The Next Reel Film Podcast
Cannonball • Member Bonus
We continue our member bonus Roger Corman series with Cannonball (1976). From Chargers to Panteras, star cameos to singing mobsters, speed isn’t everything.
May 31, 2025
For all you proper film enthusiasts who would like to peruse the films of TruStory FM’s entertainment podcasts by release decade. Get ready for a firehose of film history in these here stacks.
We continue our member bonus Roger Corman series with Cannonball (1976). From Chargers to Panteras, star cameos to singing mobsters, speed isn’t everything.
We continue our Car Racing series with a conversation about Steve McQueen’s passion project, a film he spent at least five years trying to make with several different directors. That’s right, it’s Lee H. Katzin’s 1971 film Le Mans.
We head to the deserts to join Jesus, Judas, Mary, Pontius, Herrod, and more as we take on Norman Jewison’s 1973 film Jesus Christ Superstar with our guest, editor Lucy Donaldson, because it’s one of her favorite movies.
We continue our monthly member bonus series looking at Roger Corman. This month, we return to the women-in-prison subgenre and take a trip to the Philippines where we take on Jack Hill’s The Big Doll House.
We return to our member bonus series celebrating the works of Roger Corman. This month, our members voted on Gerardo “Gerry” de León’s 1971 women in prison sexploitation film Women in Cages.
We continue our Roger Corman member bonus series with a look at the film he produced for first-time director Paul Bartel, a bloody comedy satire on politics, fandom, the media, and of course killer car races – it’s the 1975 film Death Race 2000.
We continue our member bonus series celebrating Roger Corman with one of the many women-in-prison films he distributed. We’re looking at Jonathan Demme’s first film Caged Heat from 1974.
Cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister, who has crafted incredible images in projects like TÁR and True Detective season 4, joins us to discuss his career as well as one of his favorite films, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Mirror.
We wrap up our brief return to our Disease Films series with George Pan Cosmatos’ turn to tackle the 70s disaster film. We’ve got a disease on a train. We’ve got the pursuit of a drug mule. And we’ve got Lee Strasberg carrying lots of expositional weight. It’s The Cassandra Crossing.
We continue our One-and-Done series with Bruce Lee’s single turn in the director’s chair. That’s right, we’re heading to the Coliseum as Bruce takes on Chuck Norris in Lee’s 1972 film The Way of the Dragon!