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‘Street Fighter’ Director Kitao Sakurai On His Wild Cast, Kinky M. Bison & Embracing The Absurd — The Discourse Podcast Oct 14, 2026 00:21:45 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 “Street Fighter,” assembling a cast that includes Jason Momoa, Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, Callina Liang, Dav

Mackenzie Davis Talks ‘Below,’ ‘Terminator: Dark Fate,’ ‘Blade Runner 2049’ & Wanting To Do Comedy Oct 7, 2026 00:25:14 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,” which she still thinks got a “bad rap,” recalls the near-religious atmosphere of working with Denis Villen

Giovanni Ribisi On ‘American Hostage,’ Playing Tony Kiritsis & Why Audiences Can See The Difference Between Film & Digital [Interview] Oct 2, 2026 00:21:39 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 mortgage broker Richard “Dick” Hall hostage for 63 hours with a sawed-off shotgun wired to his neck, and why

Andrew Garfield Says ‘The Uprising’ Is A “Soul Cry”: “Everything Is Terribly Wrong” [Interview] Sep 9, 2026 00:21:56 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 filmmaking style and reveals the advice Matt Damon gave him before production.Garfield also talks about his st

‘Idiots’: Dave Franco Talks Macon Blair’s Gross-Out Comedy, A “Superhero” Diarrhea Shot & His Next Horror Film [Interview] Aug 27, 2026 00:21:29 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 the mess extra texture and Franco’s dainty bird tattoo singing “who farted,” the movie finds its beauti

The Pitt’: Shawn Hatosy Teases Abbot’s Hidden Trauma, Season 3 & Why A Night-Shift Spinoff Probably Won’t Happen [Bingeworthy Podcast] Aug 23, 2026 00:28:21 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 danger for self-care.Hatosy has not been around the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center nearly as much as s

‘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] Aug 14, 2026 00:20:58 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 material. It also commits what a certain corner of the fanbase may consider the ultimate R-rated act:

‘Cape Fear’ Showrunner Nick Antosca On Javier Bardem’s Monster, Scorsese’s Notes & Finale Spoilers [Bingeworthy Podcast] Aug 5, 2026 00:23:14 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 dream. The show takes the basic machinery of the 1962 film and Martin Scorsese’s operatic 1991 remake, pulls

‘Furious’: Emmy Rossum & Liz Meriwether On Imperfect Victims, Weaponized Trauma, & A Possible ‘New Girl’ Reunion [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jul 28, 2026 00:20:54 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 a disturbingly decent argument. Neither one is behaving in a way that makes it easy to decide who

Alan Ritchson On The Nearly Silent ‘Motor City,’ Systemic Rage & The “Carrie”-Level Bloodshed Of ‘Reacher’ Season 4 [The Discourse Podcast] Jul 22, 2026 00:22:22 “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 explaining themselves. The fists, engines, needle drops and occasional shotgun blast handle most of the talkin

Jonathan Tropper & Cassie Pappas On ‘Lucky,’ ‘Star Wars: Starfighter’ & The Lost Ronda Rousey ‘Road House’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jul 16, 2026 00:20:08 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 life-altering disaster to the next.Anya Taylor-Joy’s title character has a slightly more complicated relations

‘The Invite’: Rashida Jones & Will McCormack On the Whirlwind Writing Process, Their Wild Eight-Day Workshop, & ‘Tom And Jerry’ [The Discourse Podcast] Jul 8, 2026 00:20:06 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 Seth Rogen play Angela and Joe, a married couple who have become more like irritated roommates than roma

‘Enola Holmes 3’: Millie Bobby Brown, Louis Partridge, and Director Philip Barantini On Following ‘Adolescence,’ Eleven’s ‘Stranger Things’ Future, & More [The Discourse Podcast] Jun 30, 2026 00:29:23 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 story heads to Malta and lets Enola and Tewkesbury deal with a mystery that makes them grow up and face the

‘The Agency’ Season 2: Jeffrey Wright & John Magaro Talk Spycraft, ‘The Batman: Part II,’ ‘Presumed Innocent’ Season 2 & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jun 30, 2026 00:30:46 “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 fleshed-out characters, each carrying their own agendas, vulnerabilities, and secrets. Conversations ar

‘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] Jun 18, 2026 00:21:40 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. His new film, “The Death of Robin Hood,” is less interested in the legend as a heroic brand than in th

‘Spider-Noir’: Oren Uziel On Building Season One with Nic Cage, The Black-And-White/Color Gamble, Season 2 Hopes & ‘Fast Forever’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jun 15, 2026 00:22:22 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 can outrun the thing he was built to become, but its real trick is tonal. The series treats noir not a

‘Dutton Ranch’: Kelly Reilly, Cole Hauser & Annette Bening On Beth & Rip’s Texas Reset, ‘Batman Returns,’ & Taylor Sheridan’s Shadow, & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jun 3, 2026 00:25:45 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 Wheeler, who leave Montana behind for Texas in hopes of building something new, only to discover that new be

‘Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed’: Tatiana Maslany, Jake Johnson, David Gordon Green & David Rosen On Lonely Screens, Bad Decisions, ‘She-Hulk,’ ‘Spider-Verse’ & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] May 19, 2026 00:39:33 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 has time to become a murder mystery. It's part divorce drama, part paranoid thriller, part lon

‘Obsession’ Interview: Curry Barker On His Twisted Wish-Fulfillment Horror Breakout, Inde Navarrette’s Wild Performance, ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ & More [The Discourse Podcast] May 13, 2026 00:23:47 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 simple enough to fit on a cursed greeting card, then keeps tightening the rope until everyone in the room s

‘From’ Season 4: Harold Perrineau On Boyd’s Psychological Collapse, Wild Fan Theories, ‘Lost,’ & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] May 7, 2026 00:20:36 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 just regular people. Season 4 somehow makes all of that feel even more unstable. Hope is not dead in this

‘Hokum’: Director Damian McCarthy On Haunted Hotels, Folk Horror Roots, and His Next Film [The Discourse Podcast] Apr 30, 2026 00:26:09 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 isn’t escalating so much as tightening, quietly, deliberately, until there’s nowhere left to go. Then he s

‘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] Apr 28, 2026 00:27:25 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 lack of stability is the hook. This isn’t "Reacher," and a muscular heroic soldier boy doesn

‘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] Apr 23, 2026 00:20:30 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 Things” as a disguise: bright colors, low stakes, perhaps Dustin and a sweet monster learning t

‘Over Your Dead Body’ Interview: Jason Segel, Samara Weaving & Jorma Taccone On Balancing Brutality & Comedy, ‘Shrinking’ Season 4 & More [The Discourse Podcast] Apr 23, 2026 00:30:45 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 Stopping,” “Macgruber”) starring Jason Segel, Samara Weaving as the warring couple, asks what would hap

‘Apex’: Charlize Theron, Taron Egerton, & Director Baltasar Kormákur On Surviving A Brutal Shoot, Cliff Jumps, and More [The Discourse Podcast] Apr 23, 2026 00:27:48 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, not-so-slightly crazy. There are two people, a seriously awful predicament, and a huge number of bad choices ab

‘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] Apr 16, 2026 00:31:29 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 Farrelly—who knows a thing or two about immature, purile comedies with lots of dick jokes like “Dumb and Dumbe

“Normal”: Bob Odenkirk & Derek Kolstad On Building A Genre-Swerving Action Oddity Independently, ‘John Wick’ Exits, & ‘The Room’ Remake [The Discourse Podcast] Apr 16, 2026 00:20:00 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 just enough sincerity, grit, and tonal whiplash to make you lean in instead of check out (read our review

‘Beef’ Season 2: Jake Schreier On Lies, Class Warfare, Generational Divide, & Why It All Matters For ‘X-Men’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Apr 13, 2026 00:18:44 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 in a parking lot get bigger and bigger, until it was uncomfortably, painfully true to life. It flo

‘Thrash’: Adam McKay & Kevin Messick On Climate Chaos, Shark Horror, & Why Reality Is Catching Up To The Movies [The Discourse Podcast] Apr 9, 2026 00:23:46 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 bloodsport (“Succession”). So no, a lean, camp-tinged shark thriller isn’t the obvious next stop. But “Thrash” f

“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] Apr 2, 2026 00:35:30 “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, which is what makes it work. For all the bodily chaos and ridiculous panic, the movie understands something

‘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] Mar 20, 2026 00:20:25 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 still very much in the blast radius of her last marital disaster, only now the satanic board game has expan

‘The Madison’: Kurt Russell, Michelle Pfeiffer & Director Christina Alexandra Voros On Grief, Taylor Sheridan’s TV Universe, 'Batman' & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] Mar 19, 2026 00:31:33 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, reinvention, and culture shock collide. The series stars Michelle Pfeiffer as matriarch Stacy Cl

‘Scarpetta’: Liz Sarnoff On Adapting Patricia Cornwell’s Beloved Books, Nicole Kidman’s Commitment, & Why The Show Lives On Character [Bingeworthy Podcast] Mar 19, 2026 00:23:22 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 obsession. Now, the long-awaited adaptation has finally arrived in the form of Prime Video’s new series “

‘Paradise’ Season 2: Sterling K. Brown, Shailene Woodley & Julianne Nicholson On Survival, Sacrifice, & The Show’s Three-Season Plan [Bingeworthy Podcast] Mar 12, 2026 00:22:39 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 happily dissecting online. The world expands dramatically beyond the bunker, pushing its characters into unfa

‘Heel’: Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough & Anson Boon On Grief, Redemption, More ‘Adolescence,’ and ‘Mobland’ Season 2 [The Discourse Podcast] Mar 5, 2026 00:25:56 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 a story about imprisonment and escape, “Heel” becomes a meditation on grief, redemption, and the uncom

‘DTF: St. Louis’: Jason Bateman, Linda Cardellini, David Harbour, & Steve Conrad On Vulnerability, Sexual Secrets, & Jason Bateman's MCU Character [Bingeworthy Podcast] Mar 5, 2026 00:22:55 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 simple and transactional, only to discover that intimacy is never that clean. The ensemble includes

‘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] Feb 27, 2026 00:20:03 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 shattered when Connor (Karl Urban), a betrayed former ally, arrives with vengeance and unfinished busin

‘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] Feb 27, 2026 00:20:29 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 “Scrubs” revival understands that alchemy. It is not interested in embalming the past. It is interesting to

‘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] Feb 12, 2026 00:32:26 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 dare, a sales pitch, and an exhausted rallying cry all at once. From the jump, the film makes it cl

‘Crime 101’: Chris Hemsworth, Halle Berry, & Bart Layton On Heist Films, Breaking The System, & ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ [The Discourse Podcast] Feb 10, 2026 00:28:11 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 tension. With “Crime 101,” filmmaker Bart Layton acknowledges that lineage without trying to wrestle it. Ins

‘The Beauty’: Vincent D’Onofrio On Being a “Horror Show,” Working with Ashton Kutcher & Isabella Rossellini, & ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 [Bingeworthy Podcast] — Feb 6, 2026 00:19:43 “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 where that thesis sharpens into something genuinely frightening, and it does so by re-introducing one o

‘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] Feb 6, 2026 00:21:31 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 something deeply human inside its most absurd impulses. Beneath the time travel, the public stunts, and

‘The Beauty’: Evan Peters & Rebecca Hall On Ryan Murphy’s Most Unhinged Series Yet, Globetrotting Adventure, & Marvel Character Returns [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jan 29, 2026 00:19:29 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 interested in being neat or easily digestible. It wants overload. It wants provocation. It wants you pausing mid

‘Landman’ Season 2: Billy Bob Thornton, Sam Elliott, Ali Larter, & Michelle Randolph On Family Chaos, Tonal Whiplash, & A Modern Western [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jan 22, 2026 00:22:54 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 reminds you that this confidence has consequences, usually paid by family.Set in the oil fields of West Texas

‘The Rip’: Joe Carnahan On Cop Cinema, Moral Pressure Cookers, ‘The Raid’ Remake, & His ‘Daredevil’ Film That Never Happened [The Discourse Podcast] Jan 15, 2026 00:25:16 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 form yet, a lean, pressure-cooker cop thriller that weaponizes procedure, grief, and mistrust by refusing

‘Night Patrol’: Justin Long & CM Punk On Their Vampire Cop Thriller, Their Love of Horror, Rebooting ‘Grave Encounters,’ & More [The Discourse Podcast] Jan 15, 2026 00:33:43 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 conscience, it’s the kind of film that can play as pulpy, borderline campy fun and still leave you chewing

‘His & Hers’: Tessa Thompson On Dual Perspectives, THAT Ending, Valkyrie’s MCU Return, and ‘Creed 4’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jan 12, 2026 00:21:20 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 your little internal conspiracy corkboard. Then it quietly slides one detail out of place, and

‘Greenland 2: Migration’: Ric Roman Waugh On Disaster Movie Sequels, Emotion Over Spectacle, & More “Has Fallen” Films [The Discourse Podcast] Jan 7, 2026 00:21:42 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 first film as a one-off thrill ride. For him, it was always the opening chapter of a single emotional s

‘Fallout’ Season 2: Walton Goggins On Re-Entering The Wasteland, Tarantino, & Marvel Misses [Bingeworthy Podcast] Dec 17, 2025 00:27:37 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 about by nuclear decimation, the series follows citizens forced to survive in underground bu

‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’: Rohan Campbell & Mike P. Nelson On Bloody Holiday Romance, Nazi Christmas Parties, & Defending ‘Halloween Ends’ [The Discourse Podcast] Dec 11, 2025 00:31:39 Holiday horror is usually all tinsel and trauma, but the new remake of "Silent Night, Deadly Night" decides it also wants to add a warm hug, a nervous breakdown, and a full-blown Nazi Christmas party for good measure. Director Mike P. Nelson takes the infamous killer Santa premise and rebuilds it as a supernatural slasher with a bruised, endearing Hallmark heart at the center, following

‘Dust Bunny’: Bryan Fuller On Monsters, Spielberg’s Notes, Hannibal’s Future, and Creative Differences on Shows [The Discourse Podcast] Dec 11, 2025 00:22:21 Childhood fears, bedtime monsters, and the hazy membrane between imagination and trauma collide in “Dust Bunny,” the feature directorial debut of Bryan Fuller, a filmmaker whose storytelling instincts have always lived in the space between the two B’s - beauty and brutality. It is a film that feels handcrafted out of nightmares and fairy-tale sugar, a creature feature through the eyes of a child w

‘Fackham Hall’: Thomasin McKenzie & Jim O’Hanlon On Delightfully Stupid Comedy, Visual Mayhem, & Playing It Dead Serious [The Discourse Podcast] Dec 4, 2025 00:23:44 There’s refined British comedy, and then there’s “Fackham Hall,” a movie that waltzes in wearing period-accurate garb on the outside and immediately trips over the furniture. It’s the kind of delightfully silly romp where aristocrats brood, servants scramble, romance simmers, relatives wed, and the background is working twice as hard as the actors to steal every scene, like “Downton Abbey” politel

‘Mayor of Kingstown’ Season 4: Jeremy Renner & Edie Falco On Explosive Internal Chess Matches, Hawkeye, & Whether ‘Nurse Jackie’ Lives Again [Bingeworthy Podcast] Nov 25, 2025 00:21:12 Kingstown never sleeps. It snarls. It churns. It eats the weak. With “Mayor of Kingstown” returning for Season 4, the Paramount+ thriller doubles down on the brutal machinery of power, corruption, and survival that has defined the series from the beginning. But this year, something shifts. A storm hits the city in the form of Edie Falco, who joins the show as Nina Hobbs, the new prison warden and

‘IT: Welcome To Derry’: Andy & Barbara Muschietti, Jason Fuchs & Brad Caleb Kane On Pennywise’s Origins, Their Multi-Season Plan, And Their Experience on ‘The Flash’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Nov 20, 2025 00:22:56 In Derry, the past never stays buried. Set in 1962, "IT: Welcome to Derry" rewinds Stephen King’s nightmare town to a moment of postcard innocence and slowly peels the veneer off to show the rot underneath. The new HBO series acts as a prequel to "IT" and "IT: Chapter Two", following the Hanlon family as they’re pulled into another brutal cycle of disappearances, haun

‘Now You See Me, Now You Don’t’: Ruben Fleischer On Reuniting With Jesse Eisenberg & Woody Harrelson, His 'Venom' Experience, & His Upcoming Western Vampire Film [The Discourse Podcast] Nov 13, 2025 00:20:59 theaters on November 14 from Lionsgate.For Fleischer, returning to work with Eisenberg and Harrelson was a huge draw, but it wasn't the only draw. “It was a combination of factors,” he said. “Definitely a desire to work with Jesse and Woody again. This was my fourth movie with each of them. They’re great collaborators, super funny, brilliant actors. I just absolutely love working with them.”

‘The Running Man’: Edgar Wright On His Sci-Fi Blockbuster, Stephen King, Digital Filmmaking, & Why He’s Still On A “Cape Break” After Leaving 'Ant-Man' [The Discourse Podcast] Nov 11, 2025 00:22:08 The future isn’t sleek or utopian; it’s loud, televised, and brought to you by your favorite corporate sponsors. In Edgar Wright’s high-voltage new film, “The Running Man,” entertainment has literally become a blood sport. Based on Stephen King’s 1982 novel, this isn’t your father’s dystopia; it’s a world where survival ratings matter more than life itself, and one wrong move can make you viral in

‘Amsterdam Empire’: Famke Janssen On Her Wild Weed Fueled Netflix Crime Series, Netherlands, & Why She’s Not In ‘Avengers: Doomsday’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] — Oct 30, 2025 00:20:01 Crime, corruption, and a phoenix-like comeback collide in the heart of Amsterdam’s weed underworld. Netflix’s “Amsterdam Empire” is a pulpy, fun new crime series set in Amsterdam’s glamorous and dangerous weed industry, where revenge and reinvention go hand in hand. The show follows Betty, a former pop star played by Famke Janssen, whose crumbling marriage to the owner of a Marijuana shop empire k

⁠‘The Last Frontier’: Jason Clarke & Jon Bokenkamp On Their 90’s Action Movie-Inspired Series, Wilderness Filming, & Practical Bloody Mayhem [Bingeworthy Podcast]⁠ Oct 28, 2025 00:36:53 In Alaska’s endless white, a small town sheriff hunts escaped convicts through blizzards and betrayal, only to uncover a web of CIA secrets and buried love that refuses to stay frozen. Yes, the ’90s action vibes are strong with Apple TV+’s “The Last Frontier,, a wintry chase thriller where a quiet Alaskan town becomes a pressure cooker. Planes fall out of the sky, fugitives scatter into the wild,

‘A House of Dynamite’: Noah Oppenheim On Real-Time Nuclear Horror, Collaborating With Kathryn Bigelow, His ‘Jack Ryan’ Film and More [The Discourse Podcast] Oct 23, 2025 00:23:23 What would you do with 18 minutes left before the end of the world? That question ignites "A House of Dynamite," a pulse-pounding new thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow and writer-producer Noah Oppenheim that dramatizes the unthinkable: the countdown between nuclear launch and annihilation. Told in real time, the film locks viewers inside the corridors of power as a U.S. president, m

‘Blue Moon’: Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, & Richard Linklater On Their Broadway Break-Up Movie, More 'Before' Films, 'Wake Up Dead Man' & More [The Discourse Podcast] Oct 23, 2025 00:32:04 Everyone knows Rodgers and Hammerstein and the legacy that comes with their collaborations, but many forget the brilliance and heartbreak of Rodgers and Hart. The applause roars for one man while another slips quietly into the shadows. Fame and failure share the same stage tonight, divided only by a curtain call. That’s the haunting pulse of “Blue Moon,” a story of creative partners colliding at t

‘Chad Powers’: Michael Waldron On His & Glen Powell’s Sports Comedy, The Show’s ‘Ted Lasso’ DNA, & His Pick For Marvel’s Nova [Bingeworthy Podcast] Oct 16, 2025 00:20:49 You don’t have to know a damn thing about football to get swept up in “Chad Powers.” The new Hulu comedy from Michael Waldron and Glen Powell takes an absurd premise, a fallen quarterback disguising himself as a walk-on to reclaim his dream, and builds it into one of the funniest, sharpest, and most heartfelt sports stories of the year. Adapted from Eli Manning’s viral sketch, the show follows Rus

‘Tulsa King’: Sylvester Stallone, Garrett Hedlund, & Bella Heathcote On Season 3’s Wilder Grind, ‘Nola King,’ Passing The ‘Rambo’ Torch, ‘Tron,’ “& More [Bingeworthy Podcast] Oct 9, 2025 00:24:19 The streets of Tulsa have never looked meaner. With Season 3 of "Tulsa King" now streaming on Paramount+, Sylvester Stallone’s Dwight Manfredi faces more than just turf wars. He’s surrounded by chaos on all sides, from the FBI and old New York enemies to a new local threat who feels pulled from another century. The scale is bigger, the danger sharper, and the humor darker than ever befor

'Task': Brad Ingelsby, Emilia Jones, Tom Pelphrey, & Sylvia Dionicio Discuss Their Gritty Crime Series, Potential 'Mare of Eastown' Crossovers, & Much More [Bingeworthy Podcast] Oct 8, 2025 00:45:06 The hum in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, isn’t sirens so much as the grind of a garbage truck at dawn and the scrape of a window after dark. “Task” lives there, in a neighborhood that knows its people by what they throw away, where they go or don’t go to church, then shoves them onto a collision course. One side is a scuffed-up task force working out of a seized row house, and the other is a desp

‘Good Boy’: Ben Leonberg & Kari Fischer On Crafting A Haunted-House Thriller From A Dog’s POV, Indy’s “Performance,” & Festival Reactions [The Discourse Oct 3, 2025 00:23:38 They say dogs can sense death, staring at something just beyond our perception. In “Good Boy,” that instinct becomes the engine for an entire film. Directed by Ben Leonberg and produced by Kari Fischer, the story unfolds entirely from the perspective of a golden retriever named Indy, who seems to be the only one aware that a house carries a sinister presence. What begins as a simple “what if” idea

‘Play Dirty’: Shane Black On Reinventing Parker, Mark Wahlberg Stepping In for RDJ, Marvel Memories, ‘The Nice Guys’ Sequel & More [The Discourse Podcast] Oct 1, 2025 00:21:24 The underworld is crowded with thieves, but Parker has always stood apart. Created by Donald Westlake in the early 1960s, the character has been portrayed on screen by actors including Lee Marvin, Mel Gibson, and Jason Statham. He's a blunt-force professional who isn’t Bond, isn’t Batman, but something rougher, hungrier, and coded by his own ruthless blue-collar sense of order. With "Play

‘The Man In My Basement’: Nadia Latif & Willem Dafoe On Their Visceral and Poignant Thriller, Powerful Themes Staying with You, Robert Eggers’ ‘Werewolf’ & More [The Discourse Podcast] Sep 25, 2025 00:38:49 ‘The Man In My Basement’: Nadia Latif & Willem Dafoe On Their Visceral and Poignant Thriller, Powerful Themes Staying with You, Robert Eggers’ ‘Werewolf’ & More [The Discourse Podcast]

‘All Of You’: Brett Goldstein On Love, The Science of Soulmates, ‘Shrinking’ Surprises, & ‘Ted Lasso’ [The Discourse Podcast] Sep 24, 2025 00:23:47 Love stories are rarely clean, and in “All of You,” the mess is the point. The new drama follows Simon and Laura, lifelong friends played by Brett Goldstein and Imogen Poots, as they drift in and out of each other’s lives while a soulmate test promises definitive answers to the question of “the one.” Instead of neat bows and easy catharsis, the film leans into questioning love, heartbreak, longing

‘Adulthood’: Josh Gad & Kaya Scodelario On Sibling Chaos, 'Crawl 2,' & The Long Road To ‘Spaceballs 2’ [The Discourse Podcast] Sep 23, 2025 00:21:41 Secrets in the family have a way of festering, and in Alex Winter’s new thriller “Adulthood,” that rot takes the form of a literal body. The film thrusts estranged siblings Megan and Noah, played by Kaya Scodelario and Josh Gad, into a spiral where responsibility can no longer be avoided, and every choice risks compounding into catastrophe. The film arrives on digital on demand platforms on Septem

‘HIM’: Justin Tipping On Mashing Horror & Sports, Marlon Wayans’ Career-Best Performance, & Building A New Mythology [The Discourse Podcast] Sep 18, 2025 00:19:59 The drive to be the best has always carried a cost, but in Justin Tipping’s new film “HIM,” that cost curdles into something nightmarish. Opening September 19 through Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions and Universal Pictures, the story takes the familiar arc of athletic ambition and twists it into a surreal descent where glory and terror run side by side. As one of the rare entries in the sports

‘Chief of War’: Jason Momoa On His Hawaiian Epic, Directing the Finale, Historical Accuracy vs. Spectacle, & ‘Street Fighter’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Sep 18, 2025 00:21:21 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo heads into ‘Chief of War’, Apple TV+’s bruising, beautiful, and epic historical saga told largely in the native Hawaiian language and anchored by Jason Momoa as Ka‘iana. The series reframes Hawai‘i’s unification through a warrior-exile (Momoa) who’s seen the outside world and returns warning that their internal conflict is nothing compared to what

‘Alien: Earth’: Noah Hawley On Creature Design, Transhumanism & Proving The Show Belongs In The ‘Alien’ Canon [Bingeworthy Podcast] Sep 9, 2025 00:21:36 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by writer, director, and showrunner Noah Hawley ("Fargo," "Legion") to discuss his new FX series, "Alien: Earth." The highly anticipated prequel series debuted August 12th and runs through September 23rd, delivering a bold new chapter in the iconic sci-fi horror franchise. Set in a future Earth, the story fo

‘Platonic’ Season 2: Seth Rogen, Rose Byrne, Nicholas Stoller & Francesca Delbanco On Codependency, Physical Comedy & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] Aug 28, 2025 00:27:15 n this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by comedy icons Seth Rogen & Rose Byrne, along with creators Nicholas Stoller & Francesca Delbanco, to discuss Season 2 of "Platonic." The hit Apple TV+ comedy series returned August 6th and runs through October with new episodes that double down on codependency, middle-aged mayhem, and Rogen’s uncanny ability to brutali

‘Relay’: Riz Ahmed, Lily James, & David Mackenzie On Paranoid Thrillers, Whistleblowers, Building Chemistry Through Distance, ‘Fuze’ & More [The Discourse Podcast] Aug 21, 2025 00:29:22 On this episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by Riz Ahmed, Lily James, and director David Mackenzie to talk about ‘Relay’, a paranoid thriller set in New York City that follows a world-class “fixer” (Riz Ahmed) who brokers lucrative payoffs between corrupt corporations and the individuals who threaten their ruin. He keeps his identity a secret through meticulous planning and alwa

‘Twisted Metal’ Season 2: Michael Jonathan Smith & Anthony Carrigan On Bigger Action, Calypso’s Madness, James Gunn’s ‘Superman,’ & more [Bingeworthy Podcast] Aug 20, 2025 00:30:08 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo heads back into Peacock’s wildest ride, ‘Twisted Metal.’ Season one surprised audiences with its mix of brutal action, absurdist comedy, and unexpected heart. Now, season two takes things even further, upping the stakes with bigger stunts, more elaborate effects, a larger cast, and cosmic weirdness creeping in around the edges. This season finds J

‘Smoke’: John Leguizamo On Dennis Lehane Writing A Part For Him, Missing Out on ‘The Devil Wears Prada,’ & Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Aug 14, 2025 00:18:40 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo heads back into the burning world of Apple TV+’s ‘Smoke’, a gripping slow-burn crime drama based on the true story of a serial arsonist and the investigator determined to stop him. The series follows arson investigator Dave Gudsen (Taron Egerton), a small-town arson investigator who appears to be a dependable family man. But as the series progress

'Sketch': Tony Hale & D'Arcy Carden On Grief, Monsters, Making Magic, and 'Toy Story 5' [The Discourse Podcast] Aug 6, 2025 00:21:41 On this episode of The Discourse, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by Tony Hale and D’Arcy Carden to talk about “Sketch,” a new family-friendly fantasy comedy-drama from first-time director Seth Worley. The film follows a grieving family whose emotional baggage literally comes to life in the form of magical, terrifying creatures after a child’s sketchbook falls into an enchanted pool.Tony Hale (“Veep,

‘WWE Unreal’: Chris Weaver & Bianca Belair On Pulling Back The Curtain, John Cena’s Final Run, & The Reality Behind Wrestling’s Grind [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jul 30, 2025 00:26:29 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by Director Chris Weaver and Wrestling Superstar Bianca Belair to talk about “WWE Unreal,” Netflix’s new docu-series that finally takes fans inside the machine behind professional wrestling. For the first time, WWE allows cameras into its most sacred spaces, including the writer’s room, backstage before matches, and the constantly shifti

‘Dexter: Resurrection’: Michael C. Hall & Krysten Ritter On The Return Of Dexter, Dinner Party Killers, & Jessica Jones’ MCU Comeback [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jul 25, 2025 00:35:15 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by Michael C. Hall and Krysten Ritter, stars of “Dexter: Resurrection” - Paramount+ with Showtime’s gritty revival that continues the twisted journey of serial killer Dexter Morgan - yes, he lives! The new series picks up shortly after the events of “Dexter: New Blood”, with Dexter waking from a coma, presumed dead, and setting out acros

‘Foundation’: Lee Pace On Playing A Drug-Addled Emperor, Batman Fancasting, & Edgar Wright’s ‘Running Man’ [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jul 18, 2025 00:19:03 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by Lee Pace, who returns as Brother Day in season three of "Foundation" — Apple TV+'s sprawling adaptation of Isaac Asimov's legendary sci-fi saga. The show resumed July 11, picking up as empires crumble, timelines splinter, and the Cleon dynasty faces collapse from within. The show stars Lee Pace, Jared Harris, Terrence Mann, Lou Llobel

‘Smoke’: Taron Egerton On Playing A Firebug With A Fractured Moral Code, ‘Kingsman 3,’ Marvel Roles & More [Bingeworthy Podcast] Jul 10, 2025 00:20:30 On this episode of Bingeworthy, host Mike DeAngelo is joined by Taron Egerton, the star of "Smoke," a gripping new Apple TV+ series inspired by the real-life crimes of arsonist-turned-investigator John Leonard Orr. Created by Dennis Lehane ("Black Bird"), the series explores the chaos and duality of a man split between duty and destruction.Egerton stars as Dave Gudsen, a small-

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