Pod Casty For Me

They say Soderbergh's prolific, listener, but did you realize he released TWO television shows in the same WEEK in 2023? OK, sure, one of them is more like a series of webisodes that add up to about 90 minutes. But a couple of them have Liev Schreiber! He's a real guy! We did our due diligence and watched both FULL CIRCLE, Sodey and Ed Solomon's hyperlink TRAFFIC-meets-HIGH AND LOW miniseries, and COMMAND Z, his weird self-hosted miniseries about preventing the apocalypse through incremental change. It's all pretty standard stuff for us: Guyanese diaspora gangs, the correct left position on nuclear energy, arguing about whether a joke is funny. Check it out!

Further Reading:

"Steven Soderbergh on the Real Heroes of 'Full Circle' "

King's Ransom by Ed McBain

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America: A Recent History by Kurt Andersen

Further Viewing:

HIGH AND LOW (Kurosawa, 1963)

BEING JOHN MALKOVICH (Jonze, 1999)

BEYOND THE PALE (Gaffigan, 2006)

DÉJÀ VU (Scott, 2006)

HOW TO BLOW UP A PIPELINE (Goldhaber, 2022)

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Produced by Ian Rhine & Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

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Live (to tape) from México! The "chicos" sit down fresh from their travels in the Yucatán to talk Mel Gibson's Mayan language survival epic APOCALYPTO, widely held up as proof that he isn't just an insane racist weirdo. You're never going to believe this...we found some Historical Context. Apologies in advance if you're a big 'PTO fan, but we suspect you may not have rewatched it in a while. Plus, some chat about our experiences in Celestún, Mérida, cenotes - damn, is there any experience these guys won't "Mayan" for content?!

As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional Production by Ryan Torgeson.

What if you made a movie that was really successful and then your friend directed a sequel people liked even better and THEN the star turned it into a live show with his name on it? You'd want to...let's see here...make a movie sort of imagining what if the character was actually the one who made the live show? Sure, why not! One thing's for sure, though - it better have Salma Hayek in it playing a rich woman named "Maxandra." We bid a fond "cheerio" to male entertainer Mike Lane in MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE, Steven Soderbergh's conclusion to his unexpected trilogy, and we're joined by our very smart friends Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory! As always with these two, our conversational cup runneth over with discussions of eroticism (and its absence), life after sex work, class, and ottoman humping. Terrific ep, we hope you enjoy!

Further Reading:

"Salma Hayek Pinault Says Lap Dance Scene in 'Magic Mike's Last Dance' Was 'Very Physically Challenging'" by Carly Thomas https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/salma-hayek-pinault-channing-tatum-lap-dance-magic-mikes-last-dance-physically-challenging-1235284152/

Further Viewing:

SHOWGIRLS (Verhoeven, 1995)

STEP UP (Fletcher, 2006)

KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE (Vaughn, 2014)

Ottoman Humpers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEk2qMKysf4

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Wait a minute...that's not ZARDOZ! Our friend and comrade Yui returns to discuss a different movie from the one we talked about last time they were on: Guy Ritchie's 2015 film adaptation of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., which emerged from the wreckage of Steven Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns's abruptly canceled version. Why does Yui want to talk about this film? What does it (and its source material) have to say about geopolitics/Hollywood & Soderbergh's view of same? How tall is everyone in the cast? We answer these and many other questions within - check it out!

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Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

// hello podcast listeners

// it's me kimi from kimi

// this is the episode on the movie they made about me

// ian and jake had their friend bob martin on because he lived in seattle during the movie

// weird choice to have a guest because it's my movie

// even though i'm not really like the kimi in this

// she doesn't even try to experience pain

// anyway check out the episode, which is as close to good as these guys get

// if you like it please send me blood and pills just like put them in your usb ports and i'll get them

// bye

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Further Reading:

https://www.privacyguides.org/

Further Listening:

The Santiago Boys Podcast https://choramedia.com/podcast/the-santiago-boys/

Further Viewing:

REAR WINDOW (Hitchcock, 1954)

BLOW-UP (Antonioni, 1966)

WAIT UNTIL DARK (Young, 1967)

THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974)

BLOW OUT (De Palma, 1981)

RED ROOMS (Plante, 2023)

TESIS (Amenábar, 1996)

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You voted, we watched! For our fourth Listener Choice episode, we dove in to Frank Perry's (and Sydney Pollack's) dreamy/nightmarish John Cheever adaptation, THE SWIMMER. We talk Burt Lancaster, country club types, the surreality of swimming pools, plus a VERY special report about Jake's recent journey to Carmel-By-The-Sea and beyond the gates of Clint Eastwood's Tehāma Golf Club...

As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

Produced by Ian Rhine & Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

Get your spooky old-time mask on, everybody: it's the NO SUDDEN MOVE episode. We're talking Soderbergh's 2021 HBO Max crime thriller and all things 1954 Detroit, Black Bottom, carburetors, becoming aware of your position as a historical actor, Bill Duke, Bill & Ted (different Bill), anamorphic lenses, apologizing while hitting your boss in the face, money flowing uphill, and lots more. Really enjoyed this one - check it out! And get rid of your car!

Further Reading:

Black Detroit: A People's History of Self-Determination by Herb Boyd

The American Revolution: Pages from a Negro Worker's Notebook by James Boggs

The Making of Black Detroit in the Age of Henry Ford by Beth Tompkins Bates

The Origins of the Urban Crisis by Thomas Sugrue

Tishomingo Blues by Elmore Leonard

"How the UAW Broke Ford's Stranglehold Over Black Detroit" by Paul Prescod https://jacobin.com/2023/10/united-autoworker-ford-black-detroit-race-labor

"No Sudden Move Writer Ed Solomon on Drawing From Real History for the HBO Max Movie" by Adam Chitwood https://collider.com/no-sudden-move-ed-solomon-interview-true-story/ Further Viewing:

KISS ME DEADLY (Aldrich, 1955)

THE KILLING (Kubrick, 1956)

BLUE COLLAR (Schrader, 1978)

OUT OF SIGHT (Soderbergh, 1998)

THE NICE GUYS (Black, 2016)

BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC (Parisot, 2020)

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How do you begin to talk about SUBURBICON, the 2017 film George Clooney made by hacking together an unmade Coen brothers crime script with one of his own about a true story of racial violence in the suburbs? By hacking together two incredible podcasts tangentially related to the subject, that's how!

We got together with our good friends Jordan Fish and Ray Tintori from the To The White Sea podcast for some in-depth script analysis, live scene work, and a thorough postmortem of the Clooney film to figure out what even happened here. It's gotta be the most anyone has talked about this movie in 9 years, and it was a lot of fun - we hope you enjoy!

(This episode will be on the To The White Sea feed in a couple weeks, but it's a Paid Costly For Me exclusive for now!)

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Most movies weren't directed by Steven Soderbergh, but few were as notably not directed by Steven Soderbergh as this one: MONEYBALL, the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics' revolutionary sabermetrics-based hiring strategy, was 5 days from shooting when Sony pulled the plug on Soderbergh's version. After a rewrite by Aaron Sorkin and a few cast change-ups, a slicker, Fincher-lite version directed by Bennett Miller made it to theaters, and we're talking about the whole deal. This ep has it all, quite frankly: in-depth script revision analysis, baseball talk, sports politics, and a long conversation about how statistics and "disruption" inform the world. It turns out everything is Moneyball, maybe? Give this one a listen, folks.

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This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Like a bizarro Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone parlayed two iconic roles into a decades-long career as a movie star and filmmaker, restauranteur, and conservative hero - only he's short and a lousy director. In 2019, Stallone put his crusading 'Nam vet character out to pasture with RAMBO: LAST BLOOD, a half-assed UNFORGIVEN riff that finds Rambo going up against some rightwing fever-dream "Mexican" human traffickers. Beyond featuring almost zero Mexicans, the film also features zero Mexico: it was largely shot in Bulgaria. Bulgaria's rise as a filmmaking hotspot is thanks in large part to the success of Stallone's Expendables franchise, which allowed production company Millennium Films to turn Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios into a one-stop offshoring shop for Hollywood. Joining us to discuss his experience working on this film (!) and the state of the Bulgarian film industry is filmmaker and co-host of the Cinema Strolls podcast Roman Pessarov! We also take a look at the Rambo series as a whole, being a cinephile outside of the US, and learn that even former Soviet dads are ultimately a lot like other dads.

GREAT ep, check it out!

Follow Roman Pessarov: https://www.instagram.com/roman.pessarov/ https://www.hopp.bio/cinema-strolls https://kinematograf.bg/mirror-touch-film https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3355231/ Further Viewing:

ROLLING THUNDER (Flynn, 1977) FIRST BLOOD (Kotcheff, 1982) RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (Cosmatos, 1985) RAMBO III (MacDonald, 1988) RAMBO (Stallone, 2008) EASTERN PLAYS (Kalev, 2009) GLORY (Grozeva & Valchanov, 2016) PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Mendonça Filho, 2023) THE SECRET AGENT (Mendonça Filho, 2025) Further Reading: "The King of the Geezer Teasers" by Joshua Hunt: https://www.vulture.com/article/randall-emmett-movies.html