ClapperCast

Here at CLAPPER and ClapperCast, we have been working on something special for a while now and are excited to officially announce a new ClapperCast limited series: the ClapperCast Film Book Club. Starting this week, ClapperCast will be releasing a monthly series of podcast hosted by CLAPPER features editor Jakub Flasz, along with a rotating roundtable of diverse and marginalised writers from all o...

Our team of global contributors discuss Millie Bobby Browns' first leading role in Enola Holmes, Jessica Chastain's reteam with Tate Taylor on Ava, and finally indie darling Miranda July's Kajillionare. Produced by Jakub Flasz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Carson Timar Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Ewan Gleadow and Carson Timar Artwork by Sunshine Tucker. | Intro + Outro: Midnight Street Wa...

Our team of global contributors discuss the controversial Antebellum and the release of The Devil All the Time on Netflix Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Carson Timar Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Kevin Whyte, Jacob Allen and Hillary White II 0:38 Intro 1:09 The Devil All The Time 46:37 Antebellum 100:08 Recommendations 104:34 Outro II Artwork by Sunshine Tucker. | I...

Our team of global contributors discuss the 2020 Fantasia Film Festival and celebrate our best picks from a truly fabulous and wonderful group of cinema. Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Alina Faulds, Carson Timar and Diego Andaluz II 0:38 Intro 1:18 Short films 8:11 Documentaries 21:30 Narrative featur...

Our team of global contributors discuss the controversial release of Disney’s Mulan, the enigmatic nature of Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, and last but not least Isabel Sandoval’s Lingua Franca. Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Kyle Krieghbaum, Carson Timar and Diego Andaluz II 0:38 i...

Our team of global contributors discuss Josh Boone’s long-delayed The New Mutants , the long-anticipated Bill & Ted Face the Music , and Armando Iannucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield. Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Kyle Krieghbaum, Rory Marsh and Diego Andaluz II 0:38 Intro 1:10 The...

Our team of global contributors discuss the ambitious Tesla , APPLE TV+'s Boy’s State , Waiting for the Barbarians , and the much anticipated spin-off/sequel to Train to Busan , Peninsula . Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Rory Marsh, Carson Timar, Hillary White II 0:38 intro 1:14 Tesla 34:53 Boys State...

We are dedicating the entirety of today’s episode to Christopher Nolan’s latest film Tenet. It's going to be a supersized, one-off roundtable discussion -- an event podcast for the event film of the year Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Rory Marsh, Kyle Gaffney and George Lewis II 0:38 Intro 1:05 Tenet...

Our team of global contributors discuss David Ayer’s The Tax Collector , croc thriller Black Water Abyss , Beyoncé Knowles’ visual album Black is King , and Zoom horror Host . Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Edited by Jakub Flasz Featuring Carson Timar and Jakub Flasz II 0:38 intro 1:02 The Tax Collector 34:38 Black Water: Abyss 67:0...

Our team of global contributors discuss Eugene Kotlyarenko’s found footage influencer horror Spree , NETFLIX’s superhero franchise starter Project Power , and Egor Abramenko’s Russian science-fiction horror Sputnik. Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh. Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Featuring Carson Timar and Rory Marsh Edited by Jakub Flasz II 0:38 intro 0:59 Spree 2...

Our team of global contributors discuss Seth Rogen ’s dual role in An American Pickle , Amy Seimetz ’ sophomore effort She Dies Tomorrow , and last but not least James D’Arcy ’s directorial debut Made In Italy starring real life father and son duo Liam Neeson and Micheál Richardson Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz + Rory Marsh. Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Featuring Carson Ti...

Our team of global contributors discuss the return of Joey King as Elle in The Kissing Booth 2 , Karen Maine’s Yes, God Yes starring Stranger Things Alumni Natalie Dyer , and last but not least Coky Giedroyc ’s How To Build a Girl with rising star Beanie Feldstein in the leading role. Produced by Diego Andaluz Associated Producers Jakub Flasz. Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Featuring Carson Timar, Kyle...

Our team of global contributors discuss Jessica Swale’s directorial debut Summerland, Alice Winocour’s sophomore effort Proxima, and Sally Potter’s The Roads Not Taken Produced by Jak-Luke Sharp Associated Producers Diego Andaluz. Hosted by Jak-Luke Sharp Featuring Carson Timar and Jakub Flasz Artwork by Sunshine Tucker. Edited by Jak-Luke Sharp. | Intro + Outro: Midnight Street Walk by chillin_wo...

Our team of global contributors discuss Dave Franco’s directorial debut The Rental , Rosamund Pike in Radioactive , Jonathan Glazer ’s latest short film Strasbourg 1518 , and last but not least Werner Herzog’s first narrative film in four years Family Romance, LLC . || 00:42 - A24’s Strasbourg 1518 29:30 - The Rental 80:08 - Radioactive 112:14 - Family Romance LLC 157:15 - Weekly Reccomendations |...

Our team of global contributors discuss more new releases of the past week, beginning with Václav Marhoul’s controversial horror/drama The Painted Bird , Ben Affleck’s re-teaming with director Gavin O’Connor on the profound Finding the Way Back ( The Way Back ) and Shudder’s latest orginal release The Beach House . Produced by Diego Andaluz. Associated Producers Jak-Luke Sharp, Jakub Flasz and Ror...

Our team of global contributors discuss more new releases of the past week, including Tom Hanks’  Apple TV+ streaming release Greyhound, Charlieze Theron & Gina Prince-Bythewood’s Netflix superhero comic book adaptation The Old Guard, and Corey Finley’s Hugh Jackman starring HBO film Bad Education that premiered at TIFF. || 00:38 - Greyhound | 23:43 - The Old Guard| 59:08 - Bad Education...

In this episode, Matt Neglia of the Next Best Picture podcast joins our team of global contributors to discuss our thoughts on the upcoming Academy Awards (and the chances of films like Tenet, Mank, Minari, Bond, and more), alongside Andy Samberg & Cristin Milloti’s Sundance hit Palm Springs from Neon and Hulu, & A24 & Kelly Reichardt’s first major VOD release First Cow. || 00:43 - Fir...

In this episode, our roundtable of  writers Jak-Luke Sharp, George Lewis, Paul Anderson and Rory Marsh discuss the critically acclaimed and recently acquired Dinsey+ exclusive Hamilton , the diabolical Homemade short film anthology series from NETFLIX, Justin Kurzel’s return behind the camera True History of the Kelly Gang , and as usual our personal weekly reccomendations. Produced by Diego...

In this episode, our roundtable of writers Jak-Luke Sharp, Rory Marsh, George Lewis, Paul Anderson and Pietro Falcone discuss the directorial debut of Natalie Erika James’ in Relic , Shannon Murphy’s Babyteeh and the outstanding performance from Ben Mendelsohn, and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s english language diretching bow with The Truth, plus our weekly recommendations for the audience.  || 00...

In this episode, our roundtable of writers Jak-Luke Sharp, Carson Timar and Hillary White hold a roundtable to discuss all things LGBTQ+ cinema in support of pride month. Beginning with our own individual beginnings of watching LGBTQ+ cinema for the first time, discussing LGBTQ+ representation, independent vs Blockbuster inclusion on the LGBTQ+ community, the future of LGBTQ cinema, our favou...

In this episode, our team of global contributors are joined by Paul Anderson (host of Strangers In A Cinema) as they discuss the extravagant hilarity of Will Ferrell and Rachel McAdams’ Netflix Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, why Olivier Assayas’ disappointing Wasp Network (starring Ana De Armas and Penelope Cruz) issues as a feature film, the perplexing and embarrassing failure o...

In this episode, our team of global writers are joined by Taylor Baker (host and creator of Drink in the Movies) as we discuss whether Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s comeback film 7500 successfully overcomes the tired racist tropes seen in hijacking films, the intriguing creation of Martin Scorsese and Josephine Decker’s new indie film Shirley (starting Elizabeth Moss), and the feminist relevance of Eliza...

In this episode, our team of global writers discuss the importance of the Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee's powerful career, the failure of Artemis Fowl and Disney's overall diversity problem, how The King of Staten Island shows promise for both Pete Davidson and the VOD market, and the Oscar chances of Spike Lee's latest joint and many other recently-announced films. || 00:54 - Artemis Fowl and Disney’s d...

In this episode, our team of global writers discuss Shane Carruth’s unorthodox career, the reemergence of his unmade magnum opus A Topiary, what’s going on with Christopher Nolan’s TENET, the trouble with Ryan Gosling & Universal’s monstrous new attempt at an extended universe, and the buzziest new film on the indie festival circuit: The Wanting Mare. || 00:50 - Solving the paradoxical release...