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In the latest episode, the chief instigator of One Heat Minute,  Stu Coote,  and I discuss the retconned series finale of ANDOR, ROGUE ONE. Stu Coote : The co-host of the (retired) Sinner Files movie podcast is the chief instigator behind our cinematic deep-dive brand. One Heat Minute Productions WEBSITE: oneheatminute.com TWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute  & @OHMPods MERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/e...

Partners Katie Walsh  and  Blake Howard are back, and they've deputised Travis Woods to jump into the go-fast boat. The dust has settled on the Beyond Fest world premiere of “Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut”. A special exclusive screening has occurred in Sydney, Australia. Strap in. The Miami Nice Cut reigns supreme. Luck ran out.  Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exclusive wee...

Did you know that fear lives within your body, a creature that attaches itself to your spine that can only be subdued by screaming? True medical fact! At least that’s the premise of William Castle’s 1959 shocker, notorious for installing buzzers in audience members’ seats. Matt Singer joins us to share the love for Castle and Vincent Price — and to discuss his fantastic new book, “Funny Business:...

NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING SHOUT SELECT: Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut 4K — theatrical cut | alternate cut | Director’s Final Cut. RECEIVED / IN HAND THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL: The Little Drummer Girl Collector’s Edition. SECOND SIGHT: Sexy Beast 4K. IMPRINT FILMS: The Hunted 4K. LIONSGATE LIMITED: The Ninth Gate | Bless the Child | Arrival. VESTRON VIDEO: The Substitute 4K. TOY ROBOT: The Watc...

ONE HOT FEST – JFF is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Japanese Film Festival — from filmmaker and programmer interviews to reviews and discussions with guests and critics. To celebrate the 30th edition of the Japanese Film Festival in Australia, I talk with festival programmer Manisay Oudomvilay about steering the festival from pandemi...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger is enormous, strange, technically dazzling and so determined to be itself that even its misfires have a certain electricity. Synopsis: The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything. DREW TAYLOR  is...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. Matt Johnson's Tony understands more than a conventional coming-of-age story, it is a film about a young man discovering, with increasing discomfort, just how little he knows. Synopsis: A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape th...

“Every Time a Bell Rings: The Legacy of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ America’s Most Beloved Holiday Film” is Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen’s thoughtful, deeply researched, and beautifully composed meditation on Frank Capra’s 1946 classic. They join us to discuss its themes, its reputation, its peculiar history, and its ongoing legacy. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. The monsters are tactile, weird and genuinely disgusting, and Cregger lets them stay disgusting instead of cutting away. Hays and Ryan Holladay's score does the synth-pulse thing that Carpenter invented, but the intelligence is in the placement. Synopsis: A hapless courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital. He soon find...

NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING TOY ROBOT: Detroit Rock City 4K | Sharky’s Machine 4K | Passenger 57 4K CRITERION COLLECTION: The Shop Around the Corner 4K | The English Patient 4K | Grizzly Man | Divorce Italian Style 4K | Nashville 4K | Eclipse Series 50: Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba. IMPRINT FILMS: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) 4K/Blu-ray. WARNER BROS.: Interview with the Vampire 4K — upco...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. Lowery's answer is to refuse the psychological register entirely. Whatever sits unfinished between these two gets expelled as an actual vengeful presence, a thing with intent that has to be dealt with in the room. Synopsis: Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and f...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. Director Padraic McKinley keeps the value front and centre. The most abstract thing in a crime film becomes something with mass that pulls down on a spine. Synopsis: Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of...

Partners Katie Walsh  and  Blake Howard are back. Beyond Fest announced the world premiere of “Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut”. We learned of the announcement from Beyond Fest via an open wire. That is the hand we have been dealt: world premiere, three weeks out, a 4K restoration of a new version of Miami Vice. But is it the MIAMI NICE Cut? Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exc...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. My grandmother taped Looney Tunes off the TV onto three or four VHS cassettes for the grandkids, and we played them until the tape gave out. Seeing them again, in a courtroom, litigating: the tape is still running. Synopsis: After enduring years of malfunctioning products, Wile E. Coyote teams up with a local personal injury attorney to ta...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. Macon Blair has spent his directing career with America in the crosshairs and has never once fired from a pulpit. The target here is simple: money buys exemption. Synopsis: Two rock-bottom drivers transport a wealthy teen to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails th...

NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING IMPRINT: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — gigantic box set with interchangeable covers, multiple 4K/Blu-ray discs and memorabilia; November Australian release. RECEIVED / IN HAND SHOUT FACTORY: The Lost City of Z 4K. KINO LORBER: King Creole 4K | Harry and the Hendersons 4K | Terror Train 4K | Hang ’Em High 4K | 10 to Midnight | The Great Outdoors | Kiss of the Spi...

Our pal Sean Burns joins us to discuss how a near-death experience left him eager to revisit Bob Fosse’s 1979 examination of his own flaws, demons, indulgences, and professional grind. Come for the celebration of a New Hollywood classic, stay to watch Rob Marshall catch many, many strays! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of...

I sit down with the writer-director of I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore and the star of Blue Ruin for a two-hander that starts with IDIOTS,  his pitch-black road comedy co-written with Alex Orr, and ends somewhere deep in Michael Mann fan-casting. On Idiots : Dave Franco as a live wire, O'Shea Jackson Jr. as the raw nerve underneath the joke, and Mason Thames as a rich kid the film point...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. The strangest thing about The Dog Stars is how little it seems interested in its own possibilities. Synopsis: In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus wipes out humanity. Survivors face roaming scavengers called Reapers. Protagonist Hig, a pilot, survived the flu but lost his wife. Isaac Feldberg Isaac Feldberg is an entertainment journalist c...

This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE. If a movie glimpses the magic of life, for fractions of seconds, it is worthwhile. “Amziah” is a dose I wasn’t ready for. Synopsis: The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighbourhood to someplace unknown. Sean Burns Sean Burns is a film critic for WBUR’s Arts & Cul...

Blake Howard convenes a conclave with Sean Burns (WBUR) and Roxana Hadadi (Vulture) to sort the smoke from the fire. Inde Navarrette walked from Charlene Shiherlis to play Rogue — then maybe didn't walk at all. Underneath the trade churn, an older argument reignited: that Mann hasn't made a good film since Collateral , with Miami Vice , Public Enemies and Blackhat wheeled out as exhibits for the p...

Carmelita Valdez McKoy is a carnivorous watcher of movies, and has been her entire life. She shares the details of her cinematic education with us on this week’s episode, and her thoughts on David Cronenberg’s both of its moment and waaaaay ahead of its time smash-up of sci-fi, body horror, and media commentary. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about ou...

Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss: NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING CRITERION COLLECTION: Blue Heron | The Right Stuff 4K | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 4K | Wild at Heart 4K | Shoot the Piano Player 4K | Marie Antoinette 4K | Harold and Maude 4K | KPop Demon Hunte...

In the latest episode, I talk reunite the Light the Fuse team (Charles Hood and Drew Taylor) about James Gray's eras, and perhaps his greatest work, The Lost City of Z . DREW TAYLOR  is a reporter for The Wrap . He has written for The New York Times , Vulture , Vanity Fair , The Playlist , and Collider . He also wrote The Art of Onward , which gives an inside look at the making of the 2020 Pixar f...

ONE HOT FEST – MIFF is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Melbourne International Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics. To celebrate the World Premiere of Our Effed Up World at the Melbourne International Film Festival, I talk with director Alice Maio Mackay a...