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Blank Check with Griffin & David
Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. Produced by Ben Hosley.
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Critical Darlings: Train Dreams, And Netflix’s Quest For Best Picture
Episode Date: January 29, 2026On today’s show, Richard and Alison hop on a boxcar and stare wistfully as the 20th century passes them by with Best Picture nominee Train Dreams. The...
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Morvern Callar with Emily Yoshida
Episode Date: January 25, 2026Mommy's back! Emily Yoshida joins the gang to talk about 2002's Morvern Callar, a surprisingly tender film about grief, starting over, and taking a Je...
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Critical Darlings: The Oscar Nominations Recap (And Also Some Talk About F1)
Episode Date: January 22, 2026It’s Hollywood’s biggest morning! Join Richard and Alison (plus a vacationing Producer Benjamin Frisch) as they pick apart the biggest snubs and surpr...
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Ratcatcher
Episode Date: January 18, 2026We need to pod about Glasgow. We need to pod about the arresting inner lives of these complicated protagonists. We need to pod about every incredible...
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Critical Darlings: Hamnet And The History Of Oscar Villains with David Sims
Episode Date: January 15, 2026This week, we’re joined by David Sims as we orbit the Golden Globes and their Best Drama winner, Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet. In the vibes-based reality of aw...
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No Other Choice
Episode Date: January 11, 2026Join Pulp Men (and Woman) of the Year Griffin, David, Ben, and Marie as they discuss Park Chan Wook’s latest offering, the silly and sublime No Other...
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Critical Darlings: Marty Supreme And The Precursor Circuit with Griffin Newman
Episode Date: January 8, 2026This week, we’re only slightly hung over from last night’s New York Film Critics Circle Awards! Griffin Newman joins the pod to discuss the event, whe...
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Is This Thing On?
Episode Date: January 4, 2026Testing, testing…does anybody know? Is this thing on? It depends on who you ask, frankly. The Blank Check team are divided on Bradley Cooper’s latest...
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Introducing Critical Darlings
Episode Date: January 1, 2026Welcome to Critical Darlings, a new podcast miniseries from Blank Check: A conversation about the awards season conversation, one contender at a time....
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Avatar: Fire and Ash
Episode Date: December 21, 2025We went back to Pandora and we all fell in love with a very special lady. She’s a bit prickly. A bit unconventional. But boy, is she something! Join u...
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Ella McKay with Richard Lawson
Episode Date: December 14, 2025It’s pretty hard being the governor of an unnamed state when you’re a 34-year-old woman with a husband who’s the heir to a local pizza empire and you’...
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Honey Don't with Mattie Lubchansky
Episode Date: December 7, 2025Honey Don’t? Honey probably shouldn’t have. But that’s okay, because Honey, we’re gonna talk about it anyway! Writer and illustrator Mattie Lubchansky...
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Drive Away Dolls with mxmtoon
Episode Date: November 30, 2025Two gals and a briefcase full of dicks. What more could an 84 minute caper need? mxmtoon joins us to chat about Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke’s lesbian...
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The Tragedy of Macbeth with Dana Schwartz
Episode Date: November 23, 2025You can’t say “Macbeth” in a theater, but you can certainly say it on a podcast! Dana Schwartz joins us (in her third Blank Check appearance on a witc...
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs with Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas
Episode Date: November 16, 2025Six segments. Four legendary movie podcasters. Three and a half hours of keeping David Sims away from his family. Welcome to our Ballad of Buster Scru...
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Hail, Caesar! with Shirley Li
Episode Date: November 9, 2025Would that it twere so simple to lasso that lazy ol’ moon! This week, we’re chatting about all the studio shenanigans in Hail, Caesar! with our pal Sh...
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Inside Llewyn Davis with Rachel Zegler
Episode Date: November 2, 2025Read Jack Antonoff’s slander in print Watch Carey Mulligan in 2015’s Far From the Madding Crowd Listen to the penultimate episode of WTF Get the E...
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A House of Dynamite
Episode Date: October 26, 2025Kathryn Bigelow is back. But are WE so back? Not quite. The gang discusses the recent release A House of Dynamite, a film in which the president liste...
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True Grit with Stavros Halkias
Episode Date: October 19, 2025We love to pull the cork. Comedian (and probably the biggest Greek-American entertainer of our time) Stavros Halkias joins us to chat about 2010’s Tru...