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On the latest episode, Zach and Brian take a look at the week in film news before diving into the swirl of controversy around Steven Spielberg and his (perceived) comments made about Netflix and the awards circuit.Top Stories:Us steals the sho
On the latest episode, Zach and Brian give their top-10 movies of 2018. (13:55) — Numbers 10-6 (56:30) — Numbers 5-1
/Film writer Candice Frederick joins the podcast to discuss her recent piece on Green Book and how the movie whitewashes a uniquely black story, even as it moves full steam ahead towards awards season. Top Stories: New movie from Pixar is t
Karina Longworth, host of You Must Remember This, joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood. Top Stories: Kevin Hart named host of the Oscars, steps down 48 hours later due to
The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey joins the podcast to discuss Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and the idea of retconning franchises. Top Stories: Trailers The Lion King Directors Nicolas Roeg and Bernardo Bertolucci die at
Vulture and New York Magazine writer Abraham Riesman joins the podcast to discuss Ralph Breaks the Internet and how nostalgia and products we love have become integrated more and more into our stories in a somewhat frightening fashion. Top St
On this abridged episode of The News Reel, Zach and Brian catch up with some of the big stories of the past few weeks, including the death of Stan Lee, trailers for Toy Story 4 and Detective Pikachu and news surrounding a reboot of Shrek. Top
The Cinephiliacs' Peter Labuza joins the podcast to discuss the end of FilmStruck and what that means for streaming indie, arthouse and classic movies. Top Stories: Guillermo Del Toro to make a stop-motion Pinocchio for Netflix while Matteo
Zach and Brian review the new Halloween movie and ask whether or not the slasher genre has a place in modern horror. Top Stories: Trailers: Destroyer 2018 Gotham Awards led by First Reformed, If Beale Street Could TalkJudi Dench, Idri
The Wrap reporter Umberto Gonzalez joins the podcast to chat about James Gunn's new job writing and directing Suicide Squad 2 and what that means for him, DC and Marvel moving forward. Top Stories: Disney is busy with live-action with an Ala
Zach and Brian discuss what the next step for superhero movies could be and why a move into the "prestige" direction with the inclusion of people like Chloe Zhao and Joaquin Phoenix in new projects could be signaling that shift. Top Stories:
Slashfilm and CutPrintFilm's Chris Evangelista joins the podcast to help recap this year's Toronto International Film Festival and some of the movies to keep an eye out for this year. Top Stories: Burt Reynolds dead at 82 Trailers The Bea
Slashfilm's Hoai-Tran Bui joins the podcast this week to discuss "Asian August" and the impact of Crazy Rich Asians and To All The Boys I've Loved Before on Asian-American representation in Hollywood. Top Stories: Trailers The Front Runner
For this week's main story, Zach and Brian decide to look back at some of the underrated or underseen movies from 2018 so far rather than doing a favorites list. Top Stories: Danny Boyle leaves 'Bond 25' over "creative differences" The thi
Zach and Brian discuss the news surrounding the Oscars this week with the announcement of a "most popular movie" category to the ceremony. Top Stories: MoviePass is on the rocks Trailers If Beale Street Could Talk Lizzie Fahrenheit 11/9
Freelance critic Kristen Lopez joins the podcast to discuss her Slashfilm article about Skyscraper and its positive portrayal of disabilities and what Hollywood could do to improve overall. Top Stories: Festival Line-Ups Toronto Internation
The Village Voice's Bilge Ebiri joins the podcast to discuss the 10th anniversary of The Dark Knight and how it plays in 2018 compared to 2008. Top Stories: James Gunn fired from Guardians of the Galaxy 3 Trailers: Glass Assassination Na
Cinematary's Nathan Smith joins the podcast to talk about his third annual Film Twitter Sight & Sound Poll and what defines a canonical list of movies. Top Stories: Trailers The Favourite Life Itself The Miseducation of Cameron Post Bi
Slate's Evan Urquhart joins the podcast to talk about Scarlett Johansson's choice to play a trans man and why it displays a continued lack of understanding from Hollywood of the trans community. Top Stories: Lucas Hedges, Sterling K. Brown
Vanity Fair's Nicole Sperling joins the podcast to discuss "inclusion riders" and what has been done about them in the film industry following Frances McDormand's speech at this year's Oscars. Top Stories: Trailers: Welcome to Marwen Cree
Andrew Swafford and Lydia Creech, co-hosts of Zach's other podcast, Cinematary, join the episode to talk the state of horror and the recent release, Hereditary. Top Stories: Trailers: Halloween Dumbo First Man The Nun Hiro Murai, dir
Pajiba and SyFy writer Kayleigh Donaldson joins the podcast to discuss the recent news surrounding Kelly Marie Tran leaving Instagram due to months of harassment by Star Wars "fans" and how this has become a symptom of geek culture at large.
Uproxx's Mike Ryan joins the podcast to discuss the utterly uninteresting nature of Solo and whether or not this will do anything to slow down the Star Wars train. Top Stories: Jamie Foxx to headline the latest adaptation of Spawn James Ma
Keith Phipps joins the podcast to discuss his recent article for The Verge covering the "unrestored" version of 2001: A Space Odyssey, spearheaded by Christopher Nolan, and what it means for the film vs. digital debate. Top Stories: Spike L
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