📽️ The members voted and decided that for this month, we should discuss Fred Niblo’s silent classic, the 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which holds its ground against Heston’s version for sure—particularly in the chariot race. 🎥 #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with King Vidor’s The Big Parade, a groundbreaking WWI epic that shocked 1925 audiences with its intimate portrait of soldiers’ lives before confronting the brutal realities of modern warfare. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! 🎥 Cinematographer Marcus Patterson, who recently shot Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), joins us to discuss Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, a movie he likes! #filmsky trustory.fm/movieswelike...

This month's Film Board is live! 📽️ “Stop filming me!” 🎥 Stephen King's dystopian manhunt gets a 2025 upgrade, as the Film Board tracks Glenn Powell through Edgar Wright's The Running Man—where entertainment kills and revolution streams live. #filmsky trustory.fm/filmboard/th...

📽️“The land is ours. Tomorrow is ours!” We kick off our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series, looking at amazing films that are having their 100th birthday this year, and we’re starting it off with a big one: Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin! #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ “We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces.” 🎥 We wrap up our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series with another big one, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., with a meta and timeless performance from Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ This month's Cinema Scope ep is live! 🎥 Film scholars Luka Arsenjuk and Tim Palmer join Andy to explore heist films, from noir-influenced classics of the 1950s to modern masterpieces of meticulous criminal planning. #filmsky trustory.fm/cinemascope/...

📽️ “What I’d give for a sink full of dirty dishes.” 🎥 We continue our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series, celebrating the five great actresses nominated this year. We’re digging into John Cromwell’s Caged, starring Eleanor Parker. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ “How come I've got to run into a squirt like you nearly every place I go these days? What are you trying to do? Show off for your friends?” Our members voted and this month, we’re heading to the Old West Henry King’s The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ This month's Sitting in the Dark ep is live! The lights are out, and the monsters are in. This month, the gang dives into Wait Until Dark, Don’t Breathe, and Pitch Black—three reminders that nothing good happens after someone says, “Wait, where’s the switch?” #filmsky trustory.fm/sittinginthe...

📽️ “A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.” 🎥 We kick off our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series with the film that took home the Oscar, George Cukor’s Born Yesterday with the hilarious and perfect Judy Holliday. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ This month's Movies We Like ep is live! 🎥 Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth joins us to discuss his career and projects he’s worked on, including “Tron: Ares” now in theatres. We also discuss “Blade Runner,” one of his favorite movies. #filmsky trustory.fm/movieswelike...

📽️ “I know when they're going to come because a few seconds earlier, I feel something.” 🎥 We return briefly to our Ricardo Darín series with a one-off episode, looking at Darín’s second collaboration with writer/director Fabián Bielinsky, The Aura. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ This month's Film Board episode is live! 🎥 The gang re-enters the grid to battle Jared Leto’s glowing ego, dissect Trent Reznor’s righteous soundtrack, and try to remember why TRON still exists. Spoilers, complaints, and some genuine love for Greta Lee await. #filmsky trustory.fm/filmboard/tr...

📽️ “I tell you something, man, I’d really love to get my hands on that sleepy-eyed bastard.” 🎥 We wrap up our return to our Seven Samurai Family series with a B-movie that’s bad but still entertaining. It’s one of Jean Negulesco’s final films, The Invincible Six. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️“Live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.”🎥 We continue our Seven Samurai Family series with a Roger Corman-produced sci-fi that fits the Seven Samurai bill while also cashing in on the Star Wars fever—it’s Jimmy T. Murakami’s Battle Beyond the Stars. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

This month's Cinema Scope episode is live! 📽️ Andy and film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur explore India’s Angry Young Man movement, examining how Amitabh Bachchan’s powerful performances in the 1970s gave voice to a generation’s frustrations and hopes. 🎥 trustory.fm/cinemascope/... #filmsky

📽️ “They’re bad, but there’s a good side to them as well.” We wrap up our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with a crossover into our next series—the Seven Samurai Family—with a wildly fun and exuberant film, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay. trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky

“Listen, human beings. I’m Princess Elzebub. I’ve conquered the Earth. I’m your new master now.” 📽️ For our monthly member bonus ep, we backflip into Hua Shan’s crazy tokusatsu movie The Super Inframan. It’s frenetic. Non-stop. And we had a blast. Check it out! 🎥 trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky

📽️ The Film Board's September ep is live! 🎥 What happens when Paul Thomas Anderson makes a $175 million action epic about fascism, family, and a stoner dad in a bathrobe? We spoil One Battle After Another rotten—DiCaprio, Penn, secret cabals, and all. trustory.fm/filmboard/pt... #filmsky

📽️ Movies We Like is back from hiatus, and this month's ep is live! 🎥 Andrew McAlpine, production designer on films like The Piano, Clockers, Home for the Holidays, and Sid & Nancy, joins us to discuss Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, a movie he likes! #filmsky trustory.fm/movieswelike...

📽️ This month's Sitting in the Dark is live! 🎥 The Final Destination movies don’t just kill their characters—they make us terrified of ceiling fans, traffic jams, and more. We celebrate the franchise’s blend of paranoia, spectacle, and sheer sadistic fun. #filmsky trustory.fm/sittinginthe...

📽️ “He needed the money for the operation for you?” 🎥 We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Sidney Lumet’s fantastic bank heist gone wrong, Dog Day Afternoon, starring Al Pacino and John Cazale. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ “You have killed and you will kill again!” 🎥 We continue our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with Dario Argento’s Deep Red, aka Profondo Rosso, our first dip into Italian Giallo films. trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky

Sitting in the Dark bonus! Guest host @sodacreekfilm.com joins the panel with a trio of horror films that turn belief itself into a source of terror. From cursed villages to hostile gods, we explore what happens when bedtime stories are true—and angry. trustory.fm/sittinginthe... #filmsky 📽️🎥

“I could have made mashed potatoes, but we’re having that tomorrow.” We continue our Golden Jubilee series exploring 1975’s global cinema with Jeanne Dielman, debating how three hours of domestic routine builds to cinema’s most earned ending. trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky 📽️🎥

Cinema Scope is back from hiatus and kicking off the new season with an ep about J-horror! @newsfromnihon.bsky.social and Colette Balmain join Andy to unravel the eerie world of J-horror, exploring its origins, evolution, and global impact on horror cinema. #filmsky 📽️🎥 trustory.fm/cinemascope/...

We kick off our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, celebrating 50 years of incredible, groundbreaking films. We start things off with Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon. #filmsky 📽️🎥 trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

“C’mon! Take a swing at me the way Sam Spade would!” Join us for this member bonus episode, part of our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series, discussing Arthur Penn’s neo-noir film Night Moves, starring Gene Hackman. #filmsky 📽️🎥 trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

A charming cast, a light mystery, and a lot of feelings about Netflix’s lighting presets. The Thursday Murder Club has been adapted for the screen—and The Film Board is here to investigate who did it, why it happened, and whether the cast deserves a heart. #filmsky 📽️ 🎥 trustory.fm/filmboard/th...

📽️ This month's SITD is live! Some horror films twist; these three commit identity theft halfway through. Chelsea Stardust joins us to dig into Ghostwatch, Barbarian, and Strange Darling—movies that pull the rug so hard you’ll hit the floor laughing and screaming. #filmsky trustory.fm/sittinginthe...

We wrap up our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the fourth feature entry in the franchise, Takashi Shimizu’s 2003 film Ju-on: The Grudge 2, in which Shimizu does an able job of changing things up and advancing the concept. 📽️ #filmsky 🎥 trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ “Please stop tormenting me!” 🎥 We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with the big one, the one that most people probably started with because it was the move to theatrical, it’s Takashi Shimizu’s 2002 film “Ju-on: The Grudge.” #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ “You’ll die if you remain here!” 🎥 We continue our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series with an exploration of the second straight-to-video film, which is partly a rehash of the first film, Takashi Shimizu’s 2000 film “Ju-on: The Curse 2.” trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky

📽️ “The family that used to live there, they all either died or went missing.” 🎥 We kick off our Silver Screams: 25 Years of Ju-on series, our celebration looking at a quarter century of this influential J-Horror franchise, with the first film, Ju-on: The Curse. trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky

We return to the mysterious and violent world of John Wick to continue our series with the latest that introduces us to a new dancing assassin! Okay, well not at the same time. That’s right! It’s Len Wiseman’s 2025 film Ballerina starring Ana de Armas! #filmsky 📽️🎥 trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

We wrap up our year-long Roger Corman member bonus series ending on a fantastically fun high note! Join us as we have a conversation about Allan Arkush's 1979 punk rock, music-filled, laugh-riot of a film, Rock 'n' Roll High School. trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky 📽️ 🎥

Marvel’s first family finally makes their MCU debut, but is it a first step worth taking? The Film Board dives into Fantastic Four: First Steps with cosmic ethics, Silver Surfer highs, and Galactus-sized questions about what comes next. trustory.fm/filmboard/th... #filmsky 📽️ 🎥

Kyle Olson leads the discussion about three cinematic incarnations of Dracula—each approaching in dramatically different ways. From Coppola’s opulence to Butler’s bite and Evans’ bat-clouds, the panel sinks their teeth into what makes a Dracula truly Dracula. trustory.fm/sittinginthe...

James Gunn’s Superman reboot flies in with big hopes, bigger swings, and a literal flying dog—and somehow, it works. The Film Board tries to make sense of clone fights, emotional journalism, and whether Supergirl really just called Superman a bitch. (She did.) #filmsky 📽️🎥 trustory.fm/filmboard/su...

🦖 New episode! The Film Board dissects Jurassic World Rebirth. From questionable science to missing raptors, we're breaking down this DNA-harvesting adventure piece by piece. trustory.fm/filmboard/ju... #filmsky 📽️🎥

📽️ “When was the last time you won a race?” 🎥 We return to our Car Racing series for a surprise member bonus episode—that we’re releasing to everyone—to celebrate a brand new release just in theatres, it’s Joseph Kosinski’s F1. trustory.fm/thenextreel/... #filmsky

📽️ “It's simplifying the cells, until there's no difference between a cell in your eye or your toe.” 🎥 We explore the cheesy thrills of Forbidden World, Corman’s 1982 Alien ripoff, as our Roger Corman member bonus series continues. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ This month's Sitting in the Dark ep is live! 🎥 This Pride Month, the panel explores horror through a queer lens—from Bride of Frankenstein to Freddy’s Revenge to Titane, it’s a journey through coded fear and unapologetic transformation. trustory.fm/sittinginthe...

🎥 “Somewhere, the zebra was dancing.” 📽️ We wrap up our Car Racing series—and our 14th season!—with a movie that’s more a dog movie than a car racing movie, but either way is a saccharine movie. It’s Simon Curtis’ The Art of Racing in the Rain. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ We continue our Car Racing series with James Mangold’s look at the turning point for Ford when they decided to start racing. Or it’s about two racers up against the corporate machine. Either way, it’s James Mangold's 2019 film Ford v Ferrari. #filmsky #filmpodcast trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

📽️ New Cinema Scope 🎥! @disc-connected.bsky.social joined Andy to explore found footage horror's evolution—from epistolary origins to modern digital terrors. Fascinating deep dive into how these films make the impossible feel frighteningly real. #filmsky #foundfootage trustory.fm/cinemascope/...

📽️ This month's Film Board is live! 🎥 Exterior. A moderately obscure European airstrip. Day. The camera dollies past a series of neatly arranged suitcases and a broken harmonium. We hear the narrator: The Film Board Gathers. This month: The Phoenician Scheme. trustory.fm/filmboard/th...

📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! 🎥 Production designer Liz Bischof joins us to explore Takeshi Kitano’s meditative yakuza masterpiece Sonatine, sharing insights on its visual poetry and how it continues to influence her work today. trustory.fm/movieswelike...

This week's episode is live for members, everyone else next week! 📽️ We continue our Car Racing series with a story of an intense rivalry that was the predominant focus of the Grand Prix in 1976 between James Hunt and Niki Lauda. It’s Ron Howard’s 2013 film Rush. 🎥 trustory.fm/thenextreel/...