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This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. So the film exists in two states. As a complete object, it is monumental, fluid, overwhelming in its design. As a memory, it remains something fractured, two meals served separately, each with its own aftertaste. Synopsis: A female assassin seeks revenge on her former lover and squad members, all of whom left her for dead. Brendan Hodges S...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. Raimi leans into the tactile. Bodies are constantly under assault. Fluids, impact, proximity. It is gleeful in a way that borders on deranged, but always controlled. The disgust is not incidental. It is the joke. Synopsis: When an employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash,...

To celebrate the release of WOLFRAM ,   I talk with director Warwick Thornton about his gentle sequel to SWEET COUNTRY , surfacing untold Australian history, strange rhymes with BLUEY, and facing the challenge of making something with the power and impact of poison ( Sweet Country ) and being compelled to create an antidote ( Wolfram ). Synopsis: Set on the colonial frontier of the 1930s, in the s...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. The point was never the gig or the success. It is the continuity. The same faces, the same jokes, the same refusal to move on. Synopsis: When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008. Conor O'Donnell Co-host of the The B-Side podcast, writer at the  Film Stage ...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. What lingers is not the question of what the monster is. It is the feeling that the film has constructed a world where danger is both external and internal. The thing under the bed is no more or less real than the lives these characters have built.  Synopsis: An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbour for help in killing the monste...

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: NEWS - CRITERION COLLECTION: Hud | Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore | The Crying Game | Cruel Story of Youth | The Elephant Man 4K | Mike Mills Collection (Beginners | 20th Century Women | C’mon C’mon) ARROW VIDEO: InnerSpace 4K...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. What DaCosta understands is that this middle chapter does not need to climax. It needs to deepen. There is less propulsion than 28 Years Later , less of Boyle’s kinetic charge, but in its place is conceptual drift. Synopsis: As Spike is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson makes a discovery that could alter th...

The legendary film critic and historian and his “Maltin on Movies” co-host (and daughter!) join us to discuss their wonderful new book “Family Movie Night Menus: Recipes and Films for Unforgettable Times Together,” and one of their very favorite movies, Billy Wilder’s acidic media commentary “Ace in the Hole.”  Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircl...

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: NEWS: Wake in Fright 4K | Mortal Kombat Kollection | Audition 4K | Jackie Chan’s Breakout Hits! 4K | Bubba Ho-Tep 4K | The ’Burbs 4K | Them! 4K | Slither 4K | Day of the Dead 4K | The Money Pit 4K | Bowfinger 4K | The Flintstone...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. The film understands that time travel isn’t about fixing things. It’s about living with the knowledge that you probably won’t. Synopsis: Two friends navigate the dangerous world of organised crime, testing their loyalty and survival skills as they get deeper into the criminal underworld. DREW TAYLOR  is a reporter for The Wrap . He has wri...

The Decade Project  is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our  Patreon here for...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. What Polinger gets most right is the emotional texture of that age. Every difference feels dangerous. The film understands that for kids like these, survival often means invisibility until, one day, it doesn’t. Synopsis: A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiralling into psychological...

AV Club alum and “Happy Place” proprietor Nathan Rabin joins us to discuss his wonderful new book “The Fractured Mirror,” cataloging all of the movies *about* movies, as well as one of his strangest cultural obsessions: Tom Laughlin’s immensely profitable, culturally ubiquitous, and completely forgotten small-town martial arts social drama “Billy Jack.” Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. What lands most is the feeling — that old, almost unfashionable idea that people might come together, across distances and differences, to solve something bigger than themselves.  Synopsis: A science teacher wakes up alone on a spaceship. As his memory returns, he uncovers a mission to stop a mysterious substance killing Earth's sun an...

ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL  is a special mini-series from  One Heat Minute Productions , diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australi...

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: NEWS:  Stranger Things to physical media from Arrow & One Battle After Another Steelbook announcement. CRITERION COLLECTION: KILLER OF THE FLOWER MOON 4K RADIANCE:  CUTTER'S WAY 4K IMPRINT FILMS (ASIA): LUST, CAUTION IMP...

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: NEWS: K-POP Demon Hunters coming to Criterion Collection ARROW: EXCALIBUR UMBRELLA: NO ESCAPE UMBRELLA  LOOKING FOR ALIBRANDI UMBRELLA  ANGEL'S EGG Support:   JOIN THE ONE HEAT MINUTE PATREON FOR AS LITTLE AS $1 A MONTH Fol...

“Pop Culture Happy Hour” co-host Aisha Harris was herself a confused teen when she first watched Elia Kazan and William Inge’s confused-teen tale “Splendor in the Grass”; she joins us to discuss the timelessness of its conflicts, the mastery of Kazan’s direction, and the absolutely scorching chemistry of leads Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Priv...

This is our  NEW RELEASE  review   podcast,  ONE HOT TAKE. What makes Hamnet ultimately work is the force of its climax, a devastating convergence of Jessie Buckley's magnificent performance, memory, and grief-stricken belated recognition. Synopsis: After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find stren...

The Decade Project  is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our  Patreon here for...

The Decade Project  is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our  Patreon here for...

The Decade Project  is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our  Patreon here for...

The Decade Project  is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our  Patreon here for...

Long before he was the chief film critic for “Rolling Stone,” David Fear discovered “Guide for the Film Fanatic” at the mall bookstore and it became “my Bible, my Torah, my Quran.” He joins us to discuss his four-decade obsession with “Guide,” and the genius of Mel Brooks’s 1974 Universal horror valentine/spoof. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcirc...

Alexei Toliopoulos (The Last Video Store, Finding Drago, Total Reboot) and Blake Howard (One Heat Minute) team up to go beyond a single imprint and pick those discs that need to break their way into your shelves. In this episode, we discuss: UMBRELLA: DOGMA IMPRINT FILMS  THE LAST SEDUCTION TRANSMISSION RADIANCE  NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER UMBRELLA  TOX BOX RADIANCE THE OGRE OF ATHENS Support:   JOIN T...