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Episode 805: I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Season 1 Episode 805
What kind of man doesn't drink, avoids women, and prefers the company of other strange men in the park? Gene Fowler Jr.'s I Married a Monster from Ou…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Special Report: Dear Upstairs Neighbors (2026)
Season 1 Episode 718
Editor Sarah Affleck pulls back the curtain on one of filmmaking's most invisible—and essential—arts. From cutting reality television to shaping anim…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Special Report: Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul (2026)
Season 1 Episode 717
Gregg Allman lived inside the central contradiction of American music — a white Southern kid who built his art on the blues, fled his demons while po…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 804: Dark City (1998)
Season 1 Episode 804
Rob St. Mary and Rob Spencer join Mike to dig into Proyas's tale of John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell), who wakes in a cheap hotel room with no memory, a de…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Episode 803: Timerider - The Adventure of Lyle Swann (1982)
Season 1 Episode 803
Mike and Aaron Carruthers kick off Sci-Fi June with William Dear's time-travel oddity Timerider: The Adventure of Lyle Swann, in which motocross race…
4 months ago
Kenji Tanigaki on The Furious (2025)
Season 1 Episode 716
Kenji Tanigaki is anything but furious when he discusses his latest film, The Furious (2025). The film stars Xie Miao and Joe Taslim as two men unite…
4 months, 1 week ago
Episode 802: Dark of the Sun (1968)
Season 1 Episode 802
Mike welcomes Andrew Nette and Jedidiah Ayres back to dissect Dark of the Sun (1968), a brutal, kinetic men‑on‑a‑mission film whose pulp thrills sit …
4 months, 1 week ago
Special Report: They Will Kill You (2026)
Season 1 Episode 715
Mike talks with re-recording mixer Duncan McRae and sound designer/supervising sound editor Jeffrey A. Pitts about their work on They Will Kill You (…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Episode 801: Reconstituirea (1968)
Season 1 Episode 801
In 1968, Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie completed his second film, Reconstituirea — known in English as Reconstruction or The Reenactment — and, …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Special Report: Kimi Takesue: Crossing and Encounters
Season 1 Episode 714
Mike talks with filmmaker Kimi Takesue, whose work — spanning documentary, fiction, and experimental forms — is now collected on the Criterion Channe…
4 months, 4 weeks ago