The actor Pat Healy ("Cheap Thrills", "Take Me") makes his first appearance with his latest entertaining genre film, "We Need to Do Something" which opens today in theaters & on streaming platforms. A

The indie film "The Climb" director/actor Michael Angelo Covino and his co-star Kyle Marvin are in our first segment recorded in person the day before the quarantining began; then I chat with the lead features programmer of the New Orleans Film Festiva...

From the Cucalorus film festival in Wilmington, NC, Dan Brawley makes his first appearance on the podcast to discuss this year's program, which runs from November 11—25. Also, the filmmaker Kaz Phillips & musician Greg Loman whose acid western musical ...

Mark Weber returns to the podcast to discuss his latest feature which he directed, wrote & acts in, "The Place of No Words". He's joined by his co-star Nicole Elizabeth Berger. Also, director Wayne Wang ("Chan is Missing",

Tom Hall, Executive Director of the Montclair Film Festival, returns for his third visit to the podcast. The festival will run 10/16—10/25. Visit montclairfilm.org for tickets & details. Also, making his first appearance on the podcast,

The producer Filip Jan Rymsza ("The Other Side of the Wind") comes on to discuss his latest documentary, directed by Orson Welles, called "Hopper/Welles" which just screened at the New York Film Festival. And editor Michael Taylor returns for his three...

Joshua Leonard {"Hump Day", "Unsane") returns to chat about his latest directorial effort, "Fully Realized Humans" and is joined by his co-star Jess Weixler ("Teeth", "The Lie"). It screens at a drive-in tonight at the Woodstock Film Festival. Also,

Executive Director of the Woodstock Film Festival, Meira Blaustein, returns to the podcast to discuss the 2020 festival (2 in 1 this year!) which runs from Sept. 30—Oct 4. Check out woodstockfilmfestival.org for tickets to both virtual and drive-in scr...

Ric Burns makes his first appearance on the podcast to discuss his new documentary, "Oliver Sacks: His Own Life" which will begin an exclusive virtual engagement at FilmForum.org; then I am joined by Illeana Douglas,

A dialogue about cinema and criticism with three of the best. Armond White makes his first appearance on the podcast while both Godfrey Cheshire and Matt Zoller Seitz return. Together they contributed to some of the most important long-form film critic...