Starting next week with the launch of our seventh season on Patreon, this classic episode with Bret and Garbage frontwoman Shirley Manson will exist exclusively inside our Platinum Reserve, availab...
2023-02-15 17:00:07 +0000 UTC View Post
As our new season rapidly approaches, here is a peek inside our vault of sound before we swing its doors open wide next week for Gold and Platinum members to explore the treasures within. In this c...
2023-02-14 02:38:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello listeners! We are gearing up to launch our 7th season on Patreon next week. First episode of Season 7 will hit the air on Monday, 2/20 for Gold and Platinum listeners. Silver subscribers will...
2023-02-14 02:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Producer/Songwriter John Shanks and Bret Easton Ellis discuss learning to love the journey from Brian Eno, coaxing hit songs from the neglected demos of superstars and the nearly lost art of tellin...
2023-02-07 01:36:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Grammy-winning Producer/Songwriter John Shanks and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the founding of Line One, observing the harsh reception of Prince's early sleaze up close and capturing the essential te...
2023-01-31 02:12:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer/Journalist Shane Cashman and Bret Easton Ellis discuss watching the zeitgeist break itself by the sea, the dwindling list of creative disruptors in America and seeing the future in Don Henle...
2023-01-24 03:18:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer/Journalist Shane Cashman and Bret Easton Ellis discuss transforming a military synagogue into a house of pop culture worship, tripping hard on the horse farm and the tangible benefits of tea...
2023-01-17 03:41:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis dissects a tortured ghost of grunge, a Miracle of Romanian cinema and a genius filmmaker's relatable vision of every viewer's ultimate fate as he presents his twelve best movies o...
2023-01-10 01:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis bids farewell to 2022 as he talks about Mike White operating at the height of his powers, the abject misery of Whale watching and hanging out in the sushi tent as he replies to qu...
2023-01-03 01:41:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis pulls a rare reversal as he dives deeper into a recently discussed movie after experiencing it for a second time. Bret then talks about one of television's hottest shows, exuding ...
2022-12-27 02:05:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis reviews faulty memory movies from Steven Spielberg and James Gray before discussing short story writers and David Lynch's heartbreaker about Hollywood as he answers questions from...
2022-12-20 02:18:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer Walter Kirn and Bret Easton Ellis discuss witnessing the true meaning of Christmas come alive on the December dance floors of elite holiday parties, the contemporary need for a daring rascal...
2022-12-13 00:53:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer Bruce Wagner and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the chorus of voices giving form to Roger Orr, evading the ego's creative blockade and seeing stars in the fading light of a perfect Los Angeles af...
2022-12-06 01:17:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis recounts memories of charming his neighbors, celebrating Long Island's favorite piano man and Rod Stewart's fabled homeopathic elixir as he fields questions from Platinum listener...
2022-11-29 01:08:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Sam Wasson and Bret Easton Ellis continue their conversation from last week and discuss Hollywood's longtime tradition of self-censorship, Cate Blanchett's chilly turn in Tar and Francis For...
2022-11-22 00:55:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Author Sam Wasson and Bret Easton Ellis discuss having a blast compiling an oral history of Hollywood, early editors blowing minds with film's first cuts and the tragic casualties of sound entering...
2022-11-15 00:29:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Screenwriter Max Landis and Bret Easton Ellis continue their conversation from last week and discuss friendly collaboration creating Chronicle, watching the Color Society fracture as it fades to bl...
2022-11-07 20:01:15 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer/Director Max Landis and Bret Easton Ellis discuss coming of age in tragedy's cruel shadow, being publicly vilified for your private life and bridging emotion with action and dialogue on the ...
2022-10-31 22:47:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Producer J.D. Lifshitz and Bret Easton Ellis discuss eschewing college to chase Hollywood glory, unleashing a big screen Barbarian to widespread acclaim and the key ingredients of a bad movie. ...
2022-10-24 20:36:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis discusses turning a faded fashion interest into the foundation of a legacy novel, being overwhelmed by the sound of Robert Wise's music and having had enough of an annoying screen...
2022-10-17 22:42:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Podcaster The Perfume Nationalist and Bret Easton Ellis discuss sharing a lifelong fascination with Fleetwood Mac's Tusk, Jeffrey Dahmer's victims getting their own Netflix series and feeling Linda...
2022-10-11 00:29:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Filmmaker Tom Holland and Bret Easton Ellis discuss Hitchcock's Psycho as a formative encounter with screen spectacle, becoming an actor to launch a career behind the camera and watching Anthony Pe...
2022-10-03 21:10:32 +0000 UTC View Post
A.M. Homes and Bret Easton Ellis continue their conversation and discuss the challenge of presenting madness on the page, the glaring lack of great humorless novels and the endless pleasure of Wood...
2022-09-26 18:14:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Writer A.M. Homes and Bret Easton Ellis discuss an unsettling occupational hazard of being an author, unfolding the Big Guy and grasping for human connection through youthful correspondence with fa...
2022-09-20 00:32:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis discusses the sweet reward of finishing a book, the often contentious tug of war that is casting a movie and professional heights unreached as he fields questions submitted by Pla...
2022-09-13 01:07:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Bret Easton Ellis rides solo and laments one of our last movie stars languishing on an absurdly silly Bullet Train before examining a recent French film adaptation of one of literary fiction's most...
2022-09-06 03:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Congratulations to 1990's Tom Cruise on his big win.
2022-09-02 22:07:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/Filmmaker James Morosini and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the pure cinema of Wolfgang Petersen and the riveting Rehearsal of Nathan Fielder in Part 2 of their conversation.
2022-08-29 23:12:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Actor/Filmmaker James Morosini and Bret Easton Ellis discuss the autobiographical elements of I Love My Dad, the peculiar cadence of Al Roker and the inability to resist reading Anna Karenina. Part...
2022-08-22 23:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
