The News Reel with Zach Dennis and Brian Welk

FilmStruck host Alicia Malone joins the podcast to discuss her recent book release, which details the role of women in Hollywood from the past, present and into the future.

The Daily Beast's Amy Zimmerman joins the group to discuss the recent controversy out of Fantastic Fest, including the Alamo Drafthouse and Ain't It Cool News creator Harry Knowles.

This week, Zach and Brian discuss the latest film from Darren Aronofsky, mother!, and try to get to the bottom of people's reactions and why they were so varied.

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CutPrintFilm and /Film writer Chris Evangelista joins us to discuss the Toronto International Film Festival and some of the good and bad movies he caught that we should keep an eye out for.

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Vox's Alissa Wilkinson joins this week's episode to discuss the summer at the movies and why the box office didn't reflect the strong outing this year with blockbusters.

Zach and Brian celebrate 100 episodes of The News Reel with a look at Netflix. Is it bad for movies? Is it good business? Maybe there is a happy medium? They're joined by Flavorwire's Jason Bailey and The Wrap's Matt Donnelly to discuss Netflix's impact on movies and on the film industry, and discuss what could become of the streaming giant.

On this episode, Zach and Brian look back at the year in movies so far in 2017 and pick some of their favorites.

Tim Greiving joins Zach and Brian for this week's main story to talk about his article for The Ringer on Hans Zimmer and the impact his scores have made on the film industry, specifically his work with Christopher Nolan.

On the latest episode, Zach and Brian discuss the release of Dunkirk and try to figure out why the Internet has it out for director Christopher Nolan.

Main Story (30:00): Why does the Internet hate Christopher Nolan so much?

WTF Story of the Week (57:40): Charlie Sheen and Whoopi Goldberg are starring in an incredibly offensive 9/11 movie

On this episode, Zach and Brian discuss the concept of "serious blockbusters" in lieu of the release of War for the Planet of the Apes and whether those have a home in today's Hollywood.   Top Stories: Ava DuVernay wows us with visuals and colors (and Oprah) in first A Wrinkle in Time trailer John Oliver set to voice Zazu in The Lion King Ray Romano joins a stacked cast for Martin Scorsese's The Irishman Quentin Tarantino has found his next movie and it is about the Manson murders Barry Jenkins' next film project tackles James Baldwin Clint Eastwood casts the real-life soldiers as his leading actors in his next film George A. Romero dies at 77 Disney finds its main cast members for Aladdin   Main Story (33:00): Are serious blockbusters a good or bad thing? And what do we think of War for the Planet of the Apes?   WTF Story of the Week (1:03:20): Christopher Nolan and Mark Rylance didn't know who Harry Styles was before Dunkirk