The Next Reel Film Podcast
Bulworth
We close out our Smoke and Mirrors series with Bulworth, digging into Warren Beatty’s rapping-senator satire on race, wealth, and truth-telling in politics.
September 3, 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.
We close out our Smoke and Mirrors series with Bulworth, digging into Warren Beatty’s rapping-senator satire on race, wealth, and truth-telling in politics.
We continue our Smoke & Mirrors series with Wag the Dog, unpacking the machine that manufactures a war to save a president’s re-election bid.
Bob Roberts (1992, USA/UK) is a satirical mockumentary from writer-director Tim Robbins, marking his feature directorial debut. Robbins stars as the title character, a wealthy folk-singing
We kick off our new Platformed Lives series with The Truman Show, unpacking consent, hidden cameras, and a life lived entirely on camera for the world to see.
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!