CW: Discussions of cinematic sexual assault and violence.
Film Critic Lex Briscuso joins us to discuss Satoshi Kon's masterful animated psychological thriller Perfect Blu...
2025-09-12 17:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell (Miss Me Yet, Attention Shoppers) joins us to discuss Last Action Hero, a meta action comedy featuring too many ideas, a healthy serving o...
2025-09-12 08:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Associate editor at Roger Ebert Robert Daniels joins to discuss the latest Spike Lee joint Highest 2 Lowest, a loose reimagining of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 procedural master...
2025-08-29 16:57:24 +0000 UTC View Post
We inaugurate (and conclude) our coverage of Senegalese master Ousmane Sembène with a discussion of his 1992 feature Guelwaar, the late filmmaker's only work of the decad...
2025-08-29 16:15:22 +0000 UTC View Post
More new movie talk as we take on the most divisive film of the summer, Ari Aster's COVID-era neo-western Eddington.
More new movie talk as we take on the most divisive film of the summer, Ar...
2025-08-07 16:52:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer, academic, and prestigious poster Peter Raleigh earns his hat trick, returning to the Factory Floor to discuss Abel Ferrara's philosophical vampire film The Addiction 2025-08-01 18:41:27 +0000 UTC View Post
We welcome the esteemed critic, journalist, and podcaster Jourdain Searles to the show to discuss Quentin Tarantino's seminal third feature Jackie Brown, an adaptation of ...
2025-08-01 18:19:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Vulture and New York Magazine film critic Bilge Ebiri returns to discuss Bernardo Bertolucci's stunning mood piece Little Buddha, a rich and evocative story of an American...
2025-08-01 18:18:20 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back with more Danny Boyle coverage, this time discussing his latest film 28 Years Later, the long-awaited sequel to Boyle's own 28 Days Later (as well as i...
2025-06-30 18:13:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Film journalist and friend of the show Brandon Streussnig returns to discuss Danny Boyle's debut film Shallow Grave, a British riff on the 90s neo-noir template, self-desc...
2025-06-24 04:10:33 +0000 UTC View Post
We went exceptionally long on the late John Singleton’s undersung period western Rosewood, a film (and filmmaker) whose fingerprints are all over Ryan Coogler’s recent box office sensa...
2025-06-20 17:54:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We stayed up for three consecutive days without sleep and kept at least one hand on a microphone at all times in order to test our mettle and discuss S.R. Bindler's 1997 "gawkumentary" ...
2025-06-10 16:32:26 +0000 UTC View Post
We got our hands on Sofia Coppola's diary and read it to try and make sense of her dreamy, quietly devastating debut The Virgin Suicides. Adapted from the Jeffrey Eugenide...
2025-05-23 22:25:05 +0000 UTC View Post
We finally bring the brilliant, indelible work of Claire Denis to the pod with a discussion of her 1994 TV movie U.S. Go Home. Produced as part of the anthology series
David Cronenberg returns to the big screen this week with The Shrouds, perhaps his most autobiographical film to date. The film involves grieving tech entrepreneur Karsh (...
2025-04-25 20:41:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The Roxie Theater, a San Francisco landmark in the Mission District, is one of the oldest continuously operated cinemas in the United States, with its history tracing back to the early 1900s.
We inaugurate the brilliant Taiwanese master Edward Yang with a conversation about his transcendent 1994 social satire A Confucian Confusion. Following up his staggering m...
2025-04-11 19:06:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Xuanlin Tham, author of the new book Revolutionary Desires: The Political Power of the Sex Scene returns to the show to discuss the Wachowskis' debut feature - the sharp, sexy sapphic...
2025-03-28 19:25:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Film critic and author A.S. Hamrah joins for a conversation on his recent Fast Company piece 2025-03-28 18:21:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Returning friend of the show Comrade Yui swings by to discuss the 1994 Full Moon direct-to-video masterwork Dark Angel: The Ascent. The story follows the exploits of a bor...
2025-03-10 17:24:24 +0000 UTC View Post
We're back talking about the recently-released Babygirl, directed by Dutch actor-turned-director Halina Reijn. Despite some initial apprehensions based on the discourse an...
2025-02-21 22:02:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Fan favorite Hard Mike returns to the show alongside newcomer Syd Bricks to discuss Paul Schrader's Affliction, one of the filmmaker's most well-observed explorations of a...
2025-02-21 21:07:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Film critic Eamon Tracy returns to the show to discuss Renny Harlin's mountain-bound Die Hard riff Cliffhanger starring Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, and Michael ...
2025-01-29 10:16:40 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a New Year and we don't feel any different!
In typical Hit Factory fashion, the simple task of creating an "In/Out" list for 2025 became a discussion about the infantilization of culture...
2025-01-03 22:57:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Brooklyn-based writer and editor Robert Rubsam joins to discuss the work of Terence of Davies and his 1992 masterwork, The Long Day Closes. An impressionistic evocation of...
2025-01-03 22:49:43 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss the winner of our latest Patreon poll: Aki Kaurismäki's The Match Factory Girl, the story of a young working class woman, Iris, looking for love and a sense of...
2024-12-17 07:38:33 +0000 UTC View PostHello Hit Factory Patrons,
It's time once again to help us decide which film we'll be covering for next week's Patreon-exclusive episode.
We've selected a few nominees off the beaten ...
2024-12-04 00:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author Adam Nayman joins us to look back at Billy Bob Thornton's directorial debut and acting showcase Sling Blade. Once considered a h...
2024-12-04 00:06:44 +0000 UTC View Post
London-based film writer Esmé Holden joins us to discuss David Cronenberg's M. Butterfly. Based on the Tony Award-winning David Henry Hwang play - itself based ...
2024-11-23 01:41:12 +0000 UTC View PostHello Friends!! We are officially kicking off our 2024 Hit Factory Discord Secret Santa Celebration. Thank you to friend of the show Jason Miller for organizing.
Please read the FA...
2024-11-21 20:08:57 +0000 UTC View Post