Speaking Cinema
Welcome back to the Speaking Cinema podcast, under new management!
Frequent guests Jon Bewley and Adam Seccafico have taken the reigns from Andrew Schwarz, and welcome friend to the pod Anthony Zaccone who will join the team as co-host and producer.
Speaking Cinema explores thoughtful and entertaining conversations and audio essays about the meaning we can garner from specific movies and the ideas that cinema provokes. Listen to co-hosts and filmmakers Jon Bewley, Adam Seccafico, and Anthony Zaccone dive deeper than any other podcast with interesting takes, life questions, philosophy, culture, and the art and appreciation of cinema.
Broadcast from New York City, New Jersey, and New Hampshire.
Podcasting since 2024 • 30 episodes
Speaking Cinema
Latest Episodes
4.6 - The Toxic Avenger
Happy Halloween everyone! We've finally reached the end of our horror series and we've decided to go out on a high note...by paying Adam's relatives a visit in beautiful Tromaville, NJ. This week, we subvert the slasher genre with the 1984 expl...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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2:14:37
4.5 - Scream
Do you like scary movies? The guys at Speaking Cinema do (even if one of them doesn't like this week's movie). This week, we take a hard look at Wes Craven's 1996 slasher deconstruction, Scream. Listen as Adam, Anthony and Jon discuss sensation...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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2:10:21
4.4 - Halloween (1978)
Speaking Cinema dives headfirst into the spooky season with one of the most influential films of the half century; John Carpenter's Halloween. This week, the boys talk about the slasher film master mold, horror fandom's brighter side and debate...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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2:15:00
4.3 - Freaks (1932)
Step right up and see a film as strange as it is touching. This week on Speaking Cinema, the boys tackle Pre-Code Hollywood, the birth of Exploitation Cinema, and a final image so powerful it moves one of the co-hosts to tears. This week, Tod B...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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1:54:13
4.2 - The Departed (2006)
After a sobering experience covering V for Vendetta, the boys decide to watch something a little lighter...which turns out to be a film where everyone dies in the end. This week, Speaking Cinema tackles Martin Scorsese's Oscar winning crime dra...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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1:44:24