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The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood — 289 episodes

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The Mount Rushmore of TV

2

The Wild West of 1980s Movie Financing

3

Bringing 'Day of the Dead' Back to Life

4

Three Movies to Prep For Our Viral Apocalypse

5

Turning Sex and Dragons Into Streaming Money

6

The Top Ten War Movies

7

Summer Movie Preview!

8

The Fan-Driven Distribution Company

9

Lou Diamond Phillips's Riveting New Film

10

What America Loses if WB and Paramount Merge

11

'The Christophers': Emotionally Authentic Art

12

The Cross-Country Making of 'Forrest Gump'

13

How America Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Gambling

14

Can Every Movie Make Money?

15

Larry McMurtry: Man of the West

16

Ethan Suplee and the Challenge of Getting Nasty

17

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

18

How Three Friends Saved, and Destroyed, Hollywood

19

Oscar-Nominated Doc Exposes Alabama's Brutal Prisons

20

Read All About 'The Late, Great Hannibal Lecter'

21

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

22

The Last Action Director

23

2026 Oscar Nominations: A 'Sinners' Paradise?

24

Chuck Klosterman on his new book, 'Football.'

25

An Age of Cultural Stagnation

26

Sitting Shiva for Rob Reiner

27

What Might Netflix Do with WB's Live Experiences?

28

Netflix Buying WB Means Reduced Competition

29

Sticking with 'Family'

30

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

31

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

32

The Eternal Relevance of 'Network'

33

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

34

Delroy Lindo Deserves a Dang Oscar

35

Crafting an Iconic Horror Movie Mask

36

How Orwell Helps Us Remember Truth

37

How an MTV Prank Helps Explain the Internet

38

How Movies Can Better Prep Us for the AI Threat

39

Why 'Haunted Hotel' Is the Perfect Spooky Season Show

40

'Andor' and the Accelerationist Moment

41

Does America Need a Film Tax Credit?

42

How an Alamo Founder Is Reinventing Theaters—Again

43

The Wild Career of 'Weapons' Star Toby Huss

44

Ron Howard: The Most Underrated Major Director?

45

Can 'The Naked Gun' Save Hollywood Comedies?

46

The Society-Deforming Spectacle of Jubilee

47

Why Anime Is Taking Over Pop Culture

48

How 'Sovereign' Tackles a Cult with Compassion

49

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

50

How Zombies Can Help Explain Political Theory

51

You Can Make a Movie with Your Phone

52

Why Productions Are Fleeing Los Angeles

53

How the Studios Are (Quietly) Using AI

54

A Life in Music

55

Clothing 'The Last of Us'

56

One Family's Journey Through Hollywood

57

How David Mamet Made His First Film in 12 Years

58

The Hidden Art of 'Secret Mall Apartment'

59

Hollywood Should Rely Less on Overseas Box Office

60

The Economics of Indie Distribution

61

Hollywood Imagery's Impact on Politics

62

Bringing Memories of 'Warfare' to Life

63

Dystopian Mediocrity

64

The Low Culture That Brought Us to Trump

65

The 2000 Election That Changed America (with Jonathan Gruber)

66

How to Build Your Own Movie Library

67

The 2025 Stunt Awards!

68

How to Help Veterans Returning Home

69

SNL At 50

70

How to Make a Microbudget Movie

71

Documenting Horror

72

How Tariffs Will Make Movies More Expensive

73

Why Is Gaming Underperforming Expectations?

74

Revisiting 'Inglourious Basterds'

75

Awards Season in Flux

76

The Fascinating Legacy of 'Yacht Rock'

77

Everything There Is to Know About Star Wars

78

Bringing Novels Into the Internet Age

79

The Copyrighted Material Being Used to Train AI

80

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

81

Melding Video Games and TV Shows

82

The Christmas Movie Industrial Complex

83

Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Fear and Desire

84

The Four Horsemen of the Media Apocalypse

85

A Second Look at 'Caligula'

86

The Movie Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to See

87

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

88

Devo's Groundbreaking Work

89

How Social Media Is Warping Our Sense of Everything

90

The Death of a Community

91

Will Rogers and the American Spirit

92

John Magary on the Art of Editing

93

The Social Media Trap for Teens

94

Disney's Future Is the Past

95

Brad Thor's World of Intrigue

96

Documenting the Rise of Nazism

97

Ryan Faughnder on Paramount's Big Changes

98

Jennifer Esposito on 'Fresh Kills'

99

Nielsen's Ratings Evolution

100

Documenting 'How to Rob a Bank'

101

We're All 'Theatre Kids'

102

Celebrating Bruce Willis

103

Don't Panic About Movie Theaters (Yet)

104

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

105

Documenting January 6

106

On the Great Albert Brooks

107

The Fall and Rise of 'Scarface'

108

Is David Ellison Hollywood's Great Hope?

109

The Art of Costume Design

110

From 'Funny or Die' to Western Neo-Noirs

111

The Best and the Worst of Streaming 2023

112

Bringing 'Lousy Carter' to Life

113

The 2024 Stunt Awards!

114

What Does a Film Commissioner Do?

115

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

116

The Nelms Brothers Talk 'Red Right Hand'

117

Richard Rushfield's Hollywood Field Guide

118

Julian Schlossberg Returns to Tell More Hollywood Tales!

119

How Piracy Persists on the Internet

120

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

121

Sundance at 40

122

How 'The Family Plan' Became a Hit for Apple

123

What's Next in 'The Streaming Wars'

124

Francis Ford Coppola, Visionary

125

Whit Stillman on 'Metropolitan,' a Christmas Movie

126

The Year in the Box Office

127

From Nicolas Coppola to Nicolas Cage

128

Charlie Chaplin's Life in Exile

129

Why You Can Finally Watch 'Moonlighting' on Streaming

130

Stopping Piracy Before It Starts

131

How What We Watch Defines Us

132

Zoey Ashe's Life in the (Future) Panopticon

133

How Siskel and Ebert Got Their Thumbs

134

How 'Airplane!' Changed Comedy Forever

135

What the Writers Gained By Striking

136

The Lines that Define our Lives

137

Fantasy Culture and the Flight from Reality

138

Data Transparency Is a Double-Edged Sword

139

Erotic Thrillers: Unsung Heroes of Home Video

140

The Rise and Fall of the Brothers Warner

141

Why We Need to Know What’s Failing

142

How to Start a Film Studio in 2023

143

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

144

Hollywood's Hopes in China Are Fading

145

Netflix's Soft Earnings and the 'Barbenheimmer' Juggernaut

146

What If Evel Knievel Had Run for President?

147

Hollywood's Perfect Storm

148

A Decade of Big Muscles and Bigger Egos

149

New Doc Examines How Vets Are Recruited by Militias

150

How Universal Found a Brand-New Customer

151

Just Don't Call it 'Reality' TV

152

Tribeca and the Evolution of the Film Festival

153

The Data that Determines What We Watch

154

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

155

Is the Superhero Boom Officially Over?

156

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

157

What's to Come in 'The Streaming Wars'

158

Going to the Movies: Still the Best Value Around

159

Summer Box Office Preview

160

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

161

Are Video Games the New Comic Books?

162

How Theatrical Exhibition Helps Stave Off Piracy

163

Can the Drive-In Survive?

164

The Best Stunts of 2022, Rewarded

165

The Drama Behind Hollywood's Biggest Night

166

Will the WGA Strike? Can It Afford Not To?

167

David Thomson on the Magic of Acting

168

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

169

Shawn Ryan on Past WGA Negotiations and the Evolving Business

170

Producer Dean Devlin Goes (Back) to Space

171

PaleyFest's Secret Weapon: Love

172

Scientifically Measuring Movie Love

173

The Science of High Frame Rate, Explained

174

The Ten Biggest Hollywood Fiascoes of 2022

175

How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood

176

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

177

How 'The Northman' Transported Us Back in Time

178

What's the Deal with 'Seinfeld'?

179

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

180

The Past, Present, and Future of the Romcom

181

Who Won the Summer—and Who Lost?

182

Does the 'Perfect Sound' Exist?

183

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

184

How 'Orphan: First Kill' Beat Expectations

185

China's Looming Threat to the World of Gaming

186

The NFL: Ratings King

187

How to Write a Best-Selling Political Book

188

How Anime Can Help Save Theaters

189

Freedom of Expression Under Assault

190

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

191

Why Do Streamers Care About More than Eyeballs?

192

Convention Life with the Creator of Effin' Birds

193

Harvey Weinstein's Enablers

194

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

195

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

196

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

197

What's Up at the Mouse House?

198

How to Design an Iconic Movie Mask

199

Stop Stealing Movies!

200

Goodbye, Norm Macdonald

201

Where Are the Kids Movies?

202

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

203

How Ben Fong Torres Defined a Generation

204

The First Draft of (Streaming) History

205

Are Casual Filmgoers Finally Coming Back?

206

How Hollywood Trade Papers Shaped the Movies You Love

207

NATO Head on the Return to Theaters

208

Lloyd Kaufman and a Half-Century of Troma

209

The Nic Cage Book Every Fan Needs to Own

210

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

211

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

212

A Crucial Film to Understand Ukraine's Struggle

213

Would You Pay More to see 'The Batman'?

214

The Art of Editing

215

Can a Lawsuit Against WB Slow the Streaming Tide?

216

How to Get Your Script on The Black List

217

How Is Chinese Soft Power Reshaping Entertainment?

218

Janice Min on the Future of Entertainment Media

219

Programming TV's Most Beloved Festival

220

How Audiences Reshape the Movies You Love

221

'The Spine of Night' and the Business of Animation

222

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

223

The Greatest Movie Ever Made Hits 4K

224

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

225

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

226

Tracking—And Recapturing—Movie Audiences

227

A Century of Black Cinema

228

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

229

'The Beta Test' Director Jim Cummings on Indie Life

230

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

231

Netflix's Big Week

232

The Business of Sports Ads

233

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

234

Scott Tobias on the Business of Film Criticism

235

Rod Lurie Part 2: 'The Outpost'

236

Rod Lurie on Breaking Into the Biz

237

CinemaCon in Twilight

238

Jake Tapper on Afghanistan War Classic 'The Outpost'

239

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

240

Matthew Belloni on the Changing Ways Hollywood Gets Paid

241

Clayton Childress Explains How Taste and Status Reinforce Each Other

242

Ray Subers on Polling Moviegoers

243

John Mass on the Future of Content

244

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

245

Richard Rushfield on the Latest Hollywood News

246

James White on Restoring Movies for Arrow Films

247

Summer Reading!

248

James Emanuel Shapiro on Cannes and the Business of Film Festivals

249

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

250

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

251

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

252

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

253

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

254

Chris Fenton on China, the Oscars, and the MCU

255

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

256

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

257

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

258

David Thomson on His 'History of Movie Directors'

259

Sean O'Connell on the Grassroots Efforts to #ReleaseTheSnyderCut

260

Tom Shone on Christopher Nolan

261

Mike Malloy on the Business of Blu-ray Supplements

262

Scott Feinberg on the Business of Hollywood Awards Season

263

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

264

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

265

Alan Zilberman on life as a critic during awards season

266

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

267

Frank Pallotta on the State of Streaming

268

Peter Labuza on Antitrust, Hollywood, and Big Tech

269

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

270

David C. Lowery on Making Money by Making Music

271

James Emanuel Shapiro on the Epic WB/HBO Max Brouhaha

272

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

273

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

274

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

275

Derek Dye on Family Video and saving our video stores

276

Alyssa Rosenberg and Peter Suderman on post-Trump cultural coverage

277

Shannon Moore on Movie PR in the Age of COVID

278

Natalie Metzger on producing indie films in the age of COVID

279

Mark Graham on How to Decide What to Watch

280

Phil Contrino on movie theaters and cinema safety

281

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

282

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