Fade To Black Podcast

New pod alert! Featuring reviews of The Bride!, Peaky Blinders, and Hoppers, plus hot takes on the Warner Bros and Paramount merger. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/0YsN...

New pod alert! This week, @amonwarmann.bsky.social chats Wasteman with David Jonsson and Tom Blyth & we review The Secret Agent and If I Had Legs I'd Kick You. Plus in our hot take, we discuss the Berlin Film Festival’s silence over the genocide in Gaza. Listen in🎧! open.spotify.com/episode/5pnY...

New pod alert! Feat. @amonwarmann.bsky.social talking to Dafne Keen and Corin Hardy about WHISTLE (and a potential X23 movie), reviews of MY FATHER'S SHADOW and 100 NIGHTS OF HERO, plus hot takes on BBFC content warnings. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/4qaM...

New pod alert! This week, we’ve got reviews of Is This Thing On?, Nouvelle Vague, and Shelter, plus hot takes on the MCU’s Wonder Man. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/7aIM...

This week, @amonwarmann.bsky.social talks to Nicholas Pinnock about HEAVYWEIGHT, with a "fan" question from the film's writer-director Christopher Anthony! Plus we review NO OTHER CHOICE and THE HISTORY OF SOUND, and share our hot takes on the Oscar nominations. open.spotify.com/episode/18CJ...

This week, Hanna speaks to Motaz Malhees about his role in The Voice of Hind Rajab. We review Rental Family and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple. Plus, in our HOT TAKE, we discuss how soon is too soon for cinema to tackle real-life tragedies in narrative fiction? Listen now 🎧

We're back with reviews of HAMNET, SONG SUNG BLUE, and GIANT - plus, in our HOT TAKE, we share our most anticipated films of the year. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/37G0...

Okie dokie! This week, @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social speaks to FALLOUT star Aaron Moten about season 2! Plus we review Joachim Trier’s SENTIMENTAL VALUE and Josh Safdie’s MARTY SUPREME, and give our hot takes on James Cameron's AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH. Listen now! open.spotify.com/episode/7zcm...

It's a KNIVES OUT special! @amonwarmann.bsky.social chats to Kerry Washington, Cailee Spaeny, & Rian Johnson about WAKE UP DEAD MAN, and we review the film! Plus, in our HOT TAKE, ask: should directors who want a theatrical release stop making deals with streamers? open.spotify.com/episode/6yzy...

New pod alert! This week, @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social talks Jay Kelly with writer-director Noah Baumbach, and we review Eternity and Dreamers plus give our hot takes on the Netflix/WB news. Listen in and subscribe! open.spotify.com/episode/3oJF...

New pod alert! Featuring reviews of Zootropolis 2, Blue Moon, and Pillion, plus hot takes on Hollywood’s new class of leading ladies. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/6zpd...

New pod alert! Featuring reviews of Die My Love and Predator: Badlands, Hanna Flint chatting to Lynne Ramsay, plus hot takes on Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/2CyC...

This week, @clarisseloughrey.bsky.social talks to Yorgos Lanthimos and Will Tracy about BUGONIA. We review the film and PALESTINE 36. Plus, in our HOT TAKE, we ask: Is there too much stigma around method acting? Listen and subscribe! open.spotify.com/episode/5dCQ...

This week, 🎶 "baby we were born to..." 🎶review Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Hedda, and The Mastermind! Plus, we've got hot takes on Disney saying NO to Adam Driver and Steven Soderbergh's The Hunt for Ben Solo. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/7Avz...

This week Hanna talks to Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst and Derek Cianfrance about ROOFMAN, we review GOOD FORTUNE and AFTER THE HUNT, and talk Chloé Zhao and ideal film budgets in HOT TAKE.

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This week, Hanna has a fab chat with the wonderful Maxine Peake, we review I Swear and Good Boy, and we give our hot takes on Ridley Scott’s “60% of films today are shit” comments. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/40Qd...

This week, we review The Smashing Machine, A House of Dynamite, and Him! Plus, we give our hot takes on agencies circling an AI ‘actor’, Tilly Norwood. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/6WZf...

This week, it's an interview special! Hanna talks to Nadia Latif about THE MAN IN MY BASEMENT while @amonwarmann.bsky.social chats with Simbi 'Little Simz' Ajikawo and Jay Lycurgo about STEVE. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/026t...

This week we review SPINAL TAP 2: THE END CONTINUES, ISLANDS, and FROM GROUND ZERO plus in our HOT TAKE we ask: do written reviews still matter? Listen in!
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Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism? The grim calculations involved in publishing traditional written reviews.

Full Intelligencer article here: nymag.com/intelligence...

For this week's hot take, we're asking... do written reviews still matter? Let us know your thoughts and we'll give you a shoutout on this week's episode, dropping on Saturday. Make sure you don't miss it by subscribing here: open.spotify.com/show/3uURcIg...

This week, grab your bibles and your rosaries as a blockbuster horror franchise reaches its end in #TheConjuringLastRites, + two legendary directors make their return as we review Spike Lee’s #Highest2Lowest and Ethan Coen’s #HoneyDont. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/0WRh...

She’s really working the bald with glasses look. Astonishing.

For this week's hot take, we're asking... do actors get pigeonholed by taking on franchise roles? Let us know your thoughts and we'll give you a shoutout on this week's episode, dropping on Saturday. Make sure you don't miss it by subscribing here: open.spotify.com/show/3uURcIg...

This week brings reviews of The Roses and Caught Stealing, a Hanna Flint interview with screenwriter Tony McNamara, and hot takes on movie algorithms. Listen in!

Also included in this week's jampacked pod: Reviews of The Life of Chuck and Sorry, Baby, plus hot, spoilery takes on the Peacemaker Season 2 premiere. Listen in! open.spotify.com/episode/1AMT...

In this week's exclusive interview, #TheThursdayMurderClub director Chris Columbus tells our Hanna Flint that he was fired from an earlier iteration of the Fantastic Four in the 90's for being too opinionated...

Hanna Flint is bringing back the excellent Critics Support Fund initiative again for this year’s LFF! If you’re a journalist from a low-income backgrounds, this fantastic opportunity could be for you. Read the application link carefully before applying! forms.gle/P66Ck36qxDYX...

This week, we see if we’re a match with Celine Song’s MATERIALISTS, get closer than ever with body horror TOGETHER, while Bob Odenkirk dusts off those knuckles for NOBODY 2.
Plus, in our HOT TAKE, we dive into Noah Hawley’s ALIEN: EARTH, with spoilers.
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