Overdue Rentals

As many of you know, both Mike and Matthew work for other outlets apart from Overdue Rentals. Today we are joined by Mike's boss, Managing editor of CinemaBlend, Sean O'Connell. Sean's new book about the career of Bruce Willis is hitting bookshelves on June 11th. While we discuss many of Bruce's work in our chat with Sean, we do focus on the Robert Zemeckis dark comedy, Death Becom...

We're just days away from the new season of The Great American Baking Show on Roku. While you will be able to watch the show starting Friday May 24th, you can also check out this week's Overdue Rental, Chocolat. We were honored to be joined by Bake Off/Baking Show judge Prue Leith to discuss the beloved show and both her personal connection and general love for Chocolat.

While we were pleased to have the one and only Paul Hollywood with us to talk about the upcoming new season of The Great American Baking Show on Roku, we're really covering all of the Bake Off/Baking Show talk before getting into Paul's Overdue Rental choice; 1997's Contact. Don't worry everyone, we spoke with Prue, too. Tune in next week for our talk with her. For now though, enjo...

Welcome one and all to the 100th episode of Overdue Rentals. Join Mike and Matthew as they discuss some of their favorite moments from some of their most beloved films. These are moments, scenes, monologues, music, cinematography, looks that immediately make you think you've just seen the most beautiful experience ever put onto film.

We're on a roll crossing off guests we wanted to have on since we started Overdue Rentals. Today we are talking to the one and only Scoot McNairy about his new slow burn thriller, Blood for Dust. We're also talking about the 2010 breakthrough feature from Gareth Edwards, Monsters. Blood for Dust is available in theaters on on digital this Friday, April 19th.

This has been a long time coming for us here at Overdue Rentals. One of our top guests we wanted to speak to has always been Dylan Baker. And one of the top choices we wanted to talk to him about was the 1991 John Candy starring, Delirious. Well, the day has finally come. Dylan joins us to talk about his new film, LaRoy, Texas; which is out in theaters and OnDemand this Friday, April 12th. But as...

Though almost everyone in the world knows the man, many people still haven't seen David Dastmalchian in his purest form. Through his collaborations with such pioneers as Christopher Nolan, Denis Villeneuve, and James Gunn (to name a few), his face has been plastered into the minds of movie goers everywhere. But there are many sides of Dastmalchian that many still haven't witnessed. So, whe...

If you're like us, you probably have seen a clip run across your social media feeds showing the time a TV show surprised and elderly man finding out the rest of the studio audience around him were the now grown children he helped save during the onset of WWII. That man was Nicholas Winton and the new film One Life is about the struggle Winton went through to save close to 1,000 children from b...

It's always a treat to have a great conversation with a guest. But our chat with the great Thomas Haden Church takes things to a whole new level. Joining us to discuss his new film, Accidental Texan we had to also speak with Thomas about his work on the overlooked, Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight. Little did we know that we would end up talking with the man about a myriad of other films and...

Though most people will associate Alex Winter with his performance as Bill S. Preston, Esq. in the Bill & Ted series, he has done so much great work both in front and behind the camera over the years. While Alex dropped in to talk to us about his new film, Destroy All Neighbors, we had to talk to him about his crown jewel; Freaked. Alex is one of the greatest people to chat with and he has so...

We get deep and insightful with our dear friend and colleague Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi about the 1998 Jim Carrey feature, The Truman Show. Close to 25 years later and this film is just as important as the day it came out. Join us as we talk reality TV, free will, and ancient Greek philosophy. Oh yeah, and Jim Carrey.

Our good friend Bevin and host of the new Tubi original chat show, Beverages with Bevin, joins us this week to talk about 1998s Pleasantville. Of course, we have many tangential discussions of Barbie and other films along the way. Grab your coloring books and listen along this pleasant chat before and after you check out the newest episode of Beverages with Bevin.

There are so many personal films out there from many seasoned filmmakers. Danish writer/director Niels Arden Oplev has made a film that is very close to his heart, and invited audiences in to learn and explore some hard to understand subjects. Rose is both touching and heavy, but always light and airy. Definitely check it out the first second you can. But, while we had Niels with us, we also had t...

Happy November! Let's kick off the month right with the one and only Neil Burger. His new film, The Marsh King's Daughter is out this Friday, November 3rd. But we are also talking about this week's Overdue Rental, his 2011 sleeper hit, Limitless. The Bradley Cooper/Robert DeNiro thriller was such a smash hit when it hit theaters and though it spawned a TV show of the same name, not eno...

Freddy Fazbear's is finally about finally be open for adoring fans to revel in the live action production of the popular jump scare video game. We are joined by the man who brought the visuals of the robotic over-run child's pizzeria, cinematographer Lyn Moncrief. Lyn chats about everything that went into brining the game to life as well as his Overdue Rental choice, the 2000 Janusz Kamińs...

Get your microphones and knives ready as this week we are talking about Repo! The Genetic Opera with our good friend and colleague and editor of Reel News Daily , Liz Whittemore. Strap in as this one is a wild time. Both the film and this discussion!

Let's kick off the Halloween season a week early! Even though he had just gotten off a plane in the middle of their world tour, Aunty Donna's Zachary Ruane didn't miss a step as he joined us to talk about George A. Romero's return to the zombie genre with 2005's, Land of the Dead. If you're listening to this on or around it's premiere date, you can still get ticket for...

He rode the world's fastest train, been body slammed by wrestlers, defeated rollercoasters, passed out from the G-Force of a centrifuge, eaten garlic bread that has been to the stratosphere; but today will be the toughest challenge he has faced, yet. YouTube presenter and host of the Lateral Podcast Tom Scott will talk about movies with Matt and Mike. Well, he's talking about a single movi...

Dear friend of the podcast and life in general; Max Evry dropped by to discuss his new book A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History. And, to keep things in the Lynchian family tree, we are discussing the Twin Peaks movie, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. A Masterpiece in Disarray: David Lynch’s Dune. An Oral History will be in stores on Sept. 19th, and you can still pre-order...

Everyone loves a part 2! Right? Welcome back to our discussion about the new film The Adults as this week we have Sophia Lillis joining us to talk about the sibling rivalry between herself, Michael Cera, and Hannah Gross. But this is Overdue Rentals, which means we have another Sophie Lillis film to talk about with her, and this time we have a lovely discussion about Gretel & Hansel for you, d...

Please note, this interview was recorded on June 13th, 2023, before the Sag/Aftra strike. This Friday see the release of The Adults, the new film starring Michael Cera, Sophia Lillis, and Hannah Gross as a group of siblings who are forced to come to terms with some of their issues they never got past from their youth. We caught the film this past June when the film was shown at the Tribeca Film Fe...

Where do we even start!? Bank robberies, Children's parties, Tasks, Ghosts, and Denzel--that just scratches the surface of what we are talking about with the one and only, Kiell Smith-Bynoe. From his role as Mike in the original BBC version of Ghosts (the character of Jay is his counterpart in the American version) to his recent stint as a contestant on series 15 of Taskmaster, Kiell shows no...

What a perfect storm of consequences. The legendary film maker Steve James is back with a new documentary, A Compassionate Spy. And the timing couldn't be more perfect as its subject was part of that little thing called The Manhattan Project. You know, you might have been inundated with the subject with it being the main focus of a little movie called Barbie...I mean Oppenheimer! We were lucky...

The Edinburgh Fringe Fest is quickly approaching. That means a lot of great new comedy will coming out of the historic festival and stand-up Dane Baptiste is returning with his new show, Bapsquire. Dane is a one of kind performer and we were blessed to have him join us to talk about his comedy as well as his Overdue Rental choice, 1994's, The Crow. Please join us for this wonderful and insight...

Who needs a good laugh? Well, you're lucky as we have comedian Huge Davies joining us for this episode. Huge's 2019 Edinburgh nominated show The Carpark will be available to stream starting June 20th on the 800 Pound Gorilla platform. Huge joined us to talk all about his approach to performing, building his special keyboard presentation system, and of course, his Overdue Rental choice; Ali...