The Next Reel Film Podcast
The Platform
We dig into The Platform as a thought experiment, how two built floors create its world, and whether it holds up as the second film in the Luxury Is a Trap series.
October 29, 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 dig into The Platform as a thought experiment, how two built floors create its world, and whether it holds up as the second film in the Luxury Is a Trap series.
We open the Luxury Is a Trap series with High-Rise, a tower block where every floor ranks its tenants and the allegory gets messy. We dig into class, performances, and whether the point lands.
Pete and Andy revisit Get Out for the Radicalized series, digging into the modern-slavery horror underneath Jordan Peele’s Oscar-winning debut and Chris’s arc from inaction to action.
We close our Institutions Eating Themselves series with The Personal History of David Copperfield, digging into how Armando Iannucci turns Dickens into something wildly inventive.
We unpack “The Death of Stalin,” Armando Iannucci’s dark satire on the power struggle after a dictator’s death, part of our Institutions Eating Themselves series.
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