Loose talk, sharp movie instincts.
Untitled Movie Podcast is a film-review and interview show built around current movies, streaming releases, and festival runs. Its rhythm shifts from casual jokes about the MCU or Predator lore to thoughtful questions about craft, grief, history, and performance.
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Untitled Movie Podcast is a movie conversation show with one foot in current-review culture and the other in festival-minded film criticism. It covers the big, loud titles, but it does not treat them as disposable. Wonder Man becomes a way to talk about MCU fatigue, charm, casting, Watchmen comparisons, and what a superhero show can do when it avoids the most expected tropes. Predator: Badlands opens into franchise lineage, Alien crossover history, PG-13 violence, Weyland-Yutani logic, and the challenge of bringing a new audience into an old creature feature. Bugonia prompts a sharper argument about political allegory, narrative redundancy, filmmaker perspective, and chamber-piece comparisons. The show is comfortable being silly. It is also comfortable staying with an idea. That mix gives the reviews a lived-in feel: jokes, side references, rankings, festival tiredness, social handles, and then a serious turn toward form or theme.
The interview episodes add another register. Guests discuss documentary research, jewel thieves serving time, art historians moving into filmmaking, visual artists becoming directors, grief, fatherhood, nationhood, real archives, and the responsibility of portraying political history. Questions are specific enough to invite real craft answers rather than generic promotion. The conversation around My Father’s Shadow, for example, moves through memory, loss, Nigeria in 1993, Abiola, military rule, family, and historical responsibility. Two People Exchanging Saliva opens questions about artists entering cinema, tradition and modernity, casual violence, intimacy, and generational rules. The Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie interview leans into Toronto media culture, Tom Green, non-actors, and the awkward thrill of performance in public space.
The result is a loose but informed film show for people who follow new releases closely and still want the room to feel informal. It can sound like friends leaving a screening. It can also sound like a good festival Q&A with the stiffness removed.
Made for: Built for film fans who follow new releases, franchise shifts, TIFF coverage, and filmmaker interviews. It suits listeners who like criticism with jokes, tangents, and real attention to craft.
What sets it apart: The show pairs casual review chemistry with unusually specific filmmaker questions. It moves from MCU rankings and Predator lore to grief, archive ethics, non-actors, and political history without changing into a different show.
Each week, film friends Matt Rorabeck, Eric Marchen and Andrew Faigal get together to review movies, chat movie news and whatever else they feel like talking about that week.
Weyland-Yutani lore meets filmmaker interviews, and both land in your funniest post-screening debrief.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
The hosts weigh Predator: Badlands against earlier films, with close attention to its creature and synths.
Dan Trachtenberg's Predator: Badlands gives the hosts a good question: what happens when a Predator film puts the creature at its center instead of an action star?
Matt Rohrbeck and Eric Marchin weigh Bugonia's ambiguity, conspiracy, and point of view.
Matt Rohrbeck and Eric Marchin approach Bugonia through a question that stays with them: can a film about conspiracy leave its point of view open? They find sympathy on both sides of the conflict, then test how much room the writing leaves for interpretation.
Matt and Eric weigh Sam Wilson's Red Hulk problem and Harrison Ford's press conference.
Matt and Eric go into Captain America: Brave New World with low expectations, but their questions give the preview some life. Matt has seen about 30 minutes of footage, and both hosts attended the press conference.
Matt Rohrbeck and Eric Marchin preview Captain America: Brave New World after seeing about 30 minutes of footage and attending the press conference with Kevin Feige, Harrison Ford, Anthony Mackie, and other cast members.
Hosts Matt and Eric recap days 3-5 of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, discussing off vibes, limited tickets, and the impact of a midnight screening on their sleep.
Hosts Matt and Eric recap their first two days at TIFF 50, sharing chaotic festival experiences and film impressions.
An interview with filmmakers Natalie Musteata and Alexandre Singh about their unconventional path from the art world to filmmaking and the inspiration they draw from other non-traditional filmmakers.
Bart Layton discusses how his documentary background and research with real criminals informed the authenticity of his film Crime 101.
Matt Johnson and Jay McCarol discuss the influence of Tom Green and the challenges of filming with non-actors in their movie.
A filmmaker discusses the emotional impact of his film 'My Father's Shadow' and the line about memories comforting after loss, reflecting on personal grief.
Matt and Eric review the new Marvel series Wonder Man, discussing its place in the MCU and the career of director Destin Daniel Cretton.
Untitled Movie Podcast reviews Dan Trachtenberg's Predator Badlands, starring Elle Fanning as Thea and Demetrius Schuster-Kolomontongi as Deck, a Yautja runt on Yautja Prime.
Matt Rohrbeck and Eric Marchin review Yorgos Lanthimos' "Bugonia," connecting it to the 2003 South Korean film "Save the Green Planet" and noting that Emma Stone's Michelle is a gender-swapped role.
Matt and Eric recap days 6-10 of the 50th Toronto International Film Festival, discussing films they've seen and upcoming reviews.
The hosts recap days 3-5 of the Toronto International Film Festival, discussing the 50th anniversary, off vibes, and their experiences with screenings and interviews.
Hosts Matt and Eric recap their first two days at the TIFF 50 film festival, discussing movies they've seen and the festival experience.