The Strange Harbors Podcast

Nathan Fielder, the most off-putting documentarian and satirist of our time makes his way to the big screen, this time teaming up with filmmaker Lance Oppenheim (Primetime) for You Can See Everything: a shape-shifting exposé on notorious Theranos founder and scammer Elizabeth Holmes. A documentary that evolves way beyond the question of guilt or innocence, You Can See Everything is one of the most ironically titled films of the year — and also one of the best.

A wild summer box office gave us the closest wager yet as we count down the top ten movies of the season. With Spider-Man: Brand New Day at the top spot and Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day at number ten, this year's game had plenty of swings and dramatic reversals in standings. Will Amir emerge victorious for a fourth year in a row, or will there be a new champion? Who had their finger on the pulse of summer 2026?

This week, we catch up with HBO's prestige superhero series, Lanterns. After covering the first two episodes, Jeff, Derek, and Amir return to review the latter six episodes of the show's inaugural first season. Does Lanterns keep the gas of its premiere? Does Jeff still think it's a superhero show afraid or embarrassed to be a superhero show? Tune in for a discussion of barn burner leading man chemistry, the series' iffy plotting, and its surprisingly moving emotional core.

This week, we continue our coverage of Robert Pattinson's banner year with a review of Lance Oppenheim's Primetime. An evocative snapshot of the downfall of mid-aughts ratings smasher To Catch and Predator, Primetime broaches the subject of bad people doing good things for the wrong reasons. We discuss its peculiar reception, a specific capture of post-9/11 rubbernecking media thirst, and the trifecta of powerful performances within the film.

The eighth live action Resident Evil and the third continuity reboot, 2026's latest entry finds horror wunderkind Zach Cregger (Weapons, Barbarian) at the helm of a flagging video game adaptation franchise. We discuss the unreasonably chilly fan reception, the dire state of game adaptations, and the many ways this new film is a much-needed punch in the arm for both the genre and the franchise.

This week, Jeff and Derek — sans Amir for one episode — review the wildly divisive South Korean blockbuster, Hope. Coming out of its Cannes premiere with a distinct "love it or hate it" vibe, Na Hong Jin's first film in a decade puts pedal to the metal with non-stop alien action. The question is, does its powder-keg tension balance with its...less-than-robust extraterrestrial CGI? We investigate.

As Derek takes a week off from the pod, Jeff and Amir return to the eerie world of Jane Schoenbrun with a review of their latest film: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma. A Cannes darling that won the Queer Palm at the 2026 festival, Schoenbrun's latest explores the slasher genre, our relationship with horror, and the foundations of human sexual desire. A clap back against the academic distance we put between ourselves and a base enjoyment of guilty pleasure cinema, Camp Miasma dares to say: "If it gets to real you can always turn It off."

Turning our August into an unofficial superheroes month on the podcast, this week we review the new Damon Lindelof-led entry in the DC Universe: Lanterns on HBO. We talk comics, the vision of James Gunn's cinematic world-building, and the star-studded cast of this sneaky superhero series. After a shaky and disappointing Supergirl in theaters, can Lanterns right the ship of DC adaptations? Or is James Gunn's new universe burning up before it even takes off?

Two years after its surprising first season, X-Men '97 returns to Disney Plus as the series dives straight into what was teased in the 2024 finale: Apocalypse. Can the show follow up its lean, gangbusters debut season with something just as worthwhile? Or will the loss of creator and writer Beau DeMayo spell trouble for this lore-heavy animated series? We discuss the eleventh hour changes, a show without its steward, and what we thought of X-Men '97's turbulent storylines.