The Pestle: In-depth Movie Talk, No Fluff | Film Review | Spoilers

The Pestle: In-depth Movie Talk, No Fluff | Film Review | Spoilers


Latest Episodes

Ep 316: “Lost in Translation”
April 01, 2025

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”
March 25, 2025

Cinematography, practical lighting; Story & Writing, story engine, subplots; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Ep 314: “Mickey 17”
March 18, 2025

Story & Writing, Mickey's metaphor, creepers; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Ep 313: “Ocean’s Eleven” (2001)
March 11, 2025

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”
March 04, 2025

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)
February 25, 2025

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)
February 18, 2025

Cinematography, realizing dream states; Story & Writing, metaphors, redeeming broken people; and other such stuff and things and stuff.

Ep 309: “Limitless” (2011)
February 11, 2025

Story & Writing, opening scenes, voiceover, structure, exposition; Cinematography, inserts as storytelling, color for storytelling, how voiceover impacts the coverage; and other such stuff and things

Ep 308: “Heat” (1995)
February 04, 2025

Cinematography, dolly moves, unmotivated lighting; Sound, shootout realism, sound design, Moby music; Story & Writing, good guys and bad guys, runtime, And other such stuff and things and stuff.

Ep 307: “The Brutalist”
January 21, 2025

Cinematography, oners, breaking up the frame with style and tone; Story & Writing, immigration, symbolism; and other such stuff and things and stuff.