Movies Podcasts
Movies Podcasts
In this episode, host Beth Mund reviews Andy Weir's novel *Project Hail Mary* and speculates on how its three central "characters"—the brilliant but socially awkward Dr. Ryland Grace, the lovable alien Rocky, and the abstract yet pivotal force of time—will be translated to film. She highlights Grace’s genius problem‑solving contrasted with his personal disorientation, Rocky’s unique communication through music and vibration, and the narrative role of suspended, Earth, and personal time as a driving conflict. Mund praises the audiobook’s portrayal of Rocky and anticipates the challenges and creative liberties the movie will need to make, especially in conveying alien communication and the passage of time.
In this episode of The Business, host Kim Masters interviews Aline Vander Veldin, co‑founder of Particle 6 Productions, about her synthetic AI character Tilly Norwood. Vander Veldin explains that Tilly is intended solely for AI‑generated content and is not meant to...
In this bonus episode of The Town, host Matt Bellany talks with Amelia Dimoldenberg, the official social‑media ambassador and red‑carpet correspondent for the Oscars, about how the Academy is trying to make the ceremony relevant to Gen Z and younger...
In this episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, director Maggie Gyllenhaal discusses her genre‑bending film The Bride, which reimagines the Bride of Frankenstein through a 1930s musical‑film lens while interrogating gender expectations and violence. She explains how she blended IMAX...
SAG‑AFTRA president Sean Astin entered his term amid a storm of high‑profile disputes, from an FCC clash over Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue to the rise of synthetic performers and a retreat by OpenAI on a controversial opt‑out request. As the union...
In this episode of the Team Deacons Podcast, writer‑director Hlynur Pálmason discusses his unconventional path from childhood fascination with images and sound to studying photography, working odd jobs, and ultimately graduating from the Danish film school. He explains how collaborative...
In this episode, Jim Hempill interviews director Baz Luhrmann about his new Elvis project, Epic Elvis Presley in Concert, which stitches together rare, unseen concert and behind‑the‑scenes footage into a dream‑like narrative told from Elvis’s own voice. Luhrmann explains how the lost...
