The Movie Podcast

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Writer and Director Rian Johnson, along with Daniel Craig to discuss the latest Benoit Blanc whodunit, WAKE UP DEAD MAN: A Knives Out Mystery. When young priest Jud Duplenticy (Josh O’Connor) is sent to assist charismatic firebrand Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin), it’s clear that all is not well in the pews. Wicks’s mod...

It belongs in a museum! On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Troy Baker returns to the show alongside MachineGames Creative Director Axel Torvenius to celebrate the 1 Year Anniversary release of Indiana Jones and The Great Circle. Set after Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones embarks on a globe-spanning adventure—from Vatican City to the Giza pyramids and Sukhothai—to stop rival groups from ha...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel returns from the merriest time of the year at Disneyland and shares all about his trip, from pin trading and delicious food to the best rides and seasonal surprises. Thank you to our friends at Disney Parks for the invite! Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast platforms, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO. Let's talk about it. Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast platforms, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz sit down in Toronto with Wagner Moura to discuss his new film THE SECRET AGENT. Set during Carnival in 1977 Recife, a widower and tech researcher (Wagner Moura) becomes a target of Brazil’s dictatorship and joins forces with a mysterious woman to escape the country with his son. Kleber Mendonça Filho delivers a thrilling, unpredictable epic...

The season of gift-giving has arrived! Join Daniel, Shahbaz, and Anthony as they share their Christmas gift recommendations for 2025 — including Kirby Air Riders, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, Apple Watch, LEGO, and so much more. They also tease The Movie Podcast's upcoming Christmas card by artist Stella Avolio. Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast platforms, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

DREAM BIG. Daniel, Shahbaz, and Anthony review Josh Safie's MARTY SUPREME starring Timothée Chalamet, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kevin O'Leary, Odessa A’zion, Abel Ferrara, and Tyler Okonma. In the film, Marty Mauser, a young man with a dream no one respects, goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness. Marty Supreme releases exclusively in theatres Christmas Day. Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Shahbaz and Anthony are joined by Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, John Early, and Director David Freyne to discuss their new film ETERNITY. After death, everybody gets one week to choose where to spend eternity. For Joan, Larry, and Luke, it is really a question of with whom to spend it. Joan must choose between her first love, who died in...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz head into the Upside Down with STRANGER THINGS cast members Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, and Jamie Campbell Bower to discuss the final season of the series. The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished — his whereabouts...

IT’S ZOOTOPIA WEEK! On this WILD episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel sits down with the voice cast of ZOOTOPIA 2, including Ginnifer Goodwin (Judy Hopps), Jason Bateman (Nick Wilde), Ke Huy Quan (Gary De’Snake), and Fortune Feimster (Nibbles Maplestick). We then head to Walt Disney Animation Studios in Burbank, California, to connect with the Animation Team behind the film, including Directors Ja...

We don’t have friends. We got family. On today's episode of The Movie Podcast, we're delighted to be joined by Author Barry Hertz to discuss his book WELCOME TO THE FAMILY: THE EXPLOSIVE STORY BEHIND FAST & FURIOUS. The book is an exclusive look inside the surprising history and contentious future of Hollywood’s most unlikely blockbuster—the Fast & Furious franchise—a series that uncannily anticip...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Shahbaz is joined by Vince Gilligan, creator of the Apple TV Original Series PLURIBUS, along with stars Rhea Seehorn and Karolina Wydra. The series is a highly anticipated drama from Vince Gilligan, writer and director of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul. Starring Rhea Seehorn, who earned two Emmy nominations for her work on Better Call Saul, th...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined legendary Writer and Director Edgar Wright and the one and only Lee Pace to discuss their new film THE RUNNING MAN. In a near-future society, The Running Man is the top-rated show on television—a deadly competition where contestants, known as Runners, must survive 30 days while being hunted by professional assassins, with every mo...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel sits down in Toronto with Elle Fanning and Stellan Skarsgård to discuss their work in Joachim Trier's SENTIMENTAL VALUE. In the film, sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she so...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Mia Goth to discuss her latest work in Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Director Dan Trachtenberg and newcomer Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi to discuss PREDATOR: BADLANDS. The film is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. 20th Century Studios’ PRE...

Daniel, Shahbaz, and Anthony review Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi, Mia Goth, Felix Kammerer, Lars Mikkelsen, David Bradley, Charles Dance, and Christoph Waltz. Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley's classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that u...

Daniel, Shahbaz, and Anthony review Dan Trachtenberg's PREDATOR: BADLANDS starring Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi. The film is set in the future on a remote planet, where a young Predator, outcast from his clan, finds an unlikely ally in Thia and embarks on a treacherous journey in search of the ultimate adversary. 20th Century Studios’ PREDATOR: BADLANDS opens exclusively in the...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast… we’re still recovering from the Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series heartbreak, but hey... at least we have Pokémon Legends: Z-A, Ghost of Yōtei, and Christopher Nolan stealing IMAX screens from Spider-Man to distract us. Watch and listen to The Movie Podcast now on all podcast platforms, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Anthony are joined by Showrunner and Executive Producer Daniel Amigone to discuss Season 2 of Prime Video's FACEOFF: Inside the NHL. The latest season of the series takes fans behind-the-scenes with athletes who display an extraordinary blend of skill, determination, and sacrifice required to excel in one of the world’s most demanding sports. See Si...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel, Shahbaz, and Anthony are joined by Writer, Director, and fellow Canadian R. T. Thorne to discuss his latest film 40 ACRES. In the film, Hailey Freeman (Danielle Deadwyler) and her family are the last descendants of African American farmers who settled in rural Canada after the first Civil War. In a famine-decimated near future, they now struggle to saf...

On this very special edition of The Movie Podcast, we're honoured to be joined by Oliver Schusser, Vice President of Apple Music, Apple TV, Sports and Beats. Oliver joined Apple in 2004 to help Apple expand iTunes into Europe and was promoted to VP of Apple Music in 2018. Schusser has been strongly associated with music and supporting artists, including the Apple Music Festival, which ran for a de...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz are joined by Writer and Director Chris Stuckmann to discuss his debut film SHELBY OAKS, the most-funded horror film project on Kickstarter ever. Shot as a traditional feature, but with some elements of found footage, Shelby Oaks is a horror film about missing paranormal investigators, the dark legacy they uncovered, and the far-reaching eff...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel hits the road to The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey to sit down with friend of the show Odessa Young and discuss her new film SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE. The film stars Jeremy Allen White and chronicles the making of Bruce Springsteen’s 1982 “Nebraska” album when he was a young musician on the cusp of global superstardom, struggling to...

On this episode of The Movie Podcast, Daniel and Shahbaz sit down in Toronto with NCIS legends Michael Weatherly and Cote de Pablo to discuss their new series NCIS: TONY & ZIVA. The series picks up as Tony and Ziva have been raising their daughter, Tali, together. When Tony’s security company is attacked, they must go on the run across Europe, try to figure out who is after them and maybe even lea...