Anti-wave

Cannonball of Death
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Welcome to Anti-wave Podcast, where Robert Cannon + Ira Heffler discuss all your Anti-wave movie needs. What the hell is Anti-wave, you ask? Great question. In short, Anti-wave is a way to describe films that seek to buck the typical Hollywood trends. Anti-wave is an opportunity to reimagine the way we construct genre films. Anti-westerns have been popular in the years since WWII, but where are the anti-sports films that try to shake off the expected formulaic writing? This podcast tries to find those films for you. Along the way, we deliver some laughs, get into film theory, and speak with filmmakers who share our anti-sentiment. So, welcome to Anti-wave Podcast! We hope you enjoy the ride.

  1. May 26

    Episode 326: Obsession and Top 5 Make-a-Wish Movies

    This week, Robert explores the blurry line between attraction and insanity, while Ira insists every terrible relationship starts with someone saying, “Trust me.” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Obsession and share their top 5 make-a-wish movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a lonely somewhat shy guy who works at a music store with a cat that just died and there’s a hot girl you work with but she only wants to be friends and you’re crushing on her and you wish she would really be into you and you almost get the nerve to tell her, but you’re a wimp and you buy a wishing stick and wish she would fall madly in love you, but then weird shit happens and she has extreme mood swings including screaming like a f*****g banshee but the sex is hot, and she won’t leave your home and she duct tapes the door making it difficult for you to leave and she leaves you creepy notes at work and the sandwich she made is your fried dead cat and when you tell her it’s boys night out, all hell breaks loose and she goes anyway and makes a crazy ass scene, and when another girl is interested in you, she bashes her face into a bloody pulp and your only way out is to swallow a shit load of pills and she sobs, and then suddenly the spell is broken and she pushes your dead body off the couch onto the floor, then this podcast is for you!

    1h 32m

  2. Apr 14

    Episode 325: Project Hail Mary and Top 5 Save-the-World Movies

    This week, Robert breaks down cosmic isolation and save-the-world ingenuity, while Ira realizes his backup plan in space is just panicking quietly. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Project Hail Mary and share their top 5 save-the-world movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to wake up on a spaceship a long ass way from Earth and you begin to remember you’re a former molecular biologist teaching science to kids and Earth will soon freeze and you become buddies with an ugly alien and your ugly alien buddy’s planet will also soon become extinct, and because the ship’s atmosphere will kill your ugly alien buddy, he goes into an airtight ball and rolls around a lot, and you remember you didn’t want to go on this mission, you were drugged by a woman who’s a good karaoke singer and you and your ugly alien buddy save both planets and you go to your ugly alien buddy’s planet and teach science to little ugly alien kids, then this podcast is for you!

    1h 44m

  3. Mar 17

    Episode 324: Oscars and Top 5 Never Seen Before Movies

    This week, Robert dives into the glamour, politics, and questionable taste of the Oscars, while Ira admits he’d accept an award just for staying awake through the whole thing. Join Robert and Ira with special guest film professor Eric Swelstad as they discuss THE OSCARS and share their top 5 ‘never-seen movies.’ Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you want to know everything about the Oscars, and we do mean everything, from Conan O’Brien dressed as the Weapons witch as he runs into the top movies, and the usual winners and losers and political rants, and the snubs and songs and speeches, and the ratings and relevance and rants, then this podcast is for you!

    1h 53m

  4. Feb 25

    Episode 323 - The Taking of Pelham 123 (Both Versions) and Top 5 ‘70s Remake Movies

    This week, Robert dives into crime, conductors, and crooked motives, while Ira admits his biggest transit crisis is forgetting where he parked. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss both versions of The Taking of Pelham 123 and share their top 5 ‘70 movie remakes. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a New York City subway dispatcher and some thugs hijack a subway and threatened to kill the passengers until they get a shitload of money and they will kill one hostage for every minute that has passed after the deadline, and the goofy self-absorbed mayor is of no help, and you bond with the main thug and carry the money onto the subway and the thugs jump off the subway and it’s a runaway train and you chase the thugs and then it comes down to you and the ringleader, then this podcast is for you!

  5. Feb 10

    Episode 322 - Tickled and Top 5 Fetish Movies

    This week, Robert dives into a story that starts with harmless curiosity and somehow ends in lawsuits, blackmail, and grown men being paid to giggle, while Ira questions every email he’s ever opened. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss TICKLED and share their top 5 fetish movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist and you’re curious about the underground ‘sport’ of tickling with young athletic men and as you do research on the sport, some shady figures threaten you and you discover there’s more here than meets the eye and we’re talking bullying, threats of ruined reputations, fake identities, credit card fraud and then you uncover even more starting stuff with much more going on than just giggles, then this podcast is for you!

    1h 21m

  6. Jan 27

    Episode 321 - mother! and Top 5 Worth a Second Watch Movies

    This week, Robert descends into cinematic anxiety and biblical chaos, while Ira spends the entire time asking the perfectly reasonable question: “Why doesn’t anyone just leave?” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MOTHER! and share their favorite top 5 ‘worth a 2nd watch’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a woman in a house with your husband who is a poet with writer’s block and is distant, and then a visitor and his wife show up and you become more and more frustrated with these uninvited guests, and when the couple accidentally shatters a crystal object you tell them to leave and then things go bonkers and chaotic while other people arrive and invade your home, and you’re pregnant and your brooding old man is finally happy and hordes of people show up at your home and you give birth to a baby boy and you don’t want your hubby to hold the kid and he reaches into your chest and pulls out your heart and we’re talking some heavy religious symbolism here, then this podcast is for you!

    1h 40m

  7. Jan 6

    Episode 320 - Producing

    This week, Robert breaks down the art of keeping a film alive through sheer willpower, while Ira admits producing sounds suspiciously like being blamed for everything. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of producer on micro budget films, focusing on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a film producer, which involves feeding the cast and crew and running around town to get camera gear and batteries and lots of props, including combination locks, a porn collection, tennis shoes, and fake scars and guns, and keeping security at a distance and being a sounding board for the director and scouting the subways and driving to the desert to record gunshots and shattering my car window and stomping barefoot in a pool of blood under a freeway tunnel for a scene that wasn’t used, then this podcast is for you!

    1h 46m

  8. 12/09/2025

    Episode 319 - Director of Photography (Special Guest: Trevor Davis)

    This week, Robert dives into the dark arts of cinematography, Ira claims he invented the Dutch angle by accident, and Trevor Davis patiently explains how he saved Prowler from looking like security-cam footage. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of the Director of Photography with our special guest TREVOR DAVIS, who was the DP extraordinaire on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered who is responsible for the overall “look” of a film and what a Director of Photography does to achieve that - in particular on our film, which was beautifully shot entirely at night - then this podcast is for you!

    1h 40m
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Welcome to Anti-wave Podcast, where Robert Cannon + Ira Heffler discuss all your Anti-wave movie needs. What the hell is Anti-wave, you ask? Great question. In short, Anti-wave is a way to describe films that seek to buck the typical Hollywood trends. Anti-wave is an opportunity to reimagine the way we construct genre films. Anti-westerns have been popular in the years since WWII, but where are the anti-sports films that try to shake off the expected formulaic writing? This podcast tries to find those films for you. Along the way, we deliver some laughs, get into film theory, and speak with filmmakers who share our anti-sentiment. So, welcome to Anti-wave Podcast! We hope you enjoy the ride.

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  • Creator
    Cannonball of Death
  • Years Active
    2016 - 2026
  • Episodes
    300
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Anti-wave