A Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast
Welcome to A Piece of Pie: the Queer Film Podcast. Creator and host Brian Rowe welcomes a rotating cast of contributors to discuss/ review movies both new and old; giving them their own unique queer perspective. Podcasts will post bi-weekly.
Episodes
147 episodes
Something’s Gotta Give & The Family Stone
This week we're celebrating the late, great Diane Keaton. Contributor and playwright Keegon Schuett returns to the pod with one of his favorite warm blanket movies, Something's Gotta Give co-starring Jack Nicholson and Keanu Reeves. An...
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Season 8
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Episode 147
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1:57:28
Django Unchained & Inherent Vice
With Paul Thomas Anderson's newest One Battle After Another in theaters and heavily favored in the Awards conversation, Brian and Max return to their project pairing off his films with the work of fellow American master, Quentin Tarant...
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Season 8
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Episode 146
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55:48
All of Us Strangers & Queer
This week we're discussing two of cinema's most celebrated queer filmmakers, Luca Guadagnino and Andrew Haigh. Within the last few years, they've each given us deeply personal stories about love, loneliness, grief and the disconnect of growing ...
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Season 8
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Episode 145
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1:11:16
From Dusk Till Dawn & The Faculty
Just in time for Halloween, we're revisiting two of our favorite classic 90's horror flicks. Fresh off an Academy Award for Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino teamed with director Robert Rodriguez for From Dusk Till Dawn, starrin...
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Season 8
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Episode 144
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1:00:23
Love Lies Bleeding
This week we’re joined by Raina Deerwater, Associate Director and Research Analysis at GLAAD! She joins to discuss their Studio Responsibility Index, and recent findings that LBGTQIA+ representation in film is on the decline. We discuss what th...
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Season 8
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Episode 143
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50:55
Angels in America
This week we're finally discussing Tony Kushner's masterpiece, Angels in America. As Chicago's own Invictus Theater Company stages a new production, we welcome two actors from the show, Miguel Long and Ryan Hake, to discuss the 2004 HB...
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Season 8
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Episode 142
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41:13
The Matrix & John Wick
This week, Brian is joined by writer Sezin Devi Koehler, who quite literally wrote the book on Keanu Reeves. Her book, Much Ado About Keanu: A Critical Reeves Theory highlights the actor’s legendary career. We take a specific look at <...
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Season 8
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Episode 141
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59:04
Behind the Candelabra & Bohemian Rhapsody
This week we’re taking a look at two very different queer icons. Musical geniuses Freddie Mercury and Liberace each got the biopic treatment in the 2010’s, and they each got very different movies. Behind the Candelabra starred Oscar wi...
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Season 8
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Episode 139
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1:18:56
The Doom Generation
This week we’re joined by film scholar Syd Wrigley, who joins the podcast to discuss Gregg Araki’s famed Teen Apocalypse Trilogy. Starting with Totally Fucked Up in 1993, he followed it with The Doom Generationin 1995...
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Season 8
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Episode 138
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1:08:29
1-800-ON HER OWN (with director Dana Flor)
This week we have an interview with director Dana Flor discussing her new documentary, 1-800-ON-HER-OWN, an intimate look at singer songwriter Ani DiFranco ! And we’re excited to announce a partnership with the filmmakers to bring the movie to ...
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Season 8
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Episode 137
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39:16
Yentl
This week we're joined by writer Alonso Duralde, author of Hollywood Prid...
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Season 8
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Episode 136
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32:37
Oscars 2025
We only have one tradition here at Piece of Pie, and that's our annual Oscar episode. We started this little podcast discussing the Oscars, and ever since we've made sure to cover them. This year Paul Klein and Chris Alexander join Brian to dis...
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Season 8
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Episode 135
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1:17:28
All That Heaven Allows & Polyester
This week we're joined by Chicago's Joan Waters, local drag queen and John Waters super fan, and we're taking a look at Polyester, John Waters' first studio film. With his biggest budget to date, Waters paid tribute to William Castle, ...
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Season 7
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Episode 134
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1:18:23
The People's Joker (with director Vera Drew)
Brian interviews filmmaker, writer and actor Vera Drew about her debut film, The People's Joker. Produced on a shoestring budget and released in secret while Warner Bros waged a legal battle, The People's Joker uses popular DC...
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Season 7
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Episode 133
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50:16
Wicked
We're saying goodbye to a tumultuous 2024 by discussing one of the year's biggest, and arguably gayest, box office hits. From bookshelves, to Broadway and now to movie theaters, Wicked is a superhero tentpole movie for theatre kids, bu...
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Season 7
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Episode 132
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33:19
Terms of Endearment & Steel Magnolias
We’re closing out spooky season with a couple of tear-jerkers. In one of our most poignant episodes, Brian opens up about the loss of his mother and how it affected watching these two films, one an Oscar powerhouse the other something of an Osc...
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Season 7
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Episode 131
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1:01:58
Megalopolis
Brian and Max went to the Alamo Drafthouse to catch one of the year's most talked about films of the year, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. Developed by Coppola over a course of 3 decades, Megalopolis finally hit screens in...
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Season 7
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Episode 130
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45:11
Point Break & Speed
By now, Keanu Reeves is an accomplished action star with two multi-billion dollar franchises to his name. But this week we're taking a look at the two movies that helped get him there, Point Break and Speed. He hit it big with...
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Season 7
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Episode 129
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1:08:57
Crash (1996) & Titane
This week we're joined by "The Horror Dyke," Heather O. Petrocelli as we take a look at David Cronenberg and recent Palme D'Or Winner! In 1996, Cronenberg released the controversial Crash, about a man who seeks to reinvigorate his sex-...
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Season 7
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Episode 128
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1:08:16
The Hateful Eight & Phantom Thread
Our newest contributor Paul rejoins the podcast as Max and Brian revisit their series pairing off the films of Quentin Tarantino and Paul Thomas Anderson. We've skipped ahead a bit to land on their 70mm roadshow pictures, each auteur using th...
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Season 7
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Episode 127
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1:14:08
Smiley Face & Kaboom
This week we’re taking a look at two films from Gregg Araki. One of the architects of the New Queer Cinema movement of the 1990’s, Araki pivoted in the new century after finding critical success with Mysterious Skin. He foll...
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Season 7
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Episode 126
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48:58
A Night to Remember & Titanic
This week we're joined by film scholar Paul T. Klein, as he brings a queer appraisal to one of the biggest box office hits of all time, Titanic. What is it about this film that appeals to queer audiences? Is it Rose rejecting the lif...
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Season 7
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Episode 125
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54:43
