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Latest episodes

Twilight of the Ice Nymphs feat. Caroline Golum

April 10, 2026 · 1 hr 53 min

**Come see WTO/99 at The Balboa Theater SF on Sunday, April 26th 7:30pm, hosted by Hit Factory featuring a post-screening Q&A w/ director Ian Bell. Tickets are available here.** Filmmaker Caroline Golum joins Aaron to discuss her singular…
Splendor feat. Alice Maio Mackay

April 2, 2026 · 1 hr 53 min

**Come see WTO/99 at The Balboa Theater SF on Sunday, April 26th 7:30pm, hosted by Hit Factory featuring a post-screening Q&A w/ director Ian Bell. Tickets are available here.** Prolific filmmaker Alice Maio Mackay joins us to discuss her…
Highway Patrolman feat. Pod Casty For Me *TEASER*

March 25, 2026 · 6 min

Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine of the illustrious Pod Casty for Me join to discuss Alex Cox's 1991…
Charisma feat. Robert Rubsam

March 7, 2026 · 1 hr 47 min

Writer and critic Robert Rubsam returns to the show to discuss Kiyoshi Kurosawa's enigmatic, unclassifiable thriller Charisma, the story of a failed hotage negotiator torn between factions of scientists, government agents, and madmen all…
8MM

February 23, 2026 · 1 hr 54 min

CW: This episode contains discussion of sexual assault and violence, including abuse of minors, in relation to recent revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Listener discretion advised. Some Big News Weeks led us to a slightly unwieldy…

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The Quick and the Dead *TEASER*

February 8, 2026 · 11 min

Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Sam Raimi's new film Send Help is in theaters, so we decided to look back at the director's…
"What Have You Watched with Me Lately?" (Hit Factory's Month in Movies - January 2026) *TEASER*

February 1, 2026 · 7 min

Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Something new for our faithful Patrons - A conversation about all the movies, new and old, that…
BONUS: WTO/99 Interview w/ Ian Bell & Alex Megaro

January 22, 2026 · 48 min

WTO/99 is a new, immersive archival documentary that depicts the four-day clash between the then-emerging World Trade Organization (WTO) and the 40,000+ people who took to the streets of Seattle in 1999 to protest the WTO Conference and…
Hyenas

January 17, 2026 · 1 hr 29 min

This week, we're discussing the winner of our latest Patreon poll, Senegalese auteur Djibril Diop Mambéty's Hyenas. Adapting Swiss-German playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt's 1956 satirical tragicomedy The Visit and transposing its story onto…
Hit Factory's 2025 Digestif

January 7, 2026 · 1 hr 35 min

The party is nearing its end, the food has been consumed, and now it's time to pour yourself a rich, spicy, herbaceous(?) after-dinner drink to aid in the digestion of all your elsewhere and elsewhile 2025 year-end content... It's the Hit…
DENZEMBER 2 VOL. V - The Siege feat. Séamus Malekafzali

December 30, 2025 · 2 hr 39 min

Denzember concludes as Journalist and host of the Turbulence podcast Séamus Malekafzali returns to the show to discuss Edward Zwick's 1998 geopolitical thriller The Siege, a film about a Muslim terrorist cell wreaking havoc on New York…
DENZEMBER 2 VOL. IV - He Got Game feat. Robert Daniels *TEASER*

December 23, 2025 · 13 min

Get access to this entire episode, the entire Denzember catalog, and all of our premium episodes by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Roger Ebert Associate Editor Robert Daniels returns to the show to once again discuss the…

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About the show

A podcast about the films of the 1990s, their politics, and how they inform today's film landscape. Exploring the output of a seemingly bottomless decade. America's first and only movie podcast.