Skip Intro with Krista Smith

Krista and Maddie share this week's What & Why, All Quiet on the Western Front. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!  

Christian Bale and Scott Cooper join the show to talk about their latest collaboration, The Pale Blue Eye. Set at West Point in 1830, the film follows world-weary detective Augustus Landor (played by Christian Bale) who is hired to discreetly investigate the gruesome murder of a cadet. Impeded by the cadets’ code of silence, Landor enlists one of their own to help unravel the case — a young man th...

Krista and Blaine share this week's What & Why, The Empress. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!  

Janelle Monáe joins the show to talk about her role in Rian Johnson's whodunit, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Monáe explains why Rian Johnson's work in the Sci-Fi space piqued her interest long before she took the role of Cassandra Brand, shares her experience acting opposite Daniel Craig (who returns as the master sleuth Benoit Blanc), and details how the cast bonded during shooting.  Monáe...

Krista and Chris share this week's What & Why, Single All The Way. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!  

In 2019, writer, director, and producer Rian Johnson captured the world’s attention with his witty, star studded whodunit, Knives Out. Now, after months of anticipation, his follow up, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, is streaming on Netflix. Over the past few months, Krista sat down with Johnson and cast members Daniel Craig, Janelle Monáe, Edward Norton, and Kate Hudson to hear about their exp...

Krista and Alyssa share this week's What & Why, Enola Holmes 1 &2. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!  

Greta Gerwig joins the show to talk about her role in Noah Baumbach's latest film, White Noise. Based on Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, the film dramatizes an American family's attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world. Gerwig shares her first encounter with the novel,...

Guillermo del Toro joins the show to talk about his latest film, Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio. Brought to life using classic stop-motion techniques, it's a bold reimagining of Carlo Collodi’s classic fairytale. Del Toro shares why he was deeply impacted by the story of Pinocchio as a child, describes the incredible artistry and scope of work that went into bringing the film to life, and digs int...

Krista and Jenny share this week's What & Why, The Wonder. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!  

Rian Johnson joins the show to chat with Krista about his Knives Out follow up, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, which he wrote, produced, and directed. This fresh adventure findsBenoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) at a lavish private estate on a Greek island, but how and why he comes to be there is only the first of many puzzles.  Johnson explains how his childhood fascination with Agatha Christie nove...

Krista and Isabel share this week's What & Why, Point Break. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!

Kate Hudson joins the show to talk about her role in the wildly anticipated follow up to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Hudson breaks down her character Birdie Jay, details working with costume designer Jenny Eagan to create numerous extravagant looks, and describes her favorite part of being in a group text with Rian Johnson. Hudson also digs into the joy of raising...

Krista and Chris share this week's What & Why, He's Just Not That Into You. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!

Florence Pugh joins the show to talk about her latest film, The Wonder. Directed by Sebastián Lelio and based on Emma Donoghue’s book by the same name, the film transports us to 1862, where English Nightingale Nurse Lib Wright (Florence Pugh) has been called to the Irish Midlands by a devout community to conduct a 15-day examination over one of their own. Anna O’Donnell (Kíla Lord Cassidy) is an 1...

Krista and Alyssa share this week's What & Why, Love Is Blind. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!    

In celebration of the series' return, Skip Intro is hosting the first episode of The Crown: The Official Podcast’s 5th season!  The Crown: The Official Podcast is the exclusive companion podcast to accompany the Netflix Original Series The Crown. Hosted by Edith Bowman, the podcast follows the show episode by episode, diving deep into the stories and taking listeners behind the scenes with insight...

Millie Bobby Brown joins the show to talk about her latest film, Enola Holmes 2, which she stars in and produces. Brown lays out the unique challenges that each of those roles presents, shares what it's like to get to work closely with her family on the Enola Holmes franchise, and introduces our audience to her beloved rabbit Eeyore, who became her emotional support companion on the set of Enola H...

Krista share's this week's What & Why, Risky Business. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search "Queue’s Queue" for more recommendations!

Krista sits down with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, who (alongside their production company HiddenLight) are executive producers on the upcoming documentary, In Her Hands. Filmed across two turbulent years, In Her Hands tells the story of Zarifa Ghafari, who at 26 became one of Afghanistan’s first female mayors and the youngest to ever hold the positi...

Krista and Jenny share this week's What & Why, Mindhunter. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search Queue’s Queue for more recommendations!  

Based on the book by Charles Graeber, The Good Nurse tells the story of Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain), a compassionate nurse who begins to grow suspicious that her colleague Charlie Cullen (Eddie Redmayne) is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths.  Over the past two months, Krista sat down separately with director Tobias Lindholm, Chastain, and Redmayne to discuss their experienc...

Krista, Brookie, & Blaine share this week's What & Why, The Watcher. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search Queue’s Queue for more recommendations!

Eddie Redmayne joins the show to talk about his role as Charles Cullen in Tobias Lindholm's chilling new thriller, The Good Nurse. Based on the book by Charles Graeber, the film follows Amy Loughren (Jessica Chastain), a compassionate nurse who begins to grow suspicious that her colleague is responsible for a series of mysterious patient deaths. Redmayne explains how he captured the physicality an...

Krista and Maddie share this week's What & Why, Formula 1: Drive to Survive. Curious what else the Queue team is watching? Head over to Netflix and search Queue’s Queue for more recommendations!