The Movie of Your Life with Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper welcomes director Patty Jenkins, discussing her unconventional path from camera work on music videos and commercials to leaving New York for AFI. Jenkins explains how Monster came together and reflects on the responsibility of making Wonder Woman.

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Richard Roeper interviews Lou Diamond Phillips about his 2026 crime thriller Gangland while Phillips describes his weary, nuanced tribal-cop character Teddy Sharp. He explains drawing on decades of playing law enforcement, time on reservations, being adopted into the Lakota and Cheyenne nations, and influences from his military-brat upbringing and father.

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Richard Roeper welcomes actor Dave Annable to discuss his career and his role as Dr. Neal McNamara on Taylor Sheridan’s Lioness, including how the show gained momentum and how Neil’s supportive-husband storyline flips traditional dynamics as the dangers of Joe’s work come closer to home in season three.

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Richard Roeper interviews actor Theo Rossi about his projects Come With Me (now in theaters and available on Apple TV), Bruton, and the breaking news that Rossi and several Sons of Anarchy castmates are reuniting for a new FX series, Legends, built around a clever, unexpected, Galaxy Quest/Curb-style premise.

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Richard Roeper interviews director-screenwriter Julia Hart about her Netflix hit Don’t Say Good Luck, which stars Sunny Sandler as a high schooler cast in Waitress while facing her mother’s cancer diagnosis, alongside Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, Steve Buscemi, and Bebe Neuwirth; Hart explains how she, producer-husband Jordan Horowitz, and novelist Laura Henkin developed Henkin’s first screenplay and cast Sandler.

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Richard Roeper welcomes acclaimed comedian and actress Jane Lynch, discussing her tour with Kate Flannery (The Trouble With Angels), her Dolton upbringing, early jobs, and the moment at age 12 during a St. Jude “port of call” show that sparked her desire to perform.

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Richard Roeper interviews writer-director Michael Russell Gunn and actor Aya Cash about their film The Brink of War, set during the 1986 Reykjavik Summit where Reagan and Gorbachev’s private negotiations helped begin the end of the Cold War.

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The Movie of Your Life welcomes former MLB All-Star and two-time World Series champion Hunter Pence, who shares his love of baseball’s challenge, his transition into broadcasting, and advice for young players about pursuing what they love, embracing failure, and exploring roles beyond playing.

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Richard Roeper reflects on an historic 2026 summer at the movies and the recurring claim that “movies are dead,” tracing past disruptions from TV and VHS to streaming and the pandemic’s theater closures, including Chicago’s Navy Pier IMAX. They discuss major hits led by Spider-Man: Brand New Day—praised for its grounded, emotional story about Peter Parker being erased from everyone’s memory—and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a true-IMAX epic projected to top $1.5 billion despite “woke casting” backlash. Roeper shares highlights from his private New York screening and extensive interview with Nolan, including Nolan’s admiration for Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, plus Roeper’s history with Nolan since Memento and The Dark Knight.

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Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti discusses her autobiographical one-woman comedy show, "Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares", coming to Chicago for five performances at Steppenwolf’s downstairs theater, and why playing herself in a show she wrote feels more vulnerable than performing someone else’s material.

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