ROGUE COMMENTARY

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  On this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by my former Empire magazine colleague Ian Nathan, writer and director of The Thing Expanded , a brand new five-hour documentary about John Carpenter’s The Thing that’s as packed as the ice around Outpost 31. A follow-up to Ian’s definitive documentar...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  We don’t normally do audio commentaries for documentaries, because they often don’t need that extra metatextual level of commentary, as they’re kind of self-explanatory. But as soon as I’d finished watching Homegrown , I was eager to speak with Michael Premo to discover more of the story behind...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  For this episode, I’m thrilled to have reunited the brilliant British actor Paul McGann with author and screenwriter John Collee, 35 years after Paul starred in Christopher Morahan’s perfect/no notes adaptation of John’s novel A Paper Mask. I’ll bet there is no bigger fan of 1990’s Paper Mask t...

Hello! Welcome to a very special edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  For this 'minisode', I’m excited to bring you a special preview of the brand new, exclusive audio commentary recorded by writer-director Luna Carmoon for her exquisite, critically-acclaimed film Hoard. The full commentary will be available only on Plumeria Pictures’ forthcoming Blu-ray o...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome critic John Bleasdale, author of The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick for an informed and informative walk through Malick’s 1973 masterpiece Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. Comments? Feedback? Suggestions? Ema...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  This episode is a bit different: ever mindful of the plight of the environment, it’s actually a recycled episode of the politics podcast Podcasting in Praxis with David, Jamie, Alasdair, Rob and James working out some issues with Alex Garland’s 2024 movie Civil War. The film was too much of a m...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  This episode is really personal for me, not only because Rupert Wainwright has been a good friend of mine for 25 years, but because Stigmata is the reason we met. While working on Divine Rites: The Story of Stigmata , a documentary about the film and the phenomenon, I wrote and pitched to Ruper...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by David Hughes.  For this episode, I’m joined by Damien Lewis, author of the non-fiction book The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , the first third of which is now a major motion picture directed by Guy Ritchie. I read – no, devoured the book before I saw the film, but if I hadn’t, it wouldn’t have mattered how m...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  For this episode, we’re joined by Swiss director Peter Luisi for a fascinating discussion about his new film The Last Screenwriter , the first film scripted entirely by A.I. – specifically ChatGPT4.0 Now, before you grab your pitchforks and burning torches and lay siege to Rogue Commentary HQ,...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by David Hughes.  For this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by director Alberto Corredor for a peek under the hood of his terrific 2023 horror movie BAGHEAD. When I first saw the film, reviewing it for Time Out , it had a very late embargo, which normally means you can expect the worst. But even though I didn’t g...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes.  For this episode, I’m thrilled to welcome Jen Johans, award-winning writer, film critics, essayist and historian, and host of the excellent Watch With Jen podcast. Now, that has really good guests, but Jen must be short for Jenerous because she always gives her guests more of the floor than she...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  ⁠⁠⁠David Hughes.⁠⁠⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome Gonzalo López-Gallego and José David Montero, director and cinematographer respectively of the terrific neo-noir American Star, in which Ian McShane plays an ex-soldier-turned-hitman who travels to Fuertaventura, one of the Canary Islands, to do...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  ⁠⁠David Hughes.⁠⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome Gonzalo López-Gallego and José David Montero, director and cinematographer respectively of the terrific neo-noir American Star, in which Ian McShane plays an ex-soldier-turned-hitman who travels to Fuertaventura, one of the Canary Islands, to do a...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  ⁠David Hughes.⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome Lee Roy Kunz, co-writer, co-director and star of the impressive horror movie Deliver Us (2023), which – as you know, because you wouldn’t listen to an audio commentary without seeing the film first – concerns a priest sent to investigate a nun who be...

Hello, and welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, ⁠David Hughes.⁠   This is a bittersweet episode; basically an edited and extended version of the audio commentary I recorded with director David Leland eighteen months before his death on Christmas Eve at the age of 82. The commentary was ostensibly for his 1990 drama The Big Man, starring Liam Neeson,...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  ⁠David Hughes.⁠ For this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by John Walsh , author of the exceptionally detailed, exhaustively researched and endlessly entertaining The Wicker Man: The Official Story of the Film , just out from Titan Books. We’re going to be watching the version of The Wicker Man known as T...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome the legendary Daniel Waters , screenwriter of Heathers, Demolition Man, Batman Returns and the film we’re here to talk about today: Hudson Hawk . It's well known that Hudson Hawk went wildly off the rails during production, but whether you love it...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome esteemed critic and essayist Priscilla Page for a walk through Phil Alden Robinson’s unimprovable 1992 classic Sneakers . The commentary was recorded for Plumeria Pictures’ formidable 30th anniversary Blu-ray release, which also includes two other comm...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  David Hughes. On this episode, we take a deep dive into Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake of J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 thriller Cape Fear , itself based on John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners , in which lawyer Sam Bowden and his family are terrorised by Max Cady, a violent rapist whom Sam testified agai...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome author Paul Tremblay for a walk through M. Night Shyamalan’s film Knock at the Cabin , adapted from Paul’s novel The Cabin at the End of the World . Being a fan of the book before I saw the film, I was fascinated by the story divergences between the so...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me,  David Hughes. This is our first episode to feature a documentary, which is not surprising because documentaries normally speak for themselves. But I think Electric Malady is such a unique presentation, I was really keen to discover the story of how it came to be, and some of the techniques that were used to...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome back my screenwriting hero and mentor Steven de Souza , who not only wrote some of our all-time favourite action movies – Die Hard, 48 Hours, Commando and, yes, The Running Man – but also several early, formative drafts of the infamous 1991 action-roman...

Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This episode is sponsored by boutique Blu-ray label Plumeria Pictures, whose latest release is The Big Man, aka Crossing the Line, an underrated 1990 drama with a blistering lead performance by Liam Neeson, and a cast that includes Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen, Billy Connolly, Hugh Grant, Peter Mu...

Hello! Welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. This episode is sponsored by boutique Blu-ray label Plumeria Pictures, whose latest release is The Big Man, aka Crossing the Line, an underrated 1990 drama with a blistering lead performance by Liam Neeson, and a cast that includes Joanne Whalley, Ian Bannen, Billy Connolly, Hugh Grant, Peter...

Hello! Welcome to the latest edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. For this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by Hayley Schore, co-screenwriter of Call Jane , Carol director Phyllis Nagy’s under-appreciated 2022 film about the "Janes", the underground group that gave Chicago women access to abortions in the pre-Roe v Wade years. Needless to say the film, w...