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Alicia chats to her friend, cinematographer Larry Sher, under a flight path in LA. They talk about how he decided to become a director of photography, what his job entails, working with Todd Phillips and what audiences can expect from The Joker…

Director Joe Lynch (WRONG TURN 2, EVERLY, MAYHEM and the currently available Netflix film POINT BLANK) guests week to get passionate about NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (& the new Blu-ray from Scream Factory), Tom Atkins and so much more! We definitely get into spoilers here, so make sure you’ve watched this 80s gem beforehand! Enjoy!...

Would it surprise you to learn that The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) is on the top ten lists of countless film critics and filmmakers, and was also the favorite film of Andreas Baader, leader of the left-wing militant organization the Baader-Meinhof Group? That the film was banned in France and not shown until five...

Daisuke Beppu joins Aaron to discuss the collection. We spend some time speculating on the hopefully soon to be announced spine 1000. We also talk about shelving with Daisuke asking some good questions. We get into the David Lynch and Kino discussion, discuss the Paul Dano closet video, some of the restorations and related blu-ray...

Jill and Wade stumble into the Drunk Tank to share their favorite summer memories and the movies they grew up loving that have the look and feel of summer. 1975 and 1989 play heavily into the conversation And for some unknown reason, Richard Dreyfuss.  As usual, the conversation digresses to the recent California earthquakes and...

We’ve tried really hard to avoid discussing movies that would have been relegated to USA Up All Night’s lineup of sleazy trash, but we’re doing a camp movie every summer so it looks like we couldn’t make it past year five! This is incompetently made garbage by a director with a fascinating career. Find the...

Regular Just The Discs guest Brendon Small is back to talk about a very formative horror film for him – THE ENTITY! This episode he and Brian talk about the movie (via the recent Scream Factory Blu-ray) and how it is a very interesting genre film for the moment with a harrowing performance by Barbara...

Matt and Travis move on to parts 3 and 4 of Kieślowski’s epic television series Dekalog and bring on Keith Enright of the now defunct Criterion Completion website and pod-on-permanent-hiatus. This is part 2 of our 6-part series on the anthology film that catapulted Kieślowski into international fame. Unlike the gut-punch of the first film...

Rob G is back with Brian for another of their monthly “New Arrivals” shows! Discussed on this episode are titles from Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Scream Factory, Twilight Time, Cohen Media, Shout Factory, Warner Archive and more! Follow Rob on Twitter @IconsRobG We now have t-shirts (& other merch)! Support the show and get some...

The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle, 1941) is truly one of my desert island films. You couldn’t have assembled a more perfect film for me in a laboratory. The cinematic and literary traditions it belongs to are among my favorites and it’s topped off with that unmistakably sulphurous scent of brimstone that is so hard...

Brad McDermott, Dave Eves and Michael Hutchins join for what was supposed to be a live episode that would record before Aaron left town. Due to technical difficulties (Aaron’s internet went out), the episode had to be patched together and released late. We talk about the September 2019 announcements, discuss potential other Spine 1000 ideas....

In this episode, Aaron, Josh, Michael and Will discuss the escalation that took place regarding the Kino release of David Lynch’s Lost Highway. We talk about the tweet heard around the home media world, the response, the methods of David Lynch and how he works, and ultimately how the disc looks. Will even does a...

Sometimes we review movies that feel progressive for the time period and we get lulled into a sense that the 1980s were a time of acceptance and equality. But there are other times that we come across movies that bring the racist reality of the time flooding back. We’ll give you one guess as to...

On this very special episode of the show, Brian invited his friends and previous guests Stephanie Crawford and Bill Ackerman to discuss anything they like without him – and they chose David Lynch as their topic. The recent Blu-ray release of BLUE VELVET from Criterion inspired a wonderful conversation about how both Stephanie and Bill...

Animals Attack on this episode! Brian goes through a short stack of recent releases in the genre from Scream Factory this round and said stack includes MAN’S BEST FRIEND (1993), WILLARD (2003) and PIRANHA II: THE SPAWNING (1982). We now have t-shirts (& other merch)! Support the show and get some cool stuff! https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4782952-just-the-discs-logo Follow...

Caring for children is sacred work, according to writer-director Anna Muylaert and her film The Second Mother (2015). It’s also very undervalued, under-discussed work. Decades ago, Muylaert envisioned a story about this work and the women who do it. At that time, she felt she wasn’t ready to bring the story to life. After becoming...

Cole and Matt return to discuss the latest goings on with the Criterion Collection. We take a look at the Cannes 2019 lineup, how they were received, and which ones we expect will be remembered later. We talk about the Prince of Tides newsletter clue and the interesting history of it being released on LaserDisc....

In the latest episode, Doug reveals that while he still doesn’t enjoy apes in film, he feels much more comfortable when they’re wearing clothes, and Jamie becomes frustrated (as all should) with Link’s refusal to respect personal space boundaries. A movie with many questions, relatively no answers and a baffling score. Let’s discuss Link! Support...

Matt and Travis are excited to kick off our first multi-part series on one work: Kieślowski’s legendary Dekalog television miniseries. For the first episode, we welcome Josh Hornbeck, host of the forthcoming Criterion Channel Surfing podcast, to discuss the first two episodes in the series. Initially intended to be directed by separate up-and-coming directors through...

Alicia visits the home of her friend Amirose Eisenbach (and her cute puppy Kuma) to talk about taking big leaps to chase your dreams, the passion required to work in indie film and how she survived the ups and downs of making her first movie.