Welcome To The Party Pal: The Mind-Bending Film & Television Podcast You Didn't Know You Needed!

To commemorate the 30th Anniversary of one of the greatest action (and holiday?) films of all time, Welcome To The Party Pal dedicates it's final episode of 2018 to the 1988 thriller directed by John McTiernan, written by Steven E. de Souza and Jeb Stuart, and starring Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman: Die Hard. In this episode hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields delve into the many aspects of Di...

Episode 16 of Welcome To The Party Pal finds hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields journeying to Thailand in an episode that puts under the spotlight the ultra-intense 2017 drama A Prayer Before Dawn. The film recounts the amazing true story of Billy Moore (played by Peaky Blinder's Joe Cole), an English boxer incarcerated in Thailand's most notorious prison. Thrown into a world of drugs and vio...

Join in as the Welcome To The Party Pal team dissect and commend Michael Moore's important new documentary Fahrenheit 11/9. In an episode that acts as a call to action to Vote(!), a passionate discussion ensues which examines the current state of American politics and in particular, Donald J. Trump's presidency. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal, hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields — with help from actor, comedian, writer and co-host of the podcast God Ween Evan, Will Nunziata — dive deeply into There Will Be Blood, the 2007 American drama film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Dano. Expounding on the greatness of There Will Be Blood, B...

Wild Wild Country is a Netflix documentary series about the controversial Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Osho), his fiery assistant Ma Anand Sheela, and their deeply committed community of followers in the Rajneeshpuram community located in Wasco County, Oregon — and it's also the subject of the latest Welcome To The Party Pal podcast! This incredibly fascinating moment in American culture is...

Episode 12 of Welcome To The Party Pal finds hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields celebrating the sixth installment of the Mission Impossible series, Fallout. In a discussion about the action spy film written, produced, and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, and starring Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames, Simon Pegg, and Rebecca Ferguson (to name but a few!), Brian and Michael examine each of the movies...

Take a journey into to the authoritarian, theocratic regime of The Republic of Gilead in the latest episode of Welcome To The Party Pal where the second season of The Handmaid's Tale is thoroughly examined. The Handmaid's Tale is a dystopian drama created by Bruce Miller which can be found on Hulu, based on the 1985 novel by Margaret Atwood, and it is one of the most gut-wrenching and poignant ser...

Welcome To The Party Pal hits its stride in its tenth episode where the second season of HBO's Westworld is meticulously examined and hailed by hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields. Join in on a journey into The Cradle, through The Forge, and past The Door into the Valley Beyond, where the many moving pieces and timelines of the labyrinthine science fiction western television series created by...

In celebration of its 50th Anniversary, the Welcome To The party Pal duo blasts off to Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite to recount on the grandeur of the 1968 epic science fiction film produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a podcast that acts as a heartfelt ode to a film whose thematics feel as poignant as ever, and whose special effects continue to awe five decades af...

The Welcome To The Party team invites you to join in on a celebration of the career of arguably the great action star of all time, Arnold Schwarzenegger. With the help of comedian, actor, and one of the hosts of the magnificent podcast God Ween Evan Will Nunziata, Brian Sachson and Michael Shields dive deeply into the phenomenon of Arnold Schwarzenegger while embarking on a wild ride through all h...

Join in as the Welcome to The Party Pal team dives deeply into the 19th offering from the Marvel Cinematic Universe — Avengers: Infinity War. In one of the nerdiest episodes yet, hosts Michael Shields and Brian Sachson sift through the ashes that remain following the Avengers confrontation with their most powerful enemy to date, the evil Thanos. In the episode Michael and Brian meticulously discus...

Welcome To The Party Pal returns with a true deep dive into BBC's Blue Planet II. Blue Planet II is a 2017 British nature documentary series on marine life produced by the BBC Natural History Unit. Like its predecessor, The Blue Planet (2001), it is narrated and presented by naturalist Sir David Attenborough, while the main music score was composed by Hans Zimmer. Using breakthroughs in science an...

In the latest episode of WTTPP, hosts Brian Sachon and Michael Shields explore the Amazon jungle through the 2015 drama Embrace Of The Serpent, directed by Ciro Guerra and written by Guerra and Jacques Toulemonde Vidal. Based on the the travel diaries of German Ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grunberg and American biologist Richard Evans Schultes, and dedicated to lost Amazonian cultures, Embrace Of The...

The Welcome To The Party Pal team is back at it, this time putting under the microscope the exciting new anthology series now streaming on Amazon titled Electric Dreams. Electric Dreams is a series based on the writings of Philip K. Dick, and in this episode all the splendor of the captivating first season is examined. In order to fully discern all the richness Electric Dreams has to offer, and to...

The Welcome To The Party Pal team is back at it, this time delving deep into the Oscar-nominated film Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Expounding upon the intricacies of the Martin McDonagh directed film, hosts Brian Sachson and Michael Shields discuss the remarkable ensemble cast, the pain that comes from the loss of a child that the film explores, and the hard and powerful truths found...

In this episode of Welcome to The Party Pal, Paul Thomas Anderson’s Phantom Thread is dissected, and its grandeur examined. In the podcast Brian and Michael dive into the themes present in Phantom Thread such as obsession, neurosis, mother issues, love, the desire for control, and shared fetishes, while marveling over the trio of remarkable actors in the film. This is a podcast that journeys many...

Welcome to the Party Pal is the mind-bending film and television podcast you didn’t know you needed. Hosted by Brian Sachson (producer/writer) and Michael Shields (writer/editor), WTTPP is a celebration of the art of cinema and filmmaking, where movies and television shows are meticulously dissected and analyzed to evaluate their grandeur (or, conversely when necessary, lament their shortcomings)....