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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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Twin Peaks: The Return (Episodes 14-18) with Jane Schoenbrun
Episode Date: December 22, 2024What year is it? Well, it’s 2024 - but not for long. It’s our last episode of the year! Director of this year’s I SAW THE TV GLOW Jane Schoenbrun join...
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Twin Peaks: The Return (Eps 9-13) with Fran Hoepfner
Episode Date: December 15, 2024Dougie gets it on (or, more accurately, Naomi Watts gets HER Dougie on), guest Fran Hoepfner pitches her artisanal slime for adults (don’t steal the i...
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Twin Peaks: The Return (Ep 8) with Connor Ratliff
Episode Date: December 8, 2024This is the podcast. These are the (two) friends. Drink full, and descend. The famous “Atomic Bomb” episode of The Return stands as one of David Lynch...
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Twin Peaks: The Return (Episodes 1-7)
Episode Date: December 1, 2024It is happening again - we’re covering TV! Or is it an 18-part movie? Much to ponder. We’re heading back to the Pacific Northwest (and Vegas…and New Y...
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Inland Empire with David Rees
Episode Date: November 24, 2024Only on Blank Check would an episode about David Lynch’s deeply destabilizing INLAND EMPIRE turn into a heartfelt celebration of creativity and the hu...
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Mulholland Drive with Leslye Headland
Episode Date: November 17, 2024Is it a dream? Is it about a dream? Is it a TV pilot? Is it the greatest film of the 21st century? In any case, Leslye Headland returns to the podcast...
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The Straight Story with Dana Stevens
Episode Date: November 3, 2024Walt Disney Pictures Presents A Film By David Lynch. And what a beautiful, expectation-defying, G-rated, cold-glass-of-beer film it is. Dana Stevens j...
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Lost Highway with David Lowery
Episode Date: October 27, 20241997’s Lost Highway - is it (as David Sims wrote on Letterboxd), “a movie about headache”? Is it David Lynch’s most visually beautiful film? Is it a d...
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Joker: Hallie À Goodrich
Episode Date: October 20, 2024What if they made a sequel to the Joker movie that was pretty much the finale of Seinfeld but it’s also a half-assed jukebox musical, and EVERYONE hat...
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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me with Arkasha Stevenson
Episode Date: October 13, 2024One of the more harrowing films we’ve covered on the podcast (and the second film we’ve covered in 2024 with a memorable “gobble gobble” line), 1992’s...
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Wild at Heart with Tatiana Maslany
Episode Date: October 6, 2024If we told you this was the first time we’d covered a Nicolas Cage movie on the podcast - would you believe us? Well, baby - it’s true. And what a mov...
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Twin Peaks (Season 1) with Eva Anderson
Episode Date: September 29, 2024For a brief shining moment, Middle America went crazy for the surreal soap opera stylings of David Lynch and Mark Frost. We’re talking ABC, primetime,...
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Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus
Episode Date: September 22, 2024Lend us your (severed) ears! This week, we’re jumping back into our Lynch series with a trip to Lumberton, USA, as our beloved Jamie Loftus joins us t...
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Episode Date: September 15, 2024We’re taking a break from David Lynch to answer one of the year’s biggest questions - Is Burton Back, Baby? Ummmm…kind of! Grab your “Handbook for the...
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Dune with John Hodgman
Episode Date: September 8, 2024The sleeper must awaken. The filmography must contain a flop. We’ve arrived at the Planet Arrakis aka the Desert Planet aka DUNE (1984) - David Lynch’...
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The Elephant Man with Alex Ross Perry
Episode Date: September 1, 2024We’re getting in touch with our emotions this week, as Alex Ross Perry joins us to talk about Lynch’s deeply-felt, sensitively-rendered 1980 classic T...
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Eraserhead
Episode Date: August 25, 2024In heaven (and in podcasting), everything is fine. Welcome to TWIN PODS: FIRE CAST WITH ME, a series on the films of David Lynch - former Eagle Scout...
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Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Episode Date: August 18, 2024Welp, our Kevin Costner series ends not with a bang, but a whimper. With the pulling of Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 from theaters, we are le...