One Heat Minute Productions

I sit down with the writer-director of I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore and the star of Blue Ruin for a two-hander that starts with IDIOTS, his pitch-black road comedy co-written with Alex Orr, and ends somewhere deep in Michael Mann fan-casting.

On Idiots: Dave Franco as a live wire, O'Shea Jackson Jr. as the raw nerve underneath the joke, and Mason Thames as a rich kid the film pointedly refuses to redeem. Plus Kiernan Shipka, Nick Braun going feral, Peter Dinklage's micro-gestures, and a character named Celeste Waingro — because there has only ever been one Waingro.

Then the fun starts. DiCaprio's Chris Shiherlis. Bale's Vincent Hanna. Odessa Young as Charlene. Who plays Otis Wardell. Whether Bradley Cooper should be Kelso now that we get to see him work. Stephen Graham for Neil on pure physical continuity. Emory Cohen as Cherrito. Benicio Del Toro as Castillo in Miami Vice 1985, because if you're going to flex, flex. Jerry Bruckheimer on the call sheet, and a November start date closing fast.

One request, on the record: somebody gun this podcaster down in a parking lot. One squib. That's all he wants.

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This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.

The strangest thing about The Dog Stars is how little it seems interested in its own possibilities.

Synopsis:

In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus wipes out humanity. Survivors face roaming scavengers called Reapers. Protagonist Hig, a pilot, survived the flu but lost his wife.

Isaac Feldberg

Isaac Feldberg is an entertainment journalist currently based in Chicago, who’s been writing professionally for nine years and hopes to stay at it for a few more. On a typical evening, he sits down to surf the Criterion Channel and ends up, inevitably, on Shudder. You can find him on Twitter at @isaacfeldberg.

One Heat Minute Productions

WEBSITE: oneheatminute.com

TWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPods

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This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.

If a movie glimpses the magic of life, for fractions of seconds, it is worthwhile. “Amziah” is a dose I wasn’t ready for.

Synopsis:

The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighbourhood to someplace unknown.

Sean Burns

Sean Burns is a film critic for WBUR’s Arts & Culture and a contributing writer at North Shore Movies and Crooked Marquee. He was Philadelphia Weekly’s lead film critic from 1999 through 2013, and worked as a contributing editor at The Improper Bostonian from 2006 until 2014. His reviews, interviews and essays have also appeared in Metro, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Boston Herald, Nashville Scene, Time Out New York, Philadelphia City Paper and RogerEbert.com.

A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Burns was a recurring guest on the late David Brudnoy’s WBZ 1030 AM radio show, and in 2002 received an award for Excellence in Criticism from the Greater Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists. Currently a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the Critics Choice Association, he’s also “the most annoyingest person ever,” according to his niece.

WEBSITE: splicedpersonality.com

TWITTER: @SeanMBurns

One Heat Minute Productions

WEBSITE: oneheatminute.com

TWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPods

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Blake Howard convenes a conclave with Sean Burns (WBUR) and Roxana Hadadi (Vulture) to sort the smoke from the fire. Inde Navarrette walked from Charlene Shiherlis to play Rogue — then maybe didn't walk at all. Underneath the trade churn, an older argument reignited: that Mann hasn't made a good film since Collateral, with Miami Vice, Public Enemies and Blackhat wheeled out as exhibits for the prosecution. We litigate the post-2004 filmography, we ask what a casting rumour is actually worth, and we work out how "washed" became a load-bearing critical term in 2026.

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Carmelita Valdez McKoy is a carnivorous watcher of movies, and has been her entire life. She shares the details of her cinematic education with us on this week’s episode, and her thoughts on David Cronenberg’s both of its moment and waaaaay ahead of its time smash-up of sci-fi, body horror, and media commentary.

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