The Kulturecast is a film and culture podcast hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, alongside a rotating table of guest co-hosts, and a founding member of Weirding Way Media. Each week digs into where film and culture meet — and how each one bends the other. Three series live inside the feed: Required Viewing: A 360° Film Study, with media scholar Dr. David D. Perlmutter Kulture Meltdown, with Bryan Renfro of Movie Meltdown Changeover, with Mike White of The Projection Booth New episodes weekly. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts → https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-kulturecast/id931361376 Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/show/5wjxip9XVYapYuY12yEaGY Back the show → https://www.patreon.com/cw/kulturecast Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulture
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Kulturecast is a film and culture podcast hosted by Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, alongside a rotating table of guest co-hosts, and a founding member of Weirding Way Media. Each week digs into where film and culture meet, and how each one bends the other.
The Kulturecast is hosted by Chris Stachiw. The show has published 717 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Required Viewing 06: The Eiger Sanction" (16 October 2026, 84 minutes), "Three Days of the Condor (1975), "They'll print it."" (14 October 2026, 83 minutes), and "Kulture Meltdown: Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025), "All of this is going to go horribly wrong."" (8 October 2026, 128 minutes).
The Kulturecast publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 96 minutes across 717 episodes.
Booking probability for The Kulturecast is 52%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Kulturecast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Kulturecast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Episode #6
A spy spoof written by a film professor, played dead straight by Clint Eastwood, with a mountaineering film inside it that cost a man his life. This week on Required Viewing, we rope up for The Eiger Sanction (1975)...
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The Doctor of Podcasting is joined by Karl Mamer and Dr. David D. Perlmutter for Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor. Robert Redford's Joe Turner is a CIA "reader" who steps out for lunch and comes back to find...
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We'll be honest; neither of us expected the AI apocalypse to be fought from a diner booth. Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, Gore Verbinski's first film in nearly a decade, sends Sam Rockwell's ragged Man From the Future...
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A billionaire breaks the world and then demands a medal for trying to fix it — welcome to 2026. This week The Kulturecast teams up with Mike White of The Projection Booth to dig into Alejandro G. Iñárritu's Digger...
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We'll be honest; we both spent a good chunk of the 2000s watching grown men sit down at a kitchen table they'd regret, and neither of us thought much about the man holding the clipboard. Primetime, the narrative debut...
Episode #4
You're gonna need a bigger boat. This week on Required Viewing, we wade into Steven Spielberg's Jaws (1975) — the film that invented the summer blockbuster, emptied the beaches of an entire generation, and pulled it off...
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I'll be honest; I've never expected much from a video game movie, and the Resident Evil franchise alone has given me seven reasons not to. However, Zach Cregger, the director behind Barbarian and Weapons, has done the...
Episode #3
Is it even a movie? That's the question Barry Lyndon has provoked since 1975 — three hours of scenes so composed they look less like cinema than oil paintings that happen to breathe. This week on Required Viewing, Dr...
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If you missed last week's Rob Zombie goes Haddonfield edition of the show, this week should make as little sense to you as someone watching this movie without having seent the first one. On this episode of the...
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It was the most expensive movie ever made, the punchline of a thousand headlines, and a flop so infamous it got its own nickname. This week on Required Viewing, we bail out Kevin Reynolds and Kevin Costner's Waterworld...
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The last thing the world needs in 2026 is yet another Halloween film but, to be fair, the last thing the world needed in 2007 was yet another Halloween film, especially one directed by Rob Zombie. Given that the film...
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Two guys, a week in wine country, and a whole lot of avoidance. This week on Required Viewing, we uncork Alexander Payne's Sideways (2004) and study it from every angle — why a shaggy road-trip comedy about a failed...
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From suburban horror to the back end of the Cretaceous, the American genre picture keeps finding new ways to burn down the cul-de-sac. The End of Oak Street, the latest from It Follows director David Robert Mitchell, is...
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Required Viewing is a brand new sub-feed within The Kulturecast main feed where Dr. David D. Perlmutter and The Kulturecast's Doctor of Podcasting Chris Stachiw talk all about filmic topics through the lenses of a...
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From Train to Busan to the far flung future with cloning and facism, Korean cinema spans the genre gamut. Mickey 17, the latest film from Parasite's Bong Joon Ho, is the latter as a look into the future with Robert...
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As the MCU barrels towards the inevitable ultimate crossover event that is Avengers: Doomsday, we must first check in on everyone's friendly neighborhood webhead. Once again starring Tom Holland, Spider-Man: Brand New...
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Battle Los Angeles is one of those forgotten sci-fi films that toed the line between war and alien invasion, doing something that few films since have: create a novel and compelling world for an alien invasion to occur...
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While it may be simplistic to say that the Blackberry died at the hands of the iPhone, it wouldn't be entirely inaccurate. That death, however, was a very beautiful corpse as one might imagine due to Blackberry device...
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Sci-fi has taken many forms as a genre, and since it happens to be a genre that both Dr. Perlmutter and Chris have an affinity for, why not cover one of the true classics. While those who saw Forbidden Planet in...
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Zombie films are a dime a dozen these days, for both good and for bad. For every Shaun of the Dead there's a hundred Walking Deads, everyone's favorite show to hate watch. With Train to Busan, however, there's no hate...
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