Junk Filter

Oct 28 2024 187 ep. 57 mins 403
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Junk Filter: a podcast about strange and overlooked artifacts from the worlds of film, music and popular culture with a generous side order of jokes and politics. Hosted by Jesse Hawken with guests from the worlds of Politics Twitter and Film Twitter. Original music for the program by Marker Starling. Follow us now on Twitter: @junkfilterpod

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184: Saturday Night (with Adam Nayman)

Oct 28 2024 83 mins  
The author and film critic Adam Nayman returns to Junk Filter to discuss the new Jason Reitman race-against-time comedy thriller Saturday Night about the backstage antics leading up to the first episode of SNL in 1975, a feature film that serves an an ode to its producer Lorne Michaels while trying to spin tension and suspense out of a foregone conclusion. Reitman is back in Oscar

TEASER - 183: The Curse of the Werewolf (with Meg Shields)

Oct 25 2024 5 mins  
Access this entire 68-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/183-curse-of-meg-114731524 The film writer Meg Shields returns from Vancouver for a spooky season show about one of her favourites, the 1961 Hamm

182: Back to the Cluuub: Megalopolis and The Fountainhead (with Jacob Bacharach)

Oct 22 2024 109 mins  
The author Jacob Bacharach returns to continue this podcast’s look at Megalopolis. On this episode we compare Coppola’s latest to another overheated epic about a visionary architect, King Vidor’s ludicrous 1949 adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Coppola has acknowledged the film version of The Fountainhead as a key influence on Megalopolis, but what Jacob and I valu

181: Jokeropolis (with Jessica Ritchey)

Oct 11 2024 106 mins  
CW: this episode contains spoilers for Joker 2 and discussions of cinematic sexual violence. The film writer Jessica Ritchey returns to the podcast to discuss the Reverse Barbenheimer of 2024: the more or less simultaneous release of two extremely expensive blockbusters, Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis and Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, two films that, as it turned out

TEASER - 180: Miami Vice: Heartbeat / Death Drug (with James Majure)

Sep 30 2024 5 mins  
Access this entire 86-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/180-miami-vice-113085968 We celebrate the 40th anniversary of the premiere of NBC’s crime drama Miami Vice with a new episode of Junk Filter’s

179: BlackBerry (with Gus Lanzetta)

Sep 23 2024 90 mins  
The writer and podcaster Gus Lanzetta returns to the podcast from São Paulo to give our listeners an update on life in Brazil since their Supreme Court banned X: The Everything App from access to the country, and we thought we would pair this with a movie about a revolutionary communication tool that was suddenly not important anymore: Matt Johnson’s 2023 comedy-drama BlackBerry

TEASER - 178: Junk Filter Has Fallen (with Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine from Pod Casty For Me)

Sep 16 2024 6 mins  
Access this entire 126-minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/178-junk-filter-112189443 Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine from the great left politics and culture podcast Pod Casty For Me join me for a deep dive int

177: Reagan (with David Weigel)

Sep 04 2024 97 mins  
Veteran national politics reporter for Semafor David Weigel returns to the show for a discussion of the new conservative political biopic Reagan, starring Dennis Quaid as The Great Communicator, or as he was known in Russia, The Crusader, for the film is told from the perspective of a former KGB agent (Jon Voight) who identified him early on as the man who would someday defeat the

TEASER - 176: Danpilled Extended Universe: Michael McDonald (with Matthew Perpetua)

Jul 29 2024 4 mins  
Access this entire 100 minute episode (and additional monthly bonus shows) by becoming a Junk Filter patron for only $5.00 (US) a month! Over 30% of episodes are exclusively available to patrons of the show. https://www.patreon.com/posts/176-danpilled-109048208 Fluxblog’s Matthew Perpetua returns to the show to continue our Danpilled series, this time taking a look at one of the

175: Shane (with Chris Cassingham)

Jul 22 2024 95 mins  
The Milwaukee-based film critic and programmer Chris Cassingham joins the show this week to discuss the great director George Stevens and his 1953 masterpiece Shane, starring Alan Ladd and Jack Palance, about a mysterious gunfighter who finds work with a homestead family in the open range of lawless Wyoming and is drawn into the community’s conflict against a gang of violent catt