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Recent episodes
Every Sunday, two friends sit down and unpack one more film in a director's filmography. Start with the most recent or dig in below.
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman
The Mandalorian and Grogu with Chris Gethard
The Truman Show with J.D. Amato
Fearless with Timothy Simons
Green Card with Esther Zuckerman
Dead Poets Society with Nia DaCosta
The Mosquito Coast with Sean Fennessey
Witness with Amanda Dobbins
The Year of Living Dangerously with Tracy Letts
Gallipoli with Jennifer Kent
The Last Wave with BenDavid Grabinski
Picnic at Hanging Rock with Jane Schoenbrun
The Cars That Ate Paris
The Eleventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Die My Love with Alison Willmore
You Were Never Really Here with Sean Clements
We Need To Talk About Kevin with Jia Tolentino
Send Help
Morvern Callar with Emily Yoshida
Ratcatcher
No Other Choice
Is This Thing On?
Avatar: Fire and Ash
Ella McCay with Richard Lawson
Honey Don't with Mattie Lubchansky
Drive Away Dolls with mxmtoon
The Tragedy of Macbeth with Dana Schwartz
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs with Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas
Hail, Caesar! with Shirley Li
Inside Llewyn Davis with Rachel Zegler
A House of Dynamite
True Grit with Stavros Halkias
A Serious Man with Marc Maron
Burn After Reading with Fran Hoepfner
No Country for Old Men with Leslye Headland
The Ladykillers with Connor Ratliff
Intolerable Cruelty with Katey Rich
The Man Who Wasn't There with Jordan Hoffman
O Brother, Where Art Thou? with Emily St. James
The Big Lebowski with Seth Rogen
Fargo with Zach Cregger
The Hudsucker Proxy with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger
Barton Fink with Chris Weitz
Miller's Crossing with Ari Aster
Raising Arizona with John Hodgman
Blood Simple with Ray Tintori & Jordan Fish
Vamps with Caroline Framke
I Could Never Be Your Woman with Karen Chee
28 Years Later
