There Will Be Pod

Remakes and Netflix specials are the taste of November 2025 - we review Nouvelle Vague (5:00), The Running Man (5:40), BUGONIA (7:10) and the movie it is based on, 2003's Save The Green Planet!, TRAIN DREAMS (13:45), SIRAT (18:00), Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (22:22), Wicked For Good (25:10), Die My Love (26:10), Splitsville (28:53), Kill the Jockey (29:50), The Sea (30:30), Familiar Touch (32:00), Little Amelie (32:38).

Plus those we recommend skipping: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (33:00), Ballad of a Small Player (34:30), Americana (35:55).

We drop a new segment - BLINDSPOT SWAP - and then close with Classics Corner (39:55): Extraordinary Stories and Yi Yi.

SPOILERS for BUGONIA, TRAIN DREAMS and modestly for Sirat.

Outre is (ONLY A EXCERPT, CULTURAL COMMENTARY USAGE) Where Have All the Flowers Gone, by Marlene Dietrich in 1962, composed by Pete Seeger in 1955.

Before hosting director Daniel Robbins to discuss his new movies (Bad Shabbos, Citizen Weiner) and MovieBio (34:10 timestamp), we are joined by Theo to chat up a feast of October movies: the new Frankenstein and Dracula and squint and call 'em horrors like Hallow Road, Blue Moon, Twinless, If I Had Legs I'd Kick You, After the Hunt, Anemone, A Little Prayer, Honey Don't! and Bugonia.

NO Spoilers in this episode!

CHECK OUT ⁠all our episodes on Letterboxd⁠ and the ⁠archive of every movie ever⁠ discussed on There Will Be Pod

Outre is Blue Moon, written by Rodgers and Hart in 1934, redone as a doo-wop version in 1961 by The Marcels, covered in 2025 by Richie and the High Street Rockers - this is a brief EXCERPT used in non-copyright fashion only for cultural commentary!

To celebrate the 14th birthday of the hippest movie diary platform - and cohost Sammy finally joining earlier this year - we dive into how to best enjoy Letterboxd, the best accounts, challenges and lists to follow and how to write/rate what you watch + we host a Bracket featuring listener's contrarian movies. Join certified Hater (Sammy), Critic (Allix) and Enthusiast, our guest Zach Brooks, cohost of The Movier Ladder Podcast.

Some Letterboxd recs in the episode:

(1) Zach (brooksza + Movie Ladder), Allix (all_ix) and Sammy (gosnowso).

(2) Accounts: TimBrayton, NotPaulineKael, DemiAdejuyigbe, AndyHerren, MrDrenzaria (Dr Morbius), Shut Up Tim.

(3) Lists: add to your profile a masterlist like this. Check out: Anxiety Inducing Cinema, Movies Under 90mn, and Movies on Youtube.

(4) Challenges: Zach recs Criterion, Library Ladder, and Watchlist.

(5) Here and Here for free websites with extra recs and fun stats based on your Letterboxd history.

Outre is The Letterboxd Song by Luna Xoa, 2024 - EXCERPT only, shared in the context of cultural commentary so there is NO licensing or rights violation.

This month we zero in on arguably the biggest release of the year, PTA's latest One Battle After Another, and then reveal where it stacks up with with all his movies with Allix and Sam sharing how they rank the 10 movies of PTA.

SPOILERS start at minute 13:30.

Outre is "River of Hills" from the OBAA soundtrack by Jonny Greenwood

⁠Allix⁠⁠ joins the pod as cohost, to celebrate he shares his "MovieBio," the movies that tell the story of a life + he reveals how Sydney Sweeney, Ana de Armas and the others in the new movie Eden would do on the tv-show SURVIVOR.

Also review recent 2025 releases: Weapons (21:20), Eden and the Survivor strategies (27:00), Ne Zha 2 (39:10), The Naked Gun (42:30), Highest 2 Lowest (44:30), KPop Demon Hunters (47:12), Sorry Baby (47:40), Misericordia (48:05).

CLASSICS CORNER (49:06): Elizabeth (1998) Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959)

No SPOILERS in this episode.

Outro is Friend Like Me, Robin Williams, 1992

WAY BACK in May 2022, then cohosts Sam & John invited Paco Uybarreta - an experimental test pilot and USAF pilot - to unpack aerial thrills and frills of Tom Cruise's blast from the past, Top Gun Maverick.

FFW to 2025 and after the episode was mistakenly deleted, we've blasted this back from the past as a 2025 Matinee.

WAY BACK in 2020 June, then cohosts Sam & Av discussed Spike Lee's latest, Da 5 Bloods, before sharing their 5 most impactful movies on police racism from this list of 20+ on the subject.

After the EP was mistakenly deleted, now republishing as a "Matinee."

Outre is 1971's What's Going On by Marvin Gaye

WAY BACK in 2019 October, then hosts Will & Av invited on Zach Brooks to discuss the newest DC release, JOKER.

Little did they know a bad sequel would follow OR that Spotify would mistakenly delete this original episode, prompting a republishing ("Matinee") now in August 2025.

The bracket to determine the best movie of 1975 - joined by Allix⁠ and special guest Justin Purwitsky, along with listener callouts naming their favorite of 1975.

See the bracket featuring the 18 movies competing, see here.

Mild SPOILERS for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Jaws, Barry Lyndon, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Story of Adele H. and 3 Days of the Condor

Outro is Show Me The Way To Go Home, 1925 ditty by James Campell and Reginald Connelly, 1975 cover.

Classics Corner takes over the podcast for a special episode devoted to the Apu trilogy, the three celebrated Indian movies directed by Satyajit Ray: Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu. Joining us from Asia is Prof. Shai Chester for a spirited debate on experience vs purpose and a competitive draft of best characters from across the ACU (Apu Cinematic Universe) .

Outre is Ravi Shankar's "Improvisations On The Theme Music From Pather Panchali" (1999)