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Junk Filter Podcast
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Junk Filter: A culture podcast for our Extremely Online times. Film, music, politics and jokes. Hosted by Jesse Hawken.
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The wheels are turning on the Prefab Sprout miniseries on the podcast: Part 1 will be about their origins, key early singles and their ambitious 1984 debut / declaration of intent “Swoon”. Recording next week!
Cover of the first single by Prefab Sprout “Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone)” (1982) Album cover for Prefab Sprout’s 1984 debut LP “Swoon”
October 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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The latest episode is a deep dive into Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON with special guest, the film writer Del Winters (@absolutereality.blog). A spoiler-heavy discussion of a great, disturbing film.

Watch the movie first, then listen to us grapple with it!

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Joe Cross filming his announcement of his candidacy for mayor via social media - screens within screens throughout Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON
August 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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On the latest episode, Meg Shields (@theworstnun.bsky.social) returns to discuss Tobe Hooper's LIFEFORCE, a high-budget, overstimulated tribute to Hammer sci-fi horror, in particular 1967's QUATERMASS AND THE PIT!

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The crew of the USS Churchill entering the mysterious alien spaceship hiding in Halley's Comet in LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper, 1985) The cute-as-hell Martians from QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (Roy Ward Baker, 1967)
June 21, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Coming soon to the podcast: released at the almost exact midpoint of the 1980s, Tobe Hooper’s LIFEFORCE still rocks 40 years later.
Detail from an alternate poster for LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper, 1985)
June 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Next month on the podcast: Lordy Lordy, look who’s 40
The great poster for LIFEFORCE with a huge eyeball looking down on the Earth “In the blink of an eye, the terror begins”
May 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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On the new episode, @seantcollins.com and Julia Gfrörer (@thorazos.bsky.social) are my special guests to bid a fond farewell to Gene Hackman and to discuss in detail one of our favourite films, Francis Ford Coppola’s THE CONVERSATION.

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Poster art for THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974) showing Gene Hackman as wiretapper Harry Caul listening to elements of the conspiracy he’s been hired to record for mysterious reasons
April 2, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Just booked a guest for an episode in April about one of the greatest Australian films, directed by a Canadian: WAKE IN FRIGHT, which has just gotten a restoration, a film that infuriated the nation who didn’t like the mirror the movie held to their faces.
Gary Bond drinking a pint while getting a classic Australian dirty look from Chips Rafferty in WAKE IN FRIGHT (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
March 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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On the new Premium episode, the writer and film programmer @chriscassingham.bsky.social returns for a look at John Ford's 1955 comedy/tragedy THE LONG GRAY LINE and Ford's innovative use of the Z-Axis (the depth of the image) for a CinemaScope frame.
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A shot in John Ford's THE LONG GRAY LINE (1955) showing rows and rows of West Point cadets in a cathedral. Ford innovated the then-new CinemaScope format to favor the Z-Axis (the depth of the image) as opposed to the height and width of a shot.
March 22, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Two new episodes of the pod are out! On the public feed, @jmritchey.bsky.social and I talk about LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, finally available on bluray after decades of music licensing issues; a thorny film long overdue for reappraisal.

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A Robert Landau photo of a billboard on the sunset strip for LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, October 1977
March 4, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Later this month on the podcast... a conversation about THE CONVERSATION
Gene Hackman as Harry Caul setting up survelliance equipment in a hotel bathroom in THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974)
March 4, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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On the new episode, @guslanzetta.bsky.social returns from São Paulo to discuss 2 films by Walter Salles: CENTRAL STATION starring Fernanda Montenegro & I’M STILL HERE starring her daughter Fernanda Torres, both Oscar nominees for their work.
Is it coming home?🇧🇷💥🏆
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Fernanda Torres and her mother Fernanda Montenegro, the first and second Brazilian actors to be Oscar nominated for their work. Montenegro got robbed for Central Station in 1998… will justice be served tonight?
March 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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New episode! The author @violetlucca.bsky.social returns to the show to talk about her new monograph "David Cronenberg: Clinical Trials" and the GOAT's 1991 version of William S. Burroughs' NAKED LUNCH. Exterminate all rational thought & smash that play button!
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British quad poster for NAKED LUNCH (Cronenberg, 1991)
February 27, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Coming soon to the podcast: a two-parter about LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR and IN THE CUT
Richard Gere and Diane Keaton having a drink in LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (Richard Brooks, 1977) Mark Ruffalo and Meg Ryan having a drink in IN THE CUT (Jane Campion, 2003)
February 22, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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On the new premium episode, James Slaymaker, author of "Time is Luck: The Cinema of Michael Mann" returns for a look at BLACKHAT 10 years later, with a discussion of the superior Director's Cut which directly addresses the flaws of the theatrical version.
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Chris Hemsworth as a blackhat hacker named Hathaway walking on the tarmac towards his plane in BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, 2015)
February 21, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Coming soon to the podcast: John Ford's only film shot in Cinemascope, 1955's THE LONG GRAY LINE, and his innovative use of the Z-Axis (depth) in shot composition.
Deep focus Cinemascope frame of a church full of West Point cadets in THE LONG GRAY LINE (Ford, 1955)
February 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Later this month on the podcast: a show about one of the bleakest movies of the seventies, a box office hit that was hard to see for decades because of the soundtrack's music rights. But now it's back in circulation... LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR
British Quad poster for Looking For Mr. Goodbar (Richard Brooks, 1977)
February 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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On the 200th (!) episode, @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social returns for a show about PROOF OF LIFE with Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan, an early Tony Gilroy screenplay that points the way towards MICHAEL CLAYTON, and a fine example of the joys of the 5-Star 3-Star Movie.
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Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan in PROOF OF LIFE (Taylor Hackford, 2000)
February 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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Part 2 is on the Patreon feed: more about MUNICH, contrasted with the 1986 Canadian TV movie SWORD OF GIDEON (based on the same source material), the documentary ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER and the new German docudrama SEPTEMBER 5 with Peter Sarsgaard!
Here's a preview:
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Eric Bana as Avner in MUNICH (Spielberg, 2005) Rod Steiger and Steven Bauer as Avner in SWORD OF GIDEON (Michael Anderson, 1986) Peter Sarsgaard as Roone Arledge in the ABC Sports control room at the 1972 Munich Olympics in SEPTEMBER 5 (Fehlbaum, 2024)
February 7, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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New episode(s)! @coreyatad.com is my returning guest for a look at Steven Spielberg's MUNICH, his most overlooked masterpiece. Part one is a public episode, about the craftsmanship and the film's clear-eyed view of the futility of state-sanctioned violence.
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Michael Lonsdale and Eric Bana in a field of flowers in the exact mid-point sequence in MUNICH (Spielberg, 2005)
February 7, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Coming soon to the podcast... the long-awaited, much-demanded BLACKHAT episode (it's 10 years old now, can you believe it?)
Chris Hemsworth in silhouette bathed in the LED and neon light of Hong Kong in Blackhat (Mann, 2015)
February 2, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Recording an episode today about an early Tony Gilroy script that is kind of like Casablanca meets Michael Clayton.... a dry run for the future of his career: PROOF OF LIFE... coming soon to the pod!
Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan in PROOF OF LIFE (Hackford, 2000)
January 31, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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On the new episode, Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine from the left politics and film show Pod Casty For Me return for another show about Gerard Butler, this time focusing on the two DEN OF THIEVES films and the expanding world of Big Nick O’Brien.

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Gerard Butler as Big Nick and O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Donnie behind the wheel of a getaway Porsche in DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA (Christian Gudegast, 2025)
January 29, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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On the new episode, the great @stolendans.bsky.social returns for a show about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN: Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan from his arrival on the scene to his break with the folk music “establishment”. Here’s a preview, consider becoming a patron of the pod
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In a stage spotlight, the silhouette of Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (Mangold, 2024)
January 13, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Coming soon to the podcast: how has it been 10 years since BLACKHAT was released? More Mannpilling, in a couple of weeks
Tang Wei and Chris Hemsworth running down a subway escalator in BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, 2015)
January 12, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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The first episode of the year is all about the latest (and final) film in Sony’s “Spider-Man Movies Without Spider-Man in Them Cinematic Universe”, KRAVEN THE HUNTER, with returning guest @adambyadamjackson.bsky.social! Plus a rundown of 2024’s comic book movies!

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Close up of the giant cardboard standup poster for Kraven The Hunter in the lobby of the Yonge & Dundas Cineplex
January 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM