The Lens is now The Take-Up, a new place to gather when the film is over. The format is still the same, only a little refocused. Each episode, film critics Joshua Ray and Andrew Wyatt review new releases, talk pop culture, play absurd film trivia games, and process one film in their special programs. Special guests join with their own selections for series like Queer ‘90s, Cannes Winners, Nora/Nancy, and more!
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Lens is now The Take-Up, a new place to gather when the film is over. The format is still the same, only a little refocused. Each episode, film critics Joshua Ray and Andrew Wyatt review new releases, talk pop culture, play absurd film trivia games, and process one film in their special programs.
The Take-Up Podcast is hosted by The Take-Up. The show has published 69 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Chronovisor" (17 October 2026, 67 minutes), "The Lords of Salem" (11 October 2026, 66 minutes), and ""Wuthering Heights"" (4 October 2026, 62 minutes).
The Take-Up Podcast publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 66 minutes across 69 episodes.
Booking probability for The Take-Up Podcast is 23%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. The Take-Up Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. The Take-Up Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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Settle into library chairs and let's research, mama! Andrew and Josh go down the Chronovisor rabbit-hole with Cosmic Salon's galaxy-brained semi-experimental/semi-horror/semi-doc/semi-slow cinema debut feature. First...
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With Halloween around the corner, Josh and Andrew dig through the ditches and burn through the witches in The Lords of Salem ! An underrated movie in Rob Zombie’s career of shock and gore, they share their thoughts with...
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Out on the wily, windy moors, “Josh” and “Andrew” take a trip down to “Emerald Fennel”’s psychosexual take on the much-adapted Gothic classic “Wuthering Heights” ! Daring to give kudos to one of the most controversial...
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If anyone's going to podcast with Andrew and Josh, it'll be Joe Bowman , San Francisco film programmer. (They don't like podcasting with strangers.) Joe brings Lee Daniels' The Paperboy , his midcentury Florida-set...
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Andrew and Josh tear through David Robert Mitchell's career and his latest, the dino-invades-the-suburbs 80s throwback The End of Oak Street . There's a lot of meat on its bones too. Is the peak Amblin key-jangling to a...
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After having differing thoughts on if they saw the TV glow, Josh and Andrew go nightswimming in Jane Schoenbrun’s much-talked-about slasher romance Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma . A wild departure from...
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Shannon Weber of the new (and great) St. Louis culture mag Soundbite stops by for her third visit with Joshua and Andrew. Could it be that she keeps getting her memories of the Take-Up erased, or does she really do just...
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As school goes back in session, Lindenwood professor and Catching Bullets director Ben Scholle stops by the Take-Up to discuss a class favorite, Kirsten Johnson’s Cameraperson . A sprawling, non-chronological...
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A hundred eps, a hundred eps, you can hear the whistle blow a hundred eps. On our 100th episode (if you ignore the bonus episodes, panel discussions, and two-parters, so, like, using Tarantino logic), Josh and Andrew...
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On a very special episode of the Take-Up podcast, Josh and Andrew peer into the memory palace of Sophy Romvari’s semi-auto-biographical debut Blue Heron , giving their own two cents on one of the most acclaimed films of...
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A FILM! TWO CRITICS! A THOUGHT! A TALK! TO BREAK THE DISCOURSE OF NOLAN! After a decades-long journey of seeing Christopher Nolan’s hot new Odyssey on the biggest available IMAX screen they could find, Joshicus and...
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Before giving their take on Christopher Nolan’s buzzy new Odyssey adaptation next week, Josh and Andrew go on their own epic journey back twenty years to look at one of his early hits among the cluster of 2006 magician...
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Artist and film scholar Isabelle Roig has been hacking into super secret Neil Breen-related databases, discovering more than any hacker ever has ever! Bravely disclosing it to twisted pair Josh and Andrew, what she has...
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Just before the premiere of his film For Those at the Golden Apricot Film Festival this week , filmmaker Emile Parseghian nominates one of his favorite French films for the Take-Up canon, Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of...
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This week, Andrew and Josh take a trip down to 70s Watts to talk about Charles Burnett’s slice-of-life masterpiece Killer of Sheep ! Going into a film all about "This Bitter Earth", they analyze the down-to-earth...
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After a night of cat-burgling across Paris, Joshua strips off his latex catsuit and to luxuriate in the world of Irma Vep . He and Andrew peel away the meta-textual layers of French director Olivier Assayas' 1996...
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After a spring break of sorts, Andrew and Joshua are back with Backrooms , Kane Parsons' (née Pixels ) breakout liminal-space horror. Lose yourself in the endless corridors of the YouTube-to-Hollywood pipeline, while...
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Josh and Andrew venture into Soviet Russia to discuss the iconic Dziga Vertov film shown in film history classes, Man with a Movie Camera . Make sure to pay attention and take notes as our hosts go through their...
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Starting off their dare of including silent films into the Take-Up canon, Josh and Andrew watch F.W Murnau’s class-conscious drama The Last Laugh . Tackling the miserablist story of status, our hosts discuss the film’s...
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Joining Josh and Andrew this week, Washington University PhD Candidate Victor Putinier takes them down to post-Summer-of-Love California for 70s cult horror classic Messiah of Evil . Giddily getting into Gloria Katz and...
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