Rock 'n Roll Ghost

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with filmmaker Bill Duke about his acting role in Steven Soderbergh's HBOMAX movie, No Sudden Move (available to stream now). Duke is among a stellar cast that also includes Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Kieran Culkin, David Harbour, Jon Hamm, Ray Liotta and many more.

Duke discusses No Sudden Move's political side, his character's relationship to Cheadle's and working with Soderbergh for the third time. He also dives into his breakout film Deep Cover, starring Laurence Fishburne and Jeff Goldblum, which is getting the Criterion Collection treatment on Blu-ray. Check out the links below to also dive deep in the Duke Media Foundation, which helps children get a leg up in the world. Donations are gladly accepted.

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Bill Duke on Twitter

Duke Media Foundation

No Sudden Move on HBOMAX

Deep Cover on Criterion Collection

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with filmmaker Jim McBride (The Big Easy, Great Balls of Fire, Breathless, David Holzman's Diary) about his career in film.  

McBride reveals what he's been up to in the years since leaving filmmaking, insight into how he began his career, and dives deep into filming his three iconic works The Big Easy, Great Balls of Fire and Breathless, including working with Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin and Richard Gere (and a look at how Robert DeNiro was almost in Breathless).

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with photographer/author Beau Patrick Coulon about his new book Revel & Revolt, which documents protests, parades, and the punk scene in New Orleans from 2013 to 2020.  

Coulon discusses his path to becoming a photographer, creating the book, the status of protesting now compared to a year ago and living in New Orleans.  

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Beau Patrick Coulon Website 

Beau Patrick Coulon Instagram 

Purchase Revel & Revolt

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with author KF Seetoh, the premier food writer and hawker stall authority in Singapore.  Seetoh, who founded Makansutra, which is THE food guide dedicated to Asian food, culture and lifestyle, has been known as the go-to-guy when it comes to the cuisine of Singapore. 

If you're into the food of Singapore, you've no doubt seen him on every single episode of TV that the late Anthony Bourdain shot in Singapore.   An impassioned supporter of the Singaporean hawker community, Seetoh has been tireless in his promotion of the food stalls particularly since the Covid-19 pandemic hit. Like most restaurants across the world, the hawker stalls have been hardest hit within the industry in Singapore.  

The updated Makansutra Singapore Food Ebook for 2021 is now available.  

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KF Seetoh Facebook 

Makansutra 

Makansutra Singapore Food Ebook 2021

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with author/life coach Samantha Bennington who discusses her book Falling Love Notes: Memories of a Rock Star Wife, detailing her life's ups and downs. Falling Love Notes in particular covers events from Bennington's childhood, her marriage and divorce from Linkin Park's late singer Chester Bennington, raising their son, and her career as a life coach and entertainment entrepreneur. 

During our discussion, Bennington covers specifics about what's within her book, as well as touching on where she is now in her life, including the crucial work done to ensure her child with Chester had all the tools to deal with his father's passing. It's an enlightening conversation about love, grief and getting past grief to come out the other side healthier and happier.

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Samantha Bennington Official Site 

Purchase Falling Love Notes 

Samantha Bennington Twitter 

Samantha Bennington Instagram

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with actor Michael Simon Hall about his role in Gravitas Ventures' Women, now in limited theaters and VOD.   

Hall describes his process for going inside the mind of a monster as well as his career as an actor thus far.  

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Women Trailer 

Michael Simon Hall Official Site

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with filmmaker Simon Barrett (writer of You're Next, Blair Witch and The Guest) about his feature directorial debut, Seance, which is in theaters, on demand and digital platforms beginning today, May 21.  

From RLJE Films / Shudder, Seance follows Camille Meadows (Suki Waterhouse), a new student at Edelvine Academy for Girls as she gets entangled in a group of other students seeking to perform a seance to bring out the spirit of a dead former student. Camille works to figure out why unexplainable horrors keep happening to her and others around her.   

Besides Waterhouse, the film boasts a cast of talented young actors, including Madisen Beaty, Ella-Rae Smith, Inanna Sarkis, Seamus Patterson and Marina Stephenson-Kerr.  

Barrett discusses the making of Seance, including the tight schedule and necessary scrappiness he and his crew had to employ on a limited budget, as well as working with the cast to get the best out of them. He briefly touches on his next two writing projects, Face Off 2 and Thundercats, both of which he's reuniting with his You're Next and The Guest collaborator, director Adam Wingard (the recent box office hit Godzilla Vs. Kong).  

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Seance IMDB 

Simon Barrett IMDB 

Simon Barrett on Twitter

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with filmmaker Carlos Gutierrez (his newly released film Locked In starring Mena Suvari, Jeff Fahey, Costas Mandylor, and Bruno Bichir, is out now on VOD).   

The film, about a single mother stuck in an impossible situation when diamond thieves hold her and her daughter hostage while they search for their ill-gotten gains inside a storage facility, is a classic down and dirty thriller.  Gutierrez discusses how he made the film, working with the cast, as well as his upcoming projects, including a documentary about the exodus of more than 14,000 children out of Castro-controlled Cuba.  

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Locked In IMDB

Carlos V. Gutierrez Official Site 

Carlos V. Gutierrez  Twitter

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with musician Ivan Neville (Dumpstaphunk, Keith Richards and his X-Pensive Winos) about the new Dumpstaphunk album, Where Do We Go From Here, out now.  

In addition to going into Dumpstaphunk's past and recording of Where Do We Go From Here, Neville goes through his legendary family's history and his part of it, as well as discussing his time in Keith Richards' X-Pensive Winos band. He also touches on his contracting the Covid-19 virus last year and the struggle to get back from it.  

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Dumpstaphunk Official Site 

Ivan Neville Facebook 

Dumpstaphunk Facebook 

Dumpstaphunk YouTube

Welcome back to the Rock 'n Roll Ghost Podcast. On this week's episode, the Ghost speaks with musician/composer Charlie Clouser about his work on the entire Saw franchise, including the just released film Spiral, starring Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson and Max Minghella.   

Clouser gets into how he goes about his composing work for film and TV, as well as his time in Nine Inch Nails, as well as giving insight into why he was one of the members of the band not inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.   

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Spiral 

Charlie Clouser Twitter 

Charlie Clouser Soundtrack Work 

Charlie Clouser on Spotify