Best Julia Gfrorer Podcasts (2025)

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208: Francis Ford Coppola: The Conversation (with Sean T. Collins and Julia Gfrörer) 2:02:35

27d ago2:02:35

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To mark the passing of the great Gene Hackman, the writer and critic Sean T. Collins and the cartoonist and graphic novelist Julia Gfrörer are my special guests for a deep dive into one of our favourite films, Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974). The Conversation was groundbreaking in terms of film editing; when Coppola was pulled away t…

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210: The Alto Knights (with Will Sloan) 58:04

3d ago58:04

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The writer and podcaster Will Sloan returns for a show about Robert De Niro’s latest film, Barry Levinson’s The Alto Knights, where he plays two parts on screen, the mob boss Frank Costello and his hotheaded rival Vito Genovese, and their decades-long struggle for control of the New York mafia. The Alto Knights was the pet project of Warner Bros. D…

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TEASER - 209: The Beekeeper / A Working Man (with Adam Jackson) 4:51

13d ago4:51

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Access this entire 92-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/209-beekeeper-126797811 The writer and friend of the pod Adam Jackson returns for a look…

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TEASER - 207: John Ford: The Long Gray Line (with Chris Cassingham) 5:29

1M ago5:29

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Access this entire 87-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/posts/207-john-ford-124925337 The writer and film programmer Chris Cassingham returns to the pod…

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206: Conclave (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:17:44

2M ago1:17:44

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CW: Spoilers for Conclave. The author Jacob Bacharach returns to the pod for a show about Edward Berger’s entertaining political thriller Conclave starring Ralph Fiennes as a conflicted Cardinal who is required to preside over the selection of the new Pope, and amidst the infighting among the Cardinals, uncovers a shocking conspiracy within the hal…

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TEASER - 205: A Woman in Trouble, Part 2: Hotline / In the Cut (with Jessica Ritchey) 5:34

2M ago5:34

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Access this entire 70-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/posts/205-woman-in-2-123622191 In part two of our discussion about Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Jessica…

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204: A Woman in Trouble, Part 1: Looking for Mr. Goodbar (with Jessica Ritchey) 1:23:13

2M ago1:23:13

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CW: This episode contains spoilers and discussions of cinematic sexual violence. The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns to the show for a two-part series about two controversial films about a woman’s complex sexuality, films that took a couple of decades to be rediscovered and better understood. In part one we discuss Richard Brooks’ 1977 drama Lo…

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203: Central Station / I’m Still Here (with Gus Lanzetta) 1:56:08

2M ago1:56:08

1:56:08

Gus Lanzetta returns to the podcast from São Paulo to discuss two films by the Brazilian director Walter Salles: 1998’s Central Station, starring Fernanda Montenegro, and his latest, Ainda Estou Aqui (I’m Still Here) starring Montenegro’s daughter Fernanda Torres, both Academy Award-nominated for their respective performances. In Central Station Fe…

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202: David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials and Naked Lunch (with Violet Lucca) 1:36:15

2M ago1:36:15

1:36:15

CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. Violet Lucca, the author of the new monograph David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials, returns to the podcast from Brooklyn to discuss the book and his controversial 1991 adaptation of William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch starring Peter Weller and Judy Davis, filmed in Toronto standing in for 50s New Yor…

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TEASER - 201: Michael Mann: Blackhat (with James Slaymaker) 5:18

2M ago5:18

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Access this entire 70-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/posts/201-michael-mann-122785625 James Slaymaker, the author of Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Ma…

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200: Proof of Life (with Roxana Hadadi) 1:11:48

3M ago1:11:48

1:11:48

Roxana Hadadi, film and tv critic for Vulture and New York magazine returns to the pod for another episode about Tony Gilroy, this time looking at his screenplay for Taylor Hackford’s kidnapping thriller from the year 2000,Proof of Life, starring top-billed Meg Ryan and the ascendant superstar Russell Crowe. Crowe plays Terry Thorne, an Australian …

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TEASER - 199: The MCU: Munich Cinematic Universe, Part 2 (with Corey Atad) 5:21

3M ago5:21

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Access this entire 92-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/199-mcu-munich-2-121674522 In part two of our look at Munich, Corey Atad and I continue to discuss…

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198: The MCU: Munich Cinematic Universe, Part 1 (with Corey Atad) 1:39:02

3M ago1:39:02

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. The film writer Corey Atad returns to the pod for a two-parter on Steven Spielberg’s 2005 masterpiece Munich, which turns 20 years old this year and yet has barely aged a day. Spielberg starts the film with Black September’s terror attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics and then …

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197: Big Nick (with Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine from Pod Casty For Me) 2:07:03

3M ago2:07:03

2:07:03

The hosts of the left politics and film podcast Pod Casty For Me, Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine, return to Junk Filter for a supersized episode about Christian Gudegast’s Den of Thieves films, starring the new King of January movies Gerard Butler in his greatest role as debauched cop Big Nick O’Brien of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. The …

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TEASER - 196: A Complete Unknown (with Jared Bailey) 5:04

4M ago5:04

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Access this entire 87-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/196-complete-119875574 Jared Bailey (aka Twitter’s @Stolendans) returns to the podcast from Columbia …

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195: Kraven the Hunter (with Adam Jackson) 1:17:41

4M ago1:17:41

1:17:41

The writer and friend of the pod Adam Jackson returns for a show about what has turned out to be the finale of Sony’s "Spider-Man Movies Without Spider-Man In Them Cinematic Universe", Kraven the Hunter, starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Russell Crowe. Directed by J.C. Chandor (Margin Call, All Is Lost), Kraven was originally set for release in Jan…

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TEASER - 194: Die Harder (with Brian Abrams) 4:40

4M ago4:40

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Access this entire 68-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/posts/194-die-harder-118608075 In part two of our discussion of the Die Hard series, Brian Abrams, the author o…

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193: Die Hard (with Brian Abrams) 1:21:00

4M ago1:21:00

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The writer Brian Abrams returns to the show from Brooklyn for the first of two episodes on the Die Hard series. In part one, Brian, the author of Die Hard: An Oral History, gives us the details on the genesis of the franchise, which perfected a formula for action comedy films that producers Joel Silver and Lawrence Gordon had been developing throug…

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192: Man of the West (with Aaron & Carlee from Hit Factory) 1:27:46

4M ago1:27:46

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. Aaron and Carlee from the Hit Factory podcast return from San Francisco to discuss one of Anthony Mann’s best films, the psychological western Man of the West, starring Gary Cooper in one of his final performances as a former outlaw who has worked to get away from his sordid past and rebuild his…

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TEASER - 191: Manhunter, Part 2 (with James Majure) 5:00

5M ago5:00

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Access this entire 50-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.patreon.com/posts/191-manhunter-2-117666207 James Majure and I continue our discussion of Michael Mann’s Manhunter, first by e…

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190: Manhunter, Part 1 (with James Majure) 1:31:01

5M ago1:31:01

1:31:01

James Majure returns to the pod from Athens, GA for a two-part episode on Michael Mann’s Manhunter, a box office and critical disappointment in 1986 that has emerged over the decades into being extremely influential not only on Mann’s future works but on film and television in general, from genre conventions to forensic procedurals on TV. In part 1…

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189: Gladiator II (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:16:11

5M ago1:16:11

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns for a show about Ridley Scott’s latest, the big-budget sequel to his Oscar-winning Gladiator. Set 16 years later, Paul Mescal plays Lucius, the secret son of Russell Crowe’s Maximus, who seeks revenge against Marcus Acacius (Pedro Pascal) the Roman general who conquered his home and enslaved him. He is sent into g…

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TEASER - 188: Teri Garr: A 21-Gun Salute (with Karen Geier) 4:02

5M ago4:02

4:02

Access this entire 94-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/188-teri-garr-21-116729215 The writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a show to mark the passing …

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187: Juror #2 (with Corey Atad) 1:44:57

6M ago1:44:57

1:44:57

The film writer Corey Atad and I went on opening day to see the new Clint Eastwood courtroom drama Juror #2, which is getting an extremely limited release in North America even though Warner Bros. gave it a full rollout in the UK, France and Spain. Why is David Zaslav doing Clint, still working at age 94, one of the icons of American cinema and of …

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TEASER - 186: The Apprentice, Part 2 (with Sami Gold) 4:20

6M ago4:20

4:20

Access this entire 48-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/186-apprentice-2-115230237 On part two of our discussion about The Apprentice, Sami Gold and I discuss the 2024 e…

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185: The Apprentice, Part 1 (with Sami Gold) 1:09:05

6M ago1:09:05

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. Sami Gold, undergraduate political science student at George Washington University and contributor to Liberal Currents, returns to the podcast for a two-part deep dive into the controversial new Donald Trump origin story The Apprentice, which was released weeks before the 2024 election despite h…

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184: Saturday Night (with Adam Nayman) 1:23:24

6M ago1:23:24

1:23:24

The author and film critic Adam Nayman returns to Junk Filter to discuss the new Jason Reitman race-against-time comedy thriller Saturday Night about the backstage antics leading up to the first episode of SNL in 1975, a feature film that serves an an ode to its producer Lorne Michaels while trying to spin tension and suspense out of a foregone con…

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TEASER - 183: The Curse of the Werewolf (with Meg Shields) 5:10

6M ago5:10

5:10

Access this entire 68-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/183-curse-of-meg-114731524 The film writer Meg Shields returns from Vancouver for a spooky season show about one …

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182: Back to the Cluuub: Megalopolis and The Fountainhead (with Jacob Bacharach) 1:49:33

6M ago1:49:33

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The author Jacob Bacharach returns to continue this podcast’s look at Megalopolis. On this episode we compare Coppola’s latest to another overheated epic about a visionary architect, King Vidor’s ludicrous 1949 adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Coppola has acknowledged the film version of The Fountainhead as a key influence on Megalopolis,…

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181: Jokeropolis (with Jessica Ritchey) 1:46:25

7M ago1:46:25

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CW: this episode contains spoilers for Joker 2 and discussions of cinematic sexual violence. The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns to the podcast to discuss the Reverse Barbenheimer of 2024: the more or less simultaneous release of two extremely expensive blockbusters, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, two…

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TEASER - 180: Miami Vice: Heartbeat / Death Drug (with James Majure) 5:48

7M ago5:48

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Access this entire 86-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/180-miami-vice-113085968 We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the premiere of NBC’s crime drama Miami Vice with a…

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179: BlackBerry (with Gus Lanzetta) 1:30:46

7M ago1:30:46

1:30:46

The writer and podcaster Gus Lanzetta returns to the podcast from São Paulo to give our listeners an update on life in Brazil since their Supreme Court banned X: The Everything App from access to the country, and we thought we would pair this with a movie about a revolutionary communication tool that was suddenly not important anymore: Matt Johnson…

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TEASER - 178: Junk Filter Has Fallen (with Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine from Pod Casty For Me) 6:50

7M ago6:50

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Access this entire 126-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/178-junk-filter-112189443 Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine from the great left politics and culture podcast Pod Casty F…

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177: Reagan (with David Weigel) 1:37:54

8M ago1:37:54

1:37:54

Veteran national politics reporter for Semafor David Weigel returns to the show for a discussion of the new conservative political biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as The Great Communicator, or as he was known in Russia, The Crusader, for the film is told from the perspective of a former KGB agent (Jon Voight) who identified him early on as the…

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TEASER - 176: Danpilled Extended Universe: Michael McDonald (with Matthew Perpetua) 4:03

9M ago4:03

4:03

Access this entire 100 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/176-danpilled-109048208 Fluxblog’s Matthew Perpetua returns to the show to continue our Danpilled series, this t…

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175: Shane (with Chris Cassingham) 1:35:51

9M ago1:35:51

1:35:51

The Milwaukee-based film critic and programmer Chris Cassingham joins the show this week to discuss the great director George Stevens and his 1953 masterpiece Shane, starring Alan Ladd and Jack Palance, about a mysterious gunfighter who finds work with a homestead family in the open range of lawless Wyoming and is drawn into the community’s conflic…

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TEASER - 174: Costner's Horizon (with Corey Atad) 4:12

10M ago4:12

4:12

Access this entire 86 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/174-costners-108247008 The film writer Corey Atad returns for a show about the return of Kevin Costner to the dir…

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173: Hardhat Cinema (with Sami Gold) 1:54:57

10M ago1:54:57

1:54:57

Sami Gold, an undergraduate political science student at George Washington University and contributor to Liberal Currents joins me from New York City to discuss some key texts of reactionary right-wing cinema from the post-Civil Rights era and the beginning of America’s involvement in Vietnam and the election of Richard Nixon, what we could call co…

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TEASER - 172: American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, Part 2 (with Karen Geier) 5:32

10M ago5:32

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Access this entire 93 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/172-american-v-o-107059565 In the second half of our discussion about the 2016 FX miniseries American Crime Story…

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171: American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson, Part 1 (with Karen Geier) 1:29:38

10M ago1:29:38

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With the recent death of O.J. Simpson and this month’s 30th anniversary of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman, the writer and content strategist Karen Geier returns for a look at the other great O.J. tv epic of 2016, Ryan Murphy’s 10 part series American Crime Story: The People v. O. J. Simpson: On part one of our discussion we dis…

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170: Fresh (with David Jamell Moses) 1:38:45

10M ago1:38:45

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The film writer David Jamell Moses joins the show for a discussion about a great nineties film that has been flying under the radar for too long, Boaz Yakin’s debut feature Fresh (1994) starring Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson and a 13-year-old actor named Sean Nelson making his film debut, in one of the greatest screen acting performances by…

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TEASER - 169: Cannon’s Prestige Pictures (with Jessica Ritchey) 6:14

11M ago6:14

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Access this entire 105 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. ⁠https://www.patreon.com/posts/169-cannons-with-105061266 The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns for a show about Cannon Films, and the aggre…

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168: Second Wave Ska (with Elana Levin) 1:35:07

12M ago1:35:07

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Elana Levin from Graphic Policy Radio returns to the show for a deep dive into the second wave of Ska music, a brief but influential era when black and white UK musicians fused Jamaican dance music of the sixties into punk and new wave music of the seventies to create a sound that would further revolutionize American popular music in the nineties. …

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TEASER - 167: Civil War (with Ursula Lawrence) 5:52

1y ago5:52

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Access this entire 87 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/167-civil-war-102981212 The comedy writer Ursula Lawrence (Drunk History, Adam Ruins Everything) returns to the show from Madison…

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166: Road House (with Sean T. Collins) 1:43:37

1y ago1:43:37

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The writer Sean T. Collins joins the pod from Long Island for a deep dive into the original 1989 Road House and the 2024 remake now streaming on Amazon Prime. Sean’s book Pain Don’t Hurt offered daily meditations on specific elements of Road House for an entire year, and we discuss the many virtues of this eighties classic about Dalton, the second-…

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165: Deep in the Heart (with Jonathan Hertzberg of Fun City Editions) 1:23:29

1y ago1:23:29

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CW: This episode discusses cinematic sexual violence. The founder of Fun City Editions, Jonathan Hertzberg, joins the podcast from New York City to discuss the boutique video label and their latest blu-ray release, 1983’s Deep in the Heart, aka Handgun, directed by Ken Loach’s longtime English producer Tony Garnett. Deep in the Heart, a brutal port…

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TEASER - 164: Ghostbusters V (with Adam Jackson) 5:15

1y ago5:15

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Access this entire 89 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/164-ghostbusters-101387544 The writer and friend of the pod Adam Jackson returns for a show about the Ghostbusters series, which …

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163: Tenet (with Corey Atad) 1:44:24

1y ago1:44:24

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The writer Corey Atad joins me from Phuket, Thailand for a sequel to our Junk Filter episode about Bane that turned into a discussion about Tenet, and we return to the topic because of the recent cultural reconsideration of Christopher Nolan’s 2020 time-bending thriller, which was released during the pandemic and has taken some time to find an audi…

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Peter Bagge's Hate Part 2 with Whit Taylor

1y ago

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The Runs Podcast Season 2 Finale! We're closing out strong, with another deep dive into Peter Bagge's Indy comics canonical series, Hate, with Whit Taylor (Fizzle, Dead Air, The Nib), who is one of my very favorite people to dish comics with. We get into the nuts and bolts of this series, which really arrives at its fully-formed self in these issue…

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TEASER - 162: The Zone of Interest (with James Slaymaker) 6:50

1y ago6:50

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Access this entire 99 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows every month) by becoming a Junk Filter patron! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/162-zone-of-with-100893723 The writer James Slaymaker, author of Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Mann, returns to the pod fro…

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