New ep! THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU is a perfect excuse to look back on the story it's reimagining: the LONE WOLF AND CUB manga and movies. This week we consider the strange history and cultural impact of SHOGUN ASSASSIN, with @mattsinger.bsky.social playing sidekick.
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DEAD MAN'S WIRE takes some clear scene-for-scene inspiration from Sidney Lumet's DOG DAY AFTERNOON — but then, they're both based-on-a-true-crime thrillers about ordinary people taking hostages and winning unlikely fandoms. We compare and contrast this week: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
Even without the Al Pacino connection, Gus Van Sant's new dramatization of a real-life 1970s hostage situation turned public spectacle was destined for comparisons to Dog Day Afternoon.
This week, we look at the underrated (and maybe too weird for the mainstream?) 2025 fantasy-comedy ETERNITY, and consider how its oppressive afterlife bureau, hard postmortem choices, and big emotions compare to the ones in Hirozaku Kore-eda's lyrical AFTER LIFE. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
The Next Picture Show Podcast
New ep! Gus Van Sant's DEAD MAN'S WIRE has us looking back to a previous true-story crime drama about a hostage crisis set off by ordinary people. Sidney Lumet's tremendous DOG DAY AFTERNOON has a thousand moving parts, and we unpack them layer by layer. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
It's our 10th anniversary and 500th episode, so we celebrated by breaking format: This week, we discuss the movie we're named for, Peter Bogdanovich's forlorn, star-packed 1971 drama THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, then revive the ol' Barnyard Buzzers for an NPS trivia game. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
In our latest ep, Netflix's TRAIN DREAMS reminded us of Terrence Malick's 1978 movie DAYS OF HEAVEN, featuring a young Richard Gere as a man more in touch with the natural world than his own emotions. Let's discuss Linda Manz's voiceover and what it really means! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
This week, the new rom-com ETERNITY inspired a look back at a different film about an afterlife bureaucracy forcing people to make sense of their lives via difficult, personal choices after death: Hirozaku Kore-eda's dreamy, earnest 1998 movie AFTER LIFE. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
This week, PROJECT HAIL MARY took us back to a 1972 science fiction movie about a lone astronaut navigating ecological collapse, and finding his most human connection in non-human companions: SILENT RUNNING, starring Bruce Dern as an unlovable, unloved would-be hero. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...
New ep: @mattsinger.bsky.social joins us for the second half of our MANDALORIAN AND GROGU / SHOGUN ASSASSIN pairing, as we look into why the latest Star Wars movie left us unsatisfied, and how many story moments this movie took directly from Kazuo Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub. omny.fm/shows/filmsp...
