Category: Podcast

We close out our 4th season with a show about needle drops, those brilliant and sometimes lazy pop music choices filmmakers employ to set a tone, evoke an era, express a character’s unspoken emotions, or just give the film a burst of energy.

Boston Underground Film Festival programmers Kevin Monahan and Nicole McControversy join us to discuss the history of this unique fest and their 2024 lineup.

120 min • We wrap up awards season with more thoughts on the terrific year in film that…

135 min • We begin our deep dive into the abundance of excellent films of 2023, a year…

138 min • For our last episode of 2023, we wrap up The Brattle’s year-long look back on…

120 min • For this year’s Noirvember, we look at crime and caper pictures that center on technology…

We discuss our love of documentary features and The Brattle’s legacy of screening non-fiction, sometimes in conjunction with one of our series partners. We’re then joined by the programmer of one of those series: GlobeDocs Film Festival Director of Programming Lisa Viola, who gives us a history of that series and a preview of the 2023 line-up.

102 min • Diving deep into the ‘80s filmography of one of our favorite actors, we discuss the…

100 min • We pay tribute to the late great Paul Reubens and his iconic film Pee-wee’s Big…

For the dog days of summer, we strap in for an episode that asks, if there is such a thing as “elevated horror,” then what the devil is unelevated horror? We try to answer that question with a summer series of Thrill Rides featuring giant monsters, killer AI, and demons from hell.