Can a well-regarded Oscar-winner still feel underrated? On a subscribers only episode of The Decade Project, Blake Howard and I talk about Steven Spielberg’s 2015 collaboration with the Coen brothers, a sly civics lesson with a killer Hanks performance and some classically Coen-esque wordplay. A film full of the unshowy artistry folks foolishly take for granted. – One Heat Minute, 01/16/2025

Joined my dear friend Jen Johans to discuss the new Criterion Collection disc of Howard Hawks’ Scarface on the season finale of Watch With Jen. This episode also includes the time S.A. Cosby took a date to see No Country For Old Men, William Boyle talking Paris, Texas and a slightly intoxicated Jed Ayres on Galaxy Quest and The Long Good Friday. – Watch With Jen, 12/27/2024

Honored to have contributed an essay to Imprint’s Directed By Roman Polanski box set, which features the filmmaker’s underrated 1990s run of Bitter Moon, Death And The Maiden and The Ninth Gate. Blake Howard got myself and fellow contributor Lindsey Romain on the mic to talk about reckoning with art made by a known abuser when the art itself is about abuse. – One Heat Minute, 11/19/2024

Joined my dear friend Jen Johans for her annual physical media roundup, talking about Paramount’s new 4K UHD edition of Martin Scorsese’s Bringing Out The Dead and how gratifying it has been to see the reappraisal this movie has received after being so rudely dismissed during its original release. We also talked about Perfect Days and Bad Lieutenant. – Watch With Jen, 09/24/2024

Friends Blake Howard, Scout Tafoya and I all contributed essays to the upcoming Imprint Collection Film Focus: Harvey Keitel box set, so Blake got us on the mic to talk about the actor’s singular career and his honorary Catholic status, as well as the stubborn integrity and artistic fearlessness Keitel came to epitomize during the 1990s indie film revolution. – One Heat Minute, 06/20/2024

For this episode of Watch With Jen, novelist S.A. Cosby selected four of his favorite underdiscussed crime films, Abel Ferrara’s The Funeral, Ted Demme’s Blow, James Gray’s We Own The Night and the Hughes Brothers’ Menace II Society. He and host Jen Johans discuss the cycles of tragic masculinity that figure so powerfully in his work while I make stupid jokes. – Watch With Jen, 06/19/2024

Joined friends Justin and Laura Khoo for our own private awards show celebrating the best films and performances of 2023, plus some other silly categories like Best Lisp and a lot more Nyad discussion than I think anybody was expecting. Their one-award-per-film rule prompted some surprising choices and kept this from becoming The Oppenheimer Hour. – Cows In The Field, 03/08/2024

Had an absolute blast with dear friends Blake Howard, Jen Johans and Rob Belushi discussing director Martin Brest’s 1988 buddy comedy classic and afternoon cable perennial. We talk about cigarettes, the parenting skills of Chicago spirit animal Dennis Farina, more cigarettes, the greatness of John Ashton, De Niro’s superior phone skills and still more cigarettes. – One Heat Minute, 03/07/2024

Had a wonderful time with my dear friend Jen Johans talking about some underdisscused B-sides in the great Robert Altman’s career. Selections include the avian anarchy of Brewster McCloud, his CBS adaptation of The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, the delightful Cookie’s Fortune and The Company, a stealth artisitic manifesto that’s a favorite of both mine and Jen’s. – Watch With Jen, 12/22/2023

Jen Johans’ latest physical media special edition gets Walter Chaw going about Walter Hill’s The Warriors, Bilge Ebiri on Terrence Malick’s Days Of Heaven, Nikki Dolson on William Wyler’s The Desperate Hours and somehow I wound up talking about Carlito’s Way with two of the world’s greatest living crime writers, William Boyle and S.A. Cosby. – Watch With Jen, 12/04/2023