We got @notoriouslightning.bsky.social of @hitfactorypod.bsky.social on the pod to talk The Fabelmans, a movie about how making movies basically ruined Steven Spielberg’s life, but it's also the only way he knows how to process everything bad that's ever happened to him. LINK BELOW

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // Something new for our faithful Patrons: "What Have You Watched with Me Lately?" A conversation about all the movies, new and old, that we've been enjoying this past month not covered elsewhere on the show. See below.

Completely bizarre that I am watching a bunch of movies from Cannes 1992, completely on my own little weird day-to-day schedule, and yet I watched Mambety's HYENAS the day @hitfactorypod.bsky.social posted an ep on it, and then I watched BENNY'S VIDEO the same way @davidlsims.bsky.social watched it

@hitfactorypod.bsky.social Hooting with jubilation seeing that there is a podcast episode on Hyenas, a movie I watched a few months ago on Mubi. Looking forward to listening!

Over on Patreon - Carlee (@deepimpactcrier.bsky.social) discusses the mode of mythic storytelling as an antidote to the anesthesia induced by the Language of Empire and Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER as a modern example of epic poetic form. See below.

BLUESKY MOMENT

Over on Patreon - Carlee (@deepimpactcrier.bsky.social) discusses the mode of mythic storytelling as an antidote to the anesthesia induced by the Language of Empire and Danny Boyle's 28 YEARS LATER as a modern example of epic poetic form. See below.

The @hitfactorypod.bsky.social year round up ep was great but I shouldn't have listened to it while driving, because I gotta go through again when I can safely add a lot of stuff to my watchlist.

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NEW HIT FACTORY // DENZEMBER 2 kicks off with Spike Lee & Denzel Washington's first collaboration, MO' BETTER BLUES, a film about jazz, the appropriation of Black music, and the pursuit of greatness at the expense of human connection. Minnie Zondi is our guest. Links below.

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BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.

The concept of making a movie about white supremacy and the military violence that enforces it with your Zionist pal Jonny Greenwood. (FTR I had a blast watching this movie I just think PTA is ideologically hollow and willfully focused on politics as vibes and vibes only.)

BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.

Go to this for me

SF BAY AREA - Come see Todd Haynes' disquieting, shapeshifting masterpiece SAFE in a new 30th anniversary 4K restoration on Saturday, December 13th at The Roxie, introduced by Hit Factory Pod! Tickets and info below.

Since everyone is talking about SHATTERED GLASS I did a great episode of the pod about it on @junkfilterpod.bsky.social with fellow Glass heads Aaron & Carlee from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social. Preview of the Patreon episode podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/j...

Released on this day in 1993: CARLITO’S WAY. I joined @hitfactorypod.bsky.social to discuss it as one of De Palma’s three inarguable masterpieces. Along the way we talk about SCARFACE as a septum-gored DAS KAPITAL, “natural artifice,” and De Palma as our most underrated melodramatist.

"Failed State’s dedication to naturalism creates a relationship between Dale and the empty city that borders on apocalyptic." Incredible review out of last night's @hitfactorypod.bsky.social

VIRTUAL SCREENING TONIGHT! The government doesn't want you to know that a $5 patreon subscription to @hitfactorypod.bsky.social gets you access to our entire back catalog of episodes and a rsvp to this event at no additional charge.

Tonight!! Come watch this digital screening of FAILED STATE! Hosted by @hitfactorypod.bsky.social and I'll be doing a Q&A after. 9pm EST! !

Happy November! This week we do things a little differently as we have a special Clint Eastwood-themed episode with a look at TWO movies, 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024's JUROR #2. Joining us this time is Aaron from the great podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social Here or wherever you get podcasts!

A good one tomorrow as we look at not one but TWO movies: 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024' JUROR #2 in a special Clint Eastwood episode with Aaron from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!

TONIGHT! Join us at the beautiful 4-Star Theater. An SF institution!

HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.

Josh Hartnett’s hair in this movie

SF BAY AREA - Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4-Star Theater TOMORROW 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.

Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...

The goats of the movie podcast world, I said what I said!

HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.

rest in peace kitkat💔

struggled with Kore-eda a little bit...a filmmaker i found stuck in a dispassionate and unfulfilling middle ground between slow cinema's formal discipline and a mawkish dramaturgy.

NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.

sorry, i'm confused...did you get a nazi tattoo because you were drunk with some marine buddies in croatia without knowing what it meant, or because you "used to say and believe things that today [you] find abhorrent"?

The danciest film that isn't a musical.

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins to discuss Brian De Palma's masterful crime saga CARLITO'S WAY which sees the filmmaker at his most formally audacious, contemplative, and breathtakingly intimate. Link below.

Aaron & Carlee of @hitfactorypod.bsky.social saw me from across the bar, really dug my vibe, and invited me to talk about 1 of De Palma’s 3 inarguable masterpieces, CARLITO’S WAY. Also: SCARFACE as a septum-gored DAS KAPITAL, “natural artifice,” and De Palma as our most underrated melodramatist:

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins to discuss Brian De Palma's masterful crime saga CARLITO'S WAY which sees the filmmaker at his most formally audacious, contemplative, and breathtakingly intimate. Link below.

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You get literal HOURS of Gus Lanzetta guesting with those 5 bucks

the government doesn't want you to know that a $5 patreon subscription to hit factory pod gets you access to our entire back catalog of episodes and a rsvp to this event at no additional charge.

HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!

if you've talked to me about movies any time in the past year+, then you know that i think FAILED STATE is one of the best American independent films of the decade. I'm thrilled to get the chance to watch it with you all and to talk to the immensely talented Chris Bell about his work. Tap in!

This played in Ocean City! Fantastic film and Chris Bell is a super talented and great guy check this out

For its 30th anniversary I wrote about STRANGE DAYS, its prophetic vision of the future, Kathryn Bigelow’s formal mastery, and how it ends things on a bold glimmer of hope. Now live over at InReviewOnline: inreviewonline.com/2025/10/15/s...

One of the best new films I’ve seen in a long while. You don’t wanna miss this!

Folks… come through

HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!

On our latest premium episode, we discuss the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and his ambitious, sweeping 1999 ensemble drama MAGNOLIA. We also contend with PTA skepticism, articulating the director's limitations as artist alongside his singular idiosyncrasies. Link below.

I really like what Aaron said when I asked him pointedly what he thought Magnolia was about: reckoning with the truth of life, that living is often being both a recipient of and a source of pain. Interestingly and typical of PTA, he doesn’t really offer an answer.