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‘The Cycle’: Jordan Downey, Deborah Ann Woll & Jeffrey Donovan Talk Old-School Horror, ‘Daredevil’ & ‘Sicario 3’
Director Jordan Downey and stars Deborah Ann Woll and Jeffrey Donovan join The Discourse Podcast to discuss their new Shudder horror film, “The Cycle,” a dark, twisted mystery that begins as a grim detective thriller before becoming something far stranger, wilder, and more horrifying. Downey...
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‘Street Fighter’ Director Kitao Sakurai On His Wild Cast, Kinky M. Bison & Embracing The Absurd — The Discourse Podcast
sdsdsdHow do you turn one of the most beloved fighting games of all time into a movie without losing everything that makes it gloriously ridiculous? On this episode of The Discourse Podcast, director Kitao Sakurai (“The Eric Andre Show,” “Bad Trip”) joins us to discuss his gonzo approach to…
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Mackenzie Davis Talks ‘Below,’ ‘Terminator: Dark Fate,’ ‘Blade Runner 2049’ & Wanting To Do Comedy
Mackenzie Davis joins The Playlist’s Bingeworthy Podcast to talk about Netflix’s new creature-feature series “Below,” working opposite Josh Hartnett in Newfoundland, and why the show’s mix of horror, family drama, and dark comedy appealed to her. She also looks back at “Terminator: Dark Fate,”...
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Giovanni Ribisi On ‘American Hostage,’ Playing Tony Kiritsis & Why Audiences Can See The Difference Between Film & Digital [Interview]
Giovanni Ribisi joins The Playlist’s Bingeworthy Podcast to discuss MGM+’s “American Hostage,” the true story of Tony Kiritsis, working opposite Jon Hamm, and his increasingly serious work as a cinematographer. Ribisi explains how he approached playing Kiritsis, the Indianapolis man who held...
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Andrew Garfield Says ‘The Uprising’ Is A “Soul Cry”: “Everything Is Terribly Wrong” [Interview]
Andrew Garfield joins The Playlist’s The Discourse Podcast to discuss Paul Greengrass’ “The Uprising,” the historical epic’s contemporary political urgency, and why he sees the film as a “soul cry” for a world where “everything is terribly wrong.” He also breaks down Greengrass’ immersive...
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‘Idiots’: Dave Franco Talks Macon Blair’s Gross-Out Comedy, A “Superhero” Diarrhea Shot & His Next Horror Film [Interview]
There is a superhero shot that never was in Macon Blair’s “Idiots,” but nobody is saving the day. The camera is planted low, looking up at Dave Franco just before a practical diarrhea rig erupts from his shorts and completely browns out the lens. Somewhere between the Cocoa Krispies used to give...
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The Pitt’: Shawn Hatosy Teases Abbot’s Hidden Trauma, Season 3 & Why A Night-Shift Spinoff Probably Won’t Happen [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Tell Dr. Jack Abbot to find a hobby, and the man joins a SWAT team. That is the version of healing “The Pitt” handed Shawn Hatosy in Season 2, and it gets right to what makes Abbot such a compelling presence. He is calm enough to walk into any medical disaster and damaged enough to mistake more...
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‘The X-Files: I Want To Believe’: Chris Carter On His 2008 Recut, Cutting A Mulder-Scully Kiss & The Story He Still Wants To Tell [The Discourse Podcast]
After multiple films and revival seasons, “The X-Files” creator Chris Carter finally got another shot at his often misunderstood film, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe.” The new R-rated cut restores disturbing imagery, reshapes the music, and even strips away some of the Mulder-Scully relationship...
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‘Cape Fear’ Showrunner Nick Antosca On Javier Bardem’s Monster, Scorsese’s Notes & Finale Spoilers [Bingeworthy Podcast]
There was no reason to make another polite, faithful version of “Cape Fear.” Thankfully, Creator/Showrunner Nick Antosca had no interest in one. Apple TV’s “Cape Fear” is sweaty, violent, emotionally ugly, and pitched somewhere between a domestic thriller and a full-blown hyper-violent fever…
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‘Furious’: Emmy Rossum & Liz Meriwether On Imperfect Victims, Weaponized Trauma, & A Possible ‘New Girl’ Reunion [Bingeworthy Podcast]
On paper, “Furious” sounds like something we’ve all seen before. An FBI agent. A serial killer. A cat-and-mouse chase stretched across eight episodes. That’s technically what the show is, but it's also not really what the show is. The cat is carrying around a mountain of old trauma. The mouse has…
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Alan Ritchson On The Nearly Silent ‘Motor City,’ Systemic Rage & The “Carrie”-Level Bloodshed Of ‘Reacher’ Season 4 [The Discourse Podcast]
“Motor City” feels like somebody found a filthy ’70s revenge movie in the trunk of a burned-out Cadillac, wiped off the blood, and restored the whole thing in 4K and Dolby Atmos. It is loud, violent, strangely romantic and, thankfully, almost entirely uninterested in people sitting around...
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Jonathan Tropper & Cassie Pappas On ‘Lucky,’ ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ & The Lost Ronda Rousey ‘Road House’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Apple TV’s “Lucky” joins the platform’s growing collection of prestige shows about attractive, deeply stressed people having the worst week of their lives. “Presumed Innocent,” “Hijack,” “Your Friends & Neighbors”—the streamer has become weirdly good at watching people sprint from one…
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‘The Invite’: Rashida Jones & Will McCormack On the Whirlwind Writing Process, Their Wild Eight-Day Workshop, & ‘Tom And Jerry’ [The Discourse Podcast]
There is no graceful way to ask another married couple whether they would like to have sex with you. There are only varying degrees of disaster. That is the combustible premise behind “The Invite,” a sharp, funny, and increasingly bruising relationship comedy directed by Olivia Wilde. Wilde and...
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‘Enola Holmes 3’: Millie Bobby Brown, Louis Partridge, and Director Philip Barantini On Following ‘Adolescence,’ Eleven’s ‘Stranger Things’ Future, & More [The Discourse Podcast]
The “Enola Holmes” films have never been short on charm and wits, but “Enola Holmes 3” gives the franchise a little more room to breathe and, dare I say, mature. The mystery is still there. The cheeky banter is still there. Enola is still starting fires and solving crimes. But this time, the…
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‘The Agency’ Season 2: Jeffrey Wright & John Magaro Talk Spycraft, ‘The Batman: Part II,’ ‘Presumed Innocent’ Season 2 & More [Bingeworthy Podcast]
“The Agency” approaches espionage less as a series of action beats and more as a study in information, perception, and control. The show is at its absolute best when it leans into that tension, allowing seemingly ordinary conversations to simmer with unease while drawing on its wealth of densely...
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‘The Death Of Robin Hood’: Director Michael Sarnoski Finds The Brutal Roots Of A Legend, Talks Hugh Jackman, ‘Logan’ Comparisons & His ‘Death Stranding’ Film [The Discourse Podcast]
Robin Hood has been a lot of things over the centuries: noble thief, romantic outlaw, swashbuckling folk hero, animated fox, Kevin Costner with an accent that wanders wherever it pleases. But in Michael Sarnoski’s hands, the myth becomes something darker, sadder, and more spiritually eviscerated....
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‘Spider-Noir’: Oren Uziel On Building Season One with Nic Cage, The Black-And-White/Color Gamble, Season 2 Hopes & ‘Fast Forever’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Just when you think Spider-Man has lost all novelty, “Spider-Noir” finds its spark by going backward into smoke, shadow, bruised conscience, silly accents, and old Hollywood fatalism. It’s still a comic-book story, complete with masks, villains, superpowers, and a hero trying to decide whether he...
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‘Dutton Ranch’: Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser & Annette Bening On Beth & Rip’s Texas Reset, ‘Batman Returns,’ & Taylor Sheridan’s Shadow, & More [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Following up on a cultural phenomenon like “Yellowstone” is no easy task. Any spin-off has to balance honoring what made the original series a hit while finding its own fresh ground. With “Dutton Ranch,” especially after the letdown of “Marshals,” that challenge falls on Beth Dutton and Rip...
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‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’: Tatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, David Gordon Green & David Rosen On Lonely Screens, Bad Decisions, ‘She-Hulk,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ & More [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Some shows walk into the room with a genre label pinned neatly to their shirt. They wear it like a badge of honor and adhere to all rules therein. “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” kicks the door open, knocks over the lamp, checks its phone (Where's my phone?!), spirals emotionally, and somehow still...
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‘Obsession’ Interview: Curry Barker On His Twisted Wish-Fulfillment Horror Breakout, Inde Navarrette’s Wild Performance, ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ & More [The Discourse Podcast]
Be careful what you wish for, sure. But maybe be even more careful what you confuse for love, because Curry Barker’s “Obsession” takes one of horror’s oldest tricks and turns it into something queasy, funny, tragic, and deeply uncomfortable. It is the kind of movie that starts with a premise…
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‘From’ Season 4: Harold Perrineau On Boyd’s Psychological Collapse, Wild Fan Theories, ‘Lost,’ & More [Bingeworthy Podcast]
The town on “From” has always felt less like a place and more like an emotional pressure cooker with monsters hiding in the walls. Every season cranks that pressure a little higher on the survivors, then asks them to keep pretending they can still function as leaders, parents, lovers, or even…
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‘Hokum’: Director Damian McCarthy On Haunted Hotels, Folk Horror Roots, and His Next Film [The Discourse Podcast]
Director Damian McCarthy really loves to hit that dread button, and in “Hokum,” he absolutely wears that thing out. Not with loud shocks or cheap jolts, but with the kind of slow, creeping unease that just sits there, staring back at you. The longer you watch, the more it feels like the movie…
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‘Man On Fire’: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II & Steven Caple Jr. On Reinventing Creasy, Emotional Action, ‘Wonder Man,’ ‘I Am Legend 2’ and More [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Lots of action shows begin with some no-nonsense badass fully in charge of their faculties, but “Man On Fire” starts with a man who just plain isn’t. Before anything even happens in the story, Creasy is a suicidal, messy shell of his former peak CIA agent self. But, as with other iterations, that...
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‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’: Eric Robles On Expanding Hawkins, Keeping The Stakes Real, & Why This Isn’t Just ‘Stranger Things For Kids’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]
When networks spin off popular series, it's easy to come at them with arms folded and write them off as cash grabs. A "Stranger Things" animated spin-off really could have failed. A version of this show exists, in another reality, as something like a Saturday morning cartoon with “Stranger…
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‘Over Your Dead Body’ Interview: Jason Segel, Samara Weaving & Jorma Taccone On Balancing Brutality & Comedy, ‘Shrinking’ Season 4 & More [The Discourse Podcast]
We’ve all probably been incredibly annoyed with our partner at one point or another, and thought (just for a second!) “I could kill them,” then went and made dinner as a perfectly functioning adult. The comedy thriller “Over Your Dead Body” from director Jorma Taccone (“Popstar: Never Stop Never...
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‘Apex’: Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, & Director Baltasar Kormákur On Surviving A Brutal Shoot, Cliff Jumps, and More [The Discourse Podcast]
Some films are just…films. Others feel as though a hugely skilled group of people were challenged to beautifully suffer in front of the camera. “Apex,” the new survival thriller on Netflix on April 24th, absolutely falls into that second category. It’s stark, pared-back, and wonderfully,...
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‘Balls Up’: Mark Wahlberg, Paul Walter Hauser & Peter Farrelly Go All-In On R-Rated Chaos, ‘Transformers,’ ‘Resident Evil’, ‘I Play Rocky,’ Marvel & More [The Discourse Podcast]
The comedy “Balls Up” isn’t messing around. Yes, the title is a dick joke. The plot is a dick joke. And yes, the script is packed with dick jokes. It’s as immature and as dumb as they come, and yet, it oddly works because it just commits so hard and earnestly to the bit. Directed by Peter...
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“Normal”: Bob Odenkirk & Derek Kolstad On Building A Genre-Swerving Action Oddity Independently, ‘John Wick’ Exits, & ‘The Room’ Remake [The Discourse Podcast]
Bob Odenkirk playing a small-town interim sheriff squaring off against the Yakuza is not a sentence that should make sense, let alone sell a movie. It sounds like a dare, or the kind of idea you giggle at before moving on. And yet, “Normal” takes that slightly absurd premise and treats it with…
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‘Beef’ Season 2: Jake Schreier On Lies, Class Warfare, Generational Divide, & Why It All Matters For ‘X-Men’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]
What made the first season of “Beef” so good is that it refused to shrug off a ridiculously small thing, a little bit of road rage. It didn't let that incident seem small. Instead, it became a complete and total falling apart for two people. They just kept making a conflict that should have ended...
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‘Thrash’: Adam McKay & Kevin Messick On Climate Chaos, Shark Horror, & Why Reality Is Catching Up To The Movies [The Discourse Podcast]
Adam McKay and Kevin Messick have spent the last decade-plus pinballing across genres with a kind of deliberate, morbid curiosity. One project dissects the financial system (“The Big Short”), another stares down extinction with a grin (“Don’t Look Up”), and another turns boardrooms into…
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“Pizza Movie”: Gaten Matarazzo & Cast, Nick Kocher, & Brian McElhaney On High-Speed Chaos, Sketch DNA, & Turning Stoner Mayhem Into Charming Comedy Gold [The Discourse Podcast]
“Pizza Movie” locks onto a very dumb, very specific crisis and rides it for all it’s worth. After one terrible drug-based decision, the night keeps getting weirder, louder, and more desperate, with pizza becoming the only objective that matters. It keeps escalating without losing the thread…
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‘Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come’: Guy Busick & R. Christopher Murphy On Expanding The Occult Universe, Writing For Samara Weaving, & ‘Scream 7’ Backlash [The Discourse Podcast]
Yup, the wedding bells already rang, the in-laws already exploded, and somehow “Ready Or Not 2: Here I Come” still finds a way to make that universe feel even bigger, bloodier, funnier and a whole lot weirder. The sequel to the 2019 horror-comedy favorite picks up with Samara Weaving’s Grace…
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‘The Madison’: Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer & Director Christina Alexandra Voros On Grief, Taylor Sheridan’s TV Universe, 'Batman' & More [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Grief rarely arrives quietly. In "The Madison", it detonates and leaves a family trying to rebuild their lives in the emotional rubble. The sweeping Paramount+ drama from Taylor Sheridan follows the Clyburn family after a devastating loss sends them from New York City to Montana, where grief,...
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‘Scarpetta’: Liz Sarnoff On Adapting Patricia Cornwell’s Beloved Books, Nicole Kidman’s Commitment, & Why The Show Lives On Character [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Crime fiction has rarely produced a protagonist quite like Kay Scarpetta. For decades, Patricia Cornwell’s bestselling novels followed the brilliant forensic pathologist and medical examiner navigating grisly cases while balancing the messy emotional realities of family, love, and professional...
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‘Paradise’ Season 2: Sterling K. Brown, Shailene Woodley & Julianne Nicholson On Survival, Sacrifice, & The Show’s Three-Season Plan [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Few shows reinvent themselves as boldly between seasons as Dan Fogelman’s “Paradise.” What began as a tightly wound political mystery in Season 1 mutates into something far bigger in Season 2: a survival story, a character odyssey, and a puzzle box full of fan theories that viewers are now…
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‘Heel’: Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough & Anson Boon On Grief, Redemption, More ‘Adolescence,’ and ‘Mobland’ Season 2 [The Discourse Podcast]
At first glance, “Heel” (released internationally as “The Good Boy”) looks like it might be a grim captivity thriller. A troubled young man is abducted and chained in a basement by a grieving couple. But filmmaker Jan Komasa has something stranger and more psychologically rich in mind. Instead of…
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‘DTF: St. Louis’: Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini, David Harbour, & Steve Conrad On Vulnerability, Sexual Secrets, & Jason Bateman's MCU Character [Bingeworthy Podcast]
There’s a specific flavor to a Steve Conrad show. A little awkward. A little hilarious. A little sad. A little dangerous. Sex, lies, murder, and old smut. That tone is back in full force with “DTF: St. Louis,” the HBO Max series that follows adults who think they’re signing up for an app that's...
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‘The Bluff’: Priyanka Chopra-Jonas & Karl Urban On Brutal Location Shoots, Colonial Reckonings, ‘The Boys’ Finale, 'Citadel,' & The Hope For More ‘Dredd’ [The Discourse Podcast]
There’s a blunt-force clarity to “The Bluff.” Cannons roar, cliffs loom, and survival comes down to grit, guns, and one badass mother who refuses to bend. Directed by Frank E. Flowers, the 19th-century Caribbean thriller follows Ursell (Priyanka Chopra Jonas), a former pirate whose quiet life is...
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‘Scrubs’: Bill Lawrence & Aseem Batra On Why It’s A Revival, Not A Reboot, Fantasies That Didn’t Work Out, & New Seasons of ‘Shrinking' & ‘Ted Lasso’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]
There’s a very specific kind of comfort that only “Scrubs” can deliver. It’s the snap‑cut from slapstick to soul‑crushing. The hallway daydream that detonates into real grief. The sense that medicine is both sacred and absurd, and that humor is the only thing keeping anyone upright. The new...
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‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’: Gore Verbinski, Sam Rockwell, Zazie Beetz & Michael Peña On Wild Monologues, Genre Anarchy, & Marvel Returns [The Discourse Podcast]
You've really got to love the jolt of pure cinematic adrenaline that hits when a movie announces itself with extreme confidence instead of apology. “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” does it by storming into a Los Angeles diner and unleashing a crazed, high‑wire opening monologue that plays like a...
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‘Crime 101’: Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, & Bart Layton On Heist Films, Breaking The System, & ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ [The Discourse Podcast]
There’s a particular kind of confidence required to make a modern Los Angeles heist movie without flinching at the shadow of “Heat.” It’s the cinematic elephant in the room, the reference point that inevitably looms over any story involving meticulous thieves, dogged cops, and asphalt‑level...
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‘The Beauty’: Vincent D’Onofrio On Being a “Horror Show,” Working with Ashton Kutcher & Isabella Rossellini, & ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 [Bingeworthy Podcast] —
“The Beauty” is nowhere near subtle about its ambitions & its message. FX’s provocative sci‑fi drama isn’t content to simply unsettle you; it wants to corner you, interrogate you, and then quietly ask how much of yourself you’d be willing to trade for comfort, power, or control. Episode 5 is…
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‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’: Matt Johnson & Jay McCarrol On Time Travel, Friendship, Season 3 of the Show, & Filming without Permits [The Discourse Podcast]
Some movies are about finally arriving somewhere. ‘Nirvanna The Band The Show The Movie’ is about two people refusing to stop walking the same thankless path together. Built from decades‑old footage, rewritten realities, real stunts, and a running gag that has never paid off, the film disguises...
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‘The Beauty’: Evan Peters & Rebecca Hall On Ryan Murphy’s Most Unhinged Series Yet, Globetrotting Adventure, & Marvel Character Returns [Bingeworthy Podcast]
There is a point while trying to explain “The Beauty” where the description simply gives up. FBI investigations. Global travel. Corporate greed. A miracle cure. Bodies everywhere, beautiful and horrific. Somewhere in the middle of all that, the sentences collapse, because the show isn’t…
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‘Landman’ Season 2: Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Elliott, Ali Larter, & Michelle Randolph On Family Chaos, Tonal Whiplash, & A Modern Western [Bingeworthy Podcast]
Some shows live comfortably in one gear. “Landman” decidedly does not. Season 2 is best when it’s bouncing between tones, when a moment that plays like broad comedy suddenly curdles into something personal and more uncomfortable. One scene has you laughing at unchecked confidence. The next…
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‘The Rip’: Joe Carnahan On Cop Cinema, Moral Pressure Cookers, ‘The Raid’ Remake, & His ‘Daredevil’ Film That Never Happened [The Discourse Podcast]
Sweaty palms, bad decisions, and the creeping realization that the walls are closing in have always been Joe Carnahan’s cinematic comfort zone, from the raw nerve of “Narc” to the adrenalized chaos of “Smokin’ Aces.” With “The Rip,” Carnahan distills that obsession into its most claustrophobic…
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‘Night Patrol’: Justin Long & CM Punk On Their Vampire Cop Thriller, Their Love of Horror, Rebooting ‘Grave Encounters,’ & More [The Discourse Podcast]
There’s a certain kind of midnight movie that feels like it crawled out of an alley, brushed itself off, and dared you to follow it home. “Night Patrol,” the new wild horror stew from writer-director Ryan Prows, is exactly that. A vampire flick with cop-movie nerves, magic, and a nasty little...
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‘His & Hers’: Tessa Thompson On Dual Perspectives, THAT Ending, Valkyrie’s MCU Return, and ‘Creed 4’ [Bingeworthy Podcast]
There’s a specific perverse pleasure in watching a murder mystery show that knows exactly when to let you feel confident and exactly when to pull that confidence out from under you. Netflix's “His & Hers” does that trick over and over again. You think you’ve got a handle on it. You start building...
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‘Greenland 2: Migration’: Ric Roman Waugh On Disaster Movie Sequels, Emotion Over Spectacle, & More “Has Fallen” Films [The Discourse Podcast]
Disaster movies are built to end things. Cities collapse, the planet cracks open, and whatever survives crawls out into the credits. Sequels are supremely rare because escalation usually feels beside the point. But “Greenland 2: Migration” exists because director Ric Roman Waugh never viewed the...
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‘Fallout’ Season 2: Walton Goggins On Re-Entering The Wasteland, Tarantino, & Marvel Misses [Bingeworthy Podcast]
The Wasteland doesn’t care who you are. It burns everyone the same. "Fallout" returns for Season 2 with a broader canvas and more confidence, expanding its ensemble-driven apocalypse while keeping its eye on the emotional wreckage left behind. Set in a future, post-apocalyptic Los Angeles brought...
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