On this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast, director Yuval Adler talks about his latest film, Sympathy For The Devilstarring Nicolas Cage and Joel Kinnaman. Carter Smith also joins the show to talk about his latest Blumhouse release, The Passenger. Sympathy For The Devil is a Las Vegas set modern noir. It features an exceptional turn from Nicolas Cage - a performances which is one of his best in years. Yuval Adler talks about casting the film, taking Cage back to Vegas - the setting for his oscar-winning performance in Leaving Las Vegas and a host of other great details about making his dark thriller. Later in the podcast Carter Smith talks about his off-beat thriller The Passenger, starring Kyle Gallner and Johnny Berchtold. It’s a film which is reminiscent of the 1980s cult classic Heathers and Smith talks about trying to subvert genre expectations when making his off-beat film.