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Latest Episodes
Ep 319: “The Amateur” (2025)
Story & Writing, how world-building impacts the audience experience, setting up your character arcs; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 318: “Perfect Sense” (2011)
We devour Eva Green & Ewan McGregor's "Perfect Sense" and discuss: Cinematography, contrast, camera movement; Story & Writing, scene character, relationship epidemics; and other such stuff and things
Ep 317: “Mission: Impossible” (1996)
We double-cross Tom Cruises original Mission: Impossible and discuss: Cinematography, split focus diopters; Story & Writing, the opening, big set pieces; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 316: “Lost in Translation”
Cinematography, specificity & purpose with the camera; Story & Writing, Tokyo & language as a metaphor; Performances, Scarlett Johansson doing Marvel movies; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 315: “Black Bag”
Cinematography, practical lighting; Story & Writing, story engine, subplots; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 314: “Mickey 17”
Story & Writing, Mickey's metaphor, creepers; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 313: “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001)
Cinematography, subtlety, and bounce lighting; Story & Writing, heist rules, problems and solutions, rule of repeats; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 312: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire”
Cinematography, broad lighting and portraits; Story & Writing, layers, freezing time, power of groups, Celine's writing process; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 311: “The Fall” (2006)
Cinematography, transitions, locations, power of choreography; Story & Writing, layers of stories, stuntmen, how we all tell our own stories; and other such stuff and things and stuff.
Ep 310: “The Cell” (2000)
Cinematography, realizing dream states; Story & Writing, metaphors, redeeming broken people; and other such stuff and things and stuff.