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Alix Lambert (The Mark of Cain) Talks with Fred Armisen (Portlandia) for The Talkhouse Film Podcast

Armisen and Lambert, who have known each other since they were students, share stories from their friendship of close to 30 years.

February 3, 2016

Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Aziz Ansari and Alan Yang’s Master of None

The latest binge-watching sensation is great television exactly because it doesn't conform to the medium's conventions.

December 9, 2015

David Lowery (Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) Talks Seth MacFarlane’s Ted 2

What happens when you want to see the sequel because you really enjoyed the first movie, but then your wife points out you never actually saw it?

June 29, 2015

Jim Strouse (People, Places, Things) Talks Patrick Brice’s The Overnight

What if a 21st-century sex comedy could be smart as well as bawdy, have well-drawn adult characters as well as dick jokes?

June 19, 2015

Emily Hagins (Grow Up, Tony Phillips) Talks Andrew Disney’s Balls Out

As indie comedies are becoming increasingly bland, this one stands out from the crowd by being a studio-style spoof.

June 18, 2015

Filmmakers Rodney Ascher and Lloyd Kaufman Talk Cannes Film Festival Stories

As the French Riviera's great festival finishes, our final two Cannes alumni recall their experiences braving the craziness of the Croisette.

Actor/Screenwriter Randy Russell Talks Felix Herngren’s The 100-Year-Old-Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared

This poignant comedy drama takes a sideways look at 20th century history and one man's remarkable journey through it.

May 12, 2015

Lawrence Michael Levine (Wild Canaries) Talks Steve Pink’s Hot Tub Time Machine 2

Surely the only piece on the decade-hopping comedy sequel to reference the Buddha's sense of humor and diss both film school and Vladimir Nabokov.

February 23, 2015

Terence Nance (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) Talks Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement’s What We Do in the Shadows

Two Kiwi comic geniuses mash up Christopher Guest and the vampire genre to create a cinematic sitcom about the bourgeois undead.

February 13, 2015

Joe Swanberg (Happy Christmas) Talks Jake Kasdan’s Sex Tape

The director of V/H/S and Autoerotic can't get up any enthusiasm for this new "analog" comedy.

December 25, 2014

Ti West (The Sacrament) Talks Chris Rock’s Top Five

The new directorial effort by one of the funniest men in Hollywood goes beyond humor to reach something personal, and in that lies its greatness.

December 10, 2014