Cinema Callback

In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Alejandro González Iñárritu's Digger (2026), starring Tom Cruise. Through their signature voice note conversation format, the hosts exchange unfiltered reactions to an ambitious, divisive black comedy exploring political power, environmental catastrophe, billionaire egos, and the absurdities of modern society. Beginning...

BFI London Film Festival 2026 — 15 Films, 14 Days & One Epic Voice Note Journey | Cinema Callback Special For this special episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael take listeners inside the 2026 BFI London Film Festival , capturing two weeks of press screenings, cinematic discoveries, personal adventures, and unexpected disasters through the show's signature voice note conversation fo...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Clint Bentley’s Netflix film Train Dreams (2025), starring Joel Edgerton. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts exchange contrasting reactions to a beautifully photographed, deeply melancholic story about working-class life, grief, isolation, and the passage of time. Set against the changin...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Jay Duplass’s The Baltimorons , an unconventional indie holiday romance co-written by Duplass and Michael Strassner, and starring Strassner alongside Liz Larsen. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts unpack a film that begins in surprisingly dark territory. Cliff is a self-involved improv c...

As part of Cinema Callback’s Criterion Collection series, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Seijun Suzuki’s Gate of Flesh (1964), a bleak but surprisingly energetic portrait of sex workers attempting to survive among the ruins of postwar Tokyo. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore the strange contradiction at the heart of the film. Its world is define...

As part of Cinema Callback’s Criterion Collection series, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959), a stark, stripped back portrait of crime, isolation, and a young man who seems almost completely checked out from the world around him. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore Michel, a protagonist whose emotional numbness becom...

As part of Cinema Callback’s Criterion Collection series, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Theodore Witcher’s 1997 cult classic Love Jones, a soulful romantic drama powered by the sizzling energy and chemistry between Larenz Tate and Nia Long. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore the relationship between aspiring writer Darius and photographer Nina,...

As part of Cinema Callback’s Criterion Collection series, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (1958), one of the defining films of postwar Polish cinema. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore a film whose personal drama is inseparable from the complicated political history surrounding it. Originally watched as part of a...

Spoiler Warning: This episode contains full spoilers for Picnic at Hanging Rock. Criterion Week continues on Cinema Callback as Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Peter Weir’s 1975 cult classic Picnic at Hanging Rock, revisiting a film once dismissed as a boring teenage memory and discovering instead a remarkable piece of atmospheric horror. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation...

Cinema Callback kicks off Criterion Week with Andy and Michael taking a deep dive into Juzo Itami’s Tampopo (1985), the joyous and wonderfully eccentric Japanese classic that transforms the conventions of the American Western into a story about the pursuit of the perfect bowl of ramen. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore the film’s central story of a truc...

In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Ringo Lam’s Full Alert (1997), a forgotten gem of Hong Kong crime cinema that offers a grounded, hardboiled alternative to the more heightened action films of its era. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts respond to each other’s ideas over time, exploring why a film often overshadowed by th...

In this special Spooktober finale of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into The Phantom of the Opera (1925), the legendary silent horror film starring Lon Chaney in one of cinema's most iconic performances. Through the show's signature voice note conversation format, the hosts come at the film from very different perspectives, exploring what it means to experience a centur...

In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into In a Violent Nature (2024), Chris Nash's striking feature debut that reimagines the slasher film by placing the audience alongside the killer rather than his victims. Through the show's signature voice note conversation format, the hosts respond to each other's ideas over time, exploring how the film challenges...

Support Cinema Callback on Patreon for bonus content, exclusive extras, and help us continue making in-depth film discussions through our unique voice note format. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/CinemaCallback In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael revisit Audition (1999), Takashi Miike's landmark psychological horror that famously transforms from a quiet romantic melodrama...

Warning: This episode contains major spoilers for The Odyssey. In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael discuss Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, a sweeping reimagining of Homer's epic that blends mythological spectacle with psychological drama. Through the show's signature voice note conversation format, the hosts respond to each other's ideas over time, exploring wheth...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael dive deep into the 2024 horror sensation Longlegs , discussing whether Osgood Perkins’ latest nightmare is a genuine modern classic or a case of “all style, no substance.” Through the show’s signature voice note format, the conversation unfolds as they debate one of the most divisive horror films of recent years — a movie surrounded by mystery,...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael discuss Suspiria (1977), Dario Argento's visually astonishing horror masterpiece that rejects conventional storytelling in favour of pure atmosphere, emotion, and sensory experience. Through the show's signature voice note conversation format, the hosts respond to each other's ideas over time, unpacking a film that feels less like a narrative a...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael discuss The Blob (1988), Chuck Russell's gloriously gruesome remake that transformed a 1950s sci-fi B movie into one of the defining horror films of the practical effects era. Through the show's signature voice note conversation format, the hosts respond to each other's ideas over time, exploring not only the film itself but what it...

For this special Father’s Day episode of Cinema Callback , Andy is joined by his dad, Jim , to discuss Jim’s favourite film, A Month in the Country (1987). Using the show’s signature voice note format, father and son reflect on a film that means a great deal to one of them and is being experienced for the first time by the other, creating a unique conversation about cinema, memory, and the ways st...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael dive headfirst into Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest cinematic whirlwind, One Battle After Another . Told through the show’s signature voice note format, the conversation unfolds organically over time, with the hosts responding to each other’s ideas, challenging interpretations, and gradually building a picture of the film rather than delivering a...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael discuss Smile 2 (2024), Parker Finn’s ambitious follow up to the surprise horror hit, expanding the franchise’s central curse into the world of celebrity, performance, and public scrutiny. Through the show’s voice note conversation format, the hosts talk about the film’s heightened scale, its striking visual set pieces, and how it transforms ps...

In this episode of Cinema Callback , Andy and Michael discuss Soft & Quiet (2022), Beth de Araújo’s tense and deeply unsettling thriller that follows a group of women over the course of a single afternoon as casual prejudice spirals into something far darker. Through the show’s voice note conversation format, the hosts talk about the film’s real time structure, its use of a continuous take aes...

In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael discuss Together (2025), a relationship horror film that turns emotional closeness into something increasingly physical, disturbing, and inescapable. Through the show’s voice note conversation format, the hosts talk about the film’s blend of body horror and relationship drama, and how it uses genre to explore codependency, identity, and the fear...

In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael discuss Weapons (2025), the mysterious and deeply unsettling horror film that transforms a single unexplained event into a wider portrait of paranoia, grief, and social collapse. Through the show’s voice note conversation format, the hosts talk about the film’s fragmented storytelling, its atmosphere of creeping dread, and how it uses absence ra...

In this episode of Cinema Callback, Andy and Michael discuss Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959), Alain Resnais’s landmark exploration of memory, grief, and intimacy in the shadow of historical catastrophe. Through the show’s voice note conversation format, the hosts talk about the film’s fragmented structure, its blending of past and present, and how personal memory becomes inseparable from collective tr...