Pod Casty For Me

Oh, what an ep! We're singing in beautiful harmony about Clint's 2014 Broadway adaptation JERSEY BOYS with returning guest Marie Bardi-Salinas (now with extra last name)! Join us as we talk directly to the camera about jukebox musicals, New Jersey's cultural dominance in the 2000s, falsetto masculinity, and why exactly Clint was the one to make this movie. Plus, Ian gets mad at Jake for liking thi...

Take me out to the freaking podcast! It's time for us to talk Clint Eastwood's final (to date) film acting for another director, Robert Lorenz's 2012 father-daughter baseball dramedy TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE. And who better to join us than producer-director, former aspiring pro baseballer, and returning guest Chadd Harbold? We discuss who exactly directed this thing, peak Amy Adams, the demon Justin...

Who better to cover a film about unrequited homoerotic lust so powerful it maybe destroyed US civil liberties forever than your two favorite co-hosts of Pod Casty For Me? That's right, it's just us guys this week covering J. EDGAR, Clint's 2011 biopic of FBI Director and anticommunist monster J. Edgar Hoover! We're going deep on this one, talking FBI history, gerontocracy, the film's depiction of...

Hold on to your hats, folks - we're talking Clint's 2010 near-death experience drama HEREAFTER with filmmakers and To The White Sea podcast hosts Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori! It's a wide-ranging chat about hyperlink cinema, visual effects, Matt Damon, and how we all fell for this sort of corny movie a lot more than we meant to. Plus, Jake has a big brain read about capitalist realism and Ray surpr...

I am the captain of my freaking PODCAST, more like! This week we're talking Clint Eastwood's 2009 true-story South African rugby drama INVICTUS, and Jake's other friend Ian - Ian Green - is joining the scrum! You might call this episode "IANVICTUS" if you weren't concerned about SEO or whatever!!! We're talking accents, sports movies, Nelson Mandela's legacy, the bad music, whether Clint really wa...

Fasten your seatbelts, listeners: we're taking Clint's 2008 hit GRAN TORINO for a spin with racism expert (and native Michigander) Andrew Ti! This is a loaded one, gang: we talk about the film's lingering effect on the Hmong diaspora community, if it could have been made about any ethnic minority, whether the many slurs are intended to be funny, fatherly advice, and we try to sell Andrew on Clint'...

Get ready to sue the LAPD, everybody: this week we're examining Clint's 2008 child abduction docudrama CHANGELING with critic and writer Bilge Ebiri! From the metatextual depth of Angelina Jolie's performance to the film's status as Clint's first ACAB movie to ongoing moves by the state to use forced institutionalization against unhoused and other "inconvenient" people to Bilge's childhood memorie...

Take this down, listeners - we're talking the second half of Clint Eastwood's 2006 WWII diptych, LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and we're joined by writer and filmmaker Comrade Yui! We're talking Ken Watanabe, connections to FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, both films' perspectives on propaganda, and Jake and Yui pressure Ian to acknowledge Clint's GOAThood. Check it out! Topics include: THE BATTLE OF OKINAWA, much...

Say cheese, listeners: this week we're taking a look at FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, the first part of Clint's 2006 diptych about the Battle of Iwo Jima, and we're joined by writer, lecturer, and Pacific Arts Movement Managing Director Glenn Heath, Jr.! We talk WWII cinema, shout out our favorite little guys in the cast, publicity machines, look ahead to LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA, and say the word "simulacru...

Get in the ring, listeners! We're going toe-to-toe with MILLION DOLLAR BABY, Clint Eastwood's 2004 Best Picture winning boxing drama, and we're joined by producer and Hollywood big-wig Jarrod Murray! It's all here, baby: race and class in boxing and the boxing film, the response from voices for disability rights, Hilary Swank's career since her Oscar, the whole Paul Haggis thing, Irish terms of en...

Climb aboard this relaxing cruise down the MYSTIC RIVER (2003) - jk this movie is actually a huge bummer but we have a wonderful time talking about it with New York Times bestselling author Jamie Loftus!!! We talk the mid-aughts trend of Boston crime downers, what this film has to say about the patriarchy, and we all weigh in on Sean Penn. Plus vampires.  Topics include: actors doing Boston accent...

Let your heart guide you...to listen to this episode! We're joined by writer and podcaster Molly Lambert to talk Clint's final detective movie (to date), 2002's Michael Connelly adaptation BLOOD WORK. We cover it all, from Long Beach to the Valley, organ transplant injustice to boat guys, Jeff Daniels's weird personal politics to Paul Rodriguez's weird personal politics. Be careful listening if yo...

If you wanna fly / come and take a ride / take a space ride with the Pod Casty boys, baby! Today we're launching into Eastwood's 2000 old-guys-rule astronaut film SPACE COWBOYS, and boy do we launch. We get into Donald Sutherland, James Garner, and every young boy's favorite adult man circa Y2K, Tommy Lee Jones, as well as the "Whitey on the Moon" of it all, comparisons to THE RIGHT STUFF and APOL...

For one week only: we're a TRUE CRIME podcast. We're going to make so much money as Jesse Hawken (writer/filmmaker/Junk Filter Podcast) joins us to cover Clint Eastwood's 1999 death row journalism thriller TRUE CRIME! We go deep on True Crime as a genre, capital punishment, and, of course, Speed Zoo. Give it a listen! Topics include: Clint's ageless sexual dynamism, OJ: MADE IN AMERICA, obviously...

Two tears in a bucket...time to podcast! We're interrogating Clint Eastwood's 1997 Savannah murder trial adaptation MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, and it's basically all context today, folks! The bestselling book of it all, the Kevin Spacey of it all, the Savannah of it all, and most importantly the Lady Chablis of it all - we're covering it. We also discuss notions of truth, Hoodoo as a...

Have a seat in your favorite concealed armchair, because it's time for our episode on Eastwood's 1997 not-quite-Clinton crime family thriller ABSOLUTE POWER! We're joined by Nima Shirazi, co-host of the Citations Needed podcast, to break down the film's parallels to the not-yet-broken Lewinsky scandal, the William Goldman of it all, and whether this film is just Clint explaining that his absent pa...

Who better to talk about Clint Eastwood's 1995 study of brief passion than two guys who have been best friends for over a decade and still don't make a lot of eye contact? Nobody, that's who! Today we're exploring THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, talking the beginning of Clint's bestseller-adaptation run, Meryl Streep, war brides, and why the movie is in part a rebuke of FORREST GUMP. Good ep, check...

Clint's onscreen for a few seconds, which means it is our duty to discuss Brad Silberling's 1995 CGI ghost-boy comedy CASPER. Luckily we have the encyclopedic mind of Jack Sinclair (prolific tweeter, artist formerly known as William Friedkin Truths) to help us untangle what, if anything, this film is about. Why don't they make the whole podcast out of the tangents? Find out today!! Topics include:...

We're back to discuss what might be Clint Eastwood's finest work, 1993's surrogate father crime film A PERFECT WORLD, with best friends (and Blank Check social media maven and filmmaker, respectively) Chadd Harbold and Marie Bardi! Let us gently abduct you and take you on a journey of Kevin Costner hotness debate, Clint's regrets as a father, talk about his working methods with people who have act...

You have a rendezvous with our 'cast, beloved listener! Today we're talking Wolfgang Petersen's 1993 Clint-starring Secret Service thriller IN THE LINE OF FIRE with writer Jonah Jeng! Join us for a potentially treasonous discussion of action cinema, official residences, disguises, John Malkovich, Clint-as-character-type, and more! Follow Jonah Jeng:  https://twitter.com/JonahJeng https://mubi.com/...

Finally: our episode on Clint Eastwood's 1992 western, UNFORGIVEN. https://www.podcastyforme.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

Fasten your seatbelt, folks, it's time for THE ROOKIE, Clint Eastwood's 1990 attempt to do Dirty Harry in big, loud LETHAL WEAPON mode with strange CLOUD ATLAS-style colorblind casting. Did it work? You gotta listen to find out, pal. I can't answer every little question you have! I have a podcast description to write, for h**ven's sake. As I was  trying to say, we get into toxic police self-mythol...

It's the ugliest godd*mn podcast you've ever seen, back again for another episode. We are pleased as punch to be talking about Clint Eastwood's 1990 adaptation WHITE HUNTER, BLACK HEART, a thinly-disguised account of the production of John Huston's THE AFRICAN QUEEN. A very good movie about a just-OK movie, we both agree! Join us for a chat about the sort of Larger-Than-Life white men like Huston...

Beep beep! What's that we've got stashed in our trunk? Look at that, it's a brand new episode on Buddy Van Horn's 1989 action comedy PINK CADILLAC, and with our friend Eric Markovits, no less! Hop on in for a discussion of Bernadette Peters, a whirlwind history of white supremacist groups in the 80s, MIDNIGHT RUN (again), Ian's exciting new segment, and a return to the Pine Cone Crime Zone. Check...

"Podcasts are the bebop of our time" - nobody has said this that I know of, but it could be true! Today we're talking Clint Eastwood's 1988 Charlie Parker biopic BIRD with writer, jazz critic, and lecturer Jordannah Elizabeth! We get into Forrest Whitaker's Cannes-winning performance, jazz on film, trying to be good little intersectional boys, what it means when white dudes make Charlie Parker bio...