Ben Kalina is an award-winning director and producer whose work centers on the collision between human nature and the force of nature (Can We Cool the Planet?, Shored Up). His latest work, Plan C for Civilization, has its Worl...

Vulture’s Movies Fantasy League is up and running for the 2025-26 season and our team is participating! We will track over this course of this podcast mini-series how are drafted teams are performing via the criteria of box office, critical rec...

Noah Baumbach will have his latest feature directorial effort, Jay Kelly, in limited release this coming week ahead of its Netflix release later this year so we’re discussing his career up to this point. The auteur is known for the writing of h...

This is a preview podcast featuring the non-spoiler section of our bonus review for Predator: Badlands. To watch the full review on video, subscribe to our Patreon.“If it bleeds, we can kill it.” We see if that holds up in the seventh in...

Frankenstein is written and directed by Guillermo del Toro, based on Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. The story follows a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experim...

The Perfect Neighbor had its World Premiere earlier this year at Sundance 2025 and is now available to stream on Netflix. We are joined by the film's editor, Viridiana Lieberman, to discuss the documentary's unique construction and the collabor...

When Stranger Things premiered in 2016, it quickly became a cultural phenomenon for Netflix capturing small-town mystery, supernatural horror, and 1980s nostalgia. After the first two episodes of the series discussing Season 1 and 2, we are now...

Bugonia is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. It is an English-language remake of the 2003 South Korean film Save the Green Planet! by Jang Joon-hwan. The film follows two conspiracy-obsessed young men who kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major comp...

Lesbian Space Princess recently screened at Philadelphia Film Festival after playing festivals throughout the past year and Jake Fittipaldi is joined by co-directors Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese to discuss their work and creative partner...

Witches take over the studio to celebrate Halloween and discuss the iconography, history, and meaning of ‘the witch’ in film. Breaking down her many interactions, themes and meanings, the Ladies discuss the empowerment and the dangers this icon...

After the long haul of the fall festival cycle, festival season has finally come to a close and we’re here to round up our experiences at each of the most recent fests that our team has attended including New York Film Festival, Chicago Interna...

Marking the first nominations from an official awards voting body, The Gotham Film & Media Institute announced their nominations for the 35th edition of The Gothams. We recap the announcement where 40 feature films and 25 performances in te...

After the Hunt is directed by Luca Guadagnino and written by Nora Garrett. Starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny, it follows Alma, a college professor caught in between a sexual abuse accusati...

Season 4 of RETRO//RANKED continues on with Edgar Wright's filmography, this time discussing his third and fourth features, Hot Fuzz and Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. We will continue collaboratively ranking all of his films le...

Back in April we hosted our first conversation of the awards season with a way-too-early glimpse at the potential contenders ahead, and in July we revisited that with our first official draft of above-the-line category predictions. With the dus...

Sara and Kam delve into their experiences at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), discussing various films including Bad Apples, Frankenstein, Sinners, and Hamnet. They explore themes of audience reception, the role of gender in film...

In this episode, we pay tribute to the legendary Robert Redford while watching one of his last films in a leading role, All is Lost. We discuss the minimal dialogue that emphasizes director J.C. Chandor's heightened audiovisual storyte...

Danny Jarabek is joined by Amir Etminan, the editor of Jafar Panahi's Palme d'Or winning film, It Was Just an Accident, distributed by NEON. Amir discusses his creative process with Panahi and using his "inner voice" when finding the right bala...

Season 4 of RETRO//RANKED is here!! After our previous seasons collaboratively ranked the Jurassic Park franchise, the 28 franchise, and Paul Thomas Anderson's filmography, we are now jumping headfirst into our next topic: Edgar Wright's filmog...

In this conversation from Fantastic Fest 2025, Jake Fittipaldi interviews editor Patrick Lawrence, exploring his journey into film editing, particularly in the horror genre, leading to his work on Shelby Oaks. Patrick shares insights into his e...

In this bonus episode of Ladies Night, Sara, Sasha, and Risa dive into the cultural impact of Taylor Swift's new album and its theatrical release. They discuss their personal connections to Swift's music, the significance of female artists in t...

Nandita Joshi is joined by director Ali Gill for the London Film Festival selected short film, Party Animal. The short follows a barber who is deeply troubled when he discovers that a well-respected local politician is experiencing an unusual a...

The third entry into the Tron franchise has arrived with Joachim Rønning’s Tron: Ares following Tron (1982) and Tron: Legacy (2010). The movie is described as follows: a highly sophisticated Program, Ares, is sent from the digital world into th...

The Smashing Machine is Benny Safdie’s debut solo feature starring Dwayne Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr, a championship caliber figure in the early days of UFC. The film follows his rise and fall as well as his relationship with then girlfri...

Our third season of the Patreon exclusive RETRO/RANKED series is coming to a close on the filmography of Paul Thomas Anderson. You could absolutely say ranking his filmography is like one battle after another with much debate spanning ac...