The Next Reel Film Podcast
To Live
Zhang Yimou trades his visual spectacle for raw naturalism—and Pete Wright and Andy Nelson dig into why that restraint is the whole argument.
May 28, 2026
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.
Zhang Yimou trades his visual spectacle for raw naturalism—and Pete Wright and Andy Nelson dig into why that restraint is the whole argument.
We unpack Robert Redford’s Quiz Show in the True Lies series: institutional pressure, father-son devastation, and how privilege turns fraud natural.
Production designer Liz Bischof joins us to explore Takeshi Kitano’s meditative yakuza masterpiece Sonatine, sharing insights on its visual poetry and how it continues to influence her work today.
We continue our Hannibal Lecter series exploring everyone’s favorite cannibalistic serial killer with inarguably the best film in the series and the one that gave us Anthony Hopkins’ take on Lecter, it’s Jonathan Demme’s 1991 film The Silence of the Lambs.
We continue our People Hunting People series with a film that’s exactly what a 90s action film should be full of all the right 90s action faces – Ice-T, Rutger Hauer, Charles S. Dutton, Gary Busey, John C. McGinley, and F. Murray Abraham. It’s Ernest R. Dickerson’s film Surviving the Game!
Dennis Bartok and Craig Rogers, the co-founders of film distribution company Deaf Crocodile, join us to discuss their careers, the joys and struggles of film distribution, and one of the films they not only love but that they’ve recently restored, Michael Schaack’s 1994 film Felidae!
We return to our ‘Spoiled. Rotten? Twist Endings’ series with a film that certainly lives up to the idea of having plenty of twists and turns. We’re talking about Wolfgang Petersen’s 1991 film Shattered.
We continue our Jack Ryan series with Harrison Ford’s second time in the role, this time taking on Colombian drug cartels and the US President himself. It’s Phillip Noyce’s 1994 film Clear and Present Danger.
We continue our Jack Ryan series with Harrison Ford now in the lead role as he takes on a faction of Irish terrorists, one of whom has targeted him directly. That’s right, it’s Phillip Noyce’s 1992 film “Patriot Games.”
We kick off our Jack Ryan series back where it all started, with John McTiernan’s 1990 film The Hunt for Red October, starring Alec Baldwin as Ryan and Sean Connery as the Russian submarine captain possibly defecting.