Low Key

By Aaron Lanton

Aaron Lanton, Keith Dennie, and Tim Molloy look at pop culture through a racial lens, focusing on the low-key things some people might miss to discuss their deeper meanings.

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July 07, 2026 COHERENCE: How to Blow Minds on a $50K Budget
COHERENCE, a 2013 sci-fi film from writer-director James Ward Byrkit, is a model of low-budget filmmaking.

As studios look for the next OBSESSION, they might want to see what's possible on a $50,000 budget, when scrappy filmmakers and performers imagine big.

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1h 14min
March 23, 2026 "The Bluff" Is Unexpected Pirate Fun
Welcome once again to the pod. This week, the guys review a regular ol' popcorn on your couch pirate movie, Amazon Prime's The Bluff. There's betrayal, blood-soaked action, and booty to be plundered, just like you'd expect.
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39min
January 21, 2026 One Battle After Another "Vive La Revolution?"
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1h
January 09, 2026 What We're Excited for in 2026: Industry, The Pitt, They Will Kill You... and Doomsday?

We share what we're excited to see in 2026, including Industry, The Pitt, They Will Kill You, and maybe — just maybe — Avengers: Doomsday.

But first, Aaron has some thoughts on Stranger Things.

And then team makes an announcement about Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride.

And we talk about shows that overstay their welcome — and some of the best shows we've ever seen, including Breaking Bad, Battlestar Galactica, and The Righteous Gemstones.

Pictured: Myha'la in Industry Season 4.
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1h
November 26, 2025 How Eddie Murphy Changed Comedy and the World
"Hippies are bad people who pretend to be good and punks are good people who pretend to be bad"

Photo from Being Eddie. Netflix
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50min
October 28, 2025 Dads Watch Kids Movies: THE WITCHES
Jim Henson meets Roald Dahl in THE WITCHES. Let's talk about whether it holds up, whether it would work for modern kids, and why we wouldn't mind watching it again and again and again.

A must-see if you love movies with dead parents, kids turning into mice, and of course... witches.

TLDR: "I love this movie."—Keith
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38min
September 19, 2025 Highest 2 Lowest Needs More Highs and Lows
One of the greatest directors ever reunites with one of the greatest actors ever to make one of the most OK films
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47min
August 22, 2025 WEAPONS: Can It Be All So Simple? (Spoilers, spoilers, spoilers)
A VERY spoiler-filled discussion of Zack Cregger's wonderful WEAPONS.

Please don't listen to this one without seeing the movie, OK?
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32min
August 11, 2025 King of the Hill, Still on Top
This episode, we talk about Hulu's very welcome revival of Mike Judge and Greg Daniel's King of the Hill, until Tim ruins everything with an obscene and inaccurate quotation from Silicon Valley.
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42min
August 07, 2025 Fantastic Four Goes Full Comic Book
The Fantastic Two, Tim and Aaron, discuss the Fantastic Four, which, unlike Superman, provides pure escapism. But we like them both.

Here's Tim's article about this summer's comic book movies really embracing comic books.
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36min

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How many episodes does Low Key have?

The podcast currently has 214 episodes available.