Welcome to Popcorn Podcast's salty, snackable movie news series, where we serve up freshly popped kernels from the film world. Join us for a buttery blast through first looks at Henry Cavill in Highlander and the cast in Sam Mendes' The Beatles four-part cinematic event. Plus, we break down the new trailer for I Love Boosters, starring Keke Palmer, Naomie Ackie, LaKeith Stanfield and Demi Moore, while Fast Forever brings the fam back together one last time, and we farewell silver screen icon Catherine O'Hara in a heartfelt tribute.

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Director Marcelle Lunam joins Popcorn Podcast to talk Addition, her bold romantic dramedy starring Teresa Palmer. From sound design that mirrors anxiety to the film’s big hearted message (“you are not your diagnosis”), this is a conversation about craft, connection and modern love.

More Popcorn:

• Talking The Travellers with Bryan Brown and Bruce Beresford
• Joe Bell's journey of redemption with Mark Wahlberg
• Nick Offerman on humour and humanity

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Hot off its Academy Award nominations for best original screenplay (Robert Kaplow) and best actor (Ethan Hawke), Popcorn Podcast discusses Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, which tells the story of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart as his professional and private life unravel at the opening night party for his former creative partner’s hit show Oklahoma! From unpacking a career-best performance, to the dialogue-heavy script and some truly effective camera trickery, Blue Moon will delight musical theatre aficionados and lovers of language and art. All this and more in a brand new episode of Popcorn Podcast.

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• Ethan Hawke terrifies in Black Phone 2
• Angelina Jolie embodies the OG diva, legendary opera singer Maria Callas
• From book to movie to musical and back to movie, The Color Purple has been a cultural cornerstone for 40 years

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Welcome to Popcorn Podcast's salty, snackable movie news series, where we serve up freshly popped kernels from the film world. Join us for a buttery blast through the Oscar Nominations for 2026. We love this time of year and wanted to share our surprises and delights with you as we take a look at a few of the categories. From Ryan Coogler’s Sinners landing 16 nominations—the most ever for a single film – to the biggest snub? Wicked: For Good being shut out completely... All this and more as we unpack the 2026 Academy Award nominations!

More Popcorn:

• Hamnet: immersive and transformative filmmaking
• Bugonia review: Yorgos Lanthimos’ corporate fever dream stings deep
• Brad Pitt and Formula One thrills in F1: The Movie

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We welcome Dacre Montgomery back to Popcorn Podcast to discuss his profoundly timely film, Dead Man's Wire. In 1977, Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsgård) entered the office of Richard Hall (Montgomery), president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a 'dead man's wire' from the trigger to Tony's own neck. Director Gus Van Sant (To Die For) hopes his film doesn’t merely revisit a moment in history, but opens a conversation about how frustration, alienation and loss of control can twist into something volatile. In our chat with Montgomery, the Australian actor shares why he couldn’t resist working with legendary director Gus Van Sant and screen legend Al Pacino, as well as the physicality this performance demanded.

More Popcorn:

• How Dacre Montgomery used smell in haunting film Went Up the Hill
• Broken Hearts Gallery: a modern rom-com classic
• Behind-the-scenes insights into the making of Baz Luhrmann's ELVIS

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Journey back to 1580 England with Popcorn Podcast for a review of Chloé Zhao's breathtaking Hamnet. After losing their son Hamnet (Jacobi Jupe) to plague, Agnes (Jessie Buckley) and William Shakespeare (Paul Mescal) grapple with grief. Healer Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children while processing her devastating loss. Hamnet is about love and death and how these two foundational human experiences can alchemise and transform each other through art and storytelling. In this thoughtful episode, Leigh and Tim discuss the story and its performances through the lens of its Oscar-winning director. But is it the awards darling everyone predicts?

More Popcorn:

• Angelina Jolie embodies the OG diva in Maria
• Great Dane Claes Bang on his historical epic William Tell
• Paul Mescal goes wild in Gladiator II

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Original West End Queen Aimie Atkinson is here to discuss returning to the role of Katherine Howard for Six: The Musical Live! – the electrifying cinematic experience hitting cinemas worldwide. Atkinson opens up about stepping back into Katherine’s heels after two years away, reuniting with the original West End Queens, and the emotional and vocal intensity of performing one of Six's most powerful songs, this time with cameras rolling and a live audience feeding every beat. She reflects on watching the show grow into an award-winning international sensation, and why Six’s pop-concert format and unapologetic storytelling continue to resonate with millions.

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• Jonathan Bailey visits Popcorn Podcast to talk all things Wicked
• Jon M Chu on adapting In The Heights
• Better Man: Robbie Williams’ surprise cinematic hit

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Popcorn Podcast unpacks Christy, a boxing biopic that becomes a harrowing story of survival. Directed by David Michôd, Christy begins as a traditional sports movie before evolving into the struggles of identity and intimate partner violence. We're talking Sydney Sweeney’s physically demanding transformation, Ben Foster’s unsettling performance, the film’s powerful themes, pacing challenges and why this important true story struggled at the box office. This spoiler-free review explores what Christy gets right, where it falls short and why Christy Martin’s story still matters for women in sport today.

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• Is Roofman Channing Tatum’s most surprising performance?
• Jason Isaacs takes us down The Salt Path
• Angelina Jolie embodies the OG diva in Maria

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A tropical getaway turns violent when a family’s beloved chimp contracts rabies, and Primate unleashes absolute chaos. Leigh and Tim review the gory creature feature, unpacking its practical effects, muddled character work and emotional contradictions. From face-ripping opening scenes to an unforgettable infinity-pool showdown, we’re kicking off season 16 of Popcorn Podcast with one of our wildest discussions.

More Popcorn:

• We sink our teeth into Dangerous Animals
• Death of a Unicorn mayhem and magic with filmmaker Alex Scharfman

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Lights, mics... chaos! It's time to open the Popcorn Podcast vault and unleash the moments that never made it to air (and probably shouldn't). Join us for saucy microphone kisses, Zoolander black-lung attacks, SNL throwbacks, sing-a-longs and space paninis – yes, you read that correctly. From mid-review identity crises to forgetting how to breath (and talk) and full-body warm-ups that would make HR blush, this is the real, unfiltered energy that happens before the episode goes live.

Six years into making Popcorn Podcast, these bloopers prove one thing: we're still having a blast talking movies with you. Enjoy the beautiful mess and these Popcorn Podcast outtakes.

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