Had a blast talking with dear friends Blake Howard and Isaac Feldberg about me and Isaac’s favorite film of the year. We discussed how director Carson Lund’s unassuming baseball comedy is really a “twilight of the Massholes” concerned with fading traditions and emotionally constipated New England masculinity. I also told some Bill “Spaceman” Lee stories. – One Heat Minute, 12/03/2025

Better late than never, my buddy Blake Howard finally saw this year’s funniest film. He called me up to wax rhapsodic about the intricate design of the gut-busting gags in Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino’s comedy for adults who aren’t as grown up as they think they are. We also talked about why you shouldn’t hire a mentalist for a child’s birthday party. – One Heat Minute, 11/20/2025

My buddy Blake Howard called from the Adelaide Film Festival, where he’d just seen director Mike Figgis’ all-access documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. We discussed our love for FFC and how we wish he could have made a dozen movies with Aubrey Plaza. We also talked about what a pain in the ass Shia LaBeouf seems to be. – One Heat Minute, 10/16/2025

Joined my dear friend Jen Johans to discuss the eminently quotable Withnail And I, confessing how the first time I saw the movie I identified with Marwood but as the years went on I realized I’d become Withnail. I guess the next stop is Monty. Also, the great William Boyle on Jean De Florette and Manon Of The Spring plus our buddy Blake Howard on Chungking Express. – Watch With Jen, 07/07/2025

Joined my dear old NYU friend Jason Shawhan for a bonus episode of his podcast devoted to all things Jennifer Jason Leigh. We talked about returning to visit our old stomping grounds in New York City one month after 9/11 and how we wound up seeing JJL on Broadway in David Auburn’s Proof. A digressive reminiscence of a strange and nervous time. – Fearless Pretender, 06/06/2025

Joined my buddy Blake Howard to discuss my favorite Gene Hackman performance. The Criterion Collection just put out a spiffy edition of Night Moves, director Arthur Penn’s definitive Watergate noir in which Hackman’s private eye becomes the avatar of an exhausted era, playing a game in which nobody’s winning. One side’s just losing slower than the other. – One Heat Minute, 05/12/2025

Joined my buddy Blake Howard for his new podcast about John Frankenheimer’s underrated 1998 espionage thriller. We discuss the killer script by David Mamet and the wittiness of De Niro playing the superspy with a relaxed twinkle in his eye. He and Jean Reno have such great chemistry together you wish they’d made three or four more of these. – One Heat Minute, 03/26/2024

Joined my buddy Blake Howard for a free episode of his weekly film review podcast. We did our best not to drool and make wolf-whistle noises while discussing the great Italian sensualist Paolo Sorrentino’s Parthenope, an astoundingly beautiful movie about an astoundingly beaufiful woman and the ultimately alienating disruptions she inspires wherever she goes. – One Heat Minute, 03/02/2025

Joined my buddy Blake Howard on his weekly film review podcast for Patreon subscribers. We talked briefly about Steven Soderbergh’s latest, disagreeing on the merits of the ghost POV while applauding the fine performance by Chris Sullivan and Soderbergh’s superhuman stamina behind the camera. Also, Blake seems to really have a thing about realtors. – One Heat Minute, 02/06/2025

Joined Philadelphia expat Lee Stabert to talk about the Boston crime movie craze and my pet theory that these films became popular because they allow Hollywood to make underclass gangster movies without having to cast Black people. We also discussed the willful nostalgia of these films harkening back to a pre-gentrification Boston before the biotech boom. – Explain Boston To Me, 01/22/2025