Hosted by Jesse Hawken · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 208 episodes
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Junk Filter: a podcast about strange and overlooked artifacts from the worlds of film, music and popular culture with a generous side order of jokes and politics. Hosted by Jesse Hawken with guests from the worlds of Politics Twitter and Film Twitter. Original music for the program by Marker Starling. Follow us on Bluesky: @junkfilterpod
Jesse Hawken hosts Junk Filter, a comedy show with 208 episodes published.
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CW: Spoilers for The Secret Agent. Writer and podcaster Gus Lanzetta joins us from São Paulo for a deep dive into two recent works of the great Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho. We explore how the northeastern co
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The film writer Brian Abrams returns to discuss Predator 2 (1990), directed by Stephen Hopkins. The sequel swaps Arnold Schwarzenegger for Danny Glover and transplants the action to a sweltering, near-future Los Angeles
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The film writers Robert Rubsam and Corey Atad join the show for a discussion of two apocalyptic nuclear thrillers, Sidney Lumet’s Fail-Safe (1964) and Kathryn Bigelow’s brand new Netflix production A House of Dynamite .
Will Sloan returns to the pod to discuss his new monograph Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA , which provides fresh insight on the legendary “bad” director by considering his entire body of work. For this episode we focus o
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CW: Spoilers for 28 Days Later and discussions of disturbing subject matter. Jacob Dallas and Lenore Olson of the literary podcast The Socialist Shelf join me from Atlanta for a discussion of Danny Boyle’s 28 Years Later
CW: Spoilers for Eddington and discussions of cinematic violence and sexual abuse. The film writer Del Winters joins me from Philadelphia for a deep dive into Ari Aster’s contemporary Neo-Western/Comedy/Horror hybrid Edd
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This episode contains spoilers for Superman . The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns for a look at James Gunn’s hard reset of the DC cinematic universe starting with his new Superman , starring David Corenswet as the La
The veteran boom operator for film and television Sean Armstrong returns to the show for a deep dive into Joseph Kosinski’s new big budget sports drama F1®: The Movie starring Brad Pitt as former racing prodigy Sonny Hay
In this Junk Filter sequel to our discussion of season 1 of Tony Gilroy’s Star Wars: Andor streaming series, the writers Roxana Hadadi and Corey Atad return to assess the second and final season, which compresses the fou
The film writer Meg Shields returns to the podcast from Vancouver for a show to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Tobe Hooper’s schlock sci-fi horror masterpiece, Lifeforce . Cannon Films’ big swing for the fences, Lif
The film writers Brian Abrams and Will Sloan return to the podcast for a salute to one of our favourite screen presences, the great American character actor Joe Don Baker, who passed away this month at the age of 89. We
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CW: This episode contains discussions of alcoholism and cinematic violence including animal cruelty. The writer, comedian and musician Patrick Marlborough returns to the podcast from Perth, WA to discuss Wake in Fright (
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Roxana Hadadi
2 appearances on this show
Adam Jackson
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Violet Lucca
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3 appearances on this show
Michael Mann
Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, UCLA
3 appearances on this show
Brian Abrams
author of 'Party Like A President'
3 appearances on this show
Teri Garr
1 appearance on this show
Adam Nayman
2 appearances on this show
Michael McDonald
Political Science Professor · University of Florida
1 appearance on this show
Elana Levin
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Ben Clarkson
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