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 the Radicalized series with The Order, digging into a real white supremacist split between patience and action, a gritty 1970s look, and two British actors playing Americans.
What did you think was going to happen here tonight? The Film Board goes inside Lance Oppenheim’s operatic, grain-soaked Primetime to ask who the predator is: the host, the producers, the vigilantes, or everyone watching at home.
The Film Board takes apart Spider-Man: Brand New Day with full spoilers — spider puberty, the X-… factor… of it all, and Damage Control as the movie’s actual heavy. Six panelists this week and one very loud vote for worst post-credits scene in MCU history.
Christopher Nolan built a new IMAX camera, banned the orchestra, put a real Cyclops in a real cave, and aimed all of it at the oldest story we have.
A cursed hand. A grieving teenager. A party trick that goes terribly, supernaturally wrong. Pete and Andy close out Horror Debuts with the Philippou brothers.
Spielberg, at 79, finally tells the next part of his aliens-are-real story — and the Film Board can’t agree on whether the old master still has it. Pete, Steve, Tommy, JJ, and Mandy go full-spoiler on “Disclosure Day”: Emily Blunt’s panic attack, the bar nobody understands, the train, and an ending that whispers one word.
Star Wars came back to theaters after seven years, and the Film Board showed up to collect the bounty. Pete, Justin Jaeger, Ocean Murff, and Matthew Fox of the Star Wars Generations podcast work out whether The Mandalorian and Grogu is a real movie or the first three episodes of season four with a snack upcharge.
We dig into Fede Alvarez’s Alien: Romulus—what the franchise long needed, a course correction—and what the film can’t stop doing to itself. Closing the Alien series.
We close out Thinking Machines with Brian and Charles—a Welsh inventor, a washing machine robot, and a father-son story that splits us right down the middle.
Andy Weir sent Ryan Gosling to space with an alien rock puppet and somehow made the most emotionally devastating buddy movie of the year. The Film Board breaks down why Project Hail Mary works — and whether it’s The Martian in cosplay or something genuinely new.