Following Films Podcast
322 episodes - English - Latest episode: 1 day ago -Interviews with some of the most unique voices in independent film and popular culture. Think of it as a weekly film recommendation for something a bit off the beaten path.
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ONLY IN THEATERS director Raphael Sbarge
January 13, 2023 22:40 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBONLY IN THEATERS, a film by actor/director Raphael Sbarge (Emmy Nominated for directing “LA FOODWAYS,”) is an intimate and moving journey taken with the Laemmle family, spanning nearly three years of challenges, losses, and personal triumphs. There has been a Laemmle in the movie business since there’s been a movie business. Their beloved Arthouse Cinema chain with an astonishing Hollywood legacy has, for four generations, been dedicated to elevating the art of filmmaking and the filmmaker...
London May and Eric Boccio on NIGHT OF THE BASTARD
January 11, 2023 03:29 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBToday I'm joined by London May and Eric Boccio to discuss their work on NIGHT OF THE BASTARD Disgruntled hermit Reed lives a solitary life in the desert. After chasing away a group of youths trying to party near his home, Reed’s peaceful life is violently upheaved when a goup of savage cultists lay siege to his house. Forced to partner up with one of the party-goers, Reed and his newfound colleague must defend themselves into the night, all while long-buried and disturbing secrets are reve...
Moby on his Documentary Film PUNK ROCK VEGAN MOVIE
January 05, 2023 03:57 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBToday I'm joined by Moby to discuss his film ‘Punk Rock Vegan Movie! The new documentary will have its world premiere and be the Opening Night film for the 2023 Slamdance Film Festival on January 20 in Park City, Utah. The film, which is Moby’s directorial debut, is a passionate and stylistically idiosyncratic look at the ongoing relationship between the worlds of punk rock and animal rights. It includes interviews with some of the biggest names in punk and rock history, like Ian Mackaye, HR...
CLEANING LADY Creator/Executive Producer Miranda Kwok
December 30, 2022 16:22 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBMiranda Kwok is now best known as the Creator and Executive Producer of the U.S. television series adaptation "The Cleaning Lady," based on the Argentine series "La Chica Que Limpia." Produced by Warner Bros. Television and Fox Entertainment, Miranda wrote the pilot script and developed "The Cleaning Lady" for the Fox Network. Her first screenplay about the so-called military ‘comfort women,’ Miranda won the Grand Prize in the Slamdance Screenplay Competition. With her first spec script, Mi...
EMANCIPATION Craft Team Press Conference
December 22, 2022 13:29 - 57 minutes - 52.7 MBToday I'm doing something a bit different. This is a press conference I took part in last weekend with the craft team behind the new Apple+ film EMANCIPATION. The team includes Ed Novick (Production Sound Mixer) Mandell Winter (Supervising Sound Editor) Naomi Shohan (Production Designer) Conrad Buff, ACE (Picture Editor) Robert Richardson, ASC (Cinematographer) Steve Pederson (Re-Recording Mixer) Marcelo Zarvos (Composer) Francine Jamison-Tanchuck (Costume Designer) David Esparza (...
INVADERS FROM MARS (1953) Star Jimmy Hunt
December 20, 2022 01:53 - 35 minutes - 32.2 MBToday I'm joined by Jimmy Hunt, star of the atomic-aged sci-fi classic INVADERS FROM MARS Ignite Films has released s sensational 4K restoration of William Cameron Menzies’ 1953 Invaders From Mars. The sci-fi classic is available on Blu-ray & 4K UHD in time to celebrate the film’s 70th anniversary. Special bonus features include a restored 4K version of the original 1953 trailer and a newly commissioned 2022 trailer, an interview with the film’s star, Jimmy Hunt, an in-depth look at the r...
THE APOLOGY writer/director Alison Star Locke
December 13, 2022 13:55 - 23 minutes - 21.3 MBToday I'm joined by Alison Star Locke the writer and director of THE APOLOGY Twenty years after the disappearance of her daughter, recovering alcoholic Darlene Hagen (Anna Gunn) is preparing to host her family's Christmas celebration with her best friend Gretchen (Janeane Garofalo). Late Christmas Eve, Darlene's estranged ex-brother-in-law, Jack (Linus Roache) arrives unannounced, bearing nostalgic gifts and a heavy secret. Soon, Darlene finds herself caught between reason and ruthless ins...
CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS writer/director Joe Begos
December 09, 2022 05:03 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBToday I'm joined by writer/director Joe Begos (The Mind’s Eye, VFW), to discuss his work on CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS. The film stars Riley Dandy (That’s Amor, The City of Gold), Sam Delich (Spiderhead), Jonah Ray Rodrigues (Mystery Science Theater 3000), Dora Madison (Everybody Wants Some, "Chicago Fire"), Jeremy Gardner (Offseason), with Jeff Daniel Phillips (3 From Hell), and Abraham Benrubi (The Call of the Wild). In CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS, it’s Christmas Eve and fiery record stor...
Sean Perry Director/Writer of DASH
December 02, 2022 00:43 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBToday I'm joined by Sean Perry, the writer and director behind the new one-take thriller DASH DASH follows Milly, your average everyday rideshare driver preparing himself for a night shift behind the wheel… by purchasing a massive amount of cocaine from a prostitute. On the perilous Hollywood streets, he attempts to sell the drugs to his unassuming passengers including: a homosexual thruple, some phone-obsessed gen Z'ers, and even an off-duty police officer.His attempt to illegally fund his s...
Leslie Iwerks on THE IMAGINEERING STORY: THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF WALT DISNEY IMAGINEERING
November 28, 2022 22:06 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MBLeslie Iwerks is an American producer, director, and writer. She is daughter of Disney Legend Don Iwerks and granddaughter of Disney Legend Ub Iwerks, the animator and co-creator of Mickey Mouse and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. She has directed films including Recycled Life which was nominated for an Academy Award and The Pixar Story which was nominated for an Emmy for best nonfiction special. She is a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Acad...
Erik Messerschmidt Interview on Devotion
November 21, 2022 20:12 - 32 minutes - 29.4 MBFor the upcoming major motion picture Devotion – the anticipated Korean War-era feature film based on the acclaimed book and directed by J. D. Dillard, starring Jonathan Majors, Glen Powell, Christina Jackson,and Joe Jonas and coming out November 23 -- award-winning director of photography Erik Messerschmidt, ASC leveraged his decades of experience to create stunning visuals that entwine narrative, action sequences, landscape, and compelling insights into the human condition. To bring dynam...
BATTLEBOTS co-founder Trey Roski
November 14, 2022 14:40 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBThank you for listening to the Following Films Podcast today I’m joined by Trey Roski, co-founder and executive producer for BattleBots. Battlebots, the hit television show featuring fighting robots, has announced an exclusive live Las Vegas show: “BATTLEBOTS: DESTRUCT-A-THON,” which will open Feb. 3, 2023, at BattleBots’ own BattleBox Arena at Caesars Entertainment Studios. The daily live show follows the enormous success of the BattleBots World Championship filming season, which finished ta...
ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS Director Alex Phillips
November 08, 2022 03:06 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBToday I'm joined by Alex Phillips to discuss his film ALL JACKED UP AND FULL OF WORMS Roscoe, a janitor for a scuzzy love motel, whose girlfriend has brought another man home for strange rituals, drifts through life until he discovers a hidden stash of powerful hallucinogenic worms. Guided by visions of a giant floating Worm, he encounters Benny, a moped enthusiast trying to manifest a baby from an inanimate sex doll. They fall in love with doing worms together on a downward spiral into the...
1-800 HOT-NITE and COBRA KAI Star Dallas Dupree Young
November 02, 2022 16:16 - 18 minutes - 16.6 MBDallas Dupree Young is one of the breakout stars in Netflix’s Emmy-nominated series, “Cobra Kai”. Young shines as Kenny, a bullied new student in school, who turns to karate to defend himself and gain confidence. I had Dallas on the show today to discuss his work on the new festival darling 1-800 HOT-NITE. The film is centered around Tommy (Dallas Dupree Young) and the night he loses his parents to a drug raid. On the run, he turns to a phone sex operator (his fairy godmother) for help as h...
SOMETHING IN THE DIRT Creators Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson
November 01, 2022 21:06 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBLevi has snagged a no-lease apartment sight unseen in the Hollywood Hills to crash at while he ties up loose ends for his exodus from Los Angeles. He quickly strikes up a rapport with his new neighbor John, swapping stories like old friends under the glowing, smoke-filled skies of the city. Soon after meeting, Levi and John witness something impossible in one of their apartments. Terrified at first, they soon realize this could change their lives and give them a purpose. With dollar signs in...
SEE HOW THEY RUN Director Tom George
October 31, 2022 15:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBTom George is a director and sometimes writer of TV and film. He directed all three series of the acclaimed BBC comedy “This Country”. The show, which George also helped write, won four BAFTAs, including one for Best Scripted Comedy, as well as a host of other awards. His other credits include the BBC legal comedy “Defending the Guilty”, which starred Will Sharpe and Katherine Parkinson. George began his comedy career in short films, which screened at festivals around the world. He started o...
SHANTARAM Cinematographer Stefan Duscio
October 29, 2022 14:57 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBToday I’m joined by cinematographer Stefan Duscio to discuss his latest work, the Apple TV+ series, Shantaram. Based on the internationally best-selling novel by Gregory David Roberts, the 1980s set drama follows a fugitive who escapes prison and reinvents himself as a doctor in the slums of Bombay. Shantaram is the first Apple TV series that uses anamorphic lenses and frame in a 2.40 aspect ratio. When shooting the series Duscio pursued smooth camera movement and widescreen anamorphic bec...
THE ACCURSED star Mena Suvari and director Kevin Lewis
October 27, 2022 15:43 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBToday I’m joined by Mena Suvari and director Kevin Lewis to discuss their work on the new film THE ACCURSED. THE ACCURSED starring Mena Suvari (American Beauty), Sarah Grey (Power Rangers), Meg Foster (They Live), and Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect) is the follow-Up feature from director Kevin Lewis (WILLY’SWONDERLAND starring Nicolas Cage). The Accursed follows a young woman who is forced to return home following the death of her mother. Consumed by guilt and desperate to escape the haunting...
THE LAIR Director Neil Marshall and Star Charlotte Kirk
October 26, 2022 01:38 - 32 minutes - 30 MBToday I'm joined by THE LAIR Director Neil Marshall and Star Charlotte Kirk. When Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is shot down over Afghanistan, she finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made biological weapons – half human, half alien – are awakened. THE LAIR will be available in theaters, on-demand and digital on October 28th --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/followingfilms/message Support this podcast: https://podc...
SINPHONY: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology Directors Kimberley Elizabeth and Haley Bishop
October 20, 2022 04:30 - 31 minutes - 29 MBConceived and curated entirely on the popular, audio-based social media platform Clubhouse and produced by Screen Anthology, SINPHONY: A Clubhouse Horror Anthology features a group of international filmmakers each exploring a character dealing with tragedy caused by a supernatural entity. Today I’m joined by Haley Bishop and Kimberly Elizabeth to discuss their contributions to SINPHONY. FOREVER YOUNG Writer/Dir. Haley Bishop - (Host) - UK In a desperate attempt to preserve her youth, a 30...
Godfather Tarot author Will Corona Pilgrim
October 18, 2022 22:33 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBToday I'm joined by Will Corona Pilgrim to discuss his work on The Godfather Tarot. The beautifully illustrated, highly giftable deck comes with a full-color, 96-page companion book by Will Corona-Pilgrim, that profiles the key characters and events from the saga and pairs them with featured cards along with providing a basic introduction to tarot reading. Whether you are looking to add a unique deck to your collection or are a fan of the films, The Godfather Tarot Deck is a must-have addit...
V/H/S 99 Star Verona Blue
October 17, 2022 02:48 - 39 minutes - 35.8 MBVerona Blue is a classically trained actor from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Fully immersed in Goth culture as a teen, Verona spent countless nights running downtown alleys with a group of like-minded misfits and has been channeling the spirits of innumerable interesting characters ever since. Her commitment to her counter-culture roots and authentic ownership of her unique look makes her a standout on screen. Verona Blue stars in V/H/S/99 as a punk rocker in the segment titled "Shredding," wr...
FROST star Devanny Pinn
October 15, 2022 21:26 - 35 minutes - 32.4 MBCleopatra Entertainment's FROST, directed by Brandon Slagle (Battle of Saipan), based on James Cullen Bressack’s story and adapted for screen by Robert Thompson, and starring Vernon Wells (Mad Max 2) and Devanny Pinn (House of Manson) is the story of a young woman and her father who have to fight for survival after being stranded on a remote mountainside during a storm, FROST will be released on October 11 on Digital and Blu-ray. A full motion picture soundtrack for FROST is scheduled for...
ACCIDENT MAN: HITMAN’S HOLIDAY Directors George and Harry Kirby
October 13, 2022 04:54 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MBThe Accident Man is back and this time he must beat the top assassins in the world to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss,save the life of his only friend and rekindle his relationship with his maniacal father figure. Directed by the Kirby Brothers - George Kirby and Harry Kirby (The Real Target), and written by Stu Small (Triple Threat), the film stars Scott Adkins (Zero Dark Thirty, The Expendables 2). Samuel Goldwyn Films will release ACCIDENT MAN: HITMAN’S HOLIDAY in theaters and o...
TEN TRICKS star Lea Thompson
October 10, 2022 03:05 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBTen Tricks, a Fandor Exclusive, follows a glamorous madam, Grace (Lea Thompson), who has spent years being surrounded by men. When she decides she wants to start a family, she realizes the list of potential prospects is shockingly thin. Thankfully, a chance encounter with a neighbor proves there might just be magic in the air after all. The seductive satire was directed by Emmy Nominee Richard Pagano, and also stars Raymond Cruz (The Closer), Sam Hennings (The Aviator), and Damien Leake (Apo...
THE MIDNIGHT CLUB Cinematographer James Kniest
October 07, 2022 19:47 - 1 hour - 61.1 MBCinematographer James Kniest’s latest work can next be seen in the highly-anticipated series, The Midnight Club created by Mike Flanagan. The series begins streaming on Netflix on Oct. 7. Based on the 1994 novel of the same name as well as other works by Christopher Pike, the premise of the show takes place at a hospice for terminally ill young adults when eight patients come together every night at midnight to tell each other stories — and make a pact that the next of them to die will give...
FANTASIC FEST INTERVIEWS: LIVING WITH CHUCKY & KING ON THE SCREEN
October 04, 2022 15:06 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBKING ON SCREEN Directed by: Daphné Baiwir KING ON SCREEN, which interviews the lion’s share of the filmmakers who have adapted Stephen Kings work to screen, includes Frank Darabont, Mick Garris, Mike Flanagan, Greg Nicotero and more. Directed by Daphné Baiwir, KING ON SCREEN is an intimate look at the unique relationship between Stephen King’s vast body of work and the directors famous for reimagining it for the screen. With an ambitious fictional introduction packed with easter eggs, ref...
RED RIVER ROAD Writer, Director, Star, and Editor Paul Schuyler
October 04, 2022 03:42 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBA family of four isolated against a global pandemic that spreads through the internet and robs a person of their ability to perceive reality--often with violent results--begins to unravel when they suspect that one, or all, of them, may be infected. Shot under Covid lockdown by a real family serving as the entire cast and crew. RED RIVER ROAD stars the Schuyler family; Paul, Jade, Shaw, and Quinn. Paul Schuyler wrote, directed, shot, and edited the film. It is produced by Paul and Jade Sch...
MASKING THRESHOLD Writer Director Johannes Grenzfurthner
September 30, 2022 21:34 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBThank you for listening to the Following Films podcast! Today I’m joined by director/writer Johannes Grenzfurthner to discuss his latest project MASKING THRESHOLD. Frustrated by a constant ringing in his ears, a paranoid data analyst documents his obsessive attempts to cure his own debilitating tinnitus through a series of home experiments conducted in a make-shift lab. But as his research becomes increasingly dark and macabre, a horrifying secret behind his maddening condition is revealed ...
WHEN I CONSUME YOU Director Perry Blackshear
September 22, 2022 21:45 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBWhen I Consume You marks the third feature for New York-based filmmaker Perry Blackshear following his award-winning psychological horror feature debut They Look Like People and celebrated sophomore effort, the aquatic supernatural horror romance The Siren. All three of his films have been widely embraced and praised both on the festival circuit and upon release, with They Look Like People winning a Jury Honorable Mention at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival upon its premiere. Blackshear aga...
YOUNG PLATO director Neasa Ní Chianáín and subject Kevin McArevey
September 20, 2022 18:03 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MBAt Holy Cross Boys School in Belfast, Northern Ireland schoolyard conflicts are resolved at the Philosophy board where the youngsters learn to reason and think for themselves. School Principal Kevin McArevey, a Stoic who sings along to Elvis Presley, is rocking the status quo by teaching Philosophy to students in a community plagued by urban decay, sectarian violence, poverty and drugs. In an atmosphere of deep caring and support, his students learn new ways to manage their emotions based on...
BARBARIAN Director of Photography Zach Kuperstein
September 16, 2022 16:45 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBZach Kuperstein, a New York-based cinematographer listed among Variety's Artisan Elites, has a passion for visual storytelling. He burst onto the field with the southern gothic film, "The Eyes of My Mother," premiering at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016. His work earned him nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards and the Camerimage International Film Festival. Since then he's lensed many more features including "The Climb," winning the jury's heart award at 2019's Cannes Film Festiva...
HEATHERS THE MUSICAL - Director Andy Fickman
September 15, 2022 04:31 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBWelcome to Westerberg High, where Veronica Sawyer is just another one of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she’s unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossibly cruel Heathers, her dreams of popularity finally start to come true. Until JD shows up – the mysterious teen rebel who teaches her that everyone fears being a nobody, but its murder being a somebody... Today I'm joined by HEATHERS THE MUSICAL Director Andy Fickman HEATHERS THE MUSICAL will pr...
WHO INVITED THEM Director Duncan Birmingham
September 12, 2022 22:15 - 45 minutes - 42 MBToday I'm joined by writer/director Duncan Birmingham to discuss his work on the incredible Shudder original film WHO INVITED THEM. Adam and Margo's housewarming party is a success. One couple linger after the other guests, revealing themselves to be wealthy neighbors. As one night cap leads to another, Adam and Margo suspect their new friends are duplicitous strangers --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/followingfilms/message Support this podcast: https:...
THE HARBINGER Director Will Klipstine
September 07, 2022 04:33 - 39 minutes - 35.7 MBHoping to escape their past, Daniel and Theresa Snyder move their troubled young daughter Rosalie to a quaint Midwestern town, but they are followed by the evil they tried to leave behind. When locals begin to die, the Snyders turn to a Native American seer and uncover a legend that may hold the key to saving their family, or a path to a grisly end for them and all they hold dear. Today I'm joined by Will Klipstine to discuss his work on THE HARBINGER. The film is currently in select theatr...
Hallee Adelman and Sean O'Grady on OUR AMERICAN FAMILY
September 02, 2022 04:51 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBAddiction is an all-encompassing force, in not only of the lives of the afflicted, but also those around them. OUR AMERICAN FAMILY provides an honest, unfiltered look at a close-knit Philadelphia family dealing with generational substance abuse. Captured at a pivotal “nothing to lose” moment, for over the course of a year, five family members tired of life with addiction on center stage, each struggle to transcend their crippling histories. What will it take to shift this entrenched, wrench...
The Creative Team Behind SCIENCE FRICTION
August 26, 2022 16:30 - 33 minutes - 30.8 MBFinally, a documentary about scientists who get misrepresented by the media. Those TV documentaries you see, and the science experts they feature? Did you know that producers often edit them out of context, and twist their words, to make it seem like they promoted some pop sensationalism instead of the real facts? Science Friction exposes this practice and gives the scientists a chance to clear the record. The film was financed by private grants and donations. The film is currently availa...
Theodore Shapiro on SEVERANCE
August 17, 2022 23:44 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBTheodore Michael Shapiro is an American film composer from Washington D.C. who is known for composing various films such as Jennifer's Body, Old School, Safe Men, Idiocracy, Wet Hot American Summer, Zoolander 2, Year One, DodgeBall, Tropic Thunder, On the Ropes, 13 Going on 30, Girlfight, Captain Underpants and The Devil Wears Prada. I had the chance to chat with Teddy about his Emmy-nominated work on the Apple+ series Severance. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest w...
SEVERANCE Composer Theodore Shapiro
August 17, 2022 23:44 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBTheodore Michael Shapiro is an American film composer from Washington D.C. who is known for composing various films such as Jennifer's Body, Old School, Safe Men, Idiocracy, Wet Hot American Summer, Zoolander 2, Year One, DodgeBall, Tropic Thunder, On the Ropes, 13 Going on 30, Girlfight, Captain Underpants and The Devil Wears Prada. I had the chance to chat with Teddy about his Emmy-nominated work on the Apple+ series Severance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.c...
THE BLOODY MAN Star Lisa Wilcox
August 15, 2022 22:35 - 39 minutes - 36.2 MBWild Eye Releasing will release a Special Edition Blu-ray of Daniel Benedict’s The Bloody Man, a supernatural horror film reuniting A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 : The Dream Master stars Lisa Wilcox and Tuesday Knight, this December. The film is currently available on VOD. Penned by Daniel and Casi Benedict, and produced by Red Serial Films, the film tells of a young boy who, after the death of his mother, becomes obsessed with a comic book she gave him that ultimately summons the ancient mon...
Lisa Wilcox on THE BLOODY MAN
August 15, 2022 22:35 - 40 minutes - 37.3 MBWild Eye Releasing will release a Special Edition Blu-ray of Daniel Benedict’s The Bloody Man, a supernatural horror film reuniting A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 : The Dream Master stars Lisa Wilcox and Tuesday Knight, this December. The film is currently available on VOD. Penned by Daniel and Casi Benedict, and produced by Red Serial Films, the film tells of a young boy who, after the death of his mother, becomes obsessed with a comic book she gave him that ultimately summons the ancient mon...
Vincent Grashaw on WHAT JOSIAH SAW
August 05, 2022 21:11 - 22 minutes - 21 MBWhat Josiah Saw is the third feature from American filmmaker Vincent Grashaw (Coldwater, And Then I Go) and world premiered to high praise at the 2021 Fantasia Film Festival and went on to win awards at the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Screamfest, and more. In What Josiah Saw, after two decades, a damaged family reunites at their remote farmhouse, where they confront long-buried secrets and sins of the past. The film stars Robert Patrick (The Terminator), Nick Stahl (Sin City), Scott Haz...
Teressa Liane on THE REEF: STALKED
August 01, 2022 14:58 - 15 minutes - 13.9 MBIn an effort to heal after witnessing her sister’s horrific murder, Nic travels to a tropical resort with her friends for a kayaking and diving adventure. Only hours into their expedition, the women are stalked and then attacked by a great white shark. To survive they will need to band together and Nic will have to overcome her post-traumatic stress, face her fears and slay the monster. Starring: Teressa Liane, Ann Truong, Saskia Archer, Kate Lister, Tim Ross Written and Directed by: Andr...
Chris Chesson and Georgette Angelos on BOSTON GEORGE: FAMOUS WITHOUT THE FORTUNE.
July 25, 2022 00:34 - 40 minutes - 37.4 MBGeorge Jung, the drug smuggler immortalized by Johnny Depp in “Blow,” left Weymouth for California in the late ’60s with pennies in his pocket, two cases of Budweiser in the backseat and his best pal riding shotgun. Forty years – and four prison stints later – Jung returned to visit his boyhood home at 30 Abigail Adams Circle. He was unsure if neighbors would throw rocks or tell him to “politely leave town.” Jung’s homecoming can be seen in the documentary “Boston George,” which charts h...
Jono McLeod on MY OLD SCHOOL
July 21, 2022 18:10 - 19 minutes - 18.3 MBFact is indeed sometimes stranger than fiction, and such is the case with My Old School. Despite actor Alan Cumming’s top billing, this is really a documentary—and not one about him. The actual subject agreed to be profiled, but declines to appear on camera, so Cumming stands in for him, lip-syncing the testimonial. Around 1993, a pupil known as Brandon Lee pulled an elaborate hoax at the Bearsden Academy in posh suburban Glasgow, Scotland, and created a media circus when he got busted for ...
Jake Wachtel on KARMALINK
July 14, 2022 23:03 - 35 minutes - 32.9 MBConceived as a way to interrogate processes of neo-colonialism, and highlighting the alienating effects of technological progress, Palo Alto native Jake Wachtel's KARMALINK is a mind-bending tale of reincarnation, artificial consciousness, and the search for enlightenment. KARMALINK will be released in the US Theatrically in major cities and on VOD in the US and Canada on Friday, July 15. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/followingfilms/message Support ...
Brenna Coates and Dana Abraham on NEON LIGHTS
July 07, 2022 02:27 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MBDirected by Rouzbeh Heydari (Together Again), Dana Abraham (Prisoner of Fear) wrote the film and stars in the movie along with Brenna Coates (“Coroner”), Brit MacRae (“The Eden Theory”), Stephen Tracey (“Good Sam”), Rene Escobar, Jr. (“Air Crash Investigation”), Erika Swayze (“Workin’ Moms”), Lauren Howe (“Reacher”) and Kim Coates ("Sons of Anarchy").In NEON LIGHTS, guests begin disappearing in an off-grid location, during a family reunion of misfit siblings and their offspring. Momentum Pi...
Ash Gordon on her Self-Titled Double Album
July 01, 2022 17:42 - 45 minutes - 41.7 MBToday I'm joined by Ash Gordon to discuss her self-titled double album After 10+ years working behind the scenes as a song stylist for some of your favorite artists, tv shows, and movies, LGBTQIA+ music maven Ash Gordon is ready to take the leap into the spotlight with her debut double album, Ash Gordon & Ash Gordon II. Complete with collaborations from drag legends like Trixie Mattel, Alaska Thunderfuck, BONAVEGA, Bob the Drag Queen, and many others, the albums provide sixteen psychedelic ...
Sierra McCormick on WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING
June 30, 2022 23:47 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBToday I'm joined by Sierra McCormick (“American Horror Stories”, The Vast of Night, Some Kind of Hate) to discuss her latest film WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING. Seeking Shelter from a storm, a family find themselves trapped for days with no sign of rescue and untold evils lurking just beyond the walls in this wildly fun horse-of-horrors thrill ride To learn more about the film, please visit: https://www.weneedtodosomething.movie/ WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING is currently available on Blu-ray, DVD, a...
Obi-Wan Kenobi Season 1 (there will be more) Review
June 29, 2022 15:41 - 1 hour - 68 MBObi-Wan Kenobi is a television miniseries created for the streaming service Disney+. It is part of the Star Wars franchise and stars Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, reprising his role from the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Set ten years after the events of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), the series follows Kenobi as he sets out to rescue the kidnapped Princess Leia (Vivien Lyra Blair) from the Galactic Empire, leading to a confrontation with his former apprentice, Darth Va...