Following Films Podcast

Today I’m joined by Gigi Gaston to discuss her film 9 BULLETS. 9 BULLETS stars Lena Headey (Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones) as a former burlesque dancer turned author who suddenly becomes the guardian of her 11-year-old neighbor after he witnesses his parents’ murder. Along with Headey, the film stars Lala Anthony (Power) and Sam Worthington (Avatar) in supporting roles. You can read more abo...

Angelika Film Center , with operating theaters across the nation in New York City, Texas, Washington, D.C, California, and Virginia, and Sony Pictures Classics have launched a special "Bring A Friend Back To The Movies" initiative timed to the April 22 release of the upcoming Sony Pictures Classics dramatic comedy, The Duke starring Jim Broadbent and Helen Mirren.  In addition, Angelika Film...

A COWGIRL'S SONG is a coming-of-age drama that follows an aspiring but adrift teen singer who goes to live with her grandmother, once a country music legend, but has fallen on hard times after the death of her husband five years earlier. Together they overcome adversity and find redemption through their love of music. Today I’m joined by writer/director Timothy Armstrong and star Savannah Lee May...

Rhys lives in the zombie-infested wasteland. His job is to capture civilians and deliver them to what's left of the military. When Rhys captures a half-zombie-half-human named Grace, he comes to believe she is the key to ending the apocalypse. The latest feature from Australian filmmaking brother duo Kiah Roache-Turner and Tristan Roache-Turner , whose previous collaborations include their breakou...

Today I chat with Sam Jones about his latest documentary film Tony Hawk: Until The Wheels Fall Off. Centering around intimate new interviews with Tony Hawk himself, the film is an all-encompassing look at the skateboarder’s life, legendary career, and relationship with the sport with which he’s been synonymous for decades. Hawk, a pioneer of modern vertical skating who is still pushing his limits...

Today I'm joined by Hazel Doupe. She is best known for her role as Frances, an Irish Traveller teen who idolizes boxing legend Muhammad Ali and trains herself to become a boxer in the 2018 film Float Like a Butterfly , which premiered at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival .  In 2021, Doupe portrayed Ingrid in the RTÉ One thriller drama series Smother , which also starred Dervla Kirw...

Last night at the Oscars, in a truly unprecedented moment, Will Smith left his seat, walked on stage, and hit Chris Rock in the face. While many wondered for a second (including me) whether this all might have been staged, it clearly was not. According to Aron Solomon, chief legal analyst for Esquire Digital , “The question that millions of people are asking today is whether Will Smith’s actions l...

He's a Canadian, British, and naturalized American citizen. He started in amateur theatre and operatic societies as well as community cable television while still in high school. The first film was as an assistant makeup artist on "Joshua Then and Now" and continued working as assistant makeup on numerous projects including "Anne of Green Gables" 'The Fly" "The Believers" and "Frontier" While just...

Today I'm joined by Joey Ally, writer/director/star of THE HATER. The film satrs Joey Ally, Bruce Dern, Meredith Hagner, Ali Larter, Ian Harding, Nora Dunn Synopsis: After losing her job on a U.S. Senate campaign, a liberal environmentalist returns to her conservative Texas hometown to regroup. Upon learning her childhood nemesis is running for state legislature, she creates an ​elaborate scheme t...

EXPIRED  is written and directed by  Ivan Sen  ( Goldstone, Mystery Road ) and stars Ryan Kwanten  (“True Blood,”  Dead Silence ), Hugo Weaving  ( The Matrix  and  The Lord of the Rings  franchise), and  Jillian Nguyen  ("Clickbait"). SYNOPSIS: Ryan Kwanten (“True Blood”) and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix series) star in this futuristic thrill...

Thank you for listening to the Following Films Podcast. Today I’m joined by Jocelin Donahue to discuss her latest film OFFSEASON.  The film is about a woman who quickly returns to the isolated offshore island where her late mother is buried after receiving a mysterious letter that her mother’s gravesite has been vandalized. When she arrives, she discovers that the island is closing for the of...

Bernardo, a Latin performer of Mexican descent, started acting at his high school in Santa Ana, California, before receiving his B.A. in theater from UCLA, followed by the master’s program at the prestigious Actors Studio Drama School in New York City. Throughout his education he trained under notable teachers such as Moctesuma Esparza, Jose Luis Valenzuela, Jacque Heim at UCLA and Ron Leibman, Ba...

Studio 666 is an upcoming supernatural horror comedy film directed by B. J. McDonnell, with a screenplay by Jeff Buhler and Rebecca Hughes, based on a story from Dave Grohl. Grohl stars in the film alongside his Foo Fighters bandmates Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Pat Smear, Chris Shiflett, and Rami Jaffee, while Whitney Cummings, Leslie Grossman, Will Forte, Jenna Ortega and Jeff Garlin co-star. S...

Today I'm joined by Matt Glass and Jordan Wayne Long the co-directors behind GHOSTS OF THE OZARKS Tim Blake Nelson, David Arquette, Angela Bettis, Thomas Hobson, Phil Morris and Tara Perry star in this exciting new take on the southern ghost story. In post-Civil War Arkansas, a young doctor is mysteriously summoned to a remote town in the Ozarks only to discover that the utopian paradise is filled...

Today I'm joined by Barbara Crampton to discuss ALONE WITH YOU. As a young woman painstakingly prepares a romantic homecoming for her girlfriend, their apartment begins to feel more like a tomb when voices, shadows, and hallucinations reveal a truth she has been unwilling to face. In Theaters February 4, 2022 and On Demand, Digital and DVD February 8, 2022

Today I'm joined by director/writer Victor Gabriel to discuss one of the highlights of this years Sundance Film Festival, the short HALLELUJAH. After being stuck with the guardianship of their annoying, bookworm nephew, two brothers in Compton, California, have to decide if they are willing to take on the responsibility of being caretakers.

Josh is writer, filmmaker and Dread Central’s managing editor. He also hosts ‘Development Hell’ on the DREAD Podcast Network where he unearths unmade horror films. Josh was kind enough to sit down with me and chat about the Sundance film PIGGY. We also talk about DEAD END, HELLRAISER, FRIDAY THE 13th, HALLOWEEN, LEPRECHAUN, horror in space and the delightful genre trash we both love. I had a great...

Today I'm joined by Rachael DeCruz and Jeremy S. Levine to discuss their Sundance documentary THE PANOLA PROJECT Highlighting the heroic efforts of Dorothy Oliver, who vaccinated nearly 99% of her small town of Panola, Alabama against COVID-19, THE PANOLA PROJECT chronicles how an often-overlooked rural Black community came together in creative ways to survive.

RLJE Films, a business unit of AMC Networks, has picked up select rights to the horror film SUPERHOST  from Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thriller and the supernatural. RLJE Films will release  SUPERHOST on VOD, Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray on February 1, 2022.Directed and written by  Brandon Christensen  ( Z ,  Still/Born ),  S...

Today I'm joined by actor Malcolm Goodwin to discuss his role in the upcoming Amazon Prime series REACHER REACHER follows Jack Reacher (Alan Ritchson), a veteran military police investigator who has just recently entered civilian life. Reacher is a drifter, carrying no phone and the barest of essentials as he travels the country and explores the nation he once served. When Reacher arrives in the s...

Today I'm joined by director John Patton Ford to discuss his film EMILY THE CRIMINAL. Emily (Aubrey Plaza) is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record. Desperate for income, she takes a shady gig as a “dummy shopper,” buying goods with stolen credit cards supplied by a middleman named Youcef (Theo Rossi). Faced with a series of dead-end job intervie...

Los Angeles based Editor Michael Felker worked on the Sundance project Something In The Dirt , a film by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. In the film, when two neighbors witness supernatural events in their Los Angeles apartment building, they realize documenting the paranormal could inject some fame and fortune into their wasted lives. An ever-deeper, darker rabbit hole, their friendship frays a...

Episodes moving behind the pay wall

SALT IN MY SOUL will be released on VOD in the US, Canada, and UK & Ireland and key territories worldwide on January 25. Based on the posthumously published bestselling memoir of the same name, the film takes you inside the mind of a young woman who tries to live a full life while dying.  Mallory Smith was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three. In her twenty five-year battle...

Grammy award honoree, Songwriters Hall of Fame member, and BBC Lifetime Achievement Award recipient Don McLean will be performing live at the Fox Tucson Theatre on Thursday, February 24 at 7:30 p.m. He will be singing his classic hits “American Pie,” "Castles In The Air," "Vincent," as well as other fan favorites from throughout the years. McLean’s legendary voice will make for an unforgettable ni...