An excellent, vital film. A extremely cool and thoughtful filmmaker. And a Q&A moderated by yours truly. If you're in the Bay Area, you should come to this.

We got @notoriouslightning.bsky.social of @hitfactorypod.bsky.social on the pod to talk The Fabelmans, a movie about how making movies basically ruined Steven Spielberg’s life, but it's also the only way he knows how to process everything bad that's ever happened to him.

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28 Years Later - The Bone Temple (dir. Nia DaCosta, 2026)

Starred Up (dir. David Mackenzie, 2013)

Joy Ride (dir. John Dahl, 2001)

Magellan (dir. Lav Diaz, 2025)

NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // Something new for our faithful Patrons: "What Have You Watched with Me Lately?" A conversation about all the movies, new and old, that we've been enjoying this past month not covered elsewhere on the show. See below.

i really enjoyed OBAA, a movie that invites - even necessitates - consideration of its political propositions, and is made more essential by acknowledging its material contradictions.

Had an awesome time talking about one of my favorite filmmakers, Clint Eastwood, and two thoughtful meditations on justice that conceal some remarkably subversive ideas beneath their handsome studio thriller facades.

1999: The Podcast #084 - True Crime (1999) and Juror #2 (2024) Hit Factory co-host Aaron joins John and Julia to discuss "True Crime", "Juror #2", and Clint Eastwood's complex politics.

Happy November!

This week we do things a little differently as we have a special Clint Eastwood-themed episode with a look at TWO movies, 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024's JUROR #2.

Joining us this time is Aaron from the great podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social

Here or wherever you get podcasts!

not a joke. lock in.

Rodriguez's THE FACULTY is a much smarter movie than suggested at first glance...a clever probing of capitalism's oppressive hierarchies and our inability to structure meaningful alternatives, all in the skin of fun teen sci-fi/horror riff.

struggled with Kore-eda a little bit...a filmmaker i found stuck in a dispassionate and unfulfilling middle ground between slow cinema's formal discipline and a mawkish dramaturgy.

AFTER LIFE (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

AFTER LIFE (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

AFTER LIFE (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

AFTER LIFE (dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998)

NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.

sorry, i'm confused...did you get a nazi tattoo because you were drunk with some marine buddies in croatia without knowing what it meant, or because you "used to say and believe things that today [you] find abhorrent"?

if you've talked to me about movies any time in the past year+, then you know that i think FAILED STATE is one of the best American independent films of the decade. I'm thrilled to get the chance to watch it with you all and to talk to the immensely talented Chris Bell about his work. Tap in!

One of the best new films I’ve seen in a long while. You don’t wanna miss this!

if you've talked to me about movies any time in the past year+, then you know that i think FAILED STATE is one of the best American independent films of the decade. I'm thrilled to get the chance to watch it with you all and to talk to the immensely talented Chris Bell about his work. Tap in!

Failed State (dir. Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer, 2023)

HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!

third eye blind catching strays 😔

I really like what Aaron said when I asked him pointedly what he thought Magnolia was about: reckoning with the truth of life, that living is often being both a recipient of and a source of pain. Interestingly and typical of PTA, he doesn’t really offer an answer.

a little boy in a black shirt is dancing on a street ALT: a little boy in a black shirt is dancing on a street

THE BPM

in which i attempt to answer carlee's extremely probing inquiry, "what the fuck is pta's deal, and why should i like him?"

(sorry)

the ratio of ball to shaft is just right ✅️

they are correct tbh

when this happened, everyone had to play coolly nonchalant, like they barely noticed it...but i got several follows/follows back from people on this list as it started making the rounds on the other place

your star's been on the rise since this happened. when i tell you that i was SHOCKED we were on this list lol...

We can rebuild her anew on a new platform.

☝️☝️ we are all HF nation

gotta start posting some Opinions™️...get a lather going

for the ladies? do they even want it??!

they always find a new hustle

havent watched a horror movie yet this month

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