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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 PodcastThe Twilight Saga: Eclipse • The Next Reel
“Let’s face it – I AM hotter than you.” The melodrama continues between Bella and Jacob and Edward David Slade takes the helm with the third adaptation of…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Twilight Saga: New Moon • The Next Reel
“I guess the wolf’s out of the bag.” Bella’s plight continues – who will she choose? We’re here for it! Bella continues pining for Edward long after he’s moved…
The Next Reel Film PodcastTwilight • The Next Reel
“I’ve never given much thought to how I would die, but dying in place of someone I love seems like a good way to go.” It’s time to explore the vampire romance…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Raid 2 • The Next Reel
“They're not cops anymore. They're in my world now.” Expanding the Universe with The Raid 2. We often talk about world building on our podcast. We also talk…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Raid • The Next Reel
“Just because you see what I do as wrong doesn’t mean I can’t be good at it.” We’re heading in to take down the big bad in The Raid. Gareth Huw Evans wasn’t…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBefore Midnight • The Next Reel
“Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just passing through.” Time to wrap things up with Jesse and Céline…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBefore Sunset • The Next Reel
“Why didn’t we just exchange phone numbers and stuff?” Jesse and Céline are a bit more grown up in Before Sunset. The sequel wasn’t an immediate thought on the…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBefore Sunrise • The Next Reel
“If there’s any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something.” Looking at Richard Linklater’s Before…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPitch Perfect 3 • The Next Reel
“You’ve been a very naughty girl, Turnip-Top!” The Bellas Are Back, But Should They Have Stayed Away? Making a sequel that’s more successful than its…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPitch Perfect 2 • The Next Reel
“You are such a dis-a-ca-ppointment.” Back to Barden, the Bellas, the Treblemakers and more! We’re back to talk a cappella! That’s right, we return to Barden…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPitch Perfect • The Next Reel
“Nothing makes a woman feel more like a girl than a man who sings like a boy.” Time to warm up those vocals, Pitches. With Pete’s history in collegiate a…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBack to the Future Part III • The Next Reel
"Shot in the back by Buford Tannen, over a matter of eighty dollars? What kind of a future do you call that?” We Follow Marty and Doc to the Old West in Back…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBack to the Future Part II • The Next Reel
“What’s wrong, McFly? Chicken?” Joining Marty and Doc Again in Back to the Future Part II The sequels weren’t part of the plan when Robert Zemeckis and team…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBack to the Future • The Next Reel
"Last night, Darth Vader came down from planet Vulcan and told me that if I didn't take Lorraine out, that he'd melt my brain." We Go Back to BACK TO THE…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPaddington 2 • The Next Reel
“Nobody criticizes my food, nobody squirts condiments on my apron, and nobody bonks me on the head with a baguette!” Let’s talk about Paddington 2! Paddington…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPaddington • The Next Reel
It’s so easy to love Paddington Producer David Heyman had been wanting to adapt the “Paddington” series of children’s books for a while, announcing his plans…
The Next Reel Film PodcastReturn of the Jedi • The Next Reel
We return to Return of the Jedi Three years after the success of The Empire Strikes Back, George Lucas made his conclusion to his original Star Wars trilogy –…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Empire Strikes Back • The Next Reel
Does The Empire Strikes Back Suffer From Middle-Film-Itis? There’s a complaint about trilogies that are designed to be one long story that the middle film…
The Next Reel Film PodcastA Woman Under the Influence — Tami Reiker • Movies We Like
“You think there’s something wrong with me or something? You think I’m wacko or something?” Talking About John Cassavetes’ 1974 film ‘A Woman Under the…
The Next Reel Film PodcastStar Wars • The Next Reel
“Only Imperial Storm Troopers are so precise.” Star Wars – The Start of Something Big For our twelfth season, we’re looking at franchises and series of films…
The Next Reel Film PodcastA Note From Andy and Pete • The Next Reel
Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup... We’ve been running the show for over a decade now and want to keep going. One of the things we’re doing to keep the lights…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBilly Madison • The Next Reel
“Did the penguin tell you to do this?” Tamra Davis came on as director for Billy Madison after they’d already been filming for a few days of production as the…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Last Supper • The Next Reel
“How could you guys eat with a dead man at the table?” With an Oscar nomination under her belt for a short film and connections to many in Hollywood, Stacy…
The Next Reel Film PodcastClueless • The Next Reel
“So, okay, you’re probably going, ‘Is this, like, a Noxema commercial or what?’ But seriously, I actually have a very normal life for a teenage girl.” Amy…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBuffy the Vampire Slayer • The Next Reel
“I can’t believe I’m doing this. I can’t believe I’m in a graveyard with a strange man hunting for vampires on a school night.” Fran Rubel Kuzui seems like an…
The Next Reel Film PodcastAfter the Wedding • The Next Reel
“You can’t just run our lives in your sick head.” It’s clear from our two films in our current series that Susanne Bier enjoys films with complex characters…
The Next Reel Film PodcastOpen Hearts • The Next Reel
“I didn’t mean for this to happen.” The Dogme 95 movement started in 1995 with the first two films made under its manifesto released in 1998. By the time…
The Next Reel Film PodcastQueen of Katwe • The Next Reel
“In chess, the small one can become the big one. That’s why I like it.” Mira Nair seemed the perfect director to bring the true story of Phiona Mutesi to the…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Blues Brothers • The Next Reel • Member Bonus
“We’re on a mission from God.” Great car chases? Check. For this month’s member bonus episode, our members voted for a return to great car chases, and of the…
The Next Reel Film PodcastLords of Dogtown • The Next Reel
“This wave breaks 24 hours a day every day.” Dogtown and Z-Boys was a successful documentary when it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2001, and did…
The Next Reel Film PodcastGirlfight • The Next Reel
“All these years, you just looked right through me.” It was after learning to box that Karyn Kusama became interested in making a film set in the world of…
The Next Reel Film PodcastLove & Basketball • The Next Reel
“What I always admired was the fight in you.” Gina Prince-Bythewood looked at her first film as a When Harry Met Sally... type of story that followed a pair of…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBooksmart • The Next Reel
“I’m a golden starfish!” Olivia Wilde has long been working as an actress before stepping her foot into directing. She made a few short films and music videos…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Diary of a Teenage Girl • The Next Reel
“I think this makes me officially an adult. Right?” Marielle Heller’s sister had gifted her the diaristic graphic novel “The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThirteen • The Next Reel
“Hit me! I’m serious, I can’t feel anything. Hit me!” Catherine Hardwicke had worked as a production designer for nearly two decades, crafting the look for…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Virgin Suicides • The Next Reel
“Cecilia was the first to go.” Sofia Coppola had made a few short films in the mid nineties, but it was reading Jeffrey Eugenides’ 1993 novel “The Virgin…
The Next Reel Film PodcastRatcatcher • The Next Reel
“Goodbye, Snowball.” With several short films under her belt, Lynne Ramsay got her first feature film made and released in 1999. The film tells the tale of a…
The Next Reel Film PodcastSlums of Beverly Hills • The Next Reel
“It’s not unusual to move every three months.” The story of Tamara Jenkins’ Slums of Beverly Hills feels very lived in with authentic characters and…
The Next Reel Film PodcastSalaam Bombay! • The Next Reel
“Like a rose in the gutter...” Mira Nair got her start with documentary projects, so it makes sense that her first feature, Salaam Bombay!, is a gritty and…
The Next Reel Film PodcastRambling Rose • The Next Reel
“I’m curious, Rose. I’m very curious.” Coming of age stories come in all shapes and sizes. The adaptation of Calder Willingham’s 1972 semi-autobiographical…
The Next Reel Film PodcastAwakenings • The Next Reel
“You want there to be a connection. That doesn’t mean there is one.” Penny Marshall came on to Awakenings after Steven Spielberg stepped off the project…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBig • The Next Reel
“This doesn’t just happen. This guy — this doesn’t happen. He doesn’t just come to a meeting and say ‘bugs.’” The script came easily to Gary Ross & Anne…
The Next Reel Film PodcastChilly Scenes of Winter • The Next Reel
“Why didn’t I meet you first?” After working with John Heard on her 1977 film Between the Lines, writer/director Joan Micklin Silver knew that she wanted to…
The Next Reel Film PodcastBetween the Lines • The Next Reel
“We are still about telling the truth. We are still about something big here, and not many people can say that, man.” After her success with Hester Street, it…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Weight of Water • The Next Reel
“I thought you were snapping a few photographs, not reopening the whole case.” We’re not sure how Kathryn Bigelow came to direct the adaptation of Anita…
The Next Reel Film PodcastMerrily We Go to Hell • The Next Reel
“Gentlemen, I give you the holy state of matrimony, modern style! Single lives, twin beds, and triple bromides in the morning!” Dorothy Arzner is a filmmaker…
The Next Reel Film PodcastA Quick Note From Andy • The Next Reel
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The Next Reel Film PodcastBoat People • The Next Reel
"The government doesn’t let us mix with foreigners. You’ll get us into trouble if you take photos here.” Ann Hui had been working on a documentary for a Hong…
The Next Reel Film PodcastOur Time Will Come • The Next Reel
“See you after the victory.” As a filmmaker in Hong Kong, there’s an inevitable balancing act they need to do with their stories and how they depict China…
The Next Reel Film PodcastSong of the Exile • The Next Reel
There are a lot of elements from Ann Hui’s own life in her film Song of the Exile. It’s not a biographical film, though. Knowing that, what are we meant to…
The Next Reel Film PodcastArthur Christmas • The Next Reel
"No one gets an unwrapped present on my watch!” The original idea for Arthur Christmas, at the time called Operation Rudolph, had a much darker thread in it…
The Next Reel Film PodcastA Simple Life • The Next Reel
Ann Hui has had a long career and was close to retiring in 2011 when she made A Simple Life. Luckily, she enjoyed making that film so much and enjoyed its…
The Next Reel Film PodcastZindagi Na Milegi Dobara • The Next Reel
"Your fiancée can’t crash your bachelor party!” Bollywood has overtaken Hollywood as the largest center for film production in the world, but we have yet to…
The Next Reel Film PodcastWhere Do We Go Now? • The Next Reel
Nadine Labaki started as an actress but starting in 2007 with Caramel, she started working as a writer/director. Her films look at life in Lebanon but through…
The Next Reel Film PodcastWe Need to Talk About Kevin • The Next Reel
"You don’t look happy.” “Have I ever?” Tackling a film that looks at a school shooting is a challenging prospect, but writer/director Lynne Ramsay and her…
The Next Reel Film PodcastTomboy • The Next Reel
"It’s kind of complicated, actually.” Céline Sciamma had already proven herself a strong writer/director of complicated love stories involving people figuring…
The Next Reel Film PodcastRaiders of the Lost Ark Revisited • The Next Reel
"You’re not the podcast I knew ten years ago.” “It’s not the years, honey, it’s the mileage.” It’s fun revisiting Spielberg’s 1981 classic Raiders of the Lost…
The Next Reel Film PodcastPariah • The Next Reel
“I’m not running. I’m choosing.” While in film school at NYU, Dee Rees directed a short film called Pariah that was essentially the first act of a feature…
The Next Reel Film PodcastHard Labor • The Next Reel
"This place is a real find!” Brazil’s economy has certainly had its share of ups and downs over the decades. The struggle to create a capitalist economy hasn’t…
The Next Reel Film PodcastThe Future • The Next Reel
"So for all practical purposes, in a month, that’s it for us.” Miranda July spends more time as a performance artist than as a filmmaker, so it makes sense…