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Hit Factory Podcast
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America's first and only movie podcast. Hosted by Aaron (@notoriouslightning.bsky.social) and Carlee (@deepimpactcrier.bsky.social).
SF BAY AREA - Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4-Star Theater TOMORROW 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins to discuss Brian De Palma's masterful crime saga CARLITO'S WAY which sees the filmmaker at his most formally audacious, contemplative, and breathtakingly intimate. Link below.
October 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!
October 17, 2025 at 3:55 PM
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
On our latest premium episode, we discuss the work of Paul Thomas Anderson and his ambitious, sweeping 1999 ensemble drama MAGNOLIA. We also contend with PTA skepticism, articulating the director's limitations as artist alongside his singular idiosyncrasies. Link below.
October 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY // Writer @robrubsam.bsky.social joins to discuss the career of the brilliant Terence Davies and his 1992 masterwork THE LONG DAY CLOSES - an impressionistic, elliptical journey through childhood memory both warmly nostalgic and mournfully ruminative. Links below.
December 28, 2024 at 6:00 PM
November 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY// Filmmaker Pascal Plante (Red Rooms) joins us to discuss mediated violence, spectatorship, and the visceral thrills of Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar's debut THESIS. Links below.
November 14, 2024 at 5:47 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY// Denzember kicks off with the return of
@bigblackjacobin.bsky.social to discuss the singular, totemic biopic MALCOLM X, a Spike Lee joint.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/5h7l...
December 5, 2023 at 3:23 AM
💥HIT FACTORY PRESENTS💥

DENZEMBER...

A monthlong celebration of our greatest living actor, Denzel Washington. Featuring very special guests.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
December 5, 2023 at 3:21 AM
NEW HIT FACTORY // The fellas from the quintessential (clintessential?) Clint Eastwood podcast @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Nanni Moretti's charming, introspective personal essay/anthology film CARO DIARIO.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Spotify: spotify.link/FYmM4suOJDb
October 8, 2023 at 8:15 PM
NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // We're solo for the first time in a while to talk the teen romantic comedy 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, the wonder (and tragedy) of Heath Ledger, & the reward of looking at natural teeth on a big screen.

Subscribe & Listen: www.patreon.com/posts/10-thi...
September 23, 2023 at 8:57 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY // @sorayaspaghetti.bsky.social joins for Atom Egoyan's breakout 1994 feature EXOTICA, a fascinating study of habit, performance, and the cycles people adopt to compartmentalize alienation and loss.

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/th/podcast/e...

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0dBK...
September 19, 2023 at 6:18 PM