Pop Culture Confidential

Latest Episodes:

343: We discuss Ben Affleck's 'Air', 'Tetris', & movies about the entrepreneurial spirit! With Ryan McQuade (AwardsWatch, InSession Film) Mar 30, 2023

Show notes

Ryan McQuade (AwardsWatch, InSession Film) joins Christina to discuss Ben Affleck's 'Air', 'Tetris', & movies about the entrepreneurial spirit! From the Social Network to Moneyball.

The good, the bad and... the Beanie Babies?!

Twitter: @ryanmcquade77

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

342: Special episode! A conversation with Brian Cox recorded live on stage. (Succession, HBO Max) Mar 29, 2023

Show notes

A special episode of Pop Culture Confidential! Christina in conversation with the great Brian Cox, celebrating the premiere of the last season of Succession.

Recorded at the premiere event in Stockholm, Sweden. Thanks to HBO Max Nordic and HBO Max!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

340: Extra episode! A potential strike looms as the Writers Guild of America and studios negotiate. We break down what's at stake. With guest Tom O'Brien Mar 23, 2023

Show notes

As writers and studios negotiate, Hollywood prepares for a possible strike. We break down what's at stake.

We are joined by Tom O'Brien, writer Next Best Picture. Contributing writer for GoldDerby. Member of WGA West

Recorded Thursday March 23rd 2023

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

339: We recap and break down the 2023 Academy Awards. The best, the worst & the historic moments! With Ryan McQuade, AwardsWatch. Mar 13, 2023

Show notes

Christina & Ryan McQuade of Awardswatch.com break down and recap Oscars95!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

338: The narratives, the scandals, the surprises! The awards season year in review & everything leading up to Oscar 2023! With Mike Barone of 'Mike, Mike, and Oscar' Mar 10, 2023

Show notes

Thrilled to have Michael Barone of the podcast 'Mike, Mike, and Oscar' join us to analyze everything we need to know about this years' exciting Oscar season & how it has led up to Academy Awards 2023. The narratives, the festivals, what films made it all the way through and which lost steam, the surprises, the scandals, the Vegas odds, the beautiful EEAAO journey and much more. All leading to how we are predicting the big night on Sunday!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

337: Our Oscar 2023 predictions special with Erik Anderson, AwardsWatch! Mar 05, 2023

Show notes

Michelle or Cate? Brendan or Austin??!! It's finally here! It's our 2023 Oscar predictions special and we are thrilled to have editor-in-chief of AwardsWatch.com Erik Anderson with us again to predict the Oscar winners in a year that could be filled with historic wins and surprising upsets.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

336: Lesley Paterson 'All Quiet On the Western Front'. Oscar nominated screenwriter, producer & world champion triathlete! Mar 01, 2023

Show notes

Producer/Screenwriter Lesley Paterson is a powerhouse... yes, she is also a world champion triathlete. Paterson talks to Christina about her 16 year fight to make 'All Quiet on the Western Front', now nominated for 9 Oscars. How she used prize money from her sporting events to fund the book option year after year. Even competing & swimming with a broken arm to keep the dream of the film alive.

The Bafta winner talks about her journey as well as the research, writing and developing All Quiet on the Western front, the 1929 German novel by Erich Maria Remarque about the horrors of WWI and the young men lost in the trenches.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

335: We discuss the Bafta awards! The winners, the shockers and what it all means as the Oscars approach! With Ryan McQuade, AwardsWatch. Feb 22, 2023

Show notes

We did the thing! Executive Editor at AwardsWatch.com Ryan McQuade joins Christina to recap the Baftas 2023. We discuss the winners the shockers, All Quiet on the Western Front taking the night and what it all means as the Oscars approach!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

334: Dispatch 3 from The Santa Barbara International Film Festival! With Nina Hoss (TÁR), Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) & Angie Wang (MDMA) Feb 18, 2023

Show notes

In a new dispatch from the fest Christina talks to some really incredible women on creating and shaping their characters and their films! Filmmaker and juror Angie Wang talks about her film MDMA (2017) inspired by her own history dealing Ecstasy, on underrepresented voices in the industry and more. And actors Nina Hoss (TÁR), Danielle Deadwyler (Till), Kerry Condon (The Banshees of Inisherin) on creating their characters

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

333. Dispatch 2 from The Santa Barbara International Film Festival. Director Alison Millar on her brilliant doc 'Lyra'- on the life, work and tragic death of her friend, Northern Ireland’s fearless young reporter Lyra McKee Feb 15, 2023

Show notes

Director Alison Millar talks to Christina from The Santa Barbara International Film Festival about her brilliant doc 'Lyra'. The film is about the life, work and tragic death of her friend, Northern Ireland’s fearless young reporter Lyra McKee. It's executive produced by Hillary & Chelsea Clinton.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected