One Heat Minute Productions
One Heat Minute Productions is a podcast network created by film journalist Blake Howard. It began with a deep dive into Michael Mann's 1995 crime film 'Heat,' analyzing it minute by minute. The network now includes shows like 'Miami Nice,' which explores Mann's 'Miami Vice,' and 'The Blus Brothers/Imprint Companion,' a physical media podcast. Other series include 'Too Much Movie' and completed limited series like 'The Last (12 minutes) of the Mohicans.'
Episodes
THE DECADE PROJECT 2016: ROGUE ONE w/ Stu Coote
In the latest episode, the chief instigator of One Heat Minute, Stu Coote, and I discuss the retconned series finale of ANDOR, ROGUE ONE.
Stu Coote:
The co-host of the (retired) Sinner Files movie podcast is the chief instigator behind our cinematic deep-dive brand.
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Breaking down the 'Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut' w/ Travis Woods
Partners Katie Walsh and Blake Howard are back, and they've deputised Travis Woods to jump into the go-fast boat. The dust has settled on the Beyond Fest world premiere of “Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut”. A special exclusive screening has occurred in Sydney, Australia. Strap in. The Miami Nice Cut reigns supreme. Luck ran out.
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GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”The Tingler” with Matt Singer
Did you know that fear lives within your body, a creature that attaches itself to your spine that can only be subdued by screaming? True medical fact! At least that’s the premise of William Castle’s 1959 shocker, notorious for installing buzzers in audience members’ seats. Matt Singer joins us to share the love for Castle and Vincent Price — and to discuss his fantastic new book, “Funny Business:
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER: Miami Vice Director’s Final Cut 4K, The Hunted 4K + The Little Drummer Girl 4K
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING
SHOUT SELECT: Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut 4K — theatrical cut | alternate cut | Director’s Final Cut.
RECEIVED / IN HAND
THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL: The Little Drummer Girl Collector’s Edition.
SECOND SIGHT: Sexy Beast 4K.
IMPRINT FILMS: The Hunted 4K.
LIONSGATE LIMITED: The Ninth Gate | Bless the Child | Arrival.
VESTRON VIDEO: The Substitute 4K.
TOY ROBOT: The Watc
ONE HOT FEST: MANISAY OUDOMVILAY AND THE JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL
ONE HOT FEST – JFF is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Japanese Film Festival — from filmmaker and programmer interviews to reviews and discussions with guests and critics.
To celebrate the 30th edition of the Japanese Film Festival in Australia, I talk with festival programmer Manisay Oudomvilay about steering the festival from pandemi
ONE HOT TAKE: Digger w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Digger is enormous, strange, technically dazzling and so determined to be itself that even its misfires have a certain electricity.
Synopsis:
The most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's savior before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
DREW TAYLOR is a repo
ONE HOT TAKE: Tony w/ Katie Walsh
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
Matt Johnson's Tony understands more than a conventional coming-of-age story, it is a film about a young man discovering, with increasing discomfort, just how little he knows.
Synopsis:
A 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain travels to Provincetown and stumbles into the chaotic world of a restaurant kitchen, setting off a summer that will shape the cou
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: "It’s a Wonderful Life” with Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen
“Every Time a Bell Rings: The Legacy of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ America’s Most Beloved Holiday Film” is Emily St. James and Lauren Theisen’s thoughtful, deeply researched, and beautifully composed meditation on Frank Capra’s 1946 classic. They join us to discuss its themes, its reputation, its peculiar history, and its ongoing legacy. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com
ONE HOT TAKE: Resident Evil w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
The monsters are tactile, weird and genuinely disgusting, and Cregger lets them stay disgusting instead of cutting away. Hays and Ryan Holladay's score does the synth-pulse thing that Carpenter invented, but the intelligence is in the placement.
Synopsis:
A hapless courier tasked with delivering a package to a remote hospital. He soon finds him
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER: CHARLES FROM ENCINO + NEW EXTREMITY COLLECTION 3 + CRITERION DECEMBER
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING
TOY ROBOT: Detroit Rock City 4K | Sharky’s Machine 4K | Passenger 57 4K
CRITERION COLLECTION: The Shop Around the Corner 4K | The English Patient 4K | Grizzly Man | Divorce Italian Style 4K | Nashville 4K | Eclipse Series 50: Sara Gómez’s Revolutionary Cuba.
IMPRINT FILMS: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003) 4K/Blu-ray.
WARNER BROS.: Interview with the Vampire 4K — upco
ONE HOT TAKE: Mother Mary w/ Courtney Howard
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
Lowery's answer is to refuse the psychological register entirely. Whatever sits unfinished between these two gets expelled as an actual vengeful presence, a thing with intent that has to be dealt with in the room.
Synopsis:
Long-buried wounds rise to the surface when iconic pop star Mother Mary reunites with her estranged best friend and former
ONE HOT TAKE: The Weight w/ Sean Burns
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
Director Padraic McKinley keeps the value front and centre. The most abstract thing in a crime film becomes something with mass that pulls down on a spine.
Synopsis:
Desperate to save what is left of his family, during the height of the Great Depression a battle-scarred veteran is hired to help smuggle a fortune in gold across 100 miles of impe
Is the 'Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut' the 'MIAMI NICE' Cut?
Partners Katie Walsh and Blake Howard are back. Beyond Fest announced the world premiere of “Miami Vice: Director’s Final Cut”. We learned of the announcement from Beyond Fest via an open wire. That is the hand we have been dealt: world premiere, three weeks out, a 4K restoration of a new version of Miami Vice. But is it the MIAMI NICE Cut?
Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for an exclu
ONE HOT TAKE: Coyote vs. Acme w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
My grandmother taped Looney Tunes off the TV onto three or four VHS cassettes for the grandkids, and we played them until the tape gave out. Seeing them again, in a courtroom, litigating: the tape is still running.
Synopsis:
After enduring years of malfunctioning products, Wile E. Coyote teams up with a local personal injury attorney to take on
ONE HOT TAKE: Idiots w/ Jedidiah Ayres
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
Macon Blair has spent his directing career with America in the crosshairs and has never once fired from a pulpit. The target here is simple: money buys exemption.
Synopsis:
Two rock-bottom drivers transport a wealthy teen to rehab, but their simple job spirals into a chaotic journey of drugs, danger, and crime as their passenger derails their p
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER: STACKS ON STACKS
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING
IMPRINT: Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair — gigantic box set with interchangeable covers, multiple 4K/Blu-ray discs and memorabilia; November Australian release.
RECEIVED / IN HAND
SHOUT FACTORY: The Lost City of Z 4K.
KINO LORBER: King Creole 4K | Harry and the Hendersons 4K | Terror Train 4K | Hang ’Em High 4K | 10 to Midnight | The Great Outdoors | Kiss of the Spi
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: "All That Jazz” with Sean Burns
Our pal Sean Burns joins us to discuss how a near-death experience left him eager to revisit Bob Fosse’s 1979 examination of his own flaws, demons, indulgences, and professional grind. Come for the celebration of a New Hollywood classic, stay to watch Rob Marshall catch many, many strays! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of
HEAT 2, IDIOTS with Macon Blair
I sit down with the writer-director of I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore and the star of Blue Ruin for a two-hander that starts with IDIOTS, his pitch-black road comedy co-written with Alex Orr, and ends somewhere deep in Michael Mann fan-casting.
On Idiots: Dave Franco as a live wire, O'Shea Jackson Jr. as the raw nerve underneath the joke, and Mason Thames as a rich kid the film pointed
ONE HOT TAKE: The Dog Stars w/ Isaac Feldberg
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
The strangest thing about The Dog Stars is how little it seems interested in its own possibilities.
Synopsis:
In a post-apocalyptic world, a virus wipes out humanity. Survivors face roaming scavengers called Reapers. Protagonist Hig, a pilot, survived the flu but lost his wife.
Isaac Feldberg
Isaac Feldberg is an entertainment journalist curren
ONE HOT TAKE: The Rivals of Amziah King w/ Sean Burns
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
If a movie glimpses the magic of life, for fractions of seconds, it is worthwhile. “Amziah” is a dose I wasn’t ready for.
Synopsis:
The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighbourhood to someplace unknown.
Sean Burns
Sean Burns is a film critic for WBUR’s Arts & Cul
The Michael Mann Discourse Conclave | Sean Burns and Roxana Hadadi
Blake Howard convenes a conclave with Sean Burns (WBUR) and Roxana Hadadi (Vulture) to sort the smoke from the fire. Inde Navarrette walked from Charlene Shiherlis to play Rogue — then maybe didn't walk at all. Underneath the trade churn, an older argument reignited: that Mann hasn't made a good film since Collateral, with Miami Vice, Public Enemies and Blackhat wheeled out as exhibits for the pro
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”Videodrome” with Carmelita Valdez McKoy
Carmelita Valdez McKoy is a carnivorous watcher of movies, and has been her entire life. She shares the details of her cinematic education with us on this week’s episode, and her thoughts on David Cronenberg’s both of its moment and waaaaay ahead of its time smash-up of sci-fi, body horror, and media commentary. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about ou
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER: THE UNSTOPPABLE NOVEMBER 2026 CRITERION COLLECTION SLATE
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING
CRITERION COLLECTION: Blue Heron | The Right Stuff 4K | Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors 4K | Wild at Heart 4K | Shoot the Piano Player 4K | Marie Antoinette 4K | Harold and Maude 4K | KPop Demon Hu
THE DECADE PROJECT 2016: The Lost City of Z w/ Charles Hood and Drew Taylor
In the latest episode, I talk reunite the Light the Fuse team (Charles Hood and Drew Taylor) about James Gray's eras, and perhaps his greatest work, The Lost City of Z.
DREW TAYLOR is a reporter for The Wrap. He has written for The New York Times, Vulture, Vanity Fair, The Playlist, and Collider. He also wrote The Art of Onward, which gives an inside look at the making of the 2020 Pixar film. The
ONE HOT FEST: ALICE MAIO MACKAY ON OUR EFFED UP WORLD
ONE HOT FEST – MIFF is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Melbourne International Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics.
To celebrate the World Premiere of Our Effed Up World at the Melbourne International Film Festival, I talk with director Alice Maio Mackay a
ONE HOT TAKE: The End of Oak Street w/ Sean Burns
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.
David Robert Mitchell keeps the catastrophe in the corner of the eye, where suburbia has always kept its violence, and lets the audience do the turning.
Synopsis:
The Platt family bands together to navigate their new surroundings after a cosmic event transports their suburban neighbourhood to someplace unknown.
Sean Burns
Sean Burns is a film c
ONE HOT FEST: MARTIN MCKENNA ON WILDERNESS
ONE HOT FEST – MIFF is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Melbourne International Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics.To celebrate the World Premiere of WILDERNESS at the Melbourne International Film Festival, I talk with director Martin McKenna about how a s
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: "The Adventures of Robin Hood” with Dan Mecca
Writer, The Film Stage co-founder, and “The B-Side” co-host Dan Mecca joins us fresh off a fabulous Letterboxd roundup of Robin Hood movies to talk about the consensus choice for the best of them all: the 1938 Technicolor extravaganza, featuring the dream team of Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pc
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #13: LITTLE O-DISC-A
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:
RECEIVED / IN HAND
CRITERION COLLECTION: Little Odessa 4K
NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS / UPCOMING
ARROW VIDEO: The Last Boy Scout Limited Edition 4K | The Frighteners 4K | Monster Squad 4K | Cujo 4K | A Chinese Ghost Story Trilogy |
ONE HOT TAKE: Cape Fear w/ Sean Burns & Roxana Hadadi
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.Nobody in this house locks anything. There's a pool, there are children, there's a killer renting across the road, and the gate swings free for 10 hours of television. The Bowdens are obsessed with their own security and incapable of practising any.Synopsis:A happily married couple faces a growing threat when a notorious killer from their past,
ONE HOT FEST: TREVOR GRAHAM AND DIGBY WEBSTER ON DIGBY AND CAMILLE
ONE HOT FEST – MIFF is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Melbourne International Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics.To celebrate the World Premiere of DIGBY & CAMILLE at the Melbourne International Film Festival, I talk with co-directors Trevor Graham and D
ONE HOT TAKE: In the Grey w/ Stu Coote
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.There are bigger movies, deeper movies and certainly more consequential movies. In the Grey doesn't seem particularly bothered. It arrives. It looks terrific. It moves.Synopsis:A covert team of elite operatives are living in the shadows. When a ruthless despot steals a billion-dollar fortune, they're sent to take it back-an impossible heist that
ONE HOT FEST: JAMES HUNTER AND LUCY LOVEGROVE ON THE LATCHER
ONE HOT FEST – MIFF is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Melbourne International Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics.To celebrate the Australian Premiere of The Latcher at the Melbourne International Film Festival, I talked with director James Hunter and sta
THE BIRTHDAY TRIP w/ James Robert Woods, Luke Jacobz, and Annelise Hall
To celebrate the release of THE BIRTHDAY TRIP, I talk with director James Robert Woods and stars Luke Jacobz and Annelise Hall about this recipe for disaster, character mirroring, the camera as a character and the performance of friendship.SYNOPSIS:An unflinchingly funny drama following three millennial couples whose relationships are thrown into disarray when they descend on a luxury Southern Hig
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #12: NEW HOME CINEMA SET-UP, WHO DIS?
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:RECEIVED / IN HANDARROW VIDEO: The People vs. Larry Flynt 4K | Troy 4K (Theatrical & Director's Cut) | Shogun's Ninja | Stranger Things Collection (Limited Edition Box Set)VINEGAR SYNDROME/CINEMATOGRAPH: Body Snatchers 4K | Child
ONE HOT TAKE: Spider-Man: Brand New Day w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.Brand New Day remembers that sometimes the greatest superhero stories are the smallest ones, a kid swinging across a city because someone needs help. The movies finally remembered who Spider-Man is.Synopsis:A forgotten Peter Parker lives alone as a full-time Spider-Man until mounting pressure triggers a dangerous change and a powerful new enemy
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”Neighbors” with Drew McWeeny
Usually our guests select a movie they love. Film essayist, podcaster, and ‘80s chronicler Drew McWeeny instead picked a movie he knows doesn’t work, but is fascinated by: noted non-comedy director John G. Avildsen’s adaptation of Thomas Berger’s satirical novel, the final on-screen pairing of the cast-against-type John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands H
ONE HOT TAKE: The Odyssey w/ Sean Burns & Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.Christopher Nolan turns one of the oldest stories ever told into something tactile again. You don't just watch The Odyssey. You feel the weight of timber, salt and exhausted bodies.Synopsis:After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.Sean
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #11: NOSTRA-DISC-MUS
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:RECEIVED / IN HANDIMPRINT FILMS (ASIA): Shawshock Vol. 3 | Shawshock Vol. 4 | Swordsman Trilogy (Swordsman 4K | Swordsman II | Swordsman III) | EurekaIMPRINT FILMS Bound 4K | A Bronx Tale 4K | Victory | Madadayo | Henry & JuneNEW
ONE HOT TAKE: Minions & Monsters w/ Stu Coote
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.Someone has accidentally made Babylon for nine-year-olds.Synopsis:Follows the Minions in 1920s Hollywood as they search for frightening creatures for their monster movie, partner with a green creature, and must save the planet after unleashing monsters.Stu Coote:The co-host of the (retired) Sinner Files movie podcast is the chief instigator behi
ONE HOT TAKE: Toy Story 5 w/ Stu Coote
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.Sometimes a film's greatest achievement isn't what happens on the screen. It's what happens in your living room the next morning. Synopsis:Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they're introduced to electronics, a new threat to playtime.Stu Coote:The co-host of the (retired) Sinner Files movie podcast is the chi
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”Alien” with Sarah Welch-Larson
Sarah Welch-Larson’s book “Becoming Alien: The Beginning and End of Evil in Science Fiction's Most Idiosyncratic Film Franchise” thoughtfully and energetically explores the series that launched with Ridley Scott’s magnificent 1979 sci-if/horror mashup, so she joins us to discuss its making, execution, and ongoing influence. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted by Simplecast,
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #10: THE QUICKENING RELEASES
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:RECEIVEDARROW VIDEO: Soylent Green 4K | Falling Down 4K | Red Sun 4K | The Outfit | Outland 4KRADIANCE: The Boxer | The Double (1971 Italian film)A24: The Drama 4KCRITERION COLLECTION: The Elephant Man 4K | Five Easy Pieces 4KSTU
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”Nashville”
It's the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, so Jason and Mike are celebrating by talking about Robert Altman's seminal encapsulation of the USA's chaos and beauty, and by previewing Mike's new show, where he does long-form deep dives exploring our ongoing experiment, Whitewashed History.Whitewashed History premieres on the 4th of July on Substack and wherever you find your podca
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #9: TOWERING IMPRINT-FERNO
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:NEWS: CRITERION COLLECTION: Complete Stanley Kubrick 4K Collection announcement | ARROW VIDEO: September announcements (Tequila Sunrise, Go, Better Tomorrow Trilogy, Underworld Collection, Misery, The Last Boy Scout 4K teased | S
ONE HOT TAKE: Jackass: Best and Last w/ Katie Walsh
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.These idiots love each other. That's the stunt that's always been hardest to fake.Synopsis:Follows the Jackass crew as they perform their final series of dangerous stunts and pranks, marking the end of the franchise.Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic, journalist, podcast host, and moderator. She reviews weekly film releases for the T
THE MINSIDER PART 2: WE GIVE YOU MEDICINE, AND YOU GET BETTER.
Scene 2: 00.06.15-00.12.40THE MINSIDER — a limited investigative-style deep dive into Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999).THE MINSIDER BREAKS the big story of The Insider’s lasting cultural and cinematic impact — from whistleblower narratives to journalistic ethics, corporate pressure, sound design, and performance.Guests: Lowell Bergman: A producer/correspondent for FRONTLINE. Bergman is also the R
I'M A COWBOY, LOOKING FOR ANYTHING 'HEAVY'. W/ KEVIN GAGE
In this special bonus episode of ONE HEAT MINUTE, Kris Tapley and I visit with the "grim reaper" of HEAT, the slickest of the slick, KEVIN GAGE, to recall his path to Waingro, interviewing serial killers at Folsom Prison, shooting at gun ranges, and so much more.One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comPATREON: One Heat Minute Productions PatreonTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute @OHMPodsAdverti
TOO MUCH MOVIE '96: THE ROCK
For the latest episode of this 90s movie celebration podcast, Chris Candy, Rob Belushi and Blake Howard want "a suite, a shower, a shave, the feel of a suit," get ready with us getting flashbacks to the 15-year-old-nutbust that is Michael Bay's THE ROCK.Thank you so much for the ongoing support!Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for exclusive weekly podcasts + access to the OHM discord h
ONE HOT TAKE: Supergirl w/ Sean Burns
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.About forty percent of Supergirl absolutely rips. It imagines a space western with two compelling young women at its centre and briefly convinces you that's exactly where superhero cinema should be heading. Then it remembers it's a superhero blockbuster.Synopsis:Kara Zor-El, aka Supergirl, joins forces with an unlikely companion on an interstel
THE MINSIDER PART 1: WHAT I’VE SEEN I LIKE
Scene 1: 00.00.00-00.06.14THE MINSIDER — a limited investigative-style deep dive into Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999).THE MINSIDER BREAKS the big story of The Insider’s lasting cultural and cinematic impact — from whistleblower narratives to journalistic ethics, corporate pressure, sound design, and performance.Guests: Dan Mecca -co-founder and managing editor of The Film Stage. He is a filmmake
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: "Cabaret” with Isaac Butler
Isaac Butler’s phenomenal new book, “The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars,” is a detailed examination of the intersection of art and politics in the late ‘80s and early ‘90s — just like Bob Fosse’s 1972 film adaptation of the Weimar-set Broadway smash. We discuss both in this week’s can’t-miss episode!Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted
ONE HOT TAKE: Disclosure Day w/ Katie Walsh
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.In Disclosure Day, the details arrive before the explanations, and that turns out to be part of the pleasure.Synopsis:If you found out we weren't alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you?Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic, journalist, podcast host, and moderator. She reviews weekly film releases for the
ONE HOT TAKE: Hoppers w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.In an era where even very good Pixar films can feel overlooked, Hoppers deserves better. It's funny, warm, inventive and packed with heart. Synopsis:A 19-year-old animal lover uses technology to place her consciousness into a robotic beaver to uncover mysteries in the animal world beyond her imagination.DREW TAYLOR is a reporter for The Wrap. He
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #8: MANHUNTER - THE FINAL CUT and more
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:NEWS: Manhunter: The Final Cut 4K Restoration (theatrical release July 24) | Peter Weir AFTRS Lifetime Achievement Award presentation at Sydney Film FestivalCRITERION COLLECTION: Stray Dog 4K | Desperate Living 4K | Hairspray 4KA
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: "Café Flesh” with Will Sloan
Film essayist, podcaster and author of “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA” Will Sloan joins us for our first discussion of one of the XXX-rated titles in GUIDE. We’ll discuss the transgressive 1982 adults-only dystopian satire ”Café Flesh” — and the blurry line between mainstream and hardcore. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswiz
THE DECADE PROJECT 2016: O.J.: Made in America w/ Travis Woods
The Decade Project is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our Patreon here for as
THE DECADE PROJECT 2016: HELL OR HIGH WATER w/ S.A Cosby
The Decade Project is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our Patreon here for as
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”The Harder They Come” with Ashley Clark
Film critic, essayist, and programmer Ashley Clark’s most recent book is “The World of Black Film: A Journey Through Cinematic Blackness in 100 Films,” and he joins us to discuss one of the most beloved of those films: Perry Henzell’s reggae gangster classic, “The Harder They Come.”Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for
TOO MUCH MOVIE '91: THE FISHER KING
For the latest episode of this 90s movie celebration podcast, Rob Belushi and Blake Howard discuss "a big-titty, spread-cheeky kinda thing," known as THE FISHER KING.Thank you so much for the ongoing support!Join our Patreon for as little as $1 a month for exclusive weekly podcasts + access to the OHM discord here.One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHM
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #7: BLUE-ISH HUES
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:WARNER BROS: Speed Racer 4K CRITERION COLLECTION: Sorcerer 4K | In the Mood for Love 4K | Wong Kar Wai Collection | Point Blank 4K SONY: Fight Club 4K | Taxi Driver 4K IMPRINT ASIA: Hard Boiled (Limited Edition Steelbook) IMPRINT
ONE HOT TAKE: Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.A helmet, a child, and a galaxy that used to feel infinite now shrunk to the size of a corridor.Synopsis:Once a lone bounty hunter, Mandalorian Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure.DREW TAYLOR is a reporter for The Wrap. He has written for The New York Times, Vulture, Vanity Fair, The Playlist, and Co
ONE HOT TAKE: MORTAL KOMBAT II w/ Garth Franklin
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.Josh Lawson’s Kano cuts through the confusion like a live wire. He mocks the film from within, turning every line into a pressure-release valve, and, in doing so, becomes the only consistent source of energy. Synopsis:The fan favourite champions -- now joined by Johnny Cage himself -- are pitted against one another in the ultimate battle to defe
ONE HOT TAKE: APEX w/ Garth Franklin
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.In its strongest passages, APEX becomes spatial. Crevasses, cliff faces, narrow passages — the geography tightens, and with it the tension.Synopsis:A mountain climber haunted by a fatal decision in Norway retreats to the Australian wilderness for isolation. Her journey turns into a desperate hunt when a deceptive local targets her as his next ri
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”King Creole” with Sheila O’Malley
If you’ve spent any time reading the marvelous, energetic, infectiously enthusiastic prose of Sheila O’Malley — film critic, essayist, and author of the recent “The Art and Making of Frankenstein” — you will not be surprised that, given a list of movies to choose from, she chose one starring Elvis Presley. So we discussed “King Creole,” his 1958 vehicle directed by Michael Curtiz and co-starring C
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #6: Kinji Fukasaku across the labels
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:CRITERION COLLECTION: Stray Dog 4K | Sentimental Value 4KARROW VIDEO: Battle Without Honor and Humanity (Complete Saga) | Blue Thunder 4K | G.I. Samurai | Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 4KRADIANCE: Japanese Organized Crime Boss |
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”Conan the Barbarian” with Jordan Harper
The Edgar award-winning author of “Everybody Knows” and “She Rides Shotgun” joins us to discuss his new novel “A Violent Masterpiece,” as well as John Milius’s 1981 adaptation of Robert E. Howard’s pulp classics — the movie that made a movie star of an Austrian bodybuilder with a complicated name. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm
TOO MUCH MOVIE '96: TRAINSPOTTING
FOR THE LATEST EPISODE OF THIS 90S CELEBRATION PODCAST, WE (HOSTS ROB BELUSHI, AND BLAKE HOWARD) CHOOSE LIFE. CHOOSE A JOB. CHOOSE A CAREER. CHOOSE A FAMILY. CHOOSE A FUCKING BIG TELEVISION, CHOOSE WASHING MACHINES, CARS, COMPACT DISC PLAYERS AND ELECTRICAL TIN OPENERS. CHOOSE GOOD HEALTH, LOW CHOLESTEROL, AND DENTAL INSURANCE. CHOOSE PODCASTING. CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE. CHOOSE ... TRAINSPOTTING.Thank
ONE HOT TAKE: KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR w/ Brendan Hodges
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.So the film exists in two states. As a complete object, it is monumental, fluid, overwhelming in its design. As a memory, it remains something fractured, two meals served separately, each with its own aftertaste.Synopsis:A female assassin seeks revenge on her former lover and squad members, all of whom left her for dead.Brendan HodgesStaff write
ONE HOT TAKE: SEND HELP w/ Isaac Feldberg
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.Raimi leans into the tactile. Bodies are constantly under assault. Fluids, impact, proximity. It is gleeful in a way that borders on deranged, but always controlled. The disgust is not incidental. It is the joke.Synopsis:When an employee and her insufferable boss become stranded on a deserted island, the only survivors of a plane crash, they mus
WOLFRAM w/ Warwick Thorton
To celebrate the release of WOLFRAM, I talk with director Warwick Thornton about his gentle sequel to SWEET COUNTRY, surfacing untold Australian history, strange rhymes with BLUEY, and facing the challenge of making something with the power and impact of poison (Sweet Country) and being compelled to create an antidote (Wolfram).Synopsis: Set on the colonial frontier of the 1930s, in the same unive
ONE HOT TAKE: Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie w/ Conor O'Donnell
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.The point was never the gig or the success. It is the continuity. The same faces, the same jokes, the same refusal to move on.Synopsis:When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.Conor O'DonnellCo-host of the The B-Side podcast, writer at the Film Stage and producer.TWI
BRYAN FULLER CRASHES ONE HOT TAKE: Dust Bunny w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.What lingers is not the question of what the monster is. It is the feeling that the film has constructed a world where danger is both external and internal. The thing under the bed is no more or less real than the lives these characters have built. Synopsis:An eight-year-old girl asks her scheming neighbour for help in killing the monster under
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #5: Innerspace, Limbo and two (No) Other Choice(s)
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:NEWS - CRITERION COLLECTION: Hud | Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore | The Crying Game | Cruel Story of Youth | The Elephant Man 4K | Mike Mills Collection (Beginners | 20th Century Women | C’mon C’mon)ARROW VIDEO: InnerSpace 4K IM
ONE HOT TAKE: 28 Years Later: Bone Temple w/ Stu Coote
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.What DaCosta understands is that this middle chapter does not need to climax. It needs to deepen. There is less propulsion than 28 Years Later, less of Boyle’s kinetic charge, but in its place is conceptual drift.Synopsis:As Spike is inducted into Jimmy Crystal's gang on the mainland, Dr. Kelson makes a discovery that could alter the world.Stu C
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: ”Ace in the Hole” with Leonard Maltin and Jessie Maltin
The legendary film critic and historian and his “Maltin on Movies” co-host (and daughter!) join us to discuss their wonderful new book “Family Movie Night Menus: Recipes and Films for Unforgettable Times Together,” and one of their very favorite movies, Billy Wilder’s acidic media commentary “Ace in the Hole.” Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz com
DISCS AROUND THE CORNER #4: Criterion Flash Sale Betrayal, an Imprint Films Tsunami and more
Blake Howard and Drew Taylor (Light the Fuse) co-host our all-new fortnightly physical media show charting the world’s best labels and titles. In this episode, we discuss:NEWS: Wake in Fright 4K | Mortal Kombat Kollection | Audition 4K | Jackie Chan’s Breakout Hits! 4K | Bubba Ho-Tep 4K | The ’Burbs 4K | Them! 4K | Slither 4K | Day of the Dead 4K | The Money Pit 4K | Bowfinger 4K | The Flintstones
BENDAVID GRABINSKI CRASHES ONE HOT TAKE: Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice w/ Drew Taylor
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.The film understands that time travel isn’t about fixing things. It’s about living with the knowledge that you probably won’t.Synopsis:Two friends navigate the dangerous world of organised crime, testing their loyalty and survival skills as they get deeper into the criminal underworld.DREW TAYLOR is a reporter for The Wrap. He has written for Th
Queensland's own "Suicide Squad" w/Maria Lewis
The Decade Project is an ongoing One Heat Minute Productions Patreon exclusive podcast looking back at the films released ten years ago to reflect on what continues to resonate and what’s ripe for rediscovery. The third year being released on the main podcast feed is the films of 2015. To hear a fantastic chorus of guests and I unpack the films of 2016 in 2026, subscribe to our Patreon here for as
ONE HOT TAKE: The Plague w/ Jen Johans
This is our NEW RELEASE review podcast, ONE HOT TAKE.What Polinger gets most right is the emotional texture of that age. Every difference feels dangerous. The film understands that for kids like these, survival often means invisibility until, one day, it doesn’t.Synopsis:A socially awkward tween endures the ruthless hierarchy at a water polo camp, his anxiety spiralling into psychological turmoil
