Episode 76: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Mutant Mayhem with Jeff Rowe
Cowabunga! The writer-director responsible for this year’s heroes in a half-shell reboot discusses a first draft that involved the iconic villain Shredder.
Storyteller Sessions: Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Sharp Objects)
The best-selling writer reflects on how stories can be arenas for us to examine the most vulnerable and often darkest parts of ourselves.
Storyteller Sessions: Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Cloud Atlas)
A two-hour conversation about resisting empire with a writer-director who, with her sister, changed sci-fi cinema forever.
Storyteller Sessions: Adam McKay (Anchorman, Don’t Look Up)
An audience with the man renowned for his box office-obliterating screwball comedies – until the world changed, and so did he.
Episode 75: Elemental with Kat Likkel and John Hoberg
A peak behind the curtain of how Pixar construct their heartwarming stories, courtesy of the husband-wife writer duo behind their latest hit.
Episode 74: I Love My Dad with James Morosini
The writer, director and star behind last year’s excruciatingly tense social media drama breaks down the film’s first draft.
Episode 73: Knocked Up with Judd Apatow
The man who defined an era in American multiplex comedy revisits his remarkably funny 2007 pregnancy romp.
Episode 72: Joy Ride with Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and Teresa Hsiao
Discover the secrets behind the screenplay to 2023’s most outrageous comedy. Questionable tattoos not provided.
Episode 71: Erin Brockovich with Susannah Grant
How do you write an environmentally-minded David vs Goliath drama that also exposes American misogyny? This 2000 smash’s writer reveals all.
Episode 70: Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One with Christopher McQuarrie
A terrifying new weapon threatens all humanity – and McQ is not talking about the Entity. A discussion about AI and action cinema with the beloved writer-director.
Episode 69: Return To Seoul with Davy Chou
A conversation about how the notion of home shapes us, with the Cambodian-French filmmaker behind one of 2023’s most moving dramas.
Episode 68: The Sopranos with David Chase
An in-depth guide to the greatest TV show of all time, courtesy of its genius creator.
Episode 67: Jurassic Park with David Koepp
Life finds a way in this 30th anniversary conversation with the writer of one of the greatest blockbusters in Hollywood history.
Episode 66: Doctor Sleep with Mike Flanagan
The world’s a hungry place in our latest conversation with the horror auteur, delving into his powerful sequel to The Shining.
Episode 65: Babylon with Damien Chazelle
The La La Land and Whiplash writer-director breaks down his dazzlingly debaucherous account of a 1920s Hollywood descending into cocaine-fuelled chaos.
Episode 64: Something In The Dirt with Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead
The duo responsible for some of the most innovative independent sci-fi of the last decade dig up the secrets of their latest head-trip.
Episode 63: Midnight Mass with Mike Flanagan
An unholy communion with one of the great horror storytellers of our time, sinking our teeth into his deeply personal 2021 vampire series.
Episode 62: Tár with Todd Field
The writer-director conducts a breakdown of his bruising exploration into cancel culture and corrosive obsession.
Episode 61: The Whale with Samuel D. Hunter
The playwright responsible for this moving tale of reconciliation and redemption discusses the parts of his own life he pulled from while adapting it for the screen.
Episode 60: Groundhog Day with Danny Rubin
Relive the creation of one of the greatest comedies of its generation, as writer Danny Rubin describes how vampire literature inspired his dark first draft of the Bill Murray smash.