The News Reel: Episode 152
On the latest episode, Zach and Brian give their top-10 movies of 2018.
On the latest episode, Zach and Brian give their top-10 movies of 2018.
/Film writer Candice Frederick joins the podcast to discuss her recent piece on Green Book and how the movie whitewashes a uniquely black story, even as it moves full steam ahead towards awards season.
Karina Longworth, host of You Must Remember This, joins the podcast to discuss her new book, Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes's Hollywood.
The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey joins the podcast to discuss Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald and the idea of retconning franchises.
Vulture and New York Magazine writer Abraham Riesman joins the podcast to discuss Ralph Breaks the Internet and how nostalgia and products we love have become integrated more and more into our stories in a somewhat frightening fashion.
On this abridged episode of The News Reel, Zach and Brian catch up with some of the big stories of the past few weeks, including the death of Stan Lee, trailers for Toy Story 4 and Detective Pikachu and news surrounding a reboot of Shrek.
The Cinephiliacs' Peter Labuza joins the podcast to discuss the end of FilmStruck and what that means for streaming indie, arthouse and classic movies.
Zach and Brian review the new Halloween movie and ask whether or not the slasher genre has a place in modern horror.
http://traffic.libsyn.com/thenewsreel/News_Reel_Ep_144.mp3 The Wrap reporter Umberto Gonzalez joins the podcast to chat about James Gunn's new job writing and directing Suicide Squad 2 and what that means for him, DC and Marvel moving forward. Top Stories: Disney is busy with live-action with an Aladdin teaser and Lilo & Stitch on the
Zach and Brian discuss what the next step for superhero movies could be and why a move into the "prestige" direction with the inclusion of people like Chloe Zhao and Joaquin Phoenix in new projects could be signaling that shift.
Slashfilm and CutPrintFilm's Chris Evangelista joins the podcast to help recap this year's Toronto International Film Festival and some of the movies to keep an eye out for this year.
Slashfilm's Hoai-Tran Bui joins the podcast this week to discuss "Asian August" and the impact of Crazy Rich Asians and To All The Boys I've Loved Before on Asian-American representation in Hollywood.