Cinema Strolls

🎙️This time, Angel and Roman take it to the streets for a final walk of the season. As they revisit the year in film, the big question remains: will they finally live up to the podcast’s premise and regret some of their opinions? 🔥 Subscribe for more! 🎧 Listen on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/user/31s6k5ya7bqhk54n35tsw4vgbspe⁠ 🍏 Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/bg/podca...

Ep. 18 - Safdie v Safdie: Marty Supreme vs. The Smashing Machine 🎙️ Angel and Roman take it to the streets to talk Safdies - past, present, and suddenly divided future. From the brothers’ shared creative DNA to their diverging paths, they stroll through the Safdie filmography and the fandom around it. They compare performances and personas: The Rock staying firmly in marketing mode, tailored for l...

🎙️ Over the holidays, Angel and Roman finally caught up with The Running Man - and took a long stroll down Edgar Wright lane. What did he nail? Where did things wobble? And how does a filmmaker known for control, rhythm, and precision navigate a project like this? This one gets personal. Partly shot in Bulgaria, the film pulls Roman in for a fly-on-the-wall moment from the set - including stories...

🎙️ Angel and Roman take an end-of-the-year stroll discussing Rian Johnson’s new film Knives Out 3, and talk about his career - one of the last filmmakers of the Sundance generation. From Brick to Looper to Benoit Blanc’s Netflix era, they trace the highs, compromises, and contradictions of his filmography. They dig into the Netflix experience: the enshittified LUT look, the erosion of theatrical a...

🎙️ Angel and Roman step out of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent absolutely in love with it. Roman rewatched the whole filmography, so he arrives fully loaded. Who’s the “secret agent”? Why the title? We go into spoilers - with a clear warning if you haven’t seen it yet. We celebrate Udo Kier’s final film (rest in power), gush over Wagner Moura and the cast, dive into Brazilian lore, cinema...

🎙️ Fresh out of a sold-out Kinomania screening at Odeon - one of Bulgaria’s oldest and most beloved film festivals, where Kev and Vanessa liiiterally sat on the stairs in true cinemaniac fashion - Angel and Roman dive into Park Chan-wook’s latest fever dream (and yes, they kept mixing up the title). Based on a book once adapted by Costa-Gavras, the film opens with a cheeky wink to his version. Fro...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman step out of Bugonia - Yorgos Lanthimos’ latest descent into absurdity, power, and politics (or lack of) - and spill hot takes before they freeze in the cold. And yes, this week we’ve officially delivered our first shitty recording. Angel cosying up in a scarf? The rustle-n-bustle of some mic-on-clothes action. Sorry, we'll strive to do better. Tune in.🔥 Sub...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman dive into One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s long-awaited return - and maybe Roman’s favorite film they’ve watched for the podcast so far. They stroll through PTA’s entire filmography, from Boogie Nights to Phantom Thread, talking craft, chaos, and politics. Along the way, they drift into talk about Maya Rudolph and her mother, the American cultura...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman celebrate the 30th anniversary of Before Sunrise, diving into Linklater’s filmography, gushing about it and its sequel Before Sunset; the acting, the writing, the ending. Prepare for a walk-and-talk episode about the quintessential walk-and-talk movies. 🔥 Subscribe for more! 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/31s6k5ya7bqhk54n35tsw4vgbspe 🍏 Lis...

🎙️ Right after the screening, Angel and Roman dive into Zach Cregger’s follow-up to Barbarian . Did they laugh at the film or with it? Was the audience annoying — or did they flip the script and become the annoying ones this time? Along the way, there’s a Small Beans shoutout, a debate about what truly makes “pure horror,” and even the question of whether a Coen brothers episode might be on the ho...

🎙️ Angel Radev and Roman Pessarov step out of the cinema giddy over James Gunn’s Superman. They gush about his knack for damaged heroes and found families, reflect on how his auteur voice shines through the DC machine, and wander into talk about Zack Snyder, the studio system, and the future of superhero films. 🔥 Subscribe for more! 🎧 Listen on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/user/31s6k5ya7bq...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman stumble out of 28 Years Later and into a winding conversation about zombie fatigue and digital aesthetics. Is the film really about a society numbed by content overload? Did Danny Boyle and Alex Garland want the same thing from this sequel? Would Garland, left to his own devices, steer it more into post-Brexit/post-COVID drama? Somewhere between goofy genre fun...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman tackle Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning… and question whether the real mission is just getting through it. They talk Tom Cruise’s savior complex, the infantilization of blockbuster dialogue, and the death of danger in modern studio filmmaking. Somewhere between the thunder and chirping birds in the background, they wonder aloud: who are these movies eve...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman sink their teeth into Sinners - a Southern Gothic vampire tale with bite. They talk through the film’s bloody metaphors for cultural appropriation, assimilation, and the American dream gone corporate. From juke joints to Jay-Z, neoliberalism and the politics of survival, Sinners leads to a much bigger conversation on who gets to belong, who gets to feed - and wh...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman clash over Heat — Michael Mann’s 1995 crime saga on its 30th anniversary. Is its cold precision enough? Or should a film this iconic have cut deeper? They dig into the film’s visual mastery and emotional distance and is the rare episode where the hosts don't see eye-to-eye and sparks fly. 🔥 Subscribe for more! 🎧 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman talk all things Grand Theft Hamlet... or should we say Grand Theft Tangent? They start with a doc shot inside GTA V and end up detouring through the film industry, a Ukrainian machinima short, rock music, and more. Tune in to find out: has Roman finally seen Parasite? 👣 Recorded straight out of our producer’s home this time! Raw and unfiltered. 🔥 Subscribe for...

🎙️ In this episode, Angel and Roman unpack Steven Soderbergh’s Black Bag — a tight, twisty spy thriller with heart. They explore its slick direction, layered relationships, workplace paranoia, and why it just might be Soderbergh’s best in years. Along the way, they dive deep into his legacy: his stylish restraint, his digital era experiments, and the underrated magic of just being really, really g...

In this episode, Angel and Roman walk out of Mickey 17 , Bong Joon Ho’s chilly clone flick, forming hot takes in real time and trying to figure out whether Angel actually liked Robert Pattinson. They drift into talk about The Lighthouse , Yorgos Lanthimos, unfulfilled election outcome dreams, fascism, the Bong Joon Ho cinematic universe and much more.👣 Recorded straight out of the cinema. Raw. Un...

In this debut episode, Angel and Roman dive into Robert Eggers’ new  Nosferatu  right after watching the 1922 original — forming hot takes in real time, comparing vampire lore, and drifting into chat about style, subtext, sex, and studio systems. 👣 Recorded straight out of the cinema. Raw. Unfiltered. — ✨  Support the pod: Ko-fi →  ko-fi.com/cinemastrolls Patreon →  patreon.com/cinemastrolls 📸 ...