Episodes
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Episode 356: Touch of Evil with Joseph McBride
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk to Film Historian and Biographer Joseph McBride about Orson Welles 1958 Film Noir sometimes called the "Last True Noir Film" Touch of Evil!! Joseph McBride just released his third edition of his Orson Welles biography...
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Episode 355: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Julia Linger
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with Julia Linger!! The 1971 Mel Stuart adaptation of Roald Dahl's 1964 children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Starring Gene Wilder, Jack Albertson, Peter Ostrum, Roy Kinnear, Denise Nickerson,...
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Episode 354: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma with Renee Ruin
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk to Renee Ruin about Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex And Death at Camp Miasma Jane Schoenbrun's third film after I Saw The TV Glow. A young filmmaker named Kris is hired to direct a remake of the problematic but long-running slasher franchise Camp...
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Episode 353: Clue with Kt Baldassaro
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Clue with former cohost and 'What if I Don't Like It?' & 'Movie Runtime' Host Kt Baldassaro Clue is a Comedy Mystery film based on the board game Clue Six strangers meet at a Mansion where a series of murders force the strangers to solve the...
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Episode 352: Rocky Horror Picture Show with Linus O'Brien
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk to Linus O'Brien, Director of 'Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror', about Rocky Horror Picture Show!! Linus O'Brien is a Multi-Media Artist, Director, Writer, and also the son of the writer of Rocky Horror Picture Show Richard O'Brien!!!...
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Episode 351: Phantom of the Paradise
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise Starring Paul Williams, William Finley, Gerrit Graham, Jessica Harper and George Memmoli Written at the same time as De Palma's 1972 psychological horror film Sisters, Phantom of the Paradise is a Rock...
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Episode 350: The Invite
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Olivia Wilde's the Invite Starring Olivia Wilde, Seth Rogen, Edward Norton, and Penelope Cruz Olivia Wilde and Seth Rogen play a married couple who have lost their passion for each other whose night with their upstairs neighbors (Edward Norton...
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Episode 349: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Mike Nichols 1966 directorial debut Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Starring Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Sandy Dennis, and George Segal Adapted by Ernest Lehman and based on Edward Albee's 1962 play of the same name. After years, first...
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Episode 348: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Howard Hawk's 1953 musical comedy 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' Based on a 1925 Anita Loos comic novel and the 1949 Broadway Musical of the same name, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes was Howard Hawks last film with Fox Starring Marilyn Monroe and Jane...
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Episode 347: Some Like It Hot with Eileen Jones
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and film critic Eileen Jones talk about Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot!! Billy Wilder's 1959 comedy follows two musicians Joe (Tony Curtis) and Jerry (Jack Lemmon) in 1929 before the big crash who witness the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and go into hiding…
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Episode 346: The Dark Knight Rises with Jeffrey Barrios
Forrest, Kristina, and Conan Neutron talk about Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises (2012) The third in our trilogy, of Christopher Nolan Batman Movies and also episodes on them Starring Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Tom Hardy,...
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Episode 345: The Dark Knight with FreddyG
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and FreddyG discuss Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Last week, we did the 2005 Batman origin story.. Batman Begins. Christopher Nolan's first entry in a grittier, realier, darker Batman series after decades of more campy and cartoonish portrayals.…
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Episode 344: On The Silver Globe with Renee Ruin
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Renee Ruin discuss Andrzej Żuławski's On The Silver Globe Based on "The Lunar Trilogy" a science fiction series written by Żuławski's Great Uncle. Żuławski worked from 1975-1977, On the Silver Globe would have been one of the biggest European Films ever made, as it…
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Episode 343: Batman Begins with Gus
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron and Gus begin our Christopher Nolan Batman episodes with Batman Begins Starring Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, and Rutger Hauer We are talking about the Batman Trilogy that…
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Episode 342: Titanic
Forrest and Kristina Oakes have both watched Titanic a million times but Conan Neutron has never seen it!! We discuss James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster triumph Titanic. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Kathy Bates, Bill Paxton, Victor Garber, Bernard Hill, Gloria Staurt, Frances Fisher,...
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Episode 341: The Odyssey with Zach Marsh
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Zach Marsh talk about Christopher Nolan's new adaptation of The Odyssey!! Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, Tom Holland as Telemachus, Anne Hathaway as Penelope, Robert Pattinson, Zendaya, Charlize Theron, Travis Scott, and Jon Bernthal It's been 3 years...
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Episode 340: Backrooms with Renee Ruin
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Renee Ruin discuss Kane Parson's Backrooms Renee Ruin is the cohost of the Night Shift Podcast and a writer, DJ, and model. Backrooms comes from a 4Chan CreepyPasta/Ongoing Meme of pictures of Liminal Spaces. Kane Parsons began doing a "The Backrooms...
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Episode 339: Terminator 2: Judgement Day with Sean McGrath
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk about Terminator 2: Judgement Day with Sean McGrath of Unkind Rewind and CineQuote Last week, we covered The Terminator, James Cameron's 1984 science fiction slasher classic. This week, we are talking about Terminator 2!!! Starring Arnold...
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Episode 338: The Terminator
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes discuss James Cameron's 1984 sci-fi action film The Terminator! Beginning an entire franchise, the Terminator was James Cameron's first film idea after Piranha II: The Spawning, his directorial debut. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton…
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Episode 337: Supergirl with Alex Haha
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron discuss Supergirl with Alex!!! Directed by Craig Gillespie.. I, Tonya, Cruella, Dumb Money... and written by Ana Nogueira Starring Millie Alcock, Matthias Schoenaerts, Eve Ridley, David Krumholtz, David Corenswet, Jason Momoa The second DC film from…
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Episode 336: Cape Fear (1991) with Eileen Jones
Forrest and Kristina Oakes are joined by @Filmsuck-t9u and @JacobinMag film critic Eileen Jones to talk about Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) A remake of the original 1962 Gregory Peck and Robert Mitchum film. Scorsese's remake stars Robert De Niro as Max Cady, an ex-con who blames a lawyer…
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Episode 335: Disclosure Day
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about the new Steven Spielberg summer blockbuster Disclosure Day!!! Starring Collin Firth, Emily Blunt, Colman Domingo, Eve Hewson, and McKenna Bridger. Two weeks ago, we did an episode on Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now, we are reviewing...
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Episode 334: Project Hail Mary with Kira Roessler
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron are joined by Kira Roessler formerly of BLACK FLAG but now a sound designer of such films as Mad Max Fury Road and this year.. PROJECT HAIL MARY!!! Starring Ryan Gosling as Dr. Ryland Grace, a former Micro-Biologist turned High School Science teacher who...
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Episode 333: Close Encounters of the Third Kind with J.G. Michael
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind with J.G. Michael. On June 12th, the latest Spielberg movie "Disclosure Day" is coming out. We are going to be covering it, but before that, we thought we'd go back and look at Spielberg's...
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Episode 332: I Love Boosters
It's a CREW Episode!! Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron discuss Boots Riley's new movie I Love Boosters!! We covered Sorry To Bother You in the 3rd episode, so it's only natural we cover I Love Boosters Starring Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfield, Taylour Paige, Will Poulter, Naomi Ackie…
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Episode 331: Over The Edge with Adam McKay
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and joining us once again is ADAM MCKAY!! We are talking about Jonathan Kaplan's 1979 coming of age film Over The Edge!!! Set in the semi-fictional New Grenada, CO which is a stand-in for Foster City, CA.. Over the Edge shows a planned community where 25% of...
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Episode 330: Charley Varrick with Josh Olson
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes are joined once again by Josh Olson to talk about Charley Varrick! Josh Olson is the Oscar Nominated screenwriter of "A History of Violence" and the co-host of Movies That Made Me with Joe Dante as well as the former co-host of West Wing Thing. Don...
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Episode 329: Vertigo with Eileen Jones
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Eileen Jones talk about Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo! Starring Jimmy Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Tom Helmore Vertigo tells the story of Scottie, a former San Francisco Police Department Detective, who is battling with a bad case of…
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Episode 328: Perfect Days with Marta Djordjevic
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes, and Marta Djordjevic AKA Marta McFly @mcflysmoviehouse discuss Wim Wenders Perfect Days After a long period of mostly doing documentaries, Wim Wenders returns to narrative feature filmmaking with a film originally envisioned to help the Tokyo Toilet Project...
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Episode 327: Ghostbusters with Rob Kassees and Tom Monaghan
Forrest and Conan Neutron talk with Rob Kassees and Tom Monaghan about Ivan Reitman's Ghostbusters!! The classic 1984 GHOST BUSTIN' comedy starring Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Harold Ramis, Rick Moranis, Sigourney Weaver, and Ernie Hudson Written by Dan Akroyd and Harold Ramis When there's…
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Episode 326: The Bride! with Dead Domain
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Dead Domain talk about Maggie Gyllenhaal's second film The Bride! Starring Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale, Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Saarsgard, Annette Benning, Zlatko Buric, and Penelope Cruz Adapted from the 1935 James Whalen Universal film "The Bride of Frankenstein"...
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Episode 325: The Testament of Ann Lee with Eileen Jones
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Eileen Jones talk about the Testament of Ann Lee! The second film from the Brutalist's filmmakers, co-written by Brady Corbet and directed and written by Mona Fastvold Starring Amanda Seyfried as Ann Lee, the Founder of Shakerism, a religious sect in 1700s America…
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Episode 324: 98th Annual Academy Awards
Oscars 2026!! We are going to be covering the 98th Academy Awards LIVE! You can watch Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and our special guests watch the Oscars LIVE Sunday March 15th. 8e/7c/6m/5p #oscars #academyawards #academyawards2026 #onebattleafteranother #sinners #livestream #live...
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Episode 323: The Secret Agent with Zach Marsh
On our last episode before the Oscars, Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Zach B. Marsh talk about the Kleber Mendonça Filho film The Secret Agent #thesecretagent #brazil #braziliancinema #oagentesecreto #wagnermoura #oscars2026 #academyawards #academyawards2026 #oscars #bestactor...
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Episode 322: Oscars 2026 Speed Round!!!
On our official speed round: Hamnet, F1, K-Pop Demon Hunter, Train Dreams, Sentimental Value!!! Going over all the movies we didn't get to before the Oscars #filmpodcast #oscars #oscars2026 #traindreams #f1 #sentimentalvalue #sinners #hamnet #awardseason #awardsshow #joeledgerton…
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Episode 321: Bugonia with Josh Duggan
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Josh Duggan talk about Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia!! A remake of the 2003 South Korean sci-fi black comedy 'Save the Green Planet!' Starring Emma Stone, Jesse Plemons, Aiden Delbis, Stavros Halkias, Alicia Silverstone Written by the former Onion...
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Episode 320: Blue Moon with Scott Interrante
Forrest. Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Scott Interrante talk about Richard Linklater's Blue Moon Paired with Nouvelle Vague, Linklater's biopic about Jean Luc Godard and the making of Breathless in 1960. This is another non-standard biopic, this time about Lorenz Hart, the former partner of...
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Episode 319: Marty Supreme with Kayla Says
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Kayla Says @kaylasays talk about Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme Starring Timothee Chalamet, Gweynth Paltrow, Fran Drescher, Tyler the Creator, Odessa A'Zion, and Abel Ferrara Set in the 1950s, Timothee Chalamet plays Marty Mauser, an arrogant young...
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Episode 318: Wicked for Good with Julia Linger
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron are joined by Julia Linger to talk about Wicked For Good It's our Oscars Month, we got a bunch of 2025's biggest movies (that we haven't covered already) up on deck, culminating with our Oscars LIVE Coverage in March. Starring Ariana Grande, Cynthia…
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Episode 317: One Battle After Another with Eileen Jones
Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes talk to Jacobin and FilmSuck Film Critic Eileen Jones about Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another!! It's our Oscars Month, we got a bunch of 2025's biggest movies (that we haven't covered already) up on deck, culminating with our Oscars LIVE...
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Episode 316: Thief with Josh Olson
Josh Olson, screenwriter of A History of Violence, talks about Michael Mann's Thief with Forrest, Conan Neutron, and Kristina Oakes Starring James Caan as Frank, who has pretty recently gotten through an 11 year bid in Joliet, and has since structured his life as a safecracker buying a bar and a...
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Episode 315: Nights of Cabiria with Adam McKay
Adam McKay, director of Step Brothers, Anchorman, The Big Short, Vice, Don't Look Up, RETURNS for a special friday episode!!! Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Adam McKay talk about Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria!!! Starring Fellini's wife and muse, Giulietta Masina, as Cabiria a...
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Episode 314: Memories of Murder with Sean McGrath
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron are joined by Sean McGrath, the other half of Unkind Rewind, to talk about Bong Joon-ho's Memories of Murder (2003) Starring Song Kang-ho, Park Hae-il, Kim Roi-ha, and Song Jae-ho Years before the more International Acclaim of Parasite and English…
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Episode 313: Citizen Kane with Eileen Jones
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about CITIZEN KANE on the first episode of 2026 with Eileen Jones!! Orson Welles groundbreaking drama, telling the story of Charles Foster Kane, America's biggest newspaper magnate, a man who had everything and lost it all. Based on William Randolph...
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Episode 312: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood with Kev
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Kev talk about Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the fading film star Rick Dalton and his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) who live in Hollywood, next door to Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski in 1969....
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Episode 311: Ed Wood with Daniel House #edwood #timburton #johnnydepp
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Daniel House talk about Tim Burton's Ed Wood Written by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski who would go on to write "The People vs. Larry Flynt" "Man on the Moon" and "Dolemite is my Name, at a time when they were tired of being seen as solely "family...
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Episode 310: Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Mike Scott
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Mike Scott of Bottled 'n' Bond talk about Who Framed Roger Rabbit A 1988 Disney BLOCKBUSTER, directed by Robert Zemeckis and produced by Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment Pioneering an advanced version of hybrid live action/cartoon style using both...
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Episode 309: The Player with Ian Miller
Forrest, Conan Neutron, Kristina Oakes and Ian Miller of Kowloon Walled City talk about Robert Altman's the Player After a decade in the wilderness, Robert Altman returned to Hollywood in 1992 to lacerate it with a satirical look at the Holywood Studio system of the 1980s and 1990s. The Player is...
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Episode 308: Sunset Boulevard
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, and Conan Neutron talk about Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard!! Starting off a month where we talk about Movies about Making Movies Sunset Boulevard examines the wreckage left behind by the transition from Silent Era pictures to the "Talkies" A failing screenwriter named…
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Episode 307: The Big Lebowski with the Letterhack
Forrest, Kristina Oakes, Conan Neutron and Matt "The Letterhack" Strackbein talk about the classic Coen Brothers movie The Big Lebowski Written in the early 1990s, but not released until 1998 because John Goodman and Jeff Bridges had been quite busy. Starring Jeff Bridges as Jeffrey "The Dude"...