Uncut Gems Podcast

Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This is it! We have come to the end of our Soderbergh project and on this occasion we are discussing the last movie he directed...

In this episode of the show we are inching ever closer to the end of our Steven Soderbergh journey as we talk about one his most recent efforts, Kimi . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about how reliant Soderbergh has become on the quality of the scripts he directs, David Koepp's magic touch, and how a well-paced story can hide a lot of exposition using visuals alone....

In this episode of the show we close the year with a New Year's Party aboard the Terror Train ! Over the course of our conversation you will hear us argue the question if this movie is more a slasher or a whodunnit, if its central gimmick of " Halloween on a train" is enough to set the film apart from other movies in the genre and if there is anything special about Jamie Lee Curtis&#...

Here's a short teaser of the twelfth and final episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. We are finally coming to a close of our year-long journey through the cinema of John Cassavetes and we finish with Big Trouble . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about this movie being a job...

In this episode of the show we are getting ready for a Christmas zombie apocalypse together with the cast of Anna and the Apocalypse . Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about the many ways one could execute a gimmick, the idea of mashing up genres, how much this movie owes to Edgar Wright and whether it would have been better off if it had committed to either of the elements it was...

In this episode of the show we are continuing our December theme of Holiday Horror with the 2015 Krampus . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if this movie is a Christmas film, a dark fairy tale, a horror or a combination of all three, how much it owes to Joe Dante and Guillermo Del Toro, whether it is actually scary and if if even matters in the first place. We also talk...

Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are talking about Black Christmas in connection to the theme of Holiday Horror we are exploring on the main show. Joined by our great friend Jak, we are exploring the boundaries of the slasher t...

In this episode of the show we are beginning our December theme of Holiday Horror with the 1984 Silent Night, Deadly Night . Over the course of our chat you will hear us go into the controversy that saw this movie pulled from cinemas, the many ways it induced a moral panic, the idea of using a Christmas icon as an axe murderer, church methods for raising orphans, the legacy of this movie and much...

Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This month we are digging into Steven Soderbergh's quite recent outing, No Sudden Move . Over the course of our conversatio...

In this episode of the show we are catching up once more with one of the heroes of our 2023 conversations, Steven Soderbergh, as we talk about Let Them All Talk . Over the course of our chat you will hear us come back to the old questions of whether Soderbergh is making movies on autopilot, if he's revisiting modes of his youth, how the movie works as a film critic's film, what it says abo...

Here's a short teaser of the eleventh episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. In this episode of our 2023 John Cassavetes Marathon, we are talking about arguably the last great movie John Cassavetes directed, Love Streams . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about the finality of...

Here's a short teaser of the tenth episode of the 2023 edition of Uncut Gems Marathons where we will - one by one - re-trace the directorial career of John Cassavetes. In this episode of our 2023 John Cassavetes Marathon, we are talking about Gloria . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Cassavetes brushing shoulders with mainstream Hollywood, operating on the fringe...

In this episode of the show we are closing our November Bob Fosse retrospective with Fosse's final film, Star 80 . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about why Fosse would make a movie like that, the symmetry between Dorothy Stratten and Sharon Tate. Eric Roberts' turn as a sleazy psychopath, the sleaze of Hollywood, the 80s iconography and much, much more! Tune in a...

In this episode of the show, we gather to celebrate a momentous occasion, Randy's birthday, and as luck would have it, we are talking about his favourite film ever - All That Jazz ! Flanked by a duet of very special guests, Sarah and Jak, we discuss Bob Fosse's New Wave ways, Roy Scheider's phenomenal acting range and the movie's many meta-musical moments. We also spare a thought o...

Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. This month we are gathering to talk about Cabaret , arguably Bob Fosse's most universally acclaimed directorial effort. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us wonder if it is a musical, an e...

In this episode of the show, we assemble as The Fosse Posse to gallop through the cinema of one Bob Fosse. We begin with Sweet Charity , his 1969 musical with Shirley MacLaine, and Lenny , his 1974 new wave biopic of Lenny Bruce and his crusade against censorship. Over the course of our conversation you will hear us talk about Fosse needing to fail in 1969 to become the master that he needed to be...

Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This month, as we are slowly nearing completion of our year-long journey through Steven Soderbergh's movies, we are talking...

In this episode of the show, we add another notch to our Soderbergh belt as we talk The Laundromat . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to find something to latch onto in this string of vignettes, make fun of Mossack and Fonseca, stipulate that the movie would have been better if Meryl Streep played all the roles and that Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns maybe just couldn't...

In this episode of the show, we put a bow on our William Peter Blatty's Demonic-Tober by talking about The Ninth Configuration . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us pontificate over how this movie is potentially related to The Exorcist , whether its farcical underpinnings do the story any good, how Blatty may be a bit too pretentious for its own good and much more! Tune in and...

In this episode of the show, we decided against our better judgment to take a close look at Exorcist: The Beginning and Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist . Over the course of our conversation you will hear us try to find a reason why these movies exist at all, what propelled Paul Schrader to step behind the camera in this instance, whether it is even possible to stage a prequel to The Exorcist and...

In this episode of the show, we are discussing a pair of sequels to the iconic 1973 The Exorcist , namely the 1977 Exorcist 2: The Heretic and the 1990 The Exorcist 3: Legion . Over the course of our chat you will hear us wonder how exactly one is supposed to follow up a cinematic singularity that was the William Friedkin masterpiece, whether John Boorman was the right man to do it and if William...

Here's a short teaser of our brand new Patreon-exclusive episode of Uncut Gems Tie-ins, a monthly series where we take a classic movie and connect it to a film discussed on our main show. In this special bonus episode of our show, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of William Friedkin's The Exorcist . Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about how The Exorcist was a unique sing...

In this episode of the show, we are talking about Unsane , Steven Soderbergh's little indie side hustle he shot on an iPhone after coming out of his extremely busy retirement. Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about Soderbergh's experimentalist approach finding artistic elevation in a phone camera, Claire Foy's acting chops, the movie as a politically charge piece of ge...

Here's a short teaser of our Patreon-exclusive podcast series where we will be examining the cinema of Steven Soderbergh. On our main show we are going through his more underrated works, while on our Patreon we are talking about Soderbergh's most prominent movies. This month, we are talking about West Virginia, NASCAR, one-armed charmers and John Denver singalongs because we take a look at...

In this episode of the show, we are concluding our September series on Arnie's less like 80s movies, all of which start with the letter 'R' by talking about Red Heat . Over the course of our chat you will hear us talk about Walter Hill's idea to take Arnie into original territories, the anatomy of a buddy cop movie, whether Walter Hill makes stealth comic book movies or westerns, a...