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Shogun – Season 1 Episode 3 “Tomorrow Is Tomorrow” In the latest episode of our podcast, for the episode entitled “Tomorrow is Tomorrow,” Paul, Gabby, and Inez dive deep into the heart-stopping moments of F/X’s “Shogun” series. This week’s focus is on the gripping narrative where Toranaga and his allies narrowly escape an ambush in the dense fo...

Shogun Ep. 1 – Anjin Embark on an epic exploration of F/X’s latest sensation, “Shogun,” with your insightful hosts Paul, Inez, and Gabby on Tales From the Shogunate . Our engaging trio has just unveiled their thought-provoking analysis of the miniseries’ riveting first two episodes (Anjin and Servants of Two Masters), setting the stage for a journey filled with intrig...

Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick!  One of the unsung positions in your favorite TV show or movie is the Production Manager. The Production Manager is charged with keeping many aspects of a production on time and on budget, to say nothing of securing the perfect shooting locations. This week, Beth and Caroline speak with one of the best Production Manage...

Welcome to Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick!  In the age of technology, the landscape of making television and films has changed with the rise of the graphic designer. Whether it’s creating Peter Florrick’s bespoke political campaign posters that hang on a wall in the background of a shot or creating a seamlessly photoshopped picture that will sit on a...

Welcome to Season 5 of Decorating the Set: From Hollywood to Your Home with Beth Kushnick!  Beth and Caroline are back for a brand new season of pulling back the curtain on the magic of making television and film, and bringing the tips and tricks of the pros right into your home! This week, the ladies sit down with Noelle Giddings, an immensely talented artist whose tremendous career has taken her...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast , Caroline and Mike (finally) discuss The Gilded Age Season 2 Finale, Episode 8, “In Terms of Winning and Losing”! Join in the conversation on Twit...

Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 8 “Adamantine”. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. The inaugural season of MGM+’s  Beacon 23 comes down to “Adamantine”. In an episode invoking an unbreakable quality in its title, the occupants and visitors to the beacon each made their case as to whom the title best describes. Aster’s drive to learn about the rocks she came to know as re...

Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 7 “End Transmission”. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. Suddenly, Aster remembers that she was born and partially raised on Beacon 23. Alright. Let’s just accept that so we can move on with the story. After all, many more important things happen in “End Transmission” than Aster’s conveniently timed epiphany. Kier returns to the beacon, bu...

Beacon 23 – Season 1 Episode 6 “Beacon Twenty Three”. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. Another episode outside the timeline concerning Halan and Aster, “Beacon Twenty Three” fills in even more of the Beacon’s story. In Bart’s possibly biased retelling of his own history, we learned about Dr. Ree Avalon’s tenure as the Beacon’s first keeper. It wa...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast , Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 7 of Season 2, “Wonders Never Cease”! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Gro...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast , Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 6 of Season 2, “Warning Shots”! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, Th...

Beacon 23 Season 1 Episode 5 “Rocky”. Aster (Lena Headey) and Halan (Stephan James) in the cupola watching Rocky’s friends outside the beacon. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. When you saw the title of this episode, were you thinking of the fictional boxing hero from Philadelphia? Or did you think it referred to a talking space rock? Given the wacky directions things are starting t...

Beacon 23 – Season 1 Episode 4 “God in the Machine”. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. With a quick jump back in time 180 years before the previously seen events of the show, viewers were given their first glimpse of the size and galactic impact of what’s been happening on Beacon 23. In “God in the Machine”, we met Milan Aleph, CIO of the mysterious, expansive QTA...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbra Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast , Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 5 of Season 2, “Close Enough to Touch”! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Gr...

Beacon 23 Episode 3 “Why Can’t We Go On As Three?”. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. If you’re looking at this podcast, wondering where our coverage for the second episode of Beacon 23 is, look at our premiere episode. That episode covers both the premiere episode of the series as well as the second since they both came out on the same day. THIS podcast is for the 3rd episode...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbra Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast , Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 4 of Season 2, “His Grace the Duke”! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group...

“Beacon 23 Premiere” Episodes 1 + 2. Image by MGM+. Copyright 2023. This has been a big year for Hollywood, but maybe even more so for novelist Hugh Howey. After the long build up to getting his landmark novel  Wool translated to the small screen in the form of AppleTV+’s “Silo”, Howey’s fans may not have expected to get a second dose of his work so soon. With M...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast , Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 3 of Season 2, “Head to Head”! Join in the conversation on Twitter at @podclubhouse and our Facebook Group, The...

Why are we, as humans, so certain that not only will we live to see the end times, but also that along the way, we will turn against each other in fundamentally brutal ways? At the heart of that brutality, at least with this episode’s movies, lies our own ability to continue on as a species. When forces conspire to prevent people from conceiving, what dystopian population control measures wi...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbra Nitke/HBO This week on a super-sized episode of New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast (yes, every week is super-sized as of late – we’ve missed talking about the show), Caroline and Mike discuss Episode 2 of S...

Welcome to New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast!   Join Caroline and Mike each week as they discuss HBO’s period drama, The Gilded Age ! Photograph by Barbara Nitke/HBO This week on a very late (we explain in the episode) and super-sized episode of New Money, Old Rules: The Gilded Age Podcast , Caroline and Mike are back to discuss the Season 2 Premiere, “You Don’t Even L...

Houston Horror Film Fest 2023 Exclusive Interview with Anjanette Clewis In a moment of serendipity, while visiting with a friend attending the 2023 Houston Horror Film Fest who was there exclusively to see Billy Zane, a woman sat next to me and started saying the most interesting things I’d heard all day. Terms like “scream queen” (in the context of actually being one) aren&#8217...

In this interview, Paul chats with a filmmaker he met briefly at the 2023 edition of the Houston Horror Film Festival. Her name is Victoria Wallace Kinkead and she was at the fest with her 1 minute horror short “In the Dark”. Victoria, with her producer Jason Leal, describes the process they used to create this short, some of their influences, and what they’ll be working on next....

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel Season 5 Episode 9 “Four Minutes” – Credit: Philippe Antonello/Prime Video Copyright: Amazon Studios 2023 Description: Rachel Brosnahan (Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel), Alfie Fuller (Dinah), Alex Borstein (Susie) It all comes down to “Four Minutes”. Four minutes for Midge to either set up her future or prove all of the naysayers right. Li...

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel – Season 5 Episode 8 “The Princess and the Plea”. Alex Borstein (Susie), Rachel Brosnahan (Miriam ‘Midge’ Maisel). Photo by Phillipe Antonella. Copyright 2023 Amazon Studios. A famous visitor to the Gordon Ford show gives Midge a little leverage, providing a path forward onto Gordon’s stage – but Susie has to be willing to help. M...