💸NEW EP💸 We follow the money in Soderbergh's 2019 Panama Papers info-comedy(?) THE LAUNDROMAT with @lukewsavage.bsky.social! Data leaks, BIG SHORT core, the fundamental limitations of liberalism - it's all here, folks. Really great ep, check it out! podcastyforme.com

🙅‍♂️NEW EP🙅‍♂️ We're back and bigger than ever: it's MAGIC MIKE XXL time with the great @mariebardi.bsky.social ! Soderbergh shot and edited this Greg Jacobs-directed sequel that's as much about chilling and being hot as the first was about hustling and being exploited! podcastyforme.com

🏹NEW EP🏹 We jump back to 2012 to talk Gary Ross's THE HUNGER GAMES, on which Steven Soderbergh shot second unit for like two days. Turns out we have a lot of thoughts about political art for young people! We get into the later films, adult media literacy, and more. podcastyforme.com

we found the original ending of MICHAEL CLAYTON (as promised/threatened on our new Patreon ep with @andorkspod.com)

wherein I get to to go deep on the Hudson Valley AND Mars 2112

🥖NEW PREMIUM EP🥖 Breach that chrysalis, it's time to talk Soderbergh-produced Dad Classic MICHAEL CLAYTON. And we brought in the fellas from @andorkspod.com to plumb the Tony Gilroy of it all. Malfeasance! Baguettes! Realm! Conquest! Check it out. $5/month. Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

🏥NEW EP🏥 We come unglued from the tube to talk Season 1 of THE KNICK, Soderbergh's casual 10-episode retirement project! Joining us is comedian/podcaster Dave Maher to talk addiction, prestige TV antiheroes, racial healthcare disparities, and field a LOT of interest from Kimi. podcastyforme.com

🐘NEW PREMIUM EP🐘 Desi cinema know-it-all Gigi joins us to talk JIGARTHANDA DOUBLEX, a 2023 Tamil film featuring a CGI Clint Eastwood. What else do you need to know? (A lot, it turns out - but our guest gives us a crash course in Tamil cinema and politics!) $5/month - Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

tomorrow on Paid Costly For Me: this is not the only sequence like this

They finally made me watch ANDOR and it is, to my dismay, very good. Listen to your Pod Casty boys talk about 7 minutes of one episode of the show for like two hours with the deeply informed Andorks - we had fun!!!!

I’ve never gone as deep into my Liberace craziness as I did with these super-smart dudes.

truly insane episode on BEHIND THE CANDELABRA with @evafay.bsky.social out now podcastyforme.com

🎹NEW EP🎹 We're going BEHIND THE CANDELABRA today to talk Soderbergh's 2013 Liberace tell-all, and we're joined by the great Eva Anderson ( @evafay.bsky.social )! We talk camp, plastic surgery, the closet, and the time(s) Eva went to Liberace's house(!!!). Great ep, listen up! podcastyforme.com

🇱🇾NEW PREMIUM EP🇱🇾 By listener demand, we're headed to Libya for 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI to provide all the context the film does not. Intervention, which Libyans count as casualties, Hillary, OffiCe JIm's Abs, and more. Just $5/month! Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

One of my favorite podcasts! Been loving their Soderbergh season.

🪄NEW EP🪄 Tear off those pants, listeners: we're talking Soderbergh's 2012 hunks-and-side-hustles hit MAGIC MIKE! Helping us talk transactional desire and hot dudes is writer/OF content creator/Spectrum Boutique owner Zoë Ligon ( @thongria.bsky.social )! Great ep! podcastyforme.com

🕵️‍♀️NEW EP🕵️‍♀️ Dump your burner phone, listeners: we're talking Soderbergh's 2011 spy thriller HAYWIRE with our friend Ryan Torgeson! Gina Carano, MMA aesthetics, voice modulation, how to pronounce "brooch," and more. Listen or we'll kick you. podcastyforme.com

I actually know about this story because it's featured in the documentary THE KILLING OF AMERICA which I discussed with the @podcastyforme.bsky.social boys

🗣️NEW PREMIUM EP🗣️ It's our first feature commentary track! Watch PLAY MISTY FOR ME along with us as we share stuff we missed three years ago and talk about everybody's haircut! You can also listen without the movie playing!!! Only $5/month at patreon.com/podcastyforme

🦠NEW EP🦠 Cover your nose and mouth: it's time to talk CONTAGION, Soderbergh's nauseatingly prescient 2011 pandemic disaster film. Public health, hyperlink cinema, Covid talk, Kate Winslet's hand-washing video - it's all here. Listen or, well, you know. podcastyforme.com

👁️NEW EP👁️ We look at Soderbergh's two Spalding Gray docs, 1996's GRAY'S ANATOMY and 2010's AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE, with real live New York intellectual @robrubsam.bsky.social ! You will not believe how mad Ian is at a dead guy - check it out. podcastyforme.com

Alita 2

ICYMI!

It was so much fun being part of the @podcastyforme.bsky.social series on Steven Soderbergh, this time about a movie I LOVE: THE INFORMANT starring an S Tier Matt Damon. Learn how I came to fact check a Kurt Eichenwald book, too!

🤥NEW EP🤥 This thing goes all the way to the top - of the freaking podcast charts, that is! We're talking Soderbergh's 2009 corporate caper THE INFORMANT! with Dan O'Sullivan (@osullyville.bsky.social) ! Big business, organized crime, whether there's a difference - check it out. podcastyforme.com

tomorrow on Paid Costly For Me: our final Sergio Leone film

📉NEW EP📉 We're joined by an anonymous writer and sex worker to talk Soderbergh's THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE, transactional intimacy, Sasha Grey, 2008, and what workers everywhere can learn from sex workers. Listen or you're a Lehman Brother! podcastyforme.com

🥂NEW PREMIUM EP🥂 We sip Soderbergh's Bolivian import brandy Singani 63 with Pod Casty Hotel Detective Maxwell Pierson! Branding! Alcohol colonialism! Casamigos! The Hunt For Ben Solo! Check it out! Only $5/month. Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

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.

🇨🇺NEW EP🇨🇺 We take on both parts of Steven Soderbergh's epic of revolutions triumphant and disastrous, CHE, with historian of Cuba @andrespertierra.bsky.social! You have no idea how much reading we did for this. Really special episode, check it out! podcastyforme.com

🫧NEW EP🫧 Another Pod Casty For Me Experience: We're talking Soderbergh's astounding 2005 day-and-date/digital/first-time actor experiment with our buddy Evan from Left of the Projector! @leftoftheprojector.com You have to listen because it's my birthday! podcastyforme.com

🥚NEW EP🥚 It's time to get silly with a very silly - and very beautiful - sequel, Steven Soderbergh's OCEAN'S TWELVE. We're joined by the great @roryjdoherty.bsky.social to talk Julias Roberts, gentleman thieves, metafiction, and more. Check it out! PodCastyForMe.com

🗣️NEW PREMIUM EP🗣️ We're talking songs about/featuring/related to Clint Eastwood (Gorillaz and beyond) with Paid Costly For Me theme composer and great pal @jetski0.bsky.social! Real fun and silly ep. Plus, Ian gets a birthday gift on mic... Only $5/month! Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

ICYMI: 🙈NEW EP🙈 We talk Soderbergh's 2002 DV experiment/showbiz satire/spiritual SEX, LIES sequel FULL FRONTAL with our friend, Hollywood bigwig @chaddwithtwods.bsky.social! Performance, mediation, human resources, LA veterinarians - this ep has it all! Plus we recorded it nude. podcastyforme.com

here is three hours of me talking about ocean’s eleven the best movie in the world

🎲NEW EP🎲 The house always wins - until it doesn't. We talk OCEAN'S ELEVEN, maybe the most pleasurable film ever made, with filmmaker and big heist movie guy @patrickhwillems.bsky.social! A little MORE conversation, how about? Check it out! podcastyforme.com

what do you know - it works

Coming soon!

🎙️NEW EP🎙️ We interviewed Paul Schrader - yes, the Paul Schrader - about OH, CANADA, politics in art, Clint Eastwood, and much more. OH, CANADA releases in NYC this Friday and expands nationwide 12/13 via @kinolorber.bsky.social podcastyforme.com

🚍NEW PREMIUM EP🚍 Along with AFFLICTION, another Russell Banks novel came to the screen in 1997: Atom Egoyan's THE SWEET HEREAFTER. Ahead of OH, CANADA, we take a look at what's been called the greatest Canadian film ever made. Only $5/month! patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

Huge shoutout to @podcastyforme.bsky.social for wrapping up their season on Paul Schrader. It's been full of rich discussions. Very excited for the next season, and the shift to bi-weekly episodes is a good choice. Thank y'all so much!

🔚NEW EP🔚 We present our closing thoughts (for now) on the films of Paul Schrader in what we're calling an "Epaulogue." Plus: who's next... podcastyforme.com

🪴NEW EP🪴 We're rounding out Schrader's Man In A Room trilogy - and filmography so far - with MASTER GARDENER, joined by NOLA-based writer Matthew Germenis! Reformed Neo-Nazis! Horticulture as eugenics! Redemptive raceplay! Check it out! podcastyforme.com

💸NEW PREMIUM EP💸 We're talking Don Siegel's extraordinary follow-up to DIRTY HARRY, the 1973 neo-noir CHARLEY VARRICK! The good guys are bank robbers this time! Walter Matthau! Joe Don Baker! Ian talks about agriculture stuff! Only $5/month! patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

🇲🇽NEW EP🇲🇽 Live from Oaxaca, it's an episode on a Schrader-scripted movie you've absolutely never heard of, 2022's THERE ARE NO SAINTS. Inessential viewing, absolutely essential listening for deep Ian Lore revelations! Listen or we'll shelve your film! podcastyforme.com

🧑‍⚖️NEW PREMIUM EP🧑‍⚖️ We're doing some JUROR #2 homework by covering the first in the series (jk), 1996's THE JUROR, and that other Hoult/Collette collab, 2002's ABOUT A BOY. No election talk, guaranteed. Just $5/month! patreon.com/PodCastyForMe

extremely goofy and inessential patreon ep coming later today for anybody who needs it, btw

episode on THE CANYONS with Charles Lyons-Burt out now podcastyforme.com

🔞NEW EP🔞 We're descending into Paul Schrader's 2013 crowdfunded experiment THE CANYONS, which is either very bad or very good, depending on who you ask. We asked writer Charles Lyons-Burt, and our answers may surprise you. podcastyforme.com