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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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Millions with Adam Kempenaar
Episode Date: March 12, 2023How did Danny Boyle choose to follow up the ultraviolence of 28 Days Later? With a winsome kid’s movie about morality and currency conversion, of cour...
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The Eighth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Episode Date: March 5, 2023Once again we gather together to celebrate excellence in the motion picture industry - but rest assured, we have our own Blankies Crisis Team standing...
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28 Days Later with David Rees
Episode Date: February 26, 2023Fast zombies, a deserted London, and potato-quality digital cinematography - 28 DAYS LATER proved to be a genre-defining hit for Danny Boyle after the...
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The Beach with Emily Yoshida
Episode Date: February 19, 2023Mother is back, and she’s taking us all to THE BEACH! Emily Yoshida makes her long-awaited return to the pod to speak about her experience in the writ...
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Knock at the Cabin with Marie Bardi
Episode Date: February 12, 2023Knock knock! Who’s there? M. Night Shyamalan, of course! We’re answering the door and ushering in the apocalypse with a look at Night’s latest offerin...
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A Life Less Ordinary with Janet Varney
Episode Date: February 5, 2023After the smashing success of TRAINSPOTTING, Danny Boyle reteamed with star Ewan McGregor and writer John Hodge to…make a movie where Dan Hedaya plays...
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Trainspotting with Charles Rogers
Episode Date: January 29, 2023The UK’s answer to PULP FICTION, Danny Boyle’s TRAINSPOTTING exploded into theaters and became a global phenomenon, thanks to an iconic marketing camp...
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Shallow Grave
Episode Date: January 22, 2023UK house music, a *very* active camera, and Ewan McGregor looking like a SNACK…that’s right, folks - we’re covering Danny Boyle! With the England bit...
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Wendell & Wild
Episode Date: January 15, 2023Henry Selick waited thirteen years to make his follow-up to CORALINE, and it feels like we’ve been waiting even longer to hear David’s TIFF Airbnb sto...
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Coraline with J.D. Amato
Episode Date: January 8, 2023The ultimate connoisseur of context, the guru of camera gear - our friend JD Amato makes his triumphant return to the main feed to walk us through the...
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Avatar: The Way of Water with Marie Bardi
Episode Date: December 18, 2022The gang went to see AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER and we all got soaking wet. Fully submerged. Drenched! We’re communing with space whales, chugging coffe...
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Monkeybone with Justin McElroy
Episode Date: December 11, 2022Just in time for Brendan Fraser’s big comeback, we’re taking a look back at his misguided collaboration with Henry Selick - 2001’s bizarro flop MONKEY...
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James and the Giant Peach with Emma Stefansky
Episode Date: December 4, 2022Bugs! So many bugs! And…Richard Dreyfuss?? The Bug Queen Emma Stefansky returns to the podcast to celebrate all the creepy crawlies in 1996’s JAMES AN...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda
Episode Date: November 27, 2022We’re wearing our Hot Topic sweatshirts and enunciating every dramatic syllable to pay tribute to one of the greatest animated films of all time - Tim...
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The Fabelmans
Episode Date: November 20, 2022For the first time in years, both Griffin and David are in agreement on a new Steven Spielberg film - what a picture! We’re playing both film critics...
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Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich
Episode Date: November 13, 2022Cruise. Kidman. Kubrick. Ehrlich. We’re concluding our Stanley Kubrick series with 1999’s EYES WIDE SHUT and a trip to cinema’s most famous masked org...
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Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus
Episode Date: November 6, 2022Alright, maggots, listen up! We’ve got the Action Boy himself - Jon Gabrus - back on the podcast to talk about Kubrick’s bifurcated Vietnam War classi...
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The Shining with Timothy Simons
Episode Date: October 30, 2022Just in time for Halloween, we’re checking into the Overlook Hotel - a haunted place not unlike the Beachwood, Ohio, Homewood Suites that Griffin and...
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Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth
Episode Date: October 23, 2022NASA-quality lenses, a himbo canon-worthy performance from notoriously “chill and normal guy” Ryan O’Neal, and some flirty ribbon games all combine to...