i wrote about disclosure day, steven spielberg, and human compassion as sci-fi for @brightwalldarkroom.com

Reposting this in case you missed it yesterday ... it would make good listening for the July 4th weekend! (also, do you think I can get a mention of X-Files into every pod we do?)

🚨👽New pod is here!👽🚨 Chad & Elizabeth sit down with @frankfalisi.bsky.social to discuss all things DISCLOSURE DAY We get into: empathy, aliens, camera movements, CGI animals, post-Fabelmans Spielberg, not overthinking it, are we alone in the universe, does the ending work, and much, much more…

It was great to get back into the swing of things after 6 months away from podcasting, and to talk with Elizabeth about the first rated-R movie I ever saw in a theater so many moons ago—and one of the greatest summer blockbusters ever made, which still *very* much holds up!

In which we ponder many things, including our T2 vs T1 feelings, momstagram, looksmaxxing, Rodney King, and James Cameron’s obsession with drowning his characters! Give it a listen!

WE’RE BACK! Join @chadperman.bsky.social & @eccantwell.bsky.social as they talk their way through one of the best summer blockbusters of all time: TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY

This wasn't really THAT true two months ago, was it? But ... it is now REALLY REALLY true! We have recorded an episode! We figured you guys just needed time to catch up on all your OTHER podcasts, you know?

Don’t worry, we’re coming back soon, stay tuned!

We get into: young PTA & the New New Hollywood, sincerity and good listening, Fiona Apple as PTA’s Polly Platt, we desperately want a Tom Cruise coconut cake, life imitating art, Melora Walters’ enigmatic smile, the bleak prescience of Seduce & Destroy, how to pace a 3+ hour runtime, and more.

I've loved talking with Veronica about so many different movies over the last 4+ years, and when she suggested MAGNOLIA for our last episode together, I couldn't possibly have said yes faster. And though the show will go on (after a short break), I'll always treasure the years w/ Veronica & Eli 🙏

A brand new episode of The BW/DR Podcast is ready for your ears! Not only is this Veronica & producer Eli’s final episode, it’s also our 4th annual "Cruisemas" show—so please join us as we revisit PTA's blank check big swing MAGNOLIA (1999) and reflect a bit on the end of an era 🥹

New pod coming soon! Cruisemas returns!

Our annual NYFF episode is here! On this very special pod, Veronica sits down with @franhoepfner.bsky.social, @frankfalisi.bsky.social, and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 63rd New York Film Festival.

This month on the pod: special guest Adam Nayman—Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of David Fincher: Mind Games—joins us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SEVEN

This month on the pod: special guest Adam Nayman—Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of David Fincher: Mind Games—joins us to celebrate the 30th anniversary of SEVEN

hey if you're up late we've got a treat for you: we just released a brand new pod celebrating/unpacking the 30th anniversary of SEVEN, with the always wonderful Adam Nayman open.spotify.com/episode/2Oir...

Oh hell yeah! Relatively speaking Rope was a “new” Hitchcock for me first watching it like only a couple years ago. But I’ve probably watched it at least 6 times since. Might watch it again today!

an amazing scene/shot from ROPE that we highlight on the pod:

Oh y'all I gasped.

New pod is here!! Join us as we sit down with the wonderful Michael Koresky to discuss Hitchcock’s ROPE—which Michael writes about extensively in his fantastic new book, Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

A new bite-sized episode of the podcast is here! This month, Chad & Veronica take a loving look at Mike Mills’ BEGINNERS and its “melancholic smile” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

🚨 New pod! 🚨 Your mission, if you choose to accept it: @bilgeebiri.bsky.social—the man, the myth, the legend—joins the show to bookend his discussion of all things MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE with us from a couple of summers ago, on the occasion of the final (?) film of a nearly 30 year franchise.

If you’re wondering if you will have a new Mission:Impossible podcast with @bilgeebiri.bsky.social to listen to before the end of tonight, the answer is yes, yes you will

Get away from it all for 20 minutes with a new mini-episode on one of the most wonderful movies ever made, Ernst Lubitsch's "effervescent and delicious" pre-code screwball comedy, TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Pod quiz, hot shot: The inimitable @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins the pod for a lively chat about the glories of SPEED (1994)! We get into: repetition compulsion & classical Hollywood storytelling, Keanu’s peak hotness, does Jeff Daniels close his eyes?, what it means to “become bomb” & more...

SPEED pod coming your way within the hour…

Join Veronica & Chad for a conversation about THE PASSENGER tomorrow!

Coming next Tuesday: Join us for a live chat about Antonioni’s THE PASSENGER over at @galerie.com! www.galerie.com/discuss/the-...

New today for your ears: A brand new episode of @bwdrpod.bsky.social, featuring @angelicabastien.bsky.social talking BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA!!!

Had a wonderful time talking with Justin & Laura about life, parenting, music, empathy, Mike Mills, and one of my very favorite movies!

A brand new bite-sized podcast is here! This month, we're zooming in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, THE CELEBRATION. We get into: Dogme 95, family gatherings as horror movies, the generative energy of stylistic constraints, dynamic chaos, ghostly POVs, and more...

Recording a brand new episode today with a very special guest we're VERY excited about 🧛‍♂️ #SeeMeNow #Moviesky #Filmsky

🚨🚨New pod!🚨🚨 This month, we're looking at the Kafkaesque body swap, A DIFFERENT MAN with critic/actor/BWDR darling @frankfalisi.bsky.social⁠. We get into: Adam Pearson’s Oscar snub, The Substance for boys, if you want to dance the mask, the humanism of karaoke, self-image as self-esteem, and more!

🚨🚨New pod!🚨🚨 This month, we're looking at the Kafkaesque body swap, A DIFFERENT MAN with critic/actor/BWDR darling @frankfalisi.bsky.social⁠. We get into: Adam Pearson’s Oscar snub, The Substance for boys, if you want to dance the mask, the humanism of karaoke, self-image as self-esteem, and more!

Always happy to be talking about SOME LIKE IT HOT

A new pod for your ears! Our first bite-sized episode of 2025 is a look at Billy Wilder’s subversive farce, SOME LIKE IT HOT. We get into: the unlikely modernity of its sexual politics, Orry-Kelly’s naked dresses, is this the greatest comedy of all time, and more...

Our final pod of 2024 is here! Join us as we sit down with wonderful human, podcast extraordinaire, and amateur Russell Crowe historian @oneblakeminute.bsky.social to discuss Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR (2000). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

We mortals are but shadow and dust…

Our final pod of 2024 is here! Join us as we sit down with wonderful human, podcast extraordinaire, and amateur Russell Crowe historian @oneblakeminute.bsky.social to discuss Ridley Scott's GLADIATOR (2000). podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

From the archives: MERRY CRUISEMAS/Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie. We chat with @eccantwell.bsky.social about color & Christmas lights, shooting London for NYC (for Vienna), Tom Cruise’s dubious sex appeal, the complexities of marriage, whether the weed makes you aggressive, and much more.

New pod! This month's mini-episode takes us into the rich opening sequence of Nicolas Roeg’s Venetian nightmare, DON'T LOOK NOW. We get into: Graeme Clifford’s expressionist editing, celebrating movies for grownups, the color red, non-chronology & what lies “beyond the fragile geometry of space.”

also: something wild on @bwdrpod.bsky.social

Over at @bwdrpod.bsky.social, we just republished a delightful audio essay of @ethanwarren.bsky.social's "⁠A Grand Yuletide Theory: The Muppet Christmas Carol is the Best Adaptation of A Christmas Carol⁠" for your holiday ears. Written & read by ⁠Ethan himself⁠, with music by ⁠Ryan Pollie⁠!

Michael Koresky joined us to discuss watching A.I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE six times in theaters, how both Spielberg & Kubrick do "sentimentality with a point," Jude Law’s dialogue, parables of loss, and how this "unexpected sledgehammer" of early '00s filmmaking still sticks with him today.

i would highly recommend recording a podcast with @oneblakeminute.bsky.social, a guy who truly makes anything instantly that much better just by being who he is. (also his screen froze near the end, so we all got to look at him doing this instantly iconic Frozen Blake pose for 15 minutes)

🎙️Our annual NYFF episode is here! On this special pod, Veronica sits down with the always wonderful @franhoepfner.bsky.social + our producer Eli to postmortem this year's NYFF. Hard Truths, Caught by the Tides, Nickel Boys, The Brutalist, The Shrouds, Queer, Anora, The Room Next Door, and more!