The Binge Movie Podcast: The Choice | Hail, Caesar! | Misconduct

This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we review three new releases about characters whose careers lead to calamity and crisis in their personal lives: The Choice | cast: Benjamin Walker, Teresa Palmer, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Grace, Tom Welling, Alexandra… Continue Reading

The Binge Movie Podcast: The Finest Hours | 45 Years | Naz & Maalik

This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, I get a little drunk for a conversation about three movies with protagonists sucked into storms of literal, emotional, and political varieties. The Finest Hours | cast: Chris Pine, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Eric Bana,… Continue Reading

The Binge Movie Podcast: Joy | Concussion | Mustang

This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we focus on three movies about determined, resilient protagonists bucking up against systems designed to break them. Joy | cast: Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro, Virginia Madsen, Bradley Cooper, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Ladd,… Continue Reading

The Binge Movie Podcast: The Danish Girl | The Big Short | Youth

This week on The Binge Movie Podcast, we focus on a movie starring an Oscar-winning actor taking on a different gender expression by embracing exaggerated femininity, over-the-top glamour, and crazed facial expressions. I’m referring, of course, to Jane Fonda in Youth.… Continue Reading

The Binge Interview: Nick Robinson, Gabriel Basso & Moises Arias on “The Kings of Summer”

Oh-so-familiar themes of teenage rebellion, coming-of-age, and the longing for independence are given a fresh, funny, enjoyably bizarre treatment in the acclaimed Sundance breakout The Kings of Summer. The feature-length debut film from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts and writer Chris Galletta,… Continue Reading

The Binge Interview: Zal Batmanglij on “The East”

With The East, director/writer Zal Batmanglij and actor/writer Brit Marling prove their determination to endure longer than your average Sundance flash-in-the-pan success story. In a coincidence that proved irresistible catnip to countless film journalists (including yours truly), Batmanglij, Marling, and… Continue Reading