Screenwriter & filmmaker RYAN JACKSON, of Mutual Aberration Society (podcast) and Wildflower with Tyrese Gibson (film), joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Sean Baker's latest and Palme d'Or Winner Anora (2024), starring Mikey Madison, Mark Eidelstein, and this show's sweetheart Karren Karagulian. Lots of other stuff too probably but my bus to NYC is leaving in 23 minutes and I can't type it all out. I've, of course, famously said that listening to the entire episode is the best...

Personal trainer & personal friend (!) THOM, of Unironiczyzzposting, joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Pearl Jam's hit debut album from 1991: Ten. With detours to romantic loserdom, bodybuilding, bullying and the ANSWER to "Who bears the responsibility for teenage tragedies?". This episode is a spiritual successor to our Type-O-Negative one, which itself was a relic of the Jicksroanomicon... SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR FREEEEEZIIIINNN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG:...

Writer, artist & reformed enemy, ADAM LEHRER, of System of Systems (podcast) and Safety Propaganda (collaborative media platform), joins me on 8pl8s to discuss a few weird cuts from DENNIS HOPPER's directing career. But the fun doesn't stop there. Not before we discuss 2024 films, light BB-ing, NYC's decline, and the inimitability of the year 1999. Some say the fun never stops with 8pl8s, but I don't really buy into that type of hyperbole. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR NYC FRIENDS...

Short-haired thought leader, Glen Rockney of Rare Candy, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about two short tales from H.P. Lovecraft, the master of confirming my disinterest in horror. I await the gen X rage like Noble Six at the end of Reach. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR COSMIC FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Glen on X and IG Listen to Glen's podcast Rare Candy Works discussed: H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life (Book,...

Visionary podcaster, Jack Mason of The Continuing Story of The Perfume Nationalist, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about evil tormentors, ultra-stinky old Hollywood stars, gossip that's going to seriously stunt my career, courtroom dramas, and the four forgotten sections of personal hygiene! SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR CLEAN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Jack on X and IG Listen to Jack's podcast The Continuing Story of The Perfume...

Filmmaker & artist, Byron Von, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about our mutual fascination with Anthony Bourdain and his work, his legacy and the void he left, and how he influenced our outlook on travel. This is a continuation of last week's Part 1, related to Byron's work, film and literature, available everywhere you listen to podcasts. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR LINE COOK FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Byron on IG and visit...

Filmmaker & artist, Byron Von, joins me on 8pl8s to talk about his documentary series Looking Awry, his previous project Fully Loaded, the spiritual pitfalls of self-proclaimed artists, sneaky techniques to book guests and collaborators, removing yourself from your work, and a myriad of smaller subjects blossoms from there. Byron is an incredibly pleasant person to talk to, and I feel like this is an episode I would have loved to hear a few years back when I started creating....

Musician https://open.spotify.com/artist/4NQlhJVZjAXBADmi2MZdjp?si=Omto-kgBTQeQo3FHFbSkvQ, former lead singer of https://open.spotify.com/artist/7ia4FaCVsbXvhVwagCJk7l?si=-bzs2CtvRmSWROGzgFgY2A, joins me on 8pl8s to discuss this year's massive musical comebacks (Oasis, Deftones, Caesar's Palace) and his path as a solo musician turned filmmaker. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOENIX FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Mario on...

Dorian Z. Bell (f.k.a. Dank Deleuze) joins me on 8pl8s to discuss Buddhist, zen, and ascetic currents in filmmaking. Slow cinema is a genre of art cinema characterised by a style that is minimalist, observational, and with little or no narrative, and which typically emphasizes long takes. It is sometimes called "Darius Csiky's favorite typa cinema". REAL. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR ZEN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Follow Danko on IG and stay...

After recording my latest appearance on their show, Lowres & Hans from the //Movies podcast join me on 8pl8s to discuss three films we'd absolutely DISAGREE on (if we remembered them), with the following (welcome) digressions into Costa Rican film critics, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, behind-the-scenes stories on Mass State Lottery (2024) & Saint Griefer (2024/2025), David Blaine & Criss Angel, ENTOURAGE & films based on television, being obsessed with Anthony Hopkins,...

Alec Mouhibian is a film producer & director, as well as the host of the Filthy Armenian Adventures (FAA) podcast. He joins me this week to discuss stogies and our opposing feelings on Reagan (2024) starring Dennis Quaid and the legendary Kevin Dillon from Entourage. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR REAGANOMIX FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Check out Alec's pod, and follow him on X and IG.

The world is a vampire. Case and point: The Twilight Saga. Full breakdown and OUT. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR GLITTERING FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

I love Ozu. I tell you why for an hour in this first third of my 8pl8s: Ozu trilogy, covering the director's silent film era (1927 - 1936). SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR BORN, BUT... FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

THE SEQUEL!!! Check out part 1 here Ryan Simón, the creator of American Vulgaria magazine, and Matt Gomes, a photographer and musician join me for a SECOND trip thru pics, Infinite Jest tattoos, Tanner Masseth's Surveillance film, and so much more... SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOTO-READY FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

Ryan Simón, the creator of American Vulgaria magazine, and Matt Gomes, a photographer and musician join me for a trip through the history and the state of photography in the modern age. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR PHOTO-READY FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

[SORRY ABOUT HALEY'S AUDIO, IT'S RIVERSIDE'S FAULT, I PROMISE] A deep-ish dive on Bertolt Brecht's 1918 play Baal & its various adaptations, including the 1970 film starring Rainer Werner Fassbinder & the 1982 film starring David Bowie, with our takes on online theologists and their misguided efforts in the battle against all evil. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR POET FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

Thom from UnironicZyzzPosting joins me for a slow, deep & hard-dive into the history and discography of one of America's most misunderstood bands, Type O Negative. With hints of addiction, religion, and of course, Zyzz. --- Chapters: 0:00 - Origins (1989–1991) 11:14 - Slow, Deep and Hard and The Origin of the Feces (1991-1992) 26:15 - Bloody Kisses (1993) 50:28 - October Rust (1996) 1:17:41 - World Coming Down (1999) 1:28:49 - Life Is Killing Me (2003) 1:44:22 - Dead Again (2007)...

Initial thoughts / Spoiler-free review of Chris Stuckmann's highly anticipated feature film debut Shelby Oaks (2024), a 3am post-Fantasia premiere ramble. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR OHIO FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

John Wayning it up with new friend of the show Kelby Losack of the Agitator pod & Broken River book collective SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR WESTERN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

In what critics are calling the Horizon: An American Saga of film-pod crossovers, I am once again teaming up with Ryan Jackson of M.A.S. for a director deep dive. This week, we're going deep into the second half of Yorgos Lanthimos' filmography. We're in a great place mentally!! Films discussed in this ep: -The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) -The Favorite (2018) -Nimic (2019) -Gucci: Of Course a Horse (2020) -Bleat (2022) -Poor Things (2023) -Kinds of Kindness (2024) SHARE THE...

Mikhail Kalatozov's Soy Cuba (1964), morse code Starbucks passwords, uber bathrooms, women's leggings for towing tractors, stuff breaking and SO MUCH MORE w/ Tony from the DCG Pod & Sean Whipple. SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR CUBAN FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/

LISTEN TO PART 2 HERE (Mutual Aberration Society) On this legendary crossover episode, I go through EVERY feature film directed by Sean Baker with screenwriter/filmmaker Ryan Jackson. This first half, featuring Four Letter Words (2000), Take Out (2004), Prince of Broadway (2008), and Starlet (2012), was posted on the 8pl8s feed. The second half, featuring Tangerine (2015), The Florida Project (2017), Red Rocket (2021) & even an Anora (2024) SNEAK PREVIEW (not exactly a TRAILER). I love...

Abstract art & faded meaning, the Youtube inquisition, Vimeo creative commons sus pipeline, Bela Lugosi, Silent Star Wars (1922), Colorization & re-recording, modernization of 20th century sci-fi (darth Magasius) & nICCOLO MAKAVELSI'S da Prints (1532). SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR BROKE CREATIVE FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Join the Euphoric 8pl8s Early Access League at https://plus.acast.com/s/8pl8s. Hosted on Acast. See...

Creationist vibes, a motivational speech from a Backstage actor, Retvrn 2 Jim Jarmusch, Gareth Evans, Beirut 2020 Lebanon, Harmony Korine's the Beach B. w/ Maxwell Cody from Schizotopia & Neoyeoman! SHARE THE SHOW WITH ALL YOUR AI FRIENDS & RATE 5 STARS ~ 8pl8s IG: https://www.instagram.com/8pl8s/ Join the Euphoric 8pl8s Early Access League at https://plus.acast.com/s/8pl8s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.