Pod Casty For Me

Pod Casty For Me: a left politics and culture podcast about the films of Steven Soderbergh (formerly Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader), one movie per episode. Hosted by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine. New episodes every other Friday.

Pod Casty For Me is a tv podcast hosted by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine, with 180 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine hosts Pod Casty For Me, a tv show with 180 episodes published.

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  UNLOCKED: Moneyball (2011)

  Aug 13, 20261h 57m

  This is an unlocked episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Most movies weren't directed by Steven Soderbergh, but few were as notably not directed by Steven Soderbergh as this one: MONEYBALL, the true story of the 2002 Oakland Athletics' revolutionary sabermetrics-based hiring strategy, was 5 days from shooting when Sony pulled the plug on Soderbergh's version. After a rewrite by Aaron Sorkin and a few cast change-ups, a slicker, Fincher-lite version directed by Bennett Miller made it to theaters, and we're talking about the whole deal. This ep has it all, quite frankly: in-depth script revision analysis, baseball talk, sports politics, and a long conversation about how statistics and "disruption" inform the world. It turns out everything is Moneyball, maybe? Give this one a listen, folks. As always, thanks to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

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  PATREON PREVIEW: Rambo: Last Blood (2019) with Roman Pessarov

  Aug 7, 20267 min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. Like a bizarro Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone parlayed two iconic roles into a decades-long career as a movie star and filmmaker, restauranteur, and conservative hero - only he's short and a lousy director. In 2019, Stallone put his crusading 'Nam vet character out to pasture with RAMBO: LAST BLOOD, a half-assed UNFORGIVEN riff that finds Rambo going up against some rightwing fever-dream "Mexican" human traffickers. Beyond featuring almost zero Mexicans, the film also features zero Mexico: it was largely shot in Bulgaria. Bulgaria's rise as a filmmaking hotspot is thanks in large part to the success of Stallone's Expendables franchise, which allowed production company Millennium Films to turn Sofia's Nu Boyana Film Studios into a one-stop offshoring shop for Hollywood. Joining us to discuss his experience working on this film (!) and the state of the Bulgarian film industry is filmmaker and co-host of the Cinema Strolls podcast Roman Pessarov! We also take a look at the Rambo series as a whole, being a cinephile outside of the US, and learn that even former Soviet dads are ultimately a lot like other dads. GREAT ep, check it out! Follow Roman Pessarov: https://www.instagram.com/roman.pessarov/ https://www.hopp.bio/cinema-strolls https://kinematograf.bg/mirror-touch-film https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3355231/ Further Viewing: ROLLING THUNDER (Flynn, 1977) FIRST BLOOD (Kotcheff, 1982) RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II (Cosmatos, 1985) RAMBO III (MacDonald, 1988) RAMBO (Stallone, 2008) EASTERN PLAYS (Kalev, 2009) GLORY (Grozeva & Valchanov, 2016) PICTURES OF GHOSTS (Mendonça Filho, 2023) THE SECRET AGENT (Mendonça Filho, 2025) Further Reading: "The King of the Geezer Teasers" by Joshua Hunt: https://www.vulture.com/article/randall-emmett-movies.html

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  Episode #35

  Soderbergh Ep. 37: The 93rd Academy Awards (2021)

  Jul 31, 20261h 56mS3

  Remember when Soderbergh produced the first Oscars ceremony of the covid-19 pandemic? Because he's the CONTAGION guy so he knows about viruses? I mean that's literally why he did it. He's friends with the CDC. Plus I guess he had some other ideas about how to change up the Oscars just to see what happens. Have you ever read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine ? It's basically like that. Anyway, we sat through the entire 93rd Academy Awards ceremony again (do NOT do this) to figure out what an awards show looks like, Soderbergh-style. Let's just say it's too bad he already called another project HAYWIRE!!! Further Reading: The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein "When COVID Almost Canceled the Oscars: An Oral History of a Most Surreal Night" by Scott Feinberg: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/covid-oscars-oral-history-1236526506/ Further Viewing: CONTAGION (Soderbergh, 2011) Glenn Close does Da Butt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-RovCOajc8 Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

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  PATREON PREVIEW: Magic Mike Live & Vegas Road Trip with FPG Amanda

  Jul 24, 20269 min

  This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. It's the big Vegas road trip episode! Your two intrepid hosts and one of their intrepid partners hopped in the Subaru and drove to Las Vegas to see (Channing Tatum's) Magic Mike Live, shoot guns like Dirty Harry, tour the Liberace Mansion, and bear the full brunt of late-stage capitalism or whatever. We had kind of a bad time in Vegas, a good time with each other, and a hell of a lot to say into all sorts of microphones. This isn't our longest episode ever, but it's definitely the one with the broadest range of audio quality! We hope you enjoy it. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

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  Episode #36

  Soderbergh Ep. 36: Let Them All Talk (2020) with Veronica Phillips

  Jul 17, 20262h 6mS3

  All aboard the LET THEM ALL TALK episode! Hot off of all the fun they had making THE LAUNDROMAT, Soderbergh and Meryl Streep teamed up again for a largely improvised movie about three old friends taking a boat ride with one of their nephews. And it's...great?! Joining us on the main feed is our good pal, writer and High Femme editor Veronica Phillips! We chat about letting women over 70 talk about their experiences, the inherent narcissism of creativity, going Wiest Mode, and a whole lot about BOOK CLUB (2018). We've been making jokes about covering this movie but that's because we didn't realize it's actually kind of a banger. We're stupid! Good thing Veronica is smart, though, that's why we asked her to be the guest. Fun ep! Further Reading: The Collected Stories of Deborah Eisenberg by Deborah Eisenberg Which as You Know Means Violence: On Self-Injury as Art and Entertainment by Philippa Snow Nightwood by Djuna Barnes George Smiley books by John le Carré read by Simon Vance "Meryl Streep, Candice Bergen, and Dianne Wiest are ready to Talk " by Tyler Aquilina: https://ew.com/movies/meryl-streep-candice-bergen-dianne-wiest-let-them-all-talk/ Further Viewing: CARNAL KNOWLEDGE (Nichols, 1971) MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (Malle, 1981) ADAPTATION. (Jonze, 2002) BOOK CLUB (Holderman, 2018) Follow Veronica Phillips: https://x.com/vnickyy/ https://hifemmes.substack.com/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://bsky.app/profile/podcastyforme.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart Produced by Ian Rhine and Jake Serwin. Additional production by Ryan Torgeson.

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