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The Next Reel Film Podcast
A show about movies and how they connect. We love movies. We’ve been talking about them, one movie a week, since 2011. It’s a lot of movies, that’s true, but we’re passionate about origins and performance, directors and actors, themes and genres, and so much more. So join the community, and let’s hear about your favorite movies, too. When the movie ends, our conversation begins.
Episodes
The Next Reel Film PodcastUgetsu
“You’re mine now. From now on, you must devote your whole life to me.” A Ghost Story as a Statement on Pride and Greed Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 film Ugetsu…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Cassandra Crossing
“Anyone trying to leave the train by force will be stopped by force.” An All-Star 70s Disaster Film Mash-Up The 1970s saw a surge in the popularity of disaster…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Shooting • Member Bonus
“The reason, Mr. Gashade, for the hunt is the kill.” A Low-Budget Western from the Corman-Hellman-Nicholson Trio After impressing producer Roger Corman with…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPontypool
“She doesn’t know it yet, but she’s hunting us.” How a Virus Spreads Through Language The 2008 Canadian horror film Pontypool, directed by Bruce McDonald and…
The Next Reel Film PodcastChameleon Street
“I think, therefore I scam.” The Sundance Struggle of Wendell B. Harris Jr.'s Sensational Con Artist Story In 1989, writer-director-actor Wendell B. Harris Jr…
The Next Reel Film PodcastKiller Klowns from Outer Space
“Well I’ll be greased and fried! What’s the circus doing up in these parts?” The Chiodo Brothers and Their Creature Feature Legacy Before Killer Klowns from…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Way of the Dragon
“In this world of guns and knives, wherever Tang Lung may go to, he will always travel on his own.” Bruce Lee's One-and-Done Showcase of Martial Arts Mastery…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Little Shop of Horrors • The Next Reel • Member Bonus
“You didn't mean it. You never mean it. You didn't mean it the time when you put up the bouquet with the 'get well' card in the funeral parlor, and sent the…
The Next Reel Film PodcastJohnny Got His Gun • The Next Reel
“How can you tell what’s a dream or what’s real when you can’t even tell when you’re awake or when you’re asleep?” Dalton Trumbo's Controversial Anti-War…
The Next Reel Film PodcastWanda • The Next Reel
“I don’t have anything. Never did have anything. Never will have anything.” The Tale of Barbara Loden's Unsung Masterpiece In the late 1960s, actress Barbara…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Honeymoon Killers • The Next Reel
“Now that you know everything about me, you still love me?” A Twisted Love Story and a Director's Only Film The Honeymoon Killers, released in 1970, is a crime…
The Next Reel Film PodcastCarnival of Souls • The Next Reel
“Why can’t anybody hear me?!” The Fascinating Origins of a Classic Horror Film In the early 1960s, director Herk Harvey stumbled upon an abandoned amusement…
The Next Reel Film PodcastIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny • The Next Reel
“I don't believe in magic, Wombat, but a few times in my life, I've seen things. Things I can't explain. And I've come to believe it's not so much what you…
The Next Reel Film PodcastUnforgiven • The Next Reel • Member Bonus
“It’s a helluva thing, killin’ a man.” A Western Classic Revisited Clint Eastwood's 1992 Western masterpiece, Unforgiven, was a critical and commercial success…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Player • The Next Reel • Member Bonus
“Can we talk about something other than Hollywood for a change?” Robert Altman's The Player is a satirical dark comedy that takes a sharp look at the inner…
The Next Reel Film PodcastEverything Everywhere All at Once • The Next Reel
“We’re all useless alone. It’s a good thing you’re not alone.” Everything Everywhere All at Once is a unique and ambitious film that defies genre conventions…
The Next Reel Film PodcastTop Gun: Maverick • The Next Reel
“It’s not the plane, sir. It’s the pilot.” The Long Road to Top Gun: Maverick The original Top Gun was a massive success in 1986, but it took over 30 years for…
The Next Reel Film PodcastTár • The Next Reel
“You want to dance the masque, you must service the composer. You gotta sublimate yourself, your ego, and, yes, your identity. You must, in fact, stand in…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Fabelmans • The Next Reel
“Everything happens for a reason.” Spielberg's Passion Project Comes to Life Few filmmakers have had as much impact on cinema as Steven Spielberg, but it…
The Next Reel Film PodcastA Few Good Men • The Next Reel • Member Bonus
“You’re an ambulance chaser with a rank. You’re nothing.” This is a member bonus episode. We'd love it if you became a member to support our show, but you’d…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Banshees of Inisherin • The Next Reel
“It was all going fine until he chopped off all his fingers.” In 2022, writer-director Martin McDonagh reunited with his In Bruges stars, Colin Farrell and…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Woman in Black • The Next Reel
“Don’t go chasing shadows, Arthur.” Adapting a Classic Ghost Story for the Big Screen The Woman in Black, based on Susan Hill's 1983 novel of the same name…
The Next Reel Film PodcastSleep Tight (Mientras Duermes) • The Next Reel
“Happy. That’s exactly my problem – that I can’t be happy. Not even when good things happen to me.” A Gripping Spanish Psychological Thriller Sleep Tight…
The Next Reel Film PodcastSinister • The Next Reel
“I like that you made the movies longer, they are better this way.” Scott Derrickson's nightmare after watching The Ring sparked the creation of Sinister, a…
The Next Reel Film PodcastKill List • The Next Reel
“How many on the list?” A Slow-Burn Descent into Darkness Ben Wheatley's second feature film, Kill List, was released in 2011 to critical acclaim. The film…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Grey • The Next Reel
“They weren’t eating him. They were killing him.” A Harrowing Tale of Survival in the Alaskan Wilderness In 2011, director Joe Carnahan set out to create a…
The Next Reel Film PodcastDialect Coach William Conacher on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off • Movies We Like
“Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Talking About Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with our guest, dialect…
The Next Reel Film PodcastMulholland Dr. • The Next Reel
“It'll be just like in the movies. We'll pretend to be someone else.” A Winding Road to Production David Lynch's Mulholland Dr. started life as a television…
The Next Reel Film PodcastMemento • Rebroadcast • The Next Reel
"You can’t trust a man’s life to your little notes and pictures.” REBROADCAST Christopher Nolan’s second film, Memento from 2001, caught a lot of attention on…
The Next Reel Film PodcastHedwig and the Angry Inch • The Next Reel
“It’s what I have to work with.” Adapted from the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway musical, Hedwig and the Angry Inch tells the story of an East German rock…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Deep End • The Next Reel
“Make a sound and I’m going to drown you in the lake.” A Sundance Standout That Earned Cinematography Honors Scott McGehee and David Siegel, the directing duo…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe American Astronaut • The Next Reel
“I’ve never understood this joke, but then I’ve never been to Earth.” Shooting for the Stars on a Shoestring Budget In 1996, writer/director Cory McAbee set…
The Next Reel Film PodcastWuxia Unleashed: Leon Hunt & Chris Hamm on Martial Arts and Myth • Cinema Scope • Bonus Episode
In this inaugural episode of Cinema Scope, host Andy Nelson is joined by professors Leon Hunt and Chris Hamm to explore the captivating world of wuxia, a…
The Next Reel Film PodcastActor Patrick Fabian on The Man Who Would Be King • Movies We Like
“You call it luck. I call it destiny.” Talking About John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King with our guest, actor Patrick Fabian In this engaging episode of…
The Next Reel Film PodcastSoul Food • The Next Reel
“My grandma always said, ‘Family pulling together in times of need will make it strong.’” The Family That Eats Together: A Discussion of Soul Food Before Soul…
The Next Reel Film PodcastLove Jones • The Next Reel
“Romance is about the possibility of the thing.” Love Jones hit theaters in 1997 as writer/director Theodore Witcher’s acclaimed debut. With an eclectic jazz…
The Next Reel Film PodcastJackie Brown • The Next Reel
“Let’s be realistic. Now, sooner or later, they’re going to get around to offering me a plea deal, and you know that. That’s why you are here to kill me.”…
The Next Reel Film PodcastEve’s Bayou • The Next Reel
“Memory is a selection of images, some elusive, others imprinted indelibly in the brain. The summer I killed my father, I was ten years old.” Exploring the…
The Next Reel Film PodcastCostume Designer Antoinette Messam on Amélie • Movies We Like
Talking About Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie with our guest, Costume Designer Antoinette Messam On this episode of Movies We Like, we speak with costume designer…
The Next Reel Film PodcastWaterworld • The Next Reel
“He’s a wily one, that ichthy-demon.” Waterworld: Sinking Budgets and Soaring Spectacle In the early 1990s, Kevin Costner was riding high after hits like…
The Next Reel Film PodcastShowgirls • The Next Reel
"Thrust it! Thrust it!” Before the sequins and controversy hit the screen, Showgirls was a script that sparked excitement for its bold take on the glitz and…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Scarlet Letter • The Next Reel
“Why do you wait? Put it on for it is not a badge of my shame, but your own.” Roland Joffé took on the challenge of adapting Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic 1850…
The Next Reel Film PodcastCutThroat Island • The Next Reel
“Congratulations, Morgan. There’s another town you’ve destroyed.” After the success of Die Hard 2 and Cliffhanger, director Renny Harlin wanted to establish…
The Next Reel Film PodcastCongo • The Next Reel
“Are you serving that ape a martini?” In the early 1990s, following the massive success of Jurassic Park, studios were eager to adapt more of Michael…
The Next Reel Film PodcastSpecial Effects Supervisor Chris Reynolds on Cinema Paradiso • Movies We Like
“Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.” Talking About Cinema Paradiso with our guest, Special Effects Supervisor Chris Reynolds In this…
The Next Reel Film PodcastRoboCop • The Next Reel
“Dead or alive, you are coming with me.” In 1987, screenwriters Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner developed an original story idea while working on the set of…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Princess Bride • The Next Reel
"This is true love. You think this happens every day?" After William Goldman's novel The Princess Bride was published in 1973, film studios immediately saw its…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPredator • The Next Reel
“There’s something out there waiting for us, and it ain’t no man. We’re all going to die.” After the huge success of Rocky IV in 1985, screenwriters Jim and…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Lost Boys • The Next Reel • Member Bonus
“Kill your brother, you’ll feel better.” The 80s were a transformative time for vampire films, leading studios to rethink the genre and develop sexier, edgier…
The Next Reel Film PodcastInnerspace • The Next Reel
“You just digested the bad guy.” Innerspace came about after Jeffrey Boam took Chip Proser’s original script and injected comedy into the straightforward…
The Next Reel Film PodcastRollerball • The Next Reel
“Game? This wasn’t meant to be a game. Never!” James Caan stars as Jonathan E., a legendary athlete in the brutal sport of Rollerball in Norman Jewison’s 1975…
The Next Reel Film PodcastCinematographer Erik Messerschmidt on Chinatown • Movies We Like
“You may think you know what you’re dealing with, but you don’t. Believe me.” Talking About Chinatown with our guest, Cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt Roman…
The Next Reel Film PodcastMonty Python and the Holy Grail • The Next Reel
“Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say ‘Ni!’ at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those…
The Next Reel Film PodcastDark Star • The Next Reel
“Don’t give me any of that ‘intelligent life’ stuff. Find me something I can blow up!” John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon met as film students at USC in the early…
The Next Reel Film PodcastA Boy and His Dog • The Next Reel
“You’re so funny when you’re sexually frustrated.” In 1975, producer Alvy Moore teamed up with director L.Q. Jones to bring Harlan Ellison’s 1969 novella A Boy…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Train • The Next Reel
“A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.” In the early 1960s, French author Rose Valland pitched the idea for The Train to producer…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Pumpkin Eater • The Next Reel
“My life is an empty place.” Harold Pinter adapted Penelope Mortimer’s 1962 semi-autobiographical novel The Pumpkin Eater into a screenplay for this 1964…
The Next Reel Film PodcastCinematographer Lyn Moncrief on Magnolia • Movies We Like
“This is something that happens.” Talking About Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1999 film Magnolia with our guest, cinematographer Lyn Moncrief On this episode of…
The Next Reel Film PodcastDr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb • Rebroadcast • The Next Reel
"Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room!" REBROADCAST Stanley Kubrick didn’t do comedy often which is a shame because “Dr. Strangelove or…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBecket • The Next Reel
“But where is Becket’s honour?” Before cameras could roll on Becket, the film's producers had to secure the screen rights to Jean Anouilh's original French…