Collider Podcast

This week on our final episode of The Collider Podcast, we're talking about the history of the podcast, how the podcast changed over the years, why it was difficult finding an audience, the competitive world of movie podcast and podcasting in general, how grateful we are to everyone who took the time to listen over the years, how we might do a new podcast at some point in the futur

This week on our penultimate episode of The Collider Podcast, we're launching into the second part of our long-awaited James Bond podcast. In this part, we examine the films of Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig, how Bond needed to be reinvented after the Cold War, how a strong Bond film is always followed by a disappointing one, how Bond finally got a soul when he was played by Craig

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're launching into our long-awaited James Bond podcast. This will be a two-part podcast, and in this first part, we'll focus on the films starring Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, and Timothy Dalton. We'll talk about the hallmarks of the franchise, its strengths and weaknesses, its enduring popularity, the virtues of each respective Bo

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're talking about the new Ryan Reynolds movie Free Guy. We talk about why the film works so well even with some minor flaws, how its box office strength shows that all bets are off in 2021 when it comes to predicting performance, why Marvel has struggled this summer at the box office, and more.We then finish up with a discussion about Blockbuste

This week on a bonus episode of The Collider Podcast, we're pleased to welcome to the podcast director Brian Andrew Mendoza. Mendoza is the producing partner of Jason Momoa and also the director of Momoa's latest film, Sweet Girl, which debuts today on Netflix. Sweet Girl follows a father (Momoa) and daughter (Isabela Merced) who, ravaged by the grief of losing their wife and mothe

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're pleased to welcome to the podcast director Martin Campbell. Campbell is the director from the some of the best action movies of the last 25 years including GoldenEye, The Mask of Zorro and Casino Royale. His new movie is The Protégé, an action-thriller starring Maggie Q as an assassin who goes looking for revenge against those who killed h

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're talking about The Suicide Squad. We talk about how the film compares to the 2016 version, why audiences may have been confused by the similar titles, how the film's box office was affected by mitigating factors, how the film is a standout among other superhero movies, why we hope writer-director James Gunn comes back for another installment,

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're talking about Jungle Cruise as well as Scarlett Johansson suing Disney over lost box office revenue from Black Widow. With Jungle Cruise, we discuss how the film works as a light adventure, why it's mostly a breezy ride, if it does enough in terms of gay representation, and much more. We then switch over to Disney and Johansson battling it o

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're joined by Associate Editor Greg Smith to talk about Old and the films of writer-director M. Night Shyamalan. We talk about the strengths and weaknesses of Old, how it reflects Shyamalan's earlier work, how his career and movies have changed since the breakout success of The Sixth Sense, why we're glad Shyamalan is making bonkers movies like

This week on The Collider Podcast, we're talking about the precipitous drop of Black Widow during its second weekend at the box office, and that why that has theater owners upset. We discuss if the National Association of Theater Owners (NATO) has a legitimate grievance against the studios, if the streaming experiment needs to come to a close, why the studio may have good reason to