the second Daniel Craig Bond film, Quantum of Solace! Why did they think they needed to chase the Jason Bour…

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S15 Ep816: The Goonies (Live in Portland, OR) 1:49:23

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Recorded November 17, 2024 at Mississippi Studios - Portland, OR “He’s a man-monster, I’m sorry!” - Steve on Sloth On this week’s Summer Live episode, it’s our wild show from last year in the great city of Portland, Oregon where we were talking about local favorite and Dick Donner classic, The Goonies! How cool is that jailbreak sequence with all t…

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S15 Ep815: Casino Royale (2006, W❤️M) [EXTENDED PREVIEW] 16:21

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This is just a small taste of our W❤️M episode on Casino Royale! To go all-in, click through here and sign up for our Patreon. Unlock this show, along with hours, upon hours of exclusive shows and commentaries you can't get anywhere else! “If a dummy’s taking a fall, I’m clapping, I’m loving it!” - Eric on stunt work On this month’s W❤️M, we’re cha…

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S15 Ep814: Harry and the Hendersons (Live in Seattle) 1:41:31

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Recorded November 15, 2024 at Washington Hall - Seattle, Washington “Don Ameche definitely kicked the shit out of people in his prime!” - Andrew On our first Summer Live episode of the season, it’s our raucous show from last year in Seattle where we talked all things Harry and the Hendersons! Why do they make little kid camouflage clothes? Are all …

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AI, UFOs, Perception & Reality with Artist, Geographer, Author TREVOR PAGLEN - Highlights 14:14

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“If we look at the entire history of the human experience, if you saw some text or you heard some spoken language, you could 100 percent reliably infer that there was a human who created that. Our experience of having that text or that image generated for us is very akin to the experience of a magic trick, and we sort of pre-subconsciously want to …

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How AI is Shaping Perception, How Deception is Sculpting Our Reality with Artist TREVOR PAGLEN 55:26

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“There's a word for this brain rot, right? I think that's very real. There are studies coming out now that are showing that the more and more of our cognitive labor we offload to AI systems, the less creative we become, the less critical we become, and the less of our human faculties for reason we use. There's something sad about that, but there’s …

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Art, Empathy & Resilience with CADY McCLAIN, Actor, Director, Writer, Artist, Musician - Highlights 11:20

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“I had to become the father of my family very young because my parents divorced when I was 12. My situation was a little bit unusual in that my father kind of disappeared, and I had been making a fair amount of money as a kid, doing commercials and television and film. We needed money, and I kind of became the breadwinner. But I had this amazing wo…

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A Life in Acting with Emmy Award-winning Actor, Artist, Director CADY McCLAIN 1:06:02

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“I won my first Emmy when I was 21, which was the result of absolutely devoting myself day and night for two years to doing all the scene work. I attended classes simultaneously and did plays until my mother died. I studied with Michael Howard for eight years. Even when I was so tired I couldn't get up to do a scene, he would say, "Get up and do a …

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S15 Ep813: Night at the Museum 2:01:16

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“He’s a little hobgoblin in this one!” - Steve on Mickey Rooney On the season 15 finale of WHM, we’re chatting about the hyper-successful, super-weird family film, Night at the Museum! How obnoxious is this day-dreamer, inventor character they have Stiller playing? Has no one else ever worked late at this museum besides the security team? Is there …

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Life As No One Knows It - Exploring AIR Aspen with NICOLA LEES - Highlights 9:04

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“For us, I think it really is about trust and commitments, and I don't think that has necessarily changed over the years. As we work on that, obviously, we are very much invested in how we can engage an audience and spark the curiosity that people are looking for. The most important thing often is how we can spark that curiosity in ourselves. As a …

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S15 Ep812: Fantastic Four (2015) 1:53:09

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“I’d have preferred they made no movie at all…” - Eric On this week’s episode, the Summer Blockbuster Extravaganza has us chatting about the total misfire of a superhero reboot, Fantastic Four (2015)! Yikes, folks! Why are all members of the Fantastic Four under legal drinking age in this movie? Why did we need to see Reed and Ben as little kids at…

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The First Artist-Led Global Summit & The Future of Museums - NICOLA LEES, Director, Aspen Art Museum 46:04

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“It's a complicated time to think about how we can slow down, be still, and bring a brilliant group of people together to do something that feels purposeful and can be productive. It's a moment where things are moving so fast. When I brought up the idea of a hinge generation, I think it's impossible to know how we will look back and reflect on this…