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Last year’s TIFF people’s Choice Award winner is now in wide release from NEON, Mike Flanagan’s The Life of Chuck: A life-affirming, genre-bending story based on Stephen King's novella about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. 

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction & Initial Thoughts
• 0:32:41 Spoiler Review
• 1:51:17 Oscars Assessment
• 1:57:04 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok, and YouTube
Ethan Dayton on Letterboxd, Bluesky, and X
Bryan Sudfield on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Life Moves Pretty Fast
Jacob Diedenhofer on Letterboxd, Instagram, X
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Nandita Joshi on Letterboxd, X, Instagram, TikTok, and Linktree

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• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

The Right Track (2025) is a powerful documentary that amplifies the voices of survivors of sextrafficking, revealing their resilience, heartbreak, and courage as they fight for freedom, justice, and a future where exploited individuals are no longer criminalized but protected. Kam Ryan sits down with Director Shareen Anderson and documentary participants Yasmin Vafa and Audra Doody to discuss the gripping documentary and relentless fight to end sex trafficking. The film premiered at DC/DOX on June 13th.

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Audra Doody on Instagram, Website
Yasmin Vafa on Instagram, Website
Shareen Anderson on IMDb, Website
The Right Track (2025) on Instagram, Website

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Kam Ryan on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and Empty Theater Podcast

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• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:

• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

This is the pre-episode conversation before our review of The Phoenician Scheme (2025) where we discuss trailer reactions to films including Frankenstein, Wicked: For Good, Black Phone 2, and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Subscribe to our Patreon to hear more.

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The Phoenician Scheme (Danny Jarabek)

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• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

Richard Ladkani continues his work of environmental documentary storytelling by bringing us to the Amazon to share the story of Juma Xipaia and her husband Hugo Loss as they fight for environmental land protection and Indigenous sovereignty. In our interview, Richard and Juma discuss the approach they discussed for sharing Juma's message and the importance of safety and security for the subjects and crew during the process. As the first woman to serve as chief of the Middle Xingu region, Juma is an internationally recognized advocate who has survived six assassination attempts for her work.

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Richard Ladkani Website, IMDb, Instagram
Juma Xipaia Instagram, Instituto Juma

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Danny Jarabek Letterboxd, Instagram, X, TikTok, and Linktree

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• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:

• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

For a bonus review this weekend on a weekend full of new releases and our main review settled on Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme, we’ve got so many John Wick heads on our team that we couldn’t pass up the opportunity to review the franchise’s first spin-off Ballerina, or formally From the World of John Wick: Ballerina. The film is described as follows: an assassin trained in the traditions of the Ruska Roma organization sets out to seek revenge after her father's death. Directed by Len Wiseman, the film stars Ana de Armas, Keanu Reeves, Gabriel Byrne, and Anjelica Huston. 

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Chapter Timestamps:

• 0:00:00 Introduction & Initial Thoughts
• 0:30:35 Spoiler Review
• 1:28:48 Oscars Assessment
• 1:30:07 Final Ratings

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Danny Jarabek Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Paul Rai on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X
Ethan Simmie on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, The Movie Draft Podcast, 24 Minutes of A24
Jake Fittipaldi on Letterboxd, Instagram, and TikTok
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok, and YouTube
Joshua Mbonu Letterboxd, and X

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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

‘Widow Champion’ takes us to rural Kenya, where Rodah Nafula Wekesa spearheads a courageous movement, rallying fellow widows to reclaim their rightful property. Sara Ciplickas sits down with Director Zippy Kimundu to discuss the trust necessary to complete this documentary and the progress made in these women’s fight against widow inheritance and patriarchal traditions. The film debuted in the US at Tribeca Festival and will be followed by a premiere at DC/DOX June 14th.

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Zippy Kimundu IMDb, Instagram

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Sara Ciplickas on Letterboxd, Instagram, and X

Resources:
The Terrace
I'll Tell You My Story
Afrofilms International

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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

Toby Perl Freilich's Maintenance Artist follows NYC's first Sanitation Department artist-in-residence, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, who blends art with waste management in Maintenance Artist, exploring her groundbreaking public art career. The film is playing in the Documentary Competition at Tribeca and we had the opportunity to discuss the film and development with its subject with the director.

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• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

*THIS IS A PREVIEW PODCAST* featuring a 30-minute segment from our RETRO//RANKED season on the Jurassic Franchise. To watch the full conversation on video, subscribe to our Patreon.

In this spinoff of our existing Retrospective series, we’ll be taking a long-form approach to our retrospectives for full franchises and filmographies. Every season of RETRO/RANKED will see us discuss every single entry in a franchise or director’s career that we cover with the goal of creating a definitive ranked list that will represent TRT’s overall assessment. You better hold onto your butts because our premiere season will see us cover the Jurassic Park franchise in its entirety, leading up to and including Jurassic World: Rebirth. In episode one, we kick off the franchise by ranking Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park.

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok, and YouTube
Cameron Ritter on Letterboxd, Instagram, X, and TikTok
Jake Fittipaldi on Letterboxd, Instagram, and TikTok
Tate Fowler on Letterboxd and Instagram

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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Nate Hayden

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• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

Ahead of Mike Flanagan’s latest film The Life of Chuck, we look back through his filmography which predominantly features many entries to the horror genre both in feature film and TV formats. We’ll discuss his early work through Doctor Sleep as well as his highly acclaimed series work with The Haunting of Hill House, The Fall of the House of Usher, and Midnight Mass.

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Danny Jarabek Website, Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky, X, TikTok, and Linktree
Adam Patla on Letterboxd, Instagram, Bluesky,  X, TikTok, and YouTube
Red Broadwell on Letterboxd, X, and Instagram

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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Nate Hayden

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Credits:

• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller

After Flow won Best Animated Feature at this year's Academy Awards, Latvian animation offers something new again with Dog of God. The rotoscope animated film is co-directed by siblings Raitis and Lauris Ābele, who sit down with interview host Arleigh Rodgers at Tribeca Festival to discuss their nightmarish depiction of a 17th century witch trial in Livonia that uncovers a werewolf within a devout community.

Review:
Dog of God Review (Arleigh Rodgers)

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Tritone Studio
Raitis Ābele IMDb, Instagram
Lauris Ābele IMDb, Instagram

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Arleigh Rodgers

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Credits:

• Theme music by Eugene Rocco Utley
• Artwork by Danny Jarabek
• Edited by Danny Jarabek

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Credits:

• Theme music: Eugene Rocco Utley & Karl Vincent
• Artwork: Danny Jarabek
• Editor: Danny Jarabek
• Assistant Producer: Evan Miller