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📽️ “You're very sharp Mr. Fabian. You've done a very sharp thing. Maybe even sharp enough to cut your throat.” 🎥
We return to our Film Noir series with Jules Dassin’s Night and the City, following Richard Widmark’s desperate American hustler as he looks for a win. #filmsky
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December 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
📽️ “I’ve found it! I’ve found it! A Mountain of Gold.” 🎥

We wrap up our journey through the last 100 years of film and our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with Charlie Chaplin’s fun film The Gold Rush. #filmsky

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December 18, 2025 at 9:26 PM
📽️ This month's Movies We Like ep is live! 🎥
“Silencio.”
We are joined by cinematographer Mattias Nyberg to talk about both his work—particularly his latest project “The Girlfriend” with Robin Wright—and one of his favorite films, David Lynch’s “Mulholland Drive.” #filmsky
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December 15, 2025 at 9:17 PM
📽️ This month's Cinema Scope episode is live! 🎥

Join Andy and film scholar David Forrest as they explore the British New Wave, examining how this gritty movement transformed cinema through authentic portrayals of working-class life in post-war Britain. #filmsky

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December 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
📽️ The Next Reel is nominated for Best TV & Film Podcast at the 2025 DiscoverPods Awards! 🎥

14 years, 700+ episodes of diving into cinema with Andy & Pete. From Hitchcock to Kurosawa, we've loved exploring these films with you.

Vote: discoverpods.com/2025-podcast-awards-voting (ends 12/31) #filmsky
December 4, 2025 at 11:27 PM
📽️ “I can not leave the opera now. There is a strange force that drives me on.” 🎥

We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with the movie with possibly the most confusing history of releases, Rupert Julian’s “The Phantom of the Opera.” #filmsky

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December 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📽️ The members voted and decided that for this month, we should discuss Fred Niblo’s silent classic, the 1925 Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, which holds its ground against Heston’s version for sure—particularly in the chariot race. 🎥 #filmsky

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November 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
📽️ We continue our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series with King Vidor’s The Big Parade, a groundbreaking WWI epic that shocked 1925 audiences with its intimate portrait of soldiers’ lives before confronting the brutal realities of modern warfare. #filmsky
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November 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! 🎥

Cinematographer Marcus Patterson, who recently shot Sunfish (& Other Stories on Green Lake), joins us to discuss Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven, a movie he likes! #filmsky

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November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This month's Film Board is live!

📽️ “Stop filming me!” 🎥

Stephen King's dystopian manhunt gets a 2025 upgrade, as the Film Board tracks Glenn Powell through Edgar Wright's The Running Man—where entertainment kills and revolution streams live. #filmsky

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November 20, 2025 at 10:03 PM
📽️“The land is ours. Tomorrow is ours!”
We kick off our Cinema Centennial: 1925’s Pioneering Visions series, looking at amazing films that are having their 100th birthday this year, and we’re starting it off with a big one: Sergei Eisenstein’s Battleship Potemkin! #filmsky
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November 20, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📽️ “We didn’t need dialogue. We had faces.” 🎥

We wrap up our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series with another big one, Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., with a meta and timeless performance from Gloria Swanson as Norma Desmond. #filmsky

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November 13, 2025 at 2:55 PM
📽️ This month's Cinema Scope ep is live! 🎥

Film scholars Luka Arsenjuk and Tim Palmer join Andy to explore heist films, from noir-influenced classics of the 1950s to modern masterpieces of meticulous criminal planning. #filmsky

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November 12, 2025 at 8:19 PM
📽️ “What I’d give for a sink full of dirty dishes.” 🎥

We continue our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series, celebrating the five great actresses nominated this year. We’re digging into John Cromwell’s Caged, starring Eleanor Parker. #filmsky

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November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
📽️ “How come I've got to run into a squirt like you nearly every place I go these days? What are you trying to do? Show off for your friends?”
Our members voted and this month, we’re heading to the Old West Henry King’s The Gunfighter, starring Gregory Peck. #filmsky
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October 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM
📽️ “A world full of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.” 🎥

We kick off our Platinum Performances: The 1950 Best Actress Oscar Race series with the film that took home the Oscar, George Cukor’s Born Yesterday with the hilarious and perfect Judy Holliday. #filmsky

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October 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
📽️ This month's Movies We Like ep is live! 🎥

Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth joins us to discuss his career and projects he’s worked on, including “Tron: Ares” now in theatres. We also discuss “Blade Runner,” one of his favorite movies. #filmsky
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October 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
📽️ “I tell you something, man, I’d really love to get my hands on that sleepy-eyed bastard.” 🎥
We wrap up our return to our Seven Samurai Family series with a B-movie that’s bad but still entertaining. It’s one of Jean Negulesco’s final films, The Invincible Six. #filmsky
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October 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
📽️“Live fast, fight well, and have a beautiful ending.”🎥
We continue our Seven Samurai Family series with a Roger Corman-produced sci-fi that fits the Seven Samurai bill while also cashing in on the Star Wars fever—it’s Jimmy T. Murakami’s Battle Beyond the Stars. #filmsky
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October 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This month's Cinema Scope episode is live!

📽️ Andy and film archivist Shivendra Singh Dungarpur explore India’s Angry Young Man movement, examining how Amitabh Bachchan’s powerful performances in the 1970s gave voice to a generation’s frustrations and hopes. 🎥

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October 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
📽️ “They’re bad, but there’s a good side to them as well.”

We wrap up our Golden Jubilee: 1975’s Pioneering Visions in Global Cinema series with a crossover into our next series—the Seven Samurai Family—with a wildly fun and exuberant film, Ramesh Sippy’s Sholay.
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October 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
“Listen, human beings. I’m Princess Elzebub. I’ve conquered the Earth. I’m your new master now.”
📽️ For our monthly member bonus ep, we backflip into Hua Shan’s crazy tokusatsu movie The Super Inframan. It’s frenetic. Non-stop. And we had a blast. Check it out! 🎥

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September 30, 2025 at 4:39 PM
📽️ The Film Board's September ep is live! 🎥
What happens when Paul Thomas Anderson makes a $175 million action epic about fascism, family, and a stoner dad in a bathrobe? We spoil One Battle After Another rotten—DiCaprio, Penn, secret cabals, and all.
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September 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
📽️ Movies We Like is back from hiatus, and this month's ep is live! 🎥

Andrew McAlpine, production designer on films like The Piano, Clockers, Home for the Holidays, and Sid & Nancy, joins us to discuss Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, a movie he likes! #filmsky

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September 29, 2025 at 9:02 PM
📽️ This month's Sitting in the Dark is live! 🎥
The Final Destination movies don’t just kill their characters—they make us terrified of ceiling fans, traffic jams, and more. We celebrate the franchise’s blend of paranoia, spectacle, and sheer sadistic fun. #filmsky
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September 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM