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 unpack Sorry to Bother You, closing our Platformed Lives series with Boots Riley’s overdubbed white voices, code-switching satire, and a wild turn into science fiction.
Costume designer Ann Maskrey—known for the Hobbit trilogy and The Magic Faraway Tree—talks Milena Canonero, Wes Anderson’s color world, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Lou Bloom doesn’t stumble into the stringer world—he’s always been exactly this person. Pete and Andy dig into Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy’s darkly funny American classic.
Zhang Yimou’s ink-wash wuxia epic Shadow features a secret double, bladed umbrellas, and one of the most visually committed films of his career.
Alien: Covenant is a 2017 American-British science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and written by John Logan and Dante Harper. Michael Fassbender plays
In our Thinking Machines series, we dig into “I Am Mother”—a post-apocalyptic sci-fi about an AI, a sealed bunker, and whether a machine that truly cares is the most dangerous kind.
We dig into Alex Garland’s tense, unsettling Ex Machina — a Thinking Machines entry about consciousness, creation, and who’s really running the test.
In our Thinking Machines series, we dig into Spike Jonze’s Her—AI love, a voice-only performance that works completely, and why this film feels truer every year.
We close True Lies with Big Eyes: Burton’s restraint disappoints, Waltz’s choices divide us, Adams shines, and domestic coercion gets bland treatment.
We unpack Marielle Heller’s Can You Ever Forgive Me? in our True Lies series—how stolen voices, forged letters, and desperation collide—powered by Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant.