Release Decade Archive

2000s

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.

The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Zhang Yimou • House of Flying Daggers
The Next Reel Film Podcast

House of Flying Daggers

Zhang Yimou trades empire for intimacy in this wuxia companion to Hero—two officers fall for the same woman, loyalties collapse, and the visuals are almost too gorgeous to look away from.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: Thinking Machines • S1M0NE • Member Bonus
The Next Reel Film Podcast

S1M0NE • Member Bonus

Our April member bonus—and Thinking Machines series closer—digs into S1M0NE, Niccol’s 2002 satirical sci-fi about a director who builds a digital actress no one can let go of.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: True Lies • Catch Me if You Can • Member Bonus
The Next Reel Film Podcast

Catch Me if You Can • Member Bonus

We continue our True Lies series with the story of a young runaway who poses as an airplane pilot, a doctor, and a lawyer, all to get validation from his dad. That’s right, it’s time for Steven Spielberg’s “Catch Me if You Can” as our February member bonus episode.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: True Lies • The Hoax
The Next Reel Film Podcast

The Hoax

We unpack Hallström’s The Hoax in our True Lies series, exploring how a literary fraud spun out of control through fake documents, method acting, and institutional complicity.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: True Lies • Shattered Glass
The Next Reel Film Podcast

Shattered Glass

We continue our True Lies series with a look at the story of Stephen Glass’s fraudulent stories he made up for The New Republic as portrayed in Billy Ray’s Shattered Glass. The trouble is, it feels like it’s just the third act of the story.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: True Lies • The Informant! • Member Bonus
The Next Reel Film Podcast

The Informant! • Member Bonus

We unpack Steven Soderbergh’s The Informant! in our True Lies series, exploring unreliable narration, innovative voiceover techniques, and how comedy shifts corporate drama.

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The Next Reel • Season 15 • Series: John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals • Once
The Next Reel Film Podcast

Once

We kick off a new series looking at three musicals about musicians in John Carney’s Streetwise Musicals series. First up, his independent breakout success, Once, starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

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Cinematographer Mattias Nyberg on Mulholland Drive • Movies We Like • Season 7 • Episode 4
Movies We Like

Cinematographer Mattias Nyberg on Mulholland Drive

We are joined by cinematographer Mattias Nyberg to talk about both his work as a cinematographer—particularly his latest project “The Girlfriend” with Robin Wright—and one of his favorite films, David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive.”

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