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A podcast about the films of the 1990s, their politics, and how they inform today's film landscape. Exploring the output of a seemingly bottomless decade. America's first and only movie podcast.
Unknown Host hosts Hit Factory, a arts show with 273 episodes published.
** Come see WTO/99 at The Balboa Theater SF on Sunday, April 26th 7:30pm, hosted by Hit Factory featuring a post-screening Q&A w/ director Ian Bell. Tickets are available here .** Filmmaker Caroline Golum joins Aaron to
** Come see WTO/99 at The Balboa Theater SF on Sunday, April 26th 7:30pm, hosted by Hit Factory featuring a post-screening Q&A w/ director Ian Bell. Tickets are available here .** Prolific filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay joi
Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine of the illustrious Pod Casty for Me join to discuss
Writer and critic Robert Rubsam returns to the show to discuss Kiyoshi Kurosawa's enigmatic, unclassifiable thriller Charisma , the story of a failed hotage negotiator torn between factions of scientists, government agen
CW: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault and violence, including abuse of minors, in relation to recent revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Listener discretion advised. Some Big News Weeks led us to a
Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Sam Raimi's new film Send Help is in theaters, so we decided to look back at
Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Something new for our faithful Patrons - A conversation about all the movies,
WTO/99 is a new, immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WT
This week, we're discussing the winner of our latest Patreon poll, Senegalese auteur Djibril Diop Mambéty's Hyenas . Adapting Swiss-German playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 satirical tragicomedy The Visit and transp
The party is nearing its end, the food has been consumed, and now it's time to pour yourself a rich, spicy, herbaceous(?) after-dinner drink to aid in the digestion of all your elsewhere and elsewhile 2025 year-end conte
Denzember concludes as Journalist and host of the Turbulence podcast Séamus Malekafzali returns to the show to discuss Edward Zwick's 1998 geopolitical thriller The Siege , a film about a Muslim terrorist cell wreaking h
Get access to this entire episode, the entire Denzember catalog, and all of our premium episodes by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Roger Ebert Associate Editor Robert Daniels returns to the show to once
Denzember continues with Culture Kitsch host Bobbi Miller joining us to discuss Kenneth Branagh's 1993 Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing . Following his successful Henry V adaptation, Branagh returned to Shak
Get access to this entire episode, the entire Denzember catalog, and all of our premium episodes by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Denzember 2 continues with the return of Vulture Film Critic Bilge Ebir
It's the most wonderful time of the year! Denzember 2 kicks off with a conversation about Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's first collaboration, 1990's Mo' Better Blues , a film about jazz, art-making, and the pursuit of
Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Better late than never, we're back with a conversation about Paul Thomas Ande
Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Writer and critic David Hering joins us from Liverpool to discuss the final f
Filmmaker Heather Landsman joins to discuss Michael Haneke's Benny's Video alongside a conversation about her latest film, the archival documentary The Best of Me , which chronicles Björk stalker Ricardo López through un
It's Halloween, so we decided to do a "scary" one! Podcaster, author, and emissary from the City of Brotherly Love Trevor Strunk joins to discuss Robert Rodriguez's 1998 Breakfast-Club-Meets-Body-Snatchers riff The Facul
The fine, upstanding gentlemen of Pod Casty for Me, Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine, return to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life , which follows a group of recently deceased people entering a state of limbo where counselo
Robert Daniels
RogerEbert.com
2 appearances on this show
Bobbi Miller
1 appearance on this show
Bilge Ebiri
Vulture
3 appearances on this show
Christopher Jason Bell
1 appearance on this show
Julian Glander
Boys Go to Jupiter
1 appearance on this show
Adam Nayman
1 appearance on this show
Ben Clarkson
2 appearances on this show
John Semley
1 appearance on this show
Vera Drew
of "The People's Joker"
1 appearance on this show
Alex Cox
Lead of Artificial Intelligence Working Group · LastPass
1 appearance on this show
Jesse Hawken
Junk Filter Pod
2 appearances on this show
Scout Tafoya
filmmaker, film critic and video essay connoisseur
2 appearances on this show
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