Episode 1
Why This Movie Feels... a bit too real
Jan 17, 2026
Das Boot (1981) is one of the most obsessively realistic war films ever made. It doesn’t chase spectacle or heroism - it traps you inside a German U-boat and forces you to live there. The film feels less like a blockbuster and more like an anxiety-inducing documentary.
Episode 2
The 1960s "Documentary" We Still Can’t Explain
Jan 31, 2026
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm (1968) is one of the strangest, smartest, and most quietly groundbreaking films ever made. It doesn’t behave like a documentary or a narrative film - it turns the filmmaking process itself into the story.
Episode 3
What does a Film Producer... actually do?
Feb 14, 2026
"Sinners" is one of those rare films that somehow gets everything right - iIt’s completely original, audiences showed up for it, and critics embraced it in a big way, making it the most nominated film in Oscar history with 16 nominations.
Episode 4
The Most Dangerous Production in Film History
Feb 28, 2026
"Roar" (1981) is one of the most dangerous, chaotic, and astonishingly ambitious films ever made. It is anything but a typical Hollywood production and turns living with a bunch of untrained lions, tigers, and other big cats into the story itself.
Episode 5
The Book vs. The Movie
Mar 17, 2026
Project Hail Mary is one of the only books I’ve ever finished. And now, with Ryan Gosling in it, has become one of the most anticipated sci-fi films in recent years.
Episode 6
This $27,000 Horror Film Is a Creative Masterpiece
Mar 29, 2026
One Cut of the Dead (2017) is one of the most deceptively brilliant horror comedies I've ever seen. It looks like a clunky, low-budget zombie movie with awkward acting, weird pacing, and countless amateur-ish mistakes - until you realize that every single one of them is the point.
Episode 7
The Dark Psychology in A24’s “The Drama”
Apr 4, 2026
"The Drama" is one of those movies that forces you to reflect and confront yourself. The new A24 film starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson is exactly the kind of tense, stylish moral mind-game I’ve been missing lately.
Episode 8
The Film So Bad... the director apologized
Apr 20, 2026
Exploring one of the most famously disliked movies ever made, to the point of the director publicly apologizing. But is there more to the story?
Episode 9
Why Physical Media is Making a Comeback
May 16, 2026
Is physical media actually better than subscribing to a bunch of streaming platforms? Let's compare the pros and cons for each and find out.
Episode 10
Honest Thoughts - Backrooms
May 29, 2026
My honest thoughts on "Backrooms" - the A24 feature film directed by Kane Parsons who went viral for his found footage series on YouTube and landed a major studio deal at just 20 years old.
Episode 11
This Film Terrified Me... so I called the director
Jun 13, 2026
The McPherson Tape (1989) is one of the most groundbreaking low-budget films ever made. It also happens to be the one that haunted me for my entire childhood.
Episode 12
Inside Eastern Europe's BIGGEST Film Studio
Jun 28, 2026
I flew to Bulgaria, where I somehow managed to get a special, unlimited access to the largest film studio in Eastern Europe, where some of the biggest Hollywood movies get made without anyone even realizing it.
Episode 13
This Film Destroys Itself After You Watch It
Jul 11, 2026
In the early 2000s, a company called Flexplay created a DVD designed to self-destruct 48 hours after opening, using a chemical reaction with oxygen that turned the disc unreadable. I got my hands on an actual unopened copy and tested it myself to see how it worked. It was one of several attempts, alongside DIVX and early Netflix, to solve the home video late fee problem, but streaming made it obsolete within a few years.
Episode 14
My Collection of Weird Film Stuff
Jul 25, 2026
Over the years I've picked up all kinds of bizarre, rare, and downright cool film memorabilia, so it's about time to go through my collection and the stories behind them.
Episode 15
Spider-Man Just Broke The Formula
Aug 2, 2026
"Spider-Man: Brand New Day" might be one of the best superhero movies yet. It isn't your typical spectacle blockbuster chasing world-ending stakes but instead a rather grounded story exploring Peter Parker's very real loneliness after losing nearly everyone close to him.
Episode 16
This 1960s Film Makes You Hallucinate
Aug 15, 2026
The Flicker (1966) is one of the strangest experiments ever put on film. After reading reports that it made the audience hallucinate, obviously I had to see it for myself.
Episode 17
The Weird Film That Broke China’s Box Office
Aug 29, 2026
Niu Lai (2026) is a $1,000 animated film that just became a viral phenomenon in China... and quite possibly the most profitable movie ever made.
Episode 18
Inside a $250,000 Private Home Theater
Sep 12, 2026
As it turns out, a private home theater is not just really cool, but perfectly calibrated to provide the best possible way to experience a movie. Not just better than a TV in the living room, but better than pretty much any commercial theater as well. Oh well, a man can dream lol
Episode 19
It Took 1400 Days To Film This Documentary
Sep 26, 2026
Lion (2026) is one of the most ambitious nature documentaries in recent years - filmed with zero human intervention over 1400 days, it takes real lions and turns them into characters with real story arcs, all without a single line of dialogue.
Episode 20
The Oldest Film Director in History
Oct 18, 2026
Manoel de Oliveira was the oldest film director in cinema history, who kept making movies until 106 years old. Born in Portugal just over a decade after cinema itself was invented, he saw the arrival of sound, color and streaming, and made roughly one film per year for most of his career.
Episode 21
The Most Terrifying Way to Watch a Movie
Nov 5, 2026
I got to experience Apple’s new immersive horror film "Remnants" to see if virtual reality is the future of cinema or just a fun gimmick. It turns out - the technology’s biggest strength is also its biggest weakness.
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