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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood — 299 episodes

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A Witness to Film History

2

How Copyright Law Is Being Used to Squelch Speech

3

Life Is a Highway: The Terror of ‘It Ends’

4

How the FCC Is Trying to Silence Trump Critics

5

'Sugar' Examines a Different Side of Los Angeles

6

Which Directors Have the Most Hollywood Juice?

7

Can Subsidies Bring Film Production Back to the USA?

8

How the Screen Has Changed Us

9

Comcast and NBC Universal Are Breaking Up: What Does That Mean?

10

The Increasing Entanglements of Hollywood and AI

11

The Mount Rushmore of TV

12

The Wild West of 1980s Movie Financing

13

Bringing 'Day of the Dead' Back to Life

14

Three Movies to Prep For Our Viral Apocalypse

15

Turning Sex and Dragons Into Streaming Money

16

The Top Ten War Movies

17

Summer Movie Preview!

18

The Fan-Driven Distribution Company

19

Lou Diamond Phillips's Riveting New Film

20

What America Loses if WB and Paramount Merge

21

'The Christophers': Emotionally Authentic Art

22

The Cross-Country Making of 'Forrest Gump'

23

How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gambling

24

Can Every Movie Make Money?

25

Larry McMurtry: Man of the West

26

Ethan Suplee and the Challenge of Getting Nasty

27

'Sirāt' and Finding Community in the End of the World

28

How Three Friends Saved, and Destroyed, Hollywood

29

Oscar-Nominated Doc Exposes Alabama's Brutal Prisons

30

Read All About 'The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter'

31

'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' Screenwriter on Our Desolate AI Future

32

The Last Action Director

33

2026 Oscar Nominations: A 'Sinners' Paradise?

34

Chuck Klosterman on his new book, 'Football.'

35

An Age of Cultural Stagnation

36

Sitting Shiva for Rob Reiner

37

What Might Netflix Do with WB's Live Experiences?

38

Netflix Buying WB Means Reduced Competition

39

Sticking with 'Family'

40

A 'Fast and Furious' Guide to the Economics of Hollywood

41

Printing the Legend: The surprising political 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.'

42

The Eternal Relevance of 'Network'

43

What 'A House of Dynamite' Gets Right About Nuclear War

44

Delroy Lindo Deserves a Dang Oscar

45

Crafting an Iconic Horror Movie Mask

46

How Orwell Helps Us Remember Truth

47

How an MTV Prank Helps Explain the Internet

48

How Movies Can Better Prep Us for the AI Threat

49

Why 'Haunted Hotel' Is the Perfect Spooky Season Show

50

'Andor' and the Accelerationist Moment

51

Does America Need a Film Tax Credit?

52

How an Alamo Founder Is Reinventing Theaters—Again

53

The Wild Career of 'Weapons' Star Toby Huss

54

Ron Howard: The Most Underrated Major Director?

55

Can 'The Naked Gun' Save Hollywood Comedies?

56

The Society-Deforming Spectacle of Jubilee

57

Why Anime Is Taking Over Pop Culture

58

How 'Sovereign' Tackles a Cult with Compassion

59

Is 'F1' a Hit? How Do We Even Judge That?

60

How Zombies Can Help Explain Political Theory

61

You Can Make a Movie with Your Phone

62

Why Productions Are Fleeing Los Angeles

63

How the Studios Are (Quietly) Using AI

64

A Life in Music

65

Clothing 'The Last of Us'

66

One Family's Journey Through Hollywood

67

How David Mamet Made His First Film in 12 Years

68

The Hidden Art of 'Secret Mall Apartment'

69

Hollywood Should Rely Less on Overseas Box Office

70

The Economics of Indie Distribution

71

Hollywood Imagery's Impact on Politics

72

Bringing Memories of 'Warfare' to Life

73

Dystopian Mediocrity

74

The Low Culture That Brought Us to Trump

75

The 2000 Election That Changed America (with Jonathan Gruber)

76

How to Build Your Own Movie Library

77

The 2025 Stunt Awards!

78

How to Help Veterans Returning Home

79

SNL At 50

80

How to Make a Microbudget Movie

81

Documenting Horror

82

How Tariffs Will Make Movies More Expensive

83

Why Is Gaming Underperforming Expectations?

84

Revisiting 'Inglourious Basterds'

85

Awards Season in Flux

86

The Fascinating Legacy of 'Yacht Rock'

87

Everything There Is to Know About Star Wars

88

Bringing Novels Into the Internet Age

89

The Copyrighted Material Being Used to Train AI

90

Comcast Is Spinning Off Its Cable Assets: What Does that Mean?

91

Melding Video Games and TV Shows

92

The Christmas Movie Industrial Complex

93

Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Fear and Desire

94

The Four Horsemen of the Media Apocalypse

95

A Second Look at 'Caligula'

96

The Movie Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to See

97

Why Is It So Hard to Find Something to Watch on Streaming?

98

Devo's Groundbreaking Work

99

How Social Media Is Warping Our Sense of Everything

100

The Death of a Community

101

Will Rogers and the American Spirit

102

John Magary on the Art of Editing

103

The Social Media Trap for Teens

104

Disney's Future Is the Past

105

Brad Thor's World of Intrigue

106

Documenting the Rise of Nazism

107

Ryan Faughnder on Paramount's Big Changes

108

Jennifer Esposito on 'Fresh Kills'

109

Nielsen's Ratings Evolution

110

Documenting 'How to Rob a Bank'

111

We're All 'Theatre Kids'

112

Celebrating Bruce Willis

113

Don't Panic About Movie Theaters (Yet)

114

Bobby Miller on his film, 'The Cleanse,' finally getting a Blu-ray release.

115

Documenting January 6

116

On the Great Albert Brooks

117

The Fall and Rise of 'Scarface'

118

Is David Ellison Hollywood's Great Hope?

119

The Art of Costume Design

120

From 'Funny or Die' to Western Neo-Noirs

121

The Best and the Worst of Streaming 2023

122

Bringing 'Lousy Carter' to Life

123

The 2024 Stunt Awards!

124

What Does a Film Commissioner Do?

125

'Beetlejuice: The Musical,' Indie Film, and Life on the Road

126

The Nelms Brothers Talk 'Red Right Hand'

127

Richard Rushfield's Hollywood Field Guide

128

Julian Schlossberg Returns to Tell More Hollywood Tales!

129

How Piracy Persists on the Internet

130

What Did Peak TV Let Escape from 'Pandora's Box'?

131

Sundance at 40

132

How 'The Family Plan' Became a Hit for Apple

133

What's Next in 'The Streaming Wars'

134

Francis Ford Coppola, Visionary

135

Whit Stillman on 'Metropolitan,' a Christmas Movie

136

The Year in the Box Office

137

From Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage

138

Charlie Chaplin's Life in Exile

139

Why You Can Finally Watch 'Moonlighting' on Streaming

140

Stopping Piracy Before It Starts

141

How What We Watch Defines Us

142

Zoey Ashe's Life in the (Future) Panopticon

143

How Siskel and Ebert Got Their Thumbs

144

How 'Airplane!' Changed Comedy Forever

145

What the Writers Gained By Striking

146

The Lines that Define our Lives

147

Fantasy Culture and the Flight from Reality

148

Data Transparency Is a Double-Edged Sword

149

Erotic Thrillers: Unsung Heroes of Home Video

150

The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Warner

151

Why We Need to Know What’s Failing

152

How to Start a Film Studio in 2023

153

How 2023's Oddest Box Office Hit 'Paid It Forward'

154

Hollywood's Hopes in China Are Fading

155

Netflix's Soft Earnings and the 'Barbenheimmer' Juggernaut

156

What If Evel Knievel Had Run for President?

157

Hollywood's Perfect Storm

158

A Decade of Big Muscles and Bigger Egos

159

New Doc Examines How Vets Are Recruited by Militias

160

How Universal Found a Brand-New Customer

161

Just Don't Call it 'Reality' TV

162

Tribeca and the Evolution of the Film Festival

163

The Data that Determines What We Watch

164

How Much Free Work Do Writers Do to Get Paid Work?

165

Is the Superhero Boom Officially Over?

166

How Do You Bring the (Fake) Real Pete Davidson to Life?

167

What's to Come in 'The Streaming Wars'

168

Going to the Movies: Still the Best Value Around

169

Summer Box Office Preview

170

Will the WWE-UFC Merger Amp Up the Streaming Arms Race?

171

Are Video Games the New Comic Books?

172

How Theatrical Exhibition Helps Stave Off Piracy

173

Can the Drive-In Survive?

174

The Best Stunts of 2022, Rewarded

175

The Drama Behind Hollywood's Biggest Night

176

Will the WGA Strike? Can It Afford Not To?

177

David Thomson on the Magic of Acting

178

Theater: You Can Get Rich, But Making a Living Is Hard

179

Shawn Ryan on Past WGA Negotiations and the Evolving Business

180

Producer Dean Devlin Goes (Back) to Space

181

PaleyFest's Secret Weapon: Love

182

Scientifically Measuring Movie Love

183

The Science of High Frame Rate, Explained

184

The Ten Biggest Hollywood Fiascoes of 2022

185

How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood

186

Disney's Parks Make Tons of Money — But Are They in Trouble?

187

How 'The Northman' Transported Us Back in Time

188

What's the Deal with 'Seinfeld'?

189

How the Business of Box Office Has Changed Over the Last 15 Years

190

The Past, Present, and Future of the Romcom

191

Who Won the Summer—and Who Lost?

192

Does the 'Perfect Sound' Exist?

193

How Cult Classic 'John Dies at the End' Kicked Off a Literary Career

194

How 'Orphan: First Kill' Beat Expectations

195

China's Looming Threat to the World of Gaming

196

The NFL: Ratings King

197

How to Write a Best-Selling Political Book

198

How Anime Can Help Save Theaters

199

Freedom of Expression Under Assault

200

Meet the (One-Time) 7th-Most-Powerful Man in Wrestling

201

Why Do Streamers Care About More than Eyeballs?

202

Convention Life with the Creator of Effin' Birds

203

Harvey Weinstein's Enablers

204

'John Wick,' Gun-Fu, and the Art of Oral History

205

Ron Shelton on the Struggle to Get 'Bull Durham' Made

206

Summer Movies Are Back—But Is Trouble on the Horizon?

207

What's Up at the Mouse House?

208

How to Design an Iconic Movie Mask

209

Stop Stealing Movies!

210

Goodbye, Norm Macdonald

211

Where Are the Kids Movies?

212

Summer Movie Preview! 'Top Gun,' Dinos, and Buzz Lightyear, Oh My.

213

How Ben Fong Torres Defined a Generation

214

The First Draft of (Streaming) History

215

Are Casual Filmgoers Finally Coming Back?

216

How Hollywood Trade Papers Shaped the Movies You Love

217

NATO Head on the Return to Theaters

218

Lloyd Kaufman and a Half-Century of Troma

219

The Nic Cage Book Every Fan Needs to Own

220

No One's Seen the Best Picture Frontrunners. Does It Matter?

221

Why the 'Head of Story' at One of Hollywood's Biggest Agencies Writes His Own

222

A Crucial Film to Understand Ukraine's Struggle

223

Would You Pay More to see 'The Batman'?

224

The Art of Editing

225

Can a Lawsuit Against WB Slow the Streaming Tide?

226

How to Get Your Script on The Black List

227

How Is Chinese Soft Power Reshaping Entertainment?

228

Janice Min on the Future of Entertainment Media

229

Programming TV's Most Beloved Festival

230

How Audiences Reshape the Movies You Love

231

'The Spine of Night' and the Business of Animation

232

'Spider-Man: No Way Home' Co-Writer Chris McKenna

233

The Greatest Movie Ever Made Hits 4K

234

Tim Miller and Sonny Talk 'Don't Look Up'

235

All I Want for Christmas Are ... HDMI Cables?

236

Tracking—And Recapturing—Movie Audiences

237

A Century of Black Cinema

238

Hollywood Goes to War: The Film Industry's Response to World War II

239

'The Beta Test' Director Jim Cummings on Indie Life

240

What Does a 'Buy' Button Really Mean in the Digital Age?

241

Netflix's Big Week

242

The Business of Sports Ads

243

Scott Eyman on Daryl F. Zanuck and 20th Century Fox

244

Scott Tobias on the Business of Film Criticism

245

Rod Lurie Part 2: 'The Outpost'

246

Rod Lurie on Breaking Into the Biz

247

CinemaCon in Twilight

248

Jake Tapper on Afghanistan War Classic 'The Outpost'

249

Zak Penn on 'Free Guy,' Writing Villains, and the Fate of 'PCU'

250

Matthew Belloni on the Changing Ways Hollywood Gets Paid

251

Clayton Childress Explains How Taste and Status Reinforce Each Other

252

Ray Subers on Polling Moviegoers

253

John Mass on the Future of Content

254

Ryan Faughnder on How Valuable You Are (to Streaming Companies)

255

Richard Rushfield on the Latest Hollywood News

256

James White on Restoring Movies for Arrow Films

257

Summer Reading!

258

James Emanuel Shapiro on Cannes and the Business of Film Festivals

259

Jonathan Taplin on Working With Dylan, Scorsese, and the Rolling Stones

260

Frank Pallotta on the MGM/Amazon Deal, F9 in China, and the Summer Movie Season

261

Eddie Muller on TCM, Film Noir, and the HFPA's Charitable Work

262

Jon Finkel on 1996's sports movies and athletes on sports cinema

263

Jesse Nelson of Diabolik DVD Discusses the Boutique Blu-ray Biz

264

Chris Fenton on China, the Oscars, and the MCU

265

Nicholas Jarecki on 'Crisis,' Opioids, Releasing a Movie During COVID, and Armie Hammer

266

Megan Ganz on 'Mythic Quest' and Comedies in the Covid Age

267

Richard Rushfield on Scott Rudin, Bad Boss, and More!

268

David Thomson on His 'History of Movie Directors'

269

Sean O'Connell on the Grassroots Efforts to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut

270

Tom Shone on Christopher Nolan

271

Mike Malloy on the Business of Blu-ray Supplements

272

Scott Feinberg on the Business of Hollywood Awards Season

273

Abraham Riesman on the Rise (and Fall) of Stan Lee

274

Harold Mintz on the Past, Present, and Future of CinemaScore

275

Alan Zilberman on life as a critic during awards season

276

Glenn Kenny on 'Goodfellas,' Martin Scorsese, and the Business of Movie Books

277

Frank Pallotta on the State of Streaming

278

Peter Labuza on Antitrust, Hollywood, and Big Tech

279

Chris McKenna on 'Community' and Writing for TV and Movies

280

David C. Lowery on Making Money by Making Music

281

James Emanuel Shapiro on the Epic WB/HBO Max Brouhaha

282

The Nelms Brothers on 'Fatman,' Casting Mel Gibson, and Sequel Plans?

283

Tony Davis Returns! Why Does Your TV Look Better Than Most Theaters?

284

Alison Macor on screenwriting 'Top Gun' and 'Batman'

285

Derek Dye on Family Video and saving our video stores

286

Alyssa Rosenberg and Peter Suderman on post-Trump cultural coverage

287

Shannon Moore on Movie PR in the Age of COVID

288

Natalie Metzger on producing indie films in the age of COVID

289

Mark Graham on How to Decide What to Watch

290

Phil Contrino on movie theaters and cinema safety

291

Zack Stentz on Camp Cretaceous, Rim of the World, and Netflix

292

The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood With Chris Yogerst

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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with Chris Fenton

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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with Gerry Daly

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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with David Guglielmo

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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with James Shapiro

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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with James Tager

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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with Tony Davis

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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood with Richard Rushfield