Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

On this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by my former Empire magazine colleague Ian Nathan, writer and director of The Thing Expanded, a brand new five-hour documentary about John Carpenter’s The Thing that’s as packed as the ice around Outpost 31.

A follow-up to Ian’s definitive documentary Aliens Expanded, The Thing Expanded boasts interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and many other members of the cast and crew, as well as superfans Guillermo del Toro and Frank Darabont. Naturally we decided to peg our conversation to The Thing itself, so feel free to watch along or enjoy it by itself if you know the film well.

I learned quite a lot from this, and I'm sure you will too, but not as much as you will by getting the full picture with The Thing Expanded, available at TheThingExpanded.com

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

We don’t normally do audio commentaries for documentaries, because they often don’t need that extra metatextual level of commentary, as they’re kind of self-explanatory. But as soon as I’d finished watching Homegrown, I was eager to speak with Michael Premo to discover more of the story behindit, because although Michael himself is right in the thick of the film’s action, he lets the subjects of the film speak for themselves. No documentary can be fully objective, and few films are likely to inspire subjectivity more than a documentary like Homegrown, but I’m really grateful to Michael for coming on to talk about the film, especially at this particularly volatile and febrile moment in U.S. history.

Special thanks to Marie Moore for setting up the interview.

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

For this episode, I’m thrilled to have reunited the brilliant British actor Paul McGann with author and screenwriter John Collee, 35 years after Paul starred in Christopher Morahan’s perfect/no notes adaptation of John’s novel A Paper Mask.

I’ll bet there is no bigger fan of 1990’s Paper Mask than me. Paul is sensational as the hospital porter who steals the identity of a doctor and begins practicing medicine at a big hospital, with inevitable, tragic and yet still shocking consequences. The source novel is terrific, the film is note perfect with a superb supporting cast, including Amanda Donohoe and the late great Tom Wilkinson, and although it’s hard to find these days – it’s been a dream of mine to nab the physical media rights for my Blu-ray label Plumeria – Paul and John’s walk down memory lane is a great way to kick off our new season, even if you haven’t seen the film – especially as we recorded the commentary ‘wild’, rather than to picture.

Huge thanks to Paul and John for agreeing to do this. Hopefully Paul will finally pluck up the courage to watch the film for the first time in 35 years, and come back to tell us what he thought of it.

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Hello! Welcome to a very special edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

For this 'minisode', I’m excited to bring you a special preview of the brand new, exclusive audio commentary recorded by writer-director Luna Carmoon for her exquisite, critically-acclaimed film Hoard.

The full commentary will be available only on Plumeria Pictures’ forthcoming Blu-ray of the film, which is available for pre-order now only at PlumeriaPics.co.uk and released on February 14, 2025.

If you can’t wait til then, you can listen to the first 20-odd minutes of the audio commentary here, as a podcast, or you can cue it up to the film if you own or rent a digital copy, so, you know, risk it for the biscuit!

 Thanks to Plumeria Pictures for the sneak peek, and to Luna for providing such an illuminating audio commentary for one of the best films of 2024.

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

For this episode, I’m delighted to welcome critic John Bleasdale, author of The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick for an informed and informative walk through Malick’s 1973 masterpiece Badlands, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

This episode is a bit different: ever mindful of the plight of the environment, it’s actually a recycled episode of the politics podcast Podcasting in Praxis with David, Jamie, Alasdair, Rob and James working out some issues with Alex Garland’s 2024 movie Civil War.

The film was too much of a mess for me to coalesce many of my own thoughts about it – other than “Jesse Plemons good” – and although I read many reviews, I felt that only the Podcasting is Praxis team fully articulated my manifold problems with Garland’s film. So I reached out to them and asked if I could recycle their no-holds-barred critique for a very special guest episode of Rogue Commentary.

Regular listeners will know that you can usually cue up our commentaries with the film, but since the Podcasting is Praxis discussion was not an audio commentary in the traditional sense, there’s absolutely no need to subject yourself to the film again.

Massive thanks to David, Jamie, Alasdair, Rob and

We’ll be back to the usual format next time, but in

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

This episode is really personal for me, not only because Rupert Wainwright has been a good friend of mine for 25 years, but because Stigmata is the reason we met. While working on Divine Rites: The Story of Stigmata, a documentary about the film and the phenomenon, I wrote and pitched to Rupert a pilot script designed to be a spin-off of the film, using the Congregation of the Causes of Saints as a kind of X-Files show in which our hero would travel the world investigating mysteries and miracles.

Although we didn’t end up making the show, Rupert liked the script enough to give me a shot at writing a film for him, based on his own idea, which we almost got to make with Matthew McConaughey about 20 years ago, and we’ve been working on projects together ever since – and more importantly, we’ve enjoyed an enduring friendship which has outlasted our Dante-esque trudges through Development Hell.

Revisiting Stigmata for its 25th anniversary, I was delighted to discover that the film really holds up, which is a testament both to Rupert’s skill as a director and the casting of some very talented and committed actors, including Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce and our mutual friend Rade Serbedzija.

Massive thanks to Rupert for lending his time and his memories to our 40th episode.

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive

I read – no, devoured the book before I saw the film, but

It took me a minute to vibe with the Commando comic/boys’ own adventure tone of the film, but once I’d tuned in to its wavelength, I had what can only be described as an outrageously good time with the film, and I’m sure, if you’re listening, you did too. Thanks to Damien’s page-burner – a page-turner where you turn the pages so fast they risk igniting – I already knew the background of the story, but I still wanted to dig deeper, and although time constraints meant Damien couldn’t go the full two-hour film commentary, much less what would have been a reductive and redundant scene-by-scene

Enormous thanks to Damien, of course, but also Sophie Ransom and Poppy Delingpole for helping to set it up.

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive audio commentary podcast hosted by me, David Hughes. 

For this episode, we’re joined by Swiss director Peter Luisi for a fascinating discussion about his new film The Last Screenwriter, the first film scripted entirely by A.I. – specifically ChatGPT4.0

Now, before you grab your pitchforks and burning torches and lay siege to Rogue Commentary HQ, hear me out: I’m staunchly, even militantly anti-A.I. in the arts. But when I heard that London’s beloved Prince Charles Cinema had called off what was to be the world premiere of The Last Screenwriter because of blowback it receive online, I was disheartened, because it seemed that Peter’s film was a genuine attempt to engage with the question of A.I. in film specifically, and that we desperately needed to have the kind of conversation the film should have, and would have, provoked. Instead, by shelving the screening, conversation as shut down. As I said in my subsequent piece for Time Out, I don’t think the screening would have been cancelled if the film was being presented as an experimental film by a known quantity such as a Michael Winterbottom, a Steven Soderbergh or Mike Figgis.

While not exactly a household name in his native Switzerland, Peter co-wrote his country’s excellent Oscar entry for 2007, Vitus, and is the writer, director and producer of last year’s Bonjour Switzerland, the 8th most successful Swiss film of all time, and the biggest-grossing film in Switzerland since the advent of streaming.

The Last Screenwriter is now available online, for free, at

Thanks Peter!

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Hello! Welcome to another edition of the exclusive

For this episode, I’m delighted to be joined by director Alberto Corredor for a peek under the hood of his terrific 2023 horror movie BAGHEAD.

When I first saw the film, reviewing it for Time Out, it had a very late embargo, which normally means you can expect the worst. But even though I didn’t go in with low expectations – because I like to give every film a fair shot – I was still mightily impressed, not only by Freya Allen’s terrifically spiky performance, but also by the way Corredor understood what audiences wanted, and was determined to give it to them, without ever condescending to them with a knowing wink.

Now that I’ve seen the 2017 short on which Baghead was based, I’m also impressed by how far the screenwriters went to build on not only the idea at the heart of the short, but also deeper themes of grief, inherited trauma and determinism.

Massive thanks are due to Alberto for jumping on board, but also to Studio Canal, especially Mubanga Mweemba, for connecting us.

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