The Film Stage Presents

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Jose Solís to discuss Regina King's One Night in Miami..., which is now on Amazon Prime. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will rece...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Fiona Underhill to discuss Thomas Vinterberg's Another Round, which is now available digitally. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters wi...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Jourdain Searles to discuss Steve McQueen's Small Axe (primarily Lovers Rock and Mangrove), which is now on Amazon Prime. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all...

As a holiday treat, we're sharing this special episode from The B-Side on our The Film Stage Show feed. If you haven't subscribed to The B-Side yet, make sure to do wherever you listen to podcasts! Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie directors! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. On this strangest of hol...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Robyn Bahr to discuss Pete Docter and Kemp Powers' Soul, which is now on Disney+. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a f...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan and Michael Snydel are joined by Glenn Heath Jr. to discuss Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Tenet. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a free Blu-ray/DVD. After bec...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Roxana Hadadi to discuss Sound of Metal, starring Riz Ahmed, which is now on Amazon Prime. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will re...

Welcome to The B-Side, from The Film Stage. Here we talk about movie stars! Not the movies that made them famous or kept them famous, but the ones that they made in between. And today we talk to the one-and-only Alessandro Nivola, a star who has played every manner of character in his illustrious, nearly twenty-five-year film career. Conor and I were lucky enough to speak with Nivola about his ent...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Anna Swanson to discuss David Fincher's Mank, which is now on Netflix. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a free Blu-ray...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Shayna Maci Warner to discuss Clea DuVall's Happiest Season, which is now on Hulu. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Jonah Koslofsky to discuss Sean Durkin's The Nest, now available digitally. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters will receive a free Bl...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Brianna Zigler to discuss Don Herztfeldt's World of Tomorrow trilogy, which is available on Vimeo. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Ryan Swen to discuss Pietro Marcello's Jack London adaptation Martin Eden, starring Luca Marinelli, which is now playing in Virtual Cinemas. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined again by Bilge Ebiri to discuss David R. Ellis' 2003 horror sequel Final Destination 2. Be sure to read his recent feature for Vulture about the horror series. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon c...

Welcome back to Intermission, a spin-off podcast from The Film Stage Show. Led by yours truly, Michael Snydel, I invite one guest to discuss an arthouse, foreign, or experimental film of their choice. For our tenth episode, I talked to Cody Corrall, an editor at Filmcred and a regular contributor to Chicago Reader and Cine-file, about Antonio Campos’ polarizing 2016 character study Christine, whic...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Allison Shoemaker to discuss Jason Woliner's Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, starring Sacha Baron Cohen and Maria Bakalova. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all n...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan and Bill Graham are reunited with Amanda Waltz to discuss Neil Marshall's The Descent on another Halloween-themed Classic episode. The horror gem is now streaming on Tubi. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time,...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Mary Beth McAndrews to carry through with their promise, stretching the definition of "classic" and celebrating the month of horror, by discussing The Mothman Prophecies, which is now on Amazon Prime. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Michael Snydel and Bill Graham are joined by Abby Olcese to discuss Kirsten Johnson's tragicomic 2020 documentary, Dick Johnson Is Dead, which is now streaming on Netflix. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Pat...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan and Michael Snydel are joined by Carrie Courogen to discuss Elaine May's 1976 film Mikey and Nicky, which is now on HBO Max, The Criterion Channel, and Tubi. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreo...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Matt Cipolla to discuss Antonio Campos' The Devil All the Time, which is now available on Netflix. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Patreon supporters...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Dom Sinacola to discuss Werner Herzog's Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans, which is now on Kanopy, Vudu, Hoopla, Peacock, and Roku. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Mary Beth McAndrews to discussing Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things, which is now available on Netflix. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Scout Tafoya to discuss Terrence Malick's 1978 masterpiece Days of Heaven, which is now available on Amazon Prime. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by becoming a Patreon contributor. For a limited time, all new Pa...

Welcome, one and all, to the latest episode of The Film Stage Show! Today, Brian Roan, Michael Snydel, and Bill Graham are joined by Clint Worthington to discuss Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke, which is now available digitally. Be sure to read our interview with director Michael Almereyda on thefilmstage.com. Enter our giveaways, get access to our private Slack channel, and support new episodes by be...