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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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Open Range with Chris Ryan
Episode Date: August 4, 2024Free-grazers and CR-heads - this is your week. The icon, the legend, the Ringer’s own Chris Ryan joins us to talk about Kevin Costner’s understated 20...
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The Postman with Emily St. James
Episode Date: July 28, 2024This week’s movie has everything - fake teeth on Giovanni Ribisi, a mule performing Shakespeare, Tom Petty, Kevin Costner’s irresistible sperm…you rea...
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Dances with Wolves
Episode Date: July 21, 2024In a first for Blank Check, we’re covering a filmmaker who has acted alongside our own Griffin Newman! In our premiere episode covering the directoria...
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Gigli with Jen D'Angelo
Episode Date: July 14, 2024The first "G" in "Gigli" is pronounced like the "J" in “Jacques,” the second “G” is silent. Rhymes with "really." Now that that’s out of the way - we...
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Meet Joe Black with Richard Lawson
Episode Date: July 7, 2024He’s hot. He’s got frosted tips. He loves peanut butter. His lil swimmers may or may not look like skulls. He’s death, baby! And we’re meeting him thi...
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Scent of a Woman with David Krumholtz
Episode Date: June 30, 2024Warning - this episode contains an ungodly amount of Pacino impressions. Listener discretion is advised. “Actor’s actor” and local boy from Queens Dav...
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Midnight Run with Alan Sepinwall
Episode Date: June 23, 2024In a first for Blank Check, Ben Hosley produces an entire episode while handcuffed and under threat of legal action. What else would you expect from a...
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Beverly Hills Cop with Adil & Bilall
Episode Date: June 16, 2024An indelible synth theme by Harold Faltermeyer. A scene-stealing turn from Bronson Pinchot. A banana in a tailpipe. EDDIE FREAKING MURPHY. It’s no won...
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Going In Style with James Urbaniak
Episode Date: June 9, 2024After years of citing him as a potential series, we’re finally Brest men. In this inaugural episode of our “Podverly Hills Cast” series, we’re taking...
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Furiosa with Kyle Buchanan
Episode Date: June 2, 2024We return to the Wasteland this week with Furiosa, and we’ve got quite the tour guide. Kyle Buchanan - author of Blood, Sweat & Chrome, THE book o...
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Paprika with Emily Yoshida
Episode Date: May 26, 2024Come join the dream parade, folks - we’re talking about Paprika! Mother of the Blankies Emily Yoshida is with us to chat about Satoshi Kon’s final fil...
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Tokyo Godfathers with Reece Feldman
Episode Date: May 19, 2024They call them the Godfathers of Tokyo…and we call him the KING of TIKTOK (in an old man newscaster voice) - Reece Feldman joins us to chat about Sato...
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Millennium Actress with Hoai-Tran Bui
Episode Date: May 12, 2024Our Satoshi Kon series continues with his 2003 film Millennium Actress, a moving exploration of memory, history, and the magic of da moviesh. Writer H...
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Perfect Blue with Bowen Yang
Episode Date: May 5, 2024Welcome to the filmography of Satoshi Kon - a thrilling series of funhouse mirrors and puzzlebox narratives that proved what is possible in the animat...
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Basic with BenDavid Grabinski
Episode Date: April 28, 2024Our McTiernan series concludes with 2003’s BASIC - a film that Griffin thinks should instead be titled “COMPLICATED” - get it? Because there are so ma...
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Rollerball with Zach Cherry
Episode Date: April 21, 2024Finally, we arrive at the film that helped put John McTiernan in both “director jail” and “jail jail” - the incoherent nu-metal fart that is 2002’s RO...
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The 13th Warrior with David Lowery
Episode Date: April 14, 2024What if there was a 13th Warrior? What if there was a version of Beowulf so grounded in reality that the climactic battle with Grendel just kind of fe...
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The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) with Amanda Dobbins
Episode Date: April 7, 2024A Fiji water bottle. “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone. That Magritte painting with the bowler hat. A SCINTILLATING, AGE-APPROPRIATE ROMANCE WITH TWO OF THE...
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Die Hard with a Vengeance with Shea Serrano
Episode Date: March 31, 2024John McTiernan back with the Die Hard franchise after the spectacular flop of Last Action Hero. Bruce Willis and Samuel L Jackson back together after...