The A24 Project

Lee and Dallas review The Kill Team and joining us is critic Kelechi Ehenulo to discuss Trey Edward Shults and A24's third feature together, Waves. 'The Kill Team' is based on a true story, when Andrew Briggman—a young soldier in the US invasion of Afghanistan—witnesses other recruits killing innocent civilians under the direction of a sadistic Sergeant, he considers reporting them to higher-ups....

Lee is joined by actress Imani Lewis to discuss her performance as Aniyah in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade. Imani takes us behind the scenes on her casting and the making of Eighth Grade, her career so far and shares with us some exciting upcoming projects.

Lee and Dallas turn their attention to the second A24 feature from Robert Eggers, The Lighthouse and the first Apple/A24 movie, The Elephant Queen. The Lighthouse stars Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe as two lighthouse keepers trying to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. We're joined for interviews by Robert Eggers, Valeriia Karman who...

Lee is joined by musician and actor Delano Montgomery who plays Jake, an arrogant Christian who comes into conflict with Ethan Hawke's Reverend Toller at an Abundant Life youth event in Paul Schrader's First Reformed.

Dallas and Lee continue their journey through A24's 2019 filmography with reviews of The Death of Dick Long and Low Tide. Directed by Daniel Scheinert, The Death of Dick Long takes place after the Dick's passing and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama. We've got bonus interviews with the films stars Michael Abbott J...

Lee is joined by actor Jake Ryan to discuss his unforgettable starring role as Gabe in Bo Burnham's Eighth Grade. Jake shares his experiences working with Wes Anderson on Moonrise Kingdom and Isle of Dogs, The Coen Brothers and recently with the Safdie Brothers on another a24 hit, Uncut Gems.

Lee and Dallas look at two A24 films that started as acclaimed short films, Skin and Share. Skin features Jamie Bell as a destitute young man, raised by racist skinheads and notorious among white supremacists, turns his back on hatred and violence to transform his life, with the help of a black activist and the woman he loves. We hear from the films Academy Award winning writer/director, Guy Natti...

Lee is joined by independent filmmaker Joshua Z Weinstein and the writer/director of Menashe, the story of a widower within Brooklyn’s ultra-orthodox Jewish community who battles for custody of his son.

Dallas and Lee turn their attention to two of the most popular films in the A24 filmography, Midsommar and The Farewell. Ari Aster's Midsommar follows a couple who travel to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. Taking us behind the scenes a...

Lee is joined by by actress Elanna White to discuss her experience and perfomance as an Abundant Life church choir singer in Paul Schrader's First Reformed.

Dallas and Lee turn their attention to a fantastic double feature of The Souvenir and joining us is Kelechi Ehenulo to discuss The Last Black Man In San Francisco and we hear from its co-writer and director, Joe Talbot who we interviewed last year at the London Film Festival. In A24 Hour News we discuss the rights to Under The Skin, Olivier Assayas developing a Irma Vep TV series and preview next...

Lee is joined by Midsommar's Rebecka Johnston to discuss her performance as Ulrika in Ari Aster's film. Rebecka takes us behind the scenes and shares her experiences working on the incredible Hårga village set, shooting the unforgettable sex ritual scene, working with an incredible cast and Ari Aster, her performance and vocal talents, and much more.

Dallas and Lee turn their attention to Native Son and welcome Brianna Zigler to review Under The Silver Lake and the films composer Disasterpeace to take us behind the scenes of David Robert Mitchell's film. In A24 Hour News we discuss the Under the Skin tv series, the A24 auction and preview next weeks interview with Midsommar's Rebecka Johnston. Native Son stars Moonlight's Ashton Sanders as a y...

Lee is joined in lockdown by filmmaker and the writer/director of A Ghost Story and The Green Knight, David Lowery for a deep dive behind the scenes discussion.

Lee and Dallas continue their journey through the A24 filmography by reviewing Gloria Bell and High Life. In A24 Hour News, we discuss Dallas going viral with his homemade Uncut Gems board game and we preview next weeks interview with A Ghost Story and The Green Knight's writer/director David Lowery. In Gloria Bell, Julianne Moore stars as Gloria, a free-spirited divorcée who spends her days at a...

Lee is joined by filmmaker Kevin McMullin to discuss his debut feature, Low Tide. 'Low Tide' follows Alan, Red, and Smitty who spend high summer on the Jersey Shore roving the boardwalk and getting into trouble. But the discovery of good old fashioned treasure sets the friends on an escalating course of suspicion and violence in this atmospheric thriller.

Lee and Dallas review Climax and The Hole In The Ground. From writer/director Gaspar Noé , 'Climax' sees young dancers gather in a remote and empty school building to rehearse on a cold and wintry night. The all-night celebration soon turns into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn that their sangria is laced with LSD. Trying to escape her broken past in 'The Hole In The Ground', Sarah O’Neil...

Lee is joined by Midsommar's Klaudia Csányi who shares how she went from cast assistant on Ari Aster's second feature to the role of Dani, Terri's suicidal sister. Klaudia takes us behind the scenes of Midsommar, working on the Holga set, working with Florence Pugh and the amazing cast, why Budapest is becoming a growing film capital in Europe, and much more.

Lee and Dallas continue their journey through the A24 filmography by discussing Mid90s and Outlaws. Mid90s follows Stevie, a thirteen-year-old in 1990s-era Los Angeles who spends his summer navigating between his troubled home life and a group of new friends that he meets at a Motor Avenue skate shop. Outlaws is set within the Australian primal underworld of outlaw motorcycle club gangs. It follow...

Lee is joined by filmmaker Kyle Newman, the director behind Barely Lethal. Hailee Steinfeld stars as a 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a “normal” adolescence who fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. Kyle talks about his career as a filmmaker, the making of the highly popular Fanboys film and his association with Star Wars, taking us behind the scen...

Dallas and Lee turn their attention to two lesser discussed A24 films, Slice and The Children Act. Slice is set in a spooky small town, where a slew of pizza delivery boys are slain on the job, two daring survivors set out to catch the culprits behind the cryptic crime spree. British movie The Children Act takes place in the midst of a marital crisis, when a High Court judge must decide if she sho...

Lee is joined by Claire Tran to discuss her role as Mink in Claire Denis' Sci-Fi drama, High Life. Claire shares with us her journey to a career within the creative industry, what it's like being directed by Claire Denis , her experience on the set of High Life, working with the amazing High Life Cast and alongside Mia Goth and Robert Pattinson, her space boot camp before shooting the film, and mu...

Lee and Dallas review Never Goin' Back and A Prayer Before Dawn. Augustine Frizzell's debut feature Never Goin' Back follows waitresses Angela and Jessie who dream of leaving their low-rent diner and heading to Galveston, Texas. They soon find themselves on the streets of Dallas, trying to come up with increasingly wild schemes to raise some much-needed cash. A Prayer Before Dawn is the true story...

Lee is joined by Wayne Diamond to discuss his unforgettable appearance in the climax of Uncut Gems as the 'High Roller'. Wayne talks about his decade plus relationship with the Safdie brothers, his role in Uncut Gems, working with Adam Sandler and Julia Fox, the reaction to the film and his role, Wayne's amazing life story and career within the fashion industry, and much more.

Lee and Dallas review two A24 coming of age films, Eighth Grade and Hot Summer Night. In Eighth Grade, Kayla, an introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school. We also hear from the films writer/director Bo Burnham and star Catherine Oliviere about the making of this modern classic. Hot Summer Nights is set during th...