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BC MARCH MADNESS 2025 - Day 1

Oh my god. Oh my god. It's HERE. It's HAPPENING!

Welcome to the first day of Blank Check March Madness, the only tournament-style competition happening this month, and the on...

Star Trek: First Contact

We’ve been hearing that Resistance….. it might be futile. Help us find out as we beam up again to cover Jonathan Frakes’s 1996 Borg-forward film Star Trek: First Contact.  

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2025 MARCH MADNESS PREVIEW

Join us (and definitely NOT Chip Smith) as we preview this year’s MARCH MADNESS Tournament!

Topics include: the status of Roundball Rock! Should David be embarrassed about somethin...

The Tenth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

It’s a wonderful night for Blankies! Join us and This Had Oscar Buzz’s Joe Reid as we survey the year that was 2024 in cinema. Not to spoil too much, but some things that happen in this episode...

Blank Check: The Art Show

Blank Check is celebrating A DECADE OF DREAMS with a special anniversary art show—presented in partnership with CODA Gallery and Mutant—and you’re invited!

Join us from March 21st to Ma...

Star Trek: Generations

We’re beaming up once more as we kick off our commentary series covering the “Picard Treks”; That is to say all the Star Trek feature films staring Sir Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard, com...

On-Air Fest: MAILBAG REQUEST

Hi friends - we're looking to flesh out our event on Thursday with some more questions. Even if you won...

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

We’re putting out a bit of a throwback episode for the most iconic (literal) blankie in film history - this week’s E.T. episode is guestless, with Griffin going rogue off the dossier, David mak...

Blank Check LIVE! at On Air Fest

Blank Check, in partnership with Patreon, is doing a LIVE! Mailbag Episode taping as part of On Air Fest! This free event will be exclusive to Patreon members.

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LA 2017 / Something Evil / Savage

We’ve reached the halfway point in our Steven Spielberg related bonus episodes but also have kind of gone backwards? We’re tackling his episode of the NBC television series The Name of the Game...

Raiders of the Lost Ark with Brian Michael Bendis

You’re a young movie fan. It’s 1981. STEVEN SPIELBERG is teaming up with FREAKING GEORGE LUCAS (!?!?!) to make a movie with HAN SOLO…can you imagine how hyped you’d be?? Marvel Comics legen...

1941 with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger

He invented the summer blockbuster. He inspired millions of people around the world to “watch the skies.” And now, he has sent Griffin Newman into an existential crisis over the question “wha...

Analyze That

We are putting the cap back on the jar, opening the fridge, placing the jar on the shelf, and maybe never revisiting the jar ever again as we wrap up our first commentary series of 2025 and say goo...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind with J.D. Amato

Five curious tones. A mountain of mashed potatoes. Bob Balaban with a beard speaking french. After the industry-changing success of JAWS, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND feels like a classic “...

Mickey Blue Eyes

Would you like some peanut butter between your Jellys? Well then we have got just the movie for you. Sit back, relax and practice your best stereotypical Italian accent as we cover 1999’s Kelly M...

Jaws with Timothy Simons

Dunnnh dun. Dunnnh dun. Never before had two notes provoked such terror as they did in JAWS, the 1975 classic that invented the summer blockbuster, catapulted Steven Spielberg to Hollywood legend s...

The Sugarland Express with Esther Zuckerman

Young whippersnapper Steven Spielberg continues his run of dusty, road-centric films with 1974’s THE SUGARLAND EXPRESS, and we’re along for the (surprisingly chill) ride. Writer Esther Zuckerma...

Amblin' / Night Gallery / Columbo

In our first of 4(??) Steven Spielberg related bonus episodes we are tackling his short film and TV works as we discuss his short film 2025-01-11 05:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Duel

2025! Blank Check Year 10! Year of Miracles! In honor of our record 10th year of podcasting, we’re doing something we’ve never done before - going back to fill in the gaps on a filmography we�...

Analyze This

2025 is upon us. And if we are being honest… we don’t think you’re ready for this Jelly. But nonetheless, we must proceed. We are kicking off 2025 with the first installment of the long promi...

BLANK CHECK: THE NINEVERSARY AT TOWN HALL

Performed / recorded Live at The Town Hall in New York, NY on March 8, 2024, Blank Check takes on Broadway. Your favorite movie podcast stepped out of the studio and into the big city lights for a ...

Twin Peaks: The Return (Episodes 14-18) with Jane Schoenbrun

What year is it? Well, it’s 2024 - but not for long. It’s our last episode of the year! Director of this year’s I SAW THE TV GLOW Jane Schoenbrun joins us to talk about the conclusion of Twin...

Talking the Walk 2024: Sitting the Talk with J.D. Amato

TALKING THE WALK has vanished (for now??). In its absence, the sittister new / old bit has risen from the ashes of its Empire and will not rest until Blankies everywhere, the real present-heads, ha...

Twin Peaks: The Return (Episodes 9-13) with Fran Hoepfner

Dougie gets it on (or, more accurately, Naomi Watts gets HER Dougie on), guest Fran Hoepfner pitches her artisanal slime for adults (don’t steal the idea), and we relitigate LOST for the hundredt...

Cats

😺😸😹😻😼😽🙀😿Memory, all alone in the moonlight!!! But we are not alone! We are joined by Grizabella, Mr. Mistoffelees, Bombalurina, Rumpleteazer, Jellylorum, Demeter, Mungojerri...

Twin Peaks: The Return (Episode 8) with Connor Ratliff

This is the podcast. These are the (two) friends. Drink full, and descend. The famous “Atomic Bomb” episode of The Return stands as one of David Lynch’s most defining works, an “origin stor...

The Phantom of the Opera

“CRASH! A Chandelier drops from the ceiling!” Our ALW commentary series continues as we discuss the music movie of the night, Joel Schumacher’s 2004 film The Phantom of the Opera. 

Twin Peaks: The Return (Episodes 1-7)

It is happening again - we’re covering TV! Or is it an 18-part movie? Much to ponder. We’re heading back to the Pacific Northwest (and Vegas…and New York…and the Red Room…and outer space?...

Inland Empire with David Rees

Only on Blank Check would an episode about David Lynch’s deeply destabilizing INLAND EMPIRE turn into a heartfelt celebration of creativity and the human experience. David Rees joins us and bring...

Evita

😢😢😢🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷I wanna be a part of B.C.​, Special Features, Big Nice!!! (RIP). Continuing our ALW commentary series we head to Argentina between 1934 and 1952 as we discuss ...