Following Films Podcast

OUR AMERICAN FAMILY is a radically honest, unfiltered portrait of a close-knit Philadelphia family fighting its greatest nemesis: generational addiction. Beginning with a pivotal, “nothing to lose” moment, then captured over the course of the following year, five family members tired of life plagued by addiction on center stage, each struggle to transcend their crippling histories: a mother w...

Larry Fessenden is an American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, and cinematographer. [1] He is the founder of the New York based independent production outfit Glass Eye Pix. His writer/director credits include No Telling (written with Beck Underwood, 1991), Habit (1997), and The Last Winter He has acted in numerous films including Like Me (2017), In a Valley of Violence (2016), We A...

Bill Yosses (born about 1952) is an American chef who is best known as co-author of the book Desserts For Dummies and for being the White House Executive Pastry Chef from 2007 to 2014. Yosses is now the owner of the pastry company Perfect Pie, which is based in New York City. I had Bill on the show to discuss his HULU original competitive baking show, BAKERS DOZEN.

A hardworking Maltese fisherman, Jesmark is faced with an agonizing choice. He can repair his leaky luzzu – a traditional, multicolored wooden fishing boat – in the hopes of eking out a meager living at sea for his wife and newborn son, just as his father and grandfather did before him. Or he can decommission it in exchange for an EU payout and cast his lot with a sinister black-market operation t...

Director of photography Checco Varese's most ambitious work yet can be seen in the gripping new limited series, Dopesick . The series is set to premiere Oct. 13 on Hulu. The eight, eye-opening episodes of the highly-anticipated show center around the opioid epidemic that is ravaging America and the corrupt Big Pharma, which created it. From the perspective of a distressed Virginia mining community...

In director Karen Cinorre’s bold new action fantasy film MAYDAY, Ana (Grace Van Patten) finds herself transported to a dreamlike and dangerous coastline. Once there, she joins a female army engaged in a never-ending war where the women lure men to their deaths with radio signals, like 20th century sirens. Though Ana finds strength in this exhilarating world, she comes to realize she is not the kil...

Originally intended for Gene Autry, Under Western Stars was the first starring role for Roy Rogers The newly remastered Under Western Stars will premiere at the Lone Pine Film Festival on Saturday, October 9, 2021, at 2:30 pm PST.   The screening will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Verdugo Post Producer, Steve Latshaw, and will feature Roger’s daughter Cheryl Rogers-Barnett along w...

Daniels Farrands returns to discuss his latest project ALIEEN WUORNOS: AMERICAN BOOGEYWOMAN Companion piece and ‘Monster' Prequel, AILEEN WUORNOS: AMERICAN BOOGEYWOMAN focuses on serial killer Aileen Wuornos stars Peyton List in the title role (Cobra Kai, Tobin Bell ("Jigsaw" from the Saw Franchise), Lydia Hearst (The Haunting Of Sharon Tate), Nick Vallelonga (Green Book), Swen Temmel (In Time, Ba...

Today I had the chance to speak with James Cullen Bressack about his latest film SURVIVE THE GAME. Bruce Willis (Pulp Fiction) and Chad Michael Murray (“Riverdale”) star in this explosive crime-thriller. When cop David (Willis) is injured in a drug bust gone wrong, his partner, Cal, pursues the two criminals who shot him to a remote farm owned by troubled vet Eric (Murray). As Cal and Eric plot th...

Today I'm joined by writer/director Ryan Kruger to discuss his Shudder exclusive film FRIED BARRY  In FRIED BARRY, Barry is a drug-addled degenerate who, after yet another bender, gets abducted by aliens. Barry takes a backseat as his alien visitor assumes control of his body and takes it for a joyride through Cape Town. What follows is an onslaught of drugs, sex and violence as Barry’s alien tour...

Ambar (Cristina Rodlo) is embarking on her American Dream after years spent dutifully tending to her terminally ill mother in Mexico. She arrives in Cleveland illegally, with very little money and unsuitable clothing for what’s expected to be the coldest winter on record. After finding cash-in-hand work at a local garment factory, she rents the cheapest room available from Red (Marc Menchaca) in a...

WITCH HUNT is directed and written by Elle Callahan  ( HEAD COUNT ), the film stars  Gideon Adlon  ( THE CRAFT: LEGACY, BLOCKERS ),  Abigail Cowen  ("Fate: The Winx Saga," "Chilling Adventures of Sabrina"), Christian Camargo (THE HURT LOCKER) , and Elizabeth Mitchell ("Lost," "The Expanse"). SYNOPSIS: In a modern America where magic is real and witches are persec...

Today I'm joined by Justin Lee the writer and director behind the new film APACHE JUNCTION APACHE JUNCTION is written and directed by Justin Lee (Badland, Swell, Big Legend) and stars Country music superstar Trace Adkins (Moms’ Night Out, The Lincoln Lawyer), Stuart Townsend (“Salem,” “Betrayal,” Queen of the Damned), Scout Taylor-Compton (Halloween I & II, The Runaways), Ed Morrone (Final Kill), ...

Today I'm joined by Peter Collins Campbell to discuss his film DIMLAND.  In an attempt to shake off her melancholy, a young woman escapes the city to her family's country cottage only to rediscover an old friend and a world she'd long forgotten. DIMLAND will be available on VOD 9/28. You can pre-order it on iTunes today!

Today I chat with director/writer Corinna Faith about her latest film THE POWER London, 1974. In THE POWER, as Britain prepares for electrical blackouts to sweep across the country, trainee nurse Val arrives for her first day at the crumbling East London Royal Infirmary. With most of the patients and staff evacuated to another hospital, Val must work the night shift in the empty building. Within t...

Today I'm joined by Rachel Boynton to discuss the Peacock original documentary CIVIL WAR (OR, WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE). CIVIL WAR (OR, WHO DO WE THINK WE ARE) , a timely and probing look at how Americans tell the story of their Civil War and its legacy of slavery and racism, will open in select theaters nationwide (including the IFC Center in NYC and Laemmle Santa Monica in LA) on Friday, September...

Today I chat with Nicholas Grabowsky about the novelization of Halloween 4 and his treatment for Shocker 2. After working as an extra in Hollywood for such films as Masters of the Universe and Night of the Creeps, and pursuing a modelling career, Grabowsky became the acting coach to Walter Koenig, who introduced Nicholas to a New York publisher of mass market paperback novels. His first novel, Pra...

Today I had the chance to speak with Nick Fituri Scown about his documentary film Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11. The film airs Wednesday, September 8 at 9:00 pm ET/PT on VICE TV. Film features interviews David Cross, Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron, Matthew Broderick, Aasif Mandvi, Rob Riggle, Nathan Lane, Gilbert Gottfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Kattan, Lewis Black, Doug Stanhope, Jimmy Carr,...

Today I'm joined by Daniel Farrands to discuss his latest film Ted Bundy: American Boogeyman. The was released in theaters on 8.16 and will be available on VOD 9.3 Daniel is a producer, director, and writer, known for The Amityville Murders , The Haunting of Sharon Tate , and Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers . He has also directed the definitive Elm Street and Friday the 13th documentaries Ne...

Jakob's Wife Review w/ Melissa of The Good Evening, Kiddies! Podcast Jakob's Wife is a 2021 American horror-thriller film directed and produced by Travis Stevens from a screenplay by Stevens, Kathy Charles, and Mark Steensland. The film stars Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, and Bonnie Aarons. Jakob's Wife is currently streaming on Shudder

Today I'm joined by Skyler Lawson to discuss his film WHELM. Set during the Great Depression, two Midwest brothers get tangled in a rivalry between a legendary bank robber and an eccentric young criminal. WHELM is currently available on all VOD platforms.

Today I'm joined by Jake Scott to discuss his latest film KIPCHOGE: THE LAST MILESTONE. We also discuss his woefully underrated film PLUNKETT AND MACLEANE and what to do if you bump into Tony Alva surfing. Kipchoge has dominated the running world for over 18 years and in an October 12, 2019 event in Vienna, the Kenyan marathoner became the first person in history to run 26.2 miles in under two hou...

Today I'm joined by Maximiliano Contenti to discuss his neo-giallo slasher film THE LAST MATINEE. A crazed killer begins to pick off audience members attending the last showing of a horror film in a small downtown cinema. Meanwhile, the only person to notice that something strange is going on is the projectionist's daughter. Dark Star Pictures and Bloody Disgusting will release the Uruguay-Argenti...

Today I'm joined by Tara Violet Niami. Tara has directed and shot short films Mirrors and Ghosts, The Sin, Liquid Damage, Impaired, and The Center Cannot Hold, Trapped, and Destroy My Beautiful Wickedness. Most recently she was the cinematographer of EYE WITHOUT A FACE and the production still photographer on the Focus Features film MUSTANG and Amir Naderi's film MAGIC LANTERN. EYE WITHOUT A FACE...

Russell (AJ Bowen -  You're Next, The Signal ) is a driver in Los Angeles who’s reeling from a series of bad decisions. While his life seems to be caught in a downward spiral, a business proposition from an alluring but enigmatic passenger named Charlotte (Sophie Dalah -  Unbroken, Dead Night ) proves too good to turn down. A simple ride turns deadly, catapulting Russell into an even dar...