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• Soderbergh Ep. 35: The Laundromat (2019) with Luke Savage 03.07.2026 1h 56min

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: our episode on Soderbergh's 2019 Panama Papers infotainment film THE LAUNDROMAT. Joining us to parse this deeply odd "comedic" "look" into the mysterious world of offshore finance is co-host of the Michael & Us podcast and author of The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History, Luke Savage! Together we get to the bottom of Soderbergh and Scott Z. Burns' decision to give the BIG SHORT treatment to Jake Bernstein's entirely unfunny nonfiction book Secrecy World, and find in the film a very familiar liberal disinterest in the transformative potential of moments like the Panama Papers leak. Great conversation, check it out (whether or not you've seen the pretty lousy movie)! Note: We had a small technical problem in the last 20 minutes or so, and our guest's audio quality is notably lower but still perfectly listenable for the end of the episode. We blame transnational gangs of malefactors. Further Reading: Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History by Luke Savage The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money by Bastian Obermayer and Frederik Obermaier The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens by Gabriel Zucman  "The Dirty Problems with Operation Car Wash" by Vincent Bevins: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/08/anti-corruption-crusades-paved-way-bolsonaro/596449/ "'Keep It Confidential': The Secret History of U.S. Involvement in Brazil's Scandal-Wracked Operation Car Wash" by Andrew Fishman, Natalia Viana, & Maryam Saleh: https://theintercept.com/2020/03/12/united-states-justice-department-brazil-car-wash-lava-jato-international-treaty/ "Steven Soderbergh: On His New Film 'The Laundromat' And What The Panama Papers Teach Us" by Risa Sarachan: https://www.forbes.com/sites/risasarachan/2019/10/17/steven-soderbergh-on-his-new-film-the-laundromat-and-what-the-panama-papers-teach-us/ "Meryl Streep Says Financial Corruption in 'Laundromat' Is a 'Black-Hearted Joke'" by Ariston Anderson: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/venice-2019-meryl-streep-steven-soderbergh-laundromat-1235958/  Further Viewing: THE INSIDER (Mann, 1999) WE STEAL SECRETS: THE STORY OF WIKILEAKS (Gibney, 2013) WILD TALES (Szifron, 2014) THE BIG SHORT (McKay, 2015) SPOTLIGHT (McCarthy, 2015) THE REPORT (Burns, 2019) CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (Jia, 2024) Follow Luke Savage: https://x.com/LukewSavage https://www.lukewsavage.com/ https://www.patreon.com/cw/michaelandus   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson. 
• PATREON PREVIEW: COMMENTARY: Tightrope (1984) 26.06.2026 8min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. It's commentary time once again, folks, and we thought we'd revisit the first time we talked about Louisiana and sex work on the show: the Clint Eastwood film TIGHTROPE! This sort-of-Richard Tuggle joint is almost as sweaty and nasty as the two guys talking over it, discussing the American giallo, cop sneakers, and hoisting oysters. Listen along with the film or just listen while you do whatever! Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.
• Soderbergh Ep. 34: High Flying Bird (2019) 19.06.2026 2h 4min

  Roundball...talk?!?!?! That's right, it's the HIGH FLYING BIRD episode where we cover Soderbergh's second shot-on-iPhone feature, a 2019 direct-to-Netflix basketball lockout drama starring his old THE KNICK pal André Holland (and a totally different guy named Dr. Edwards). Join us for a great in-person (!) discussion of the intersections of sports, labor, race, and technology, and what exactly Soderbergh is trying to suggest he's really doing with this experimental distribution business. Plus we come up with some genuinely great names for basketball teams. Listen or we'll smoke you like the clown that you are! Further Reading: The Revolt of the Black Athlete by Harry Edwards Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation that Saved the Soul of the NBA by Theresa Runstedtler "Harry Edwards, a giant of sports activism, still has people shook" by Lonnae O'Neal: https://andscape.com/features/harry-edwards-mexico-city-olympics-sports-activism-john-carlos-tommie-smith-1968/ "Michele Roberts vs. the NBA: Why the New Head of the Players Union Is a Hero for Progressive Sports Fans" by Will Leitch: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/11/michele-roberts-the-hero-of-progressive-sports.html "Steven Soderbergh on the High-Speed Production of High Flying Bird" by Brian Raftery: https://www.vulture.com/2019/02/steven-soderbergh-high-flying-production.html Further Viewing: JERRY MAGUIRE (Crowe, 1996) MONEYBALL (Miller, 2011) LOGAN LUCKY (Soderbergh, 2017) UNSANE (Soderbergh, 2018) THE LAST DANCE (Hehir, 2020) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.
• PATREON PREVIEW: Mr. Majestyk (1974) 12.06.2026 9min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Originally written for Clint Eastwood by friend of the show Elmore Leonard, Richard Fleischer's 1974 Charles Bronson vehicle MR. MAJESTYK is that classic action film setup: a melon farmer accidentally ends up in the middle of a mob hitman's prison transport escape and teams up with a beautiful migrant labor organizer to save his crop. It's a hell of a lot of fun, and probably should have been Patreon episode 3, but here we are. We talk Bronson, small grower economics, and a whole lot about the United Farm Workers, Dolores Huerta, Larry Itliong, and Cesar Chavez. Good ep! Roger Ebert's profile of Bronson: https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/charles-bronson-its-just-that-i-dont-like-to-talk-very-much Paul Koslo interview: https://iamlegendarchive.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_10.html Review of Christian Paiz's Strikers of Coachella: https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/coachella-united-farm-workers/ Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers by Frank Bardacke: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2213-trampling-out-the-vintage As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.
• Soderbergh Ep. 33: Unsane (2018) with Esmé Holden 05.06.2026 2h 17min

  It'll be a lot easier for everyone if you just listen to our episode on UNSANE, Soderbergh's 2018 shot-on-iPhone experiment that's otherwise a pretty solid thriller! Writer Esmé Holden returns to the show after far too long to talk smartphone aesthetics, involuntary holds, whether all doctors are cops or just most of them, the intersections of mental illness and misogyny and transphobia, and a very special man by the name of Gavin de Becker. Wonderful guest, wonderful conversation, check it out! Heads up: there's a very brief bit of rough audio right when our guest starts speaking, but it clears up quickly. Further Reading: The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker "Still The Smartest Guy On The Hill 30 Years After Sex, Lies & Videotape: Steven Soderbergh Unravels Hollywood Chaos" by Mike Fleming, Jr. https://deadline.com/2019/01/steven-soderbergh-sundance-slamdance-icon-interview-1202544513/ Further Viewing: GASLIGHT (Cukor, 1944) SHOCK CORRIDOR (Fuller, 1963) THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (Demme, 1991) THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (Myrick & Sánchez, 1999) SIDE EFFECTS (Soderbergh, 2013) TANGERINE (Baker, 2015) Follow Esmé Holden: https://letterboxd.com/esmepartii/ https://substack.com/@esmeholden Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Hosted and produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.
• PATREON PREVIEW: Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) 29.05.2026 10min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. George Clooney's second feature - written with his producing partner Grant Heslov - was 2005's GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, a dramatization of newsman Edward R. Murrow's brave stance against Senator Joe McCarthy's anticommunist witch hunt. Well, just against the witch hunt part. And we're not sure it was all that brave - listen and find out. Plus, obviously, we talk about how this all obviously reminds us of support for Gaza, and how Clooney doesn't seem to know that. Further Reading: A History of Broadcasting in the United States + Media Marathon, both by Erik Barnouw The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Gender, Race, and McCarthyism https://web.archive.org/web/20071103160336/http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.2/friedman.html Further Listening: Michael and Us - https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/michael-and-us-cinematic-civics-lesson/id791564318?i=1000659893073 Citations Needed - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ep-207-us-backed-killing-of-journalists-in-gaza/id1258545975?i=1000665331874 Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
• Soderbergh Ep. 32: Mosaic (2017) with Comrade Yui 22.05.2026 2h 13min

  Look, either you know what this is or you won't believe us. In 2017, Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon made a murder mystery show that was an app on your phone. You used your phone to decide which scenes to watch next to find out who killed Sharon Stone. This is real. Then they re-edited it as a miniseries for HBO, and now you can't watch the app version literally anywhere. The whole thing is nuts, and thank G-d we have our friend Comrade Yui to help us navigate through it (app joke). Join us for a typically wide-ranging conversation about interactivity, the artist as fascist (complimentary?), video game theory, and biodigital jazz, man. Hey more like Steven Flappybird! Because he deleted the app! Well, someone did. Further Reading: Extra Lives by Tom Bissell Cain's Jawbone by Torquemada "Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" by Marina Hassapoulou - https://filmquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hassapopoulou_Interactive_Introduction-1.pdf "Mosaic: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Review of Steven Soderbergh's Mystery" by Matt Brennan - https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/mosaic/mosaic-hbo-steven-soderbergh-review Further Viewing/Playing: MOSAIC trailer/app demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km_u51OE3VA KINOAUTOMAT (Činčera, 1967) OUT 1 (Rivette, 1971) ZORK (Anderson, Blank, Daniels, and Lebling, 1977) DRAGON'S LAIR (Bluth, 1983) CLUE (Lynn, 1985) MASS EFFECT 2 (Hudson, 2010) BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH (Slade, 2018)  Follow Comrade Yui: https://x.com/yui_antinomy https://www.patreon.com/c/comrade_yui/ https://letterboxd.com/comrade_yui/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
• PATREON PREVIEW: Open Range (2003) 15.05.2026 7min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. You voted, we watched! For our third Listener Choice episode, we jumped in the saddle to talk OPEN RANGE, Kevin Costner's 2003 Lauran Paine adaptation that he seemed to think would be his UNFORGIVEN. We disagree! To the many Costnerds among you, we apologize in advance - but this thing ain't UNFORGIVEN, let me tell ya. We talk free grazing, mythmaking, saving dogs, and the wonderful Robert Duvall and Michael Jeter. Avatar: The Last Annettebender. Is that anything? Let us know. As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Produced by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine. Edited by Ryan Torgeson.
• Soderbergh Ep. 31: Logan Lucky (2017) with Glenn Heath Jr. 08.05.2026 1h 49min

  The Winds of Winter is still a distant dream for incarcerated fantasy fans, but our episode on Soderbergh's 2017 NASCAR caper LOGAN LUCKY is coming to you on schedule. We brought back our friend, and rebel among San Diego film critics, Glenn Heath Jr. to discuss how Ocean's 7-Eleven combines Soderbergh's impatience with conventional film production, his visions of an incongruous South, and his preternatural flair for heist movies. It might be a live-action cartoon or it might be serious American Regionalism. We lay it all out for you in what Sebastian Stan has called "the dirtiest air of all." Further Reading: "Will Soderbergh's Strategy of Bypassing the Studio System...,"  by Ryan Faughnder Prison Life Unlocked by Phillip Vance Smith Jr.  "Former Coal Towns Get Money from Clean-Energy Factories," by Hiroko Tabuchi  "How an Ex-Coal Mining Town is Turning to Ecotourism," by Emily Cataneo "For Black NASCAR Fans, Change Would Mean Feeling at Ease," by Andrew Keh Further Viewing: RAISING ARIZONA (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1987) BOTTLE ROCKET (Wes Anderson, 1996) TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (Adam McKay, 2006) BERNIE (Richard Linklater, 2011) Follow Glenn Heath Jr.: His Twitter Digital Gym Cinema San Diego Asian Film Festival Pacific Arts Movement Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  
• PATREON PREVIEW: One Battle After Another (2025) with Ryan Torgeson 01.05.2026 9min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. As promised, we decided to dig in on last year's Best Picture winner and one of the most-discussed Political Films to come out of Hollywood in a long time: Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. And of course we roped in our buddy Ryan Torgeson, formerly of the Altmania podcast, who has maybe more context for this film than anyone we know. We talk about whether the film has a coherent politics and what that might be, the film's depiction of Black women, the "discourse" that most pissed us off, being the child of radical parents, and of course how many beers we've had (and their relative size). Really great conversation, check it out! follow Ryan: https://x.com/molecularlioneI "Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another" by Angelica Jade Bastién - https://www.vulture.com/article/black-actresses-are-carrying-one-battle-after-another.html Mother Country Radicals podcast - https://crooked.com/podcast-series/mother-country-radicals/ As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
• Soderbergh Ep. 30: The Knick Season 2 (2015) 24.04.2026 2h 21min

  Scrub in, folks - we're headed back to the operating theater for the second and final season of The Knick! Doctors Thack and Edwards and the gang are up to even more bleak shenanigans this time, and we're talking about it all. It's a bonafide Pod Casty cornucopia of context as we chat medical hypnotism, eugenics, Black Nationalism, sideshows, addiction treatment, urban revival churches, condoms, New York City corruption, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus, Kimi's really one on this time. Further Reading: Soderbergh interview on AI by Brent Lang Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts by Ben Singer The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America by Benjamin Reiss André Holland interview by Rodrigo Perez "The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey" by Paul Prescod "The Shadow of Booker T. Washington" by Jervis Anderson "A Short History of the Condom" by Hallie Lieberman "The Wedding Night" by Ida Craddock Further Viewing: THE MOSQUITO COAST (Weir, 1986) MAD MEN (various, 2007) J. EDGAR (Eastwood, 2011) Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  
• PATREON PREVIEW: COMMENTARY: Dead Ringers (1988) 17.04.2026 6min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. We're back with another commentary track, this time for a movie by a director we almost covered: David Cronenberg. His 1988 identical twin gynecologist horror-tragedy DEAD RINGERS deals with all kinds of themes we love: the nature of the self, of experience, of the body, of morality. It's also got the guy from Soderbergh's KAFKA and the lady from TIGHTROPE and OBSESSION. Listen to this along with the film or just listen on its own - it works either way, in our opinion! "Dead Ringers" by Ron Rosenbaum & Susan Edmiston Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
• Soderbergh Ep. 29: Magic Mike XXL (2015) with Marie Bardi-Salinas 10.04.2026 2h 24min

  Get ready for one (second-to-)last ride! We're hopping on the food truck with the Kings of Tampa to talk MAGIC MIKE XXL, Greg Jacobs's 2015 sequel to MAGIC MIKE, on which Soderbergh served as both cinematographer and editor. Returning to the show is our pal, movie person and social media producer Marie Bardi! We talk nontoxic masculinity, female pleasure, the film's response to race-based criticism of MAGIC MIKE, and whether the Kings can be considered a leaderless worker collective. Grab your cheetos and water and give it a listen. Further Reading: "Where Mike Got the Magic" by Tressie McMillan Cottom "The Subversive Phallocentrism of Channing Tatum," by Katie Warfield "The Lived Experience of Male Sex Work." by Michael G. Cutris and Joshua L. Boe Further Viewing: GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley, 1933) THE STORE (Frederick Wiseman, 1983) BEAU TRAVAIL (Claire Denis, 1999) STEP UP (Anne Fletcher, 2006) STEP UP REVOLUTION (Scott Speer, 2012) NOCTURAMA (Bertrand Bonello, 2016) DOG (Reid Carolin, Channing Tatum, 2022) Follow Marie Bardi-Salinas: https://www.instagram.com/mariebardi/ https://www.mariebardi.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/blank-check-with-griffin-david/id981330533 Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
• PATREON PREVIEW: The Boss Baby (2017) with Christopher Jason Bell 03.04.2026 4min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Prepare to get real BOSS BABY vibes, folks. Making good on a tweeted threat, we had our friend, filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell join us to try to make sense of 2017's THE BOSS BABY, an animated film for children that baffled us all. We end up talking about what it means to compare films, whether there is a use to analyzing any text at all, and if one can be a boss without any productive process over which to boss. Plus, we sing the praises of the brilliant 2022 Boss Baby Symposium, which you should all check out. Also: a message from Maxwell! Follow Chris Bell: https://x.com/UpdateTheGrids https://linktr.ee/christopherjasonbell The Boss Baby Symposium: https://bbsymposium.weebly.com/last-years-event.html Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
• Soderbergh Ep. 28: The Hunger Games (2012) 27.03.2026 1h 56min

  May the pods be ever in your feed-ver. Or whatever! We're screwing with the chronology a little bit today because we decided Steven Soderbergh's second unit work on Gary Ross's 2012 YA adaptation THE HUNGER GAMES was worth doing on the main feed after all. And we were right! There's a ton to talk about, from the film's style and what it means to try to find Soderbergh in it to the whole series's depictions of class, political struggle, war, and propaganda, to the popularity of dystopian young adult fiction, to the effectiveness of "political" art like ANDOR and ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, to the surprisingly enduring legacy of Hunger Games imagery in real protest movements around the world, to how much this film (and later ones in the series especially) remind us of Gaza. Good stuff, please check it out. Further Reading: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins "A Radical Female Hero From Dystopia" by Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott "Suzanne Collins Talks About 'The Hunger Games,' the Books and the Movies" "'Hunger Games': The Real Story Behind Steven Soderbergh's Involvement" by Philiana Ng "Hunger Games: Israel Forces Gazans to Choose Between Starvation and Risking Their Lives" by Nir Hasson "'The Hunger Games' Turns 10: Director Gary Ross Reflects on Filming, Story's Resonant Themes" by Lexy Perez "Mark of the (Mr.) Beast" by Veronica Phillips Further Viewing: THE RUNNING MAN (Glaser, 1987) VOCES INOCENTES (Mandoki, 2004) THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (Lawrence, 2013) THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 1 (Lawrence, 2014) THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY - PART 2 (Lawrence, 2015) ANDOR (Various, 2022-2025) ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (Anderson, 2025) THE LONG WALK (Lawrence, 2025) REALITY CHECK: INSIDE AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL (Loushy & Sivan, 2026)   Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart
• PATREON PREVIEW: Michael Clayton (2007) with Andorks 20.03.2026 5min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Attention all Thieves, Gray Mages, Unbidden Warriors, Dark Avians, Riverwynders and Sappers: it's MICHAEL CLAYTON time. Tony Gilroy's 2007 corporate thriller vehicle about fixers, cover-ups, mental breakdowns, and baguettes was produced by Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney's production company Section Eight, and has become a bonafide New Dad Classic. Joining us to talk all things Gilroy are Rusteen Honardoost and Alex Wolinetz of the wonderful Andorks podcast - and you're never gonna believe this, but we found some connections to ANDOR here. Plus we learn about the paper Ian wrote on this movie in high school. Really great conversation, check it out! Follow Rusteen and Alex: https://www.andorkspod.com/ https://x.com/rusteenh https://bsky.app/profile/alexwolinetz.com Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
• Soderbergh Ep. 27: The Knick Season 1 (2014) with Dave Maher 13.03.2026 2h 41min

  TV time! Almost immediately after "retiring" from feature films, Steven Soderbergh directed ten episodes of THE KNICK, a period medical drama for Cinemax about the early days of modern surgery. Joining us to talk about nearly ten hours of television is comedian and host of the podcast This Is Your Afterlife, Dave Maher! We have a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from prestige television antiheroes to addiction to chronic illness to racial disparities in medical care to what Kimi would like to do with Dave if she ever gets him alone. It's a real fun extra-long episode, and still probably our lowest ep-length-to-subject-length ratio ever. Take off your white shoe and dig in! Further Reading: "No Leeches, No Rusty Saw, But Hell Nonetheless" by Alessandra Stanley The Knick: Anatomy of a Series by Steven Soderbergh et al. "The Binge Director" by Matt Zoller-Seitz "Meet the Man Who Makes Sure The Knick Is Medically Accurate" by Marcus Jones "Syphilis Noses and Finding the Right Dirt: The Knick's Production Designer on Making the Show Look Real" by Matt Patches "'The Knick' Creators on How They Went From Writing Studio Rom-Coms to Steven Soderbergh's New TV Show" by Ben Travers Further Viewing: ER (1994) GANGS OF NEW YORK (Scorsese, 2002) MAD MEN (2007) THE PITT (2025) Follow Dave Maher: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://x.com/ThisIsDaveMaher https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisdavemaher/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  
• PATREON PREVIEW: Jigarthanda DoubleX (2023) with Gigi 06.03.2026 6min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. How come nobody told us there was a 2023 Tamil film with a fully CGI Clint Eastwood?! Well, at least our guest did - so luckily we're joined today by Gigi aka Girl aka @SummerOfFilm to talk Karthik Subbaraj's 2023 "Pandyaa Western" JIGARTHANDA DOUBLEX. Hop on board for a crash course in Desi cinema and its political contexts, what Clint means to Desis, and why we all have to stop Getting RRR Vibes From This. We cannot stress enough how nuts the CGI Clint is in this movie, folks. And the rest of it is great too! It's on Netflix right now, go watch it! And listen to the ep! As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Follow Gigi: https://x.com/SummerOfFilm https://letterboxd.com/moviehideen/ Gigi's Further Viewing List: AURAT (1940) NADODI MANNAN (1958) AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN (1965) SHOLAY (1975) DAKU HASINA (1987) KODAMA SIMHAM (1990) KUSHI (2000) KANCHANA (2011) JIGARTHANDA (2014) Gigi's Further Reading List: Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars: The Word of Tamil Politics by Vaasanthi Conversations With Mani Ratnam by Baradwaj Rangan https://letterboxd.com/nrh/ https://muckrack.com/subha-rao/articles https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/anupama-chopra/movies
• Soderbergh Ep. 26: Behind The Candelabra (2013) with Eva Anderson 27.02.2026 1h 55min

  Shine up those rhinestones, everybody: it's the BEHIND THE CANDELABRA episode. We're talking Soderbergh's sort-of-final film before his sort-of-retirement, a 2013 Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon - and we're joined by writer and Liberace expert Eva Anderson! We talk Vegas, camp, Douglas's infamous throat cancer disclosure, plastic surgery, palimony, the closet, Eva's absolutely insane experiences touring Liberace's home and other associated places, and lots more. You know what they say... too much of a good thing is wonderful (also unfamiliar to listeners of this show). Further Reading: Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace by Scott Thorson and Alex Thorleifson Liberace: An American Boy by Darden Asbury Pyron The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo "Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus" by Xan Brooks "The Boy Toy's Story" by David Segal Further Viewing: DRACULA (various) SUNSET BOULEVARD (Wilder, 1950) THE INFORMANT! (Soderbergh, 2009) THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (Greenfield, 2012) SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD (Tyrnauer, 2017) Follow Eva Anderson: https://www.instagram.com/evafay/ https://bsky.app/profile/evafay.bsky.social Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart  
• PATREON PREVIEW: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002) 20.02.2026 8min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Handsome leading man jumps from television to film working with a handful of dynamic filmmakers before hopping in the director's chair himself - sound familiar?! Unfortunately, it turned out a lot better when Clint did it. But we're talking about George Clooney anyway, starting with his 2002 directorial debut CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, based on the clearly-a-joke-to-everyone-but-Clooney "unauthorized autobiography" by Gong Show producer/host Chuck Barris. Written by Charlie Kaufman (rewritten by Clooney), produced by Section Eight, edited by Stephen Mirrione...what could go wrong? We'll tell you! As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.