Wind, Reel, & Print

Episode 127: WR&PCAST   Featuring: The Odyssey (2026); The Social Reckoning (2026); Other Mommy (2026); Minotaur (2026); The Cat in the Hat (2026); Jimmy (2026); Wild Horse Nine (2026); Godzilla Minus Zero (2026); Fatherland (2026); The Mongoose (2026); The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026)    It’s week 43 and we are diving into what is happening at the Box Office! 

Episode 126: HALLOWEEN   Featuring: Blow Out (1981); Wes Craven's New Nightmare (1994); Scream (1996); One Cut of the Dead (2017)   BOO! CUT! Today we are talking meta horror with four films that  turn moviemaking and movie fandom into a nightmare.

Episode 125: NEW RELEASES   Featuring: Wildwood (2026)   Kevin and Ryan share their thoughts on the largest and most expensive stop-motion production to-date, Wildwood (2026). And lest just say… it’s more than disappointing.

Episode 124: WR&PCAST   Featuring: Resident Evil (2026); You Can See Everything (2026); WildWood (2026); Clayface (2026); Digger (2026)   Let’s run the numbers and take a look at weeks 39 and 40 of the box office! Plus: what’s coming up and what can you be excited for?

Episode 123: WR&P WRITER’S ROOM   Ryan and Chris pitch films that would make great musicals, and then build out two of them from start to finish.   Check out Wind, Reel, & Print wherever you get your podcasts. *LINK IN BIO*

Episode 122: LESSONS IN FILM MOVEMENTS   Featuring: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010); The Seen and Unseen (2017); Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (2023); Magellan (2025)   A mysterious Willie appears! We are joined by friend of the pod Willie to discuss one of their favorite film niches — southeast Asian slow cinema. We discuss four films that exemplify this movement and also anyt...

Episode 121: WR&PCAST   Featuring: The Odyssey (2026); Digger (2026); Babel (2006); Pan’s Labyrinth (2006); Children of Men (2006)   The WR&PCAST is back with a look into the biggest film of the year, the IMAX experience, and what the “Three Amigos” of cinema were up to 20 years ago. 

Episode 120: RYAN & FRIENDS   Featuring: Arrival (2016)   Sepand (Ryan’s high school friend) joins the show to spill the beans on Ryan and Sepand's high school past and to talk about one of his favorite films, Arrival (2016). Not to be confused with The Arrival (1996)...

Episode 119: WR&PCAST   Featuring: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026); Bound (1996); The Celluloid Closet (1996); Hellbent (2004)   Welcome to the first edition of the WR&PCAST, your one stop shop for everything cinema. Today we talk about our trip to the Frameline film festival, the history of queer cinema, and gay slasher horror.

Episode 118: RYAN & FRIENDS   Featuring: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991); Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993)   Joe returns to talk about his childhood-favorite film and series, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Episode 117: DOUBLE FEATURE   Featuring: Iron Man (2008); The Dark Knight (2008)   WR&P discusses the beginnings of the most recent superhero era, where things stand almost 20 years later, and the ramifications of this modern model of filmmaking.

Episode 116: DOUBLE FEATURE   Featuring: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992); Twilight (2008)   WR&P takes a look at the high school vampire genre and dives deep into Kevin’s take on the feminist vampire angle. Horror and camp, what a great combination!

Episode 115: SPECIAL EVENT   Over the past year WR&P has featured dozens upon dozens of films, but now it’s time to crown our favorites. Ryan and Kevin each select winners (and honorable mentions) for four categories — Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture. 

Episode 114: WR&P 360   Featuring: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); Rocky (1976); Top Gun (1986); Field of Dreams (1989); Minari (2020); The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The Stepford Wives (1975); Boyz in da Hood (1991); The Stepford Wives (2004); Team America: World Police (2004); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023); The Great Train Robbery (1903); Stagecoach (1939); Butch Cassidy and the Sunda...

Episode 113: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Featuring: Bonnie and Clyde (1967); The Graduate (1967); The Godfather (1972); Jaws (1975); Taxi Driver (1976)   The America 25 for 250 series comes to a close with this final episode, which takes a look at the influential American film movement known as New Hollywood. 

Episode 112: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Featuring: M*A*S*H (1970); The Long Goodbye (1973); 3 Women (1977); The Player (1992); A Prairie Home Companion (2006)   Continuing on the journey to watch 25 films that capture the essence of America, Ryan and Kevin decide on their pick for the quintessential American director — Robert Altman. Altman has been a mainstay topic on WR&P since the early days, inc...

Episode 111: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Featuring: The Great Train Robbery (1903); Stagecoach (1939); Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969); Brokeback Mountain (2005); No Country for Old Men (2007)   It’s time to discuss WR&P’s pick for the most American genre — the western. Ryan and Kevin chat about 5 films that span the entire history of cinema and why the Western is so perfectly American.

Episode 110: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Featuring: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); The Stepford Wives (1975); Boyz in da Hood (1991); The Stepford Wives (2004); Team America: World Police (2004); Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)   WR&P talked about the American dream… but what about the American nightmare? Ryan and Kevin discuss what lurks on the opposite side of America’s greatest ideals, what...

Episode 109: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Featuring: It’s a Wonderful Life (1946); Rocky (1976); Top Gun (1986); Field of Dreams (1989); Minari (2020)   Can the American Dream be distilled into cinematic form? Ryan and Kevin discuss this and five movies that might come close. Happy 250th, America!

Episode 108: AMERICA 25 FOR 250   Kevin and Ryan intro their brand new series for WR&P, America 25 for 250.

Episode 107: LESSONS IN FILM MOVEMENTS   Featuring: Farewells (1958); Ashes and Diamonds (1958); Mother Joan of the Angels (1961); Passenger (1963)   We go back to 1950’s / 60’s Poland to check out one of the legendary film movements, the Polish Film School. Poland was creating its new national identity after its brutalization during World War 2 and cinema played an important part in that national...

Episode 106: CINEMA SINGLES   Featuring: Capote (2005)   Ryan and Kevin talk biopics with Bennett Miller’s Capote (2005). Where is the line between fiction and non-fiction? And what is the filmmaker’s responsibility to telling an accurate and true “true story?” Ryan and Kevin hash it out!

Episode 105: WR&P WRITER’S ROOM   Ryan and Chris pitch new ideas for Disney (they are just out of frame) so they can make their next billion-dollar movie. And what better way to mine IP than to go straight to the source: Disneyland.

Episode 104: GUEST STARRING JOSH PARK   Featuring: A Trip to the Moon (1902); Daisies (1966); Medicine for Melancholy (2008); Poor Things (2023); Mary Kwon Mary Kwon (????)   Josh Park is back to once again dive deep into the form of cinema itself and look at why filmmakers choose black and white or color (or both). We also discuss Josh’s newest film, Mary Kwon Mary Kwon. Follow their instagram fo...

Episode 103: POLARIZING FILMS   Featuring: I Saw the TV Glow (2024)   Ryan and Kevin dive into the nostalgic horror extravaganza that is I Saw the TV Glow (2024). An unofficial part 2 to our previous polarizing film episode for Promising Young Woman (2020).