Filmspotting

The Freshman (1925) with Sean Crosson | Field of Scenes 04.10.2026 1t 6min

Way before Rudy, there was Speedy.

Mulholland Drive at 25, plus If I Go Will They Miss Me and You Had to Be There | #1083 02.10.2026 1t 36min

How many drivers does a buggy have?

Hazard Pay, Pt. 2 — The Weight 01.10.2026 1t 17min

Deals with the devil.

Avengers: Endgame | Archive 30.09.2026 46min

Avenge the fallen.

Netflix’s Unabomber Is the Worst Law & Order Episode Ever Made | SVU 29.09.2026 1t 39min

Zero Divided by Zero (Dark Thirty)

"Be Natural" with Marya E. Gates | The Movie Racket 28.09.2026 49min

Truth in performance.

Resident Evil and Top 5 Comedy Boom Movies, plus The Incomer | #1082 25.09.2026 2t 34min

Kind of a big deal.

Ethan Hawke | Archive 23.09.2026 25min

Get off the train with me.

Netflix’s Best of the Best is Actually Kind of the Best | SVU 22.09.2026 1t 26min

Pitch Perfect: Bollywood

Hazard Pay, Pt. 1 — Sorcerer 22.09.2026 1t 4min

William Friedkin’s 1977 cult favorite.

“A picture that stays with you is made up of a hundred or more hidden things” with Alonso Duralde | The Movie Racket 21.09.2026 56min

God is in the details.

Featuring: Table Read Podcast | PV & FRANNY - Part 2 19.09.2026 17min

PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous. ACT TWO If Act One is about starting a band, Act Two is about what happens when everything immediately gets in the way. Franny does what any rational person would do. He writes a love song. Which would be fine… except for the rule. No romance. Ever. And PV means it. What follows is a series of perfectly logical decisions that somehow make everything worse. A love song that says too much. A date that shouldn’t exist. A plan to fix things that only complicates them further. Because if PV won’t date a bandmate, there’s only one solution: Make the competition part of the band. Which works. Until it doesn’t. As alliances shift, rules get enforced, and Franny finds himself deeper in a situation he cannot control, the band becomes something else entirely. Not just music. Not just friendship. Something closer to a test. Of loyalty. Of identity. Of whether you can separate what you create from how you feel. And in the middle of it all, the stakes quietly expand. A school competition that suddenly matters. A partnership that feels more intense than anything either of them expected. And a realization that success might not look the way they imagined it. Act Two is where the band takes shape, the lines get blurred, and the consequences of those rules start to land. Because sometimes the only thing more complicated than love… …is trying to avoid it. 🎭 CAST NARRATOR – Ty Burrell AJAY – Rahm Braslaw JUDY – Samantha Morelos MARIAN – Eileen Fogarty PV – Kensington Tallman RYUZO – O’Neill Monahan FRANNY – Liam Richardson GROUNDSKEEPER – Fred Armisen DALE – Ruben Ray TAP WATER BOTTLED WATER JINGLE – Chris Mann 🎬 PRODUCTION Written by Tommy Wallach Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. Find The Show: Table Read PodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Blue Velvet at 40: Beneath the Surface | #1081 18.09.2026 1t 38min

It’s a strange world.

Top 5 David Lynch Scenes | Archive 16.09.2026 40min

This is the girl.

Existential Zones, Pt. 2 — It Ends 15.09.2026 1t 2min

Alexander Ullom's It Ends is a daring little piece of microbudget drama about four friends at transition points in their lives, who find themselves in a place where life and death no longer hold any meaning. Whether it’s a film about despair, about the afterlife, about the human condition, or all of the above, is up for discussion this week, as well as how It Ends fits into this current moment in independent horror cinema. After that, we bring Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris back in for Connections to discuss these two films’ respective existential journeys, the baggage their characters are bringing with them, and how each movie uses its genre premise to explore a big central metaphor. Then for Your Next Picture Show, we take a quick look at how Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 version of Solaris compares to Tarkovsky’s. Please share your thoughts about Solaris, It Ends, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Next Pairing: Padraic McKinley’s The Weight and William Friedkin’s Sorcerer This episode is presented by⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Regal Unlimited⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits. Use code NEXTPIC26 for 15% off.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We Can’t Look Away From Netflix’s Untold Raygun: Breaking Badly | SVU 15.09.2026 1t

Pop, lock, laughing stock.

"All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun" with Rachel Walther | The Movie Racket 14.09.2026 58min

Sex and danger.

Introducing: Table Read Podcast | PV & FRANNY - Part 1 12.09.2026 20min

PV & FRANNY A girl with a glockenspiel. A boy with a guitar. A high school full of weirdos, mascots who may or may not be unhinged, and a mystery that isn’t what anyone thinks it is. A dead-serious love story… that refuses to behave like one. One flier turns into a band. One band turns into obsession. And before they ever play a real set, everything is already ridiculous.   ACT ONE Overton High is chaos in a controlled environment. The mascot smokes. The journalist thinks she’s breaking Watergate. The nicest bully in school politely refuses lunch money. And then there’s PV. Brilliant. Intense. Completely uncompromising. She doesn’t want to start a band. She wants to build something real. Franny Blevins just wants to be part of it. What begins as an awkward coffee shop encounter quickly turns into a partnership built on music, rules, and one very firm boundary: No romance. Ever. Which becomes a problem almost immediately. As Franny gets pulled deeper into PV’s world, her music, her logic, her investigations, and her completely upside-down way of seeing everything, the stakes escalate in the most unexpected ways. A hate note that isn’t hate. An audition that turns into an interrogation. A band that starts to feel like something much bigger… and much messier. Act One is the beginning of the band, the beginning of the obsession, and the moment everything starts to spiral just slightly out of control.   🎭 CAST NARRATOR – Ty Burrell AJAY – Rahm Braslaw JUDY – Samantha Morelos MARIAN – Eileen Fogarty PV – Kensington Tallman RYUZO – O’Neill Monahan FRANNY – Liam Richardson GROUNDSKEEPER – Fred Armisen DALE – Ruben Ray TAP WATER BOTTLED WATER JINGLE – Chris Mann 🎬 PRODUCTION Written by Tommy Wallach Directed by Mark Knell & Jack Levy Executive Produced by Shaan Sharma, Jack Levy, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production.   Find The Show: Table Read PodcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.