300 episodes

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.

Anti-wave Cannonball of Death

    • TV & Film
    • 4.5 • 19 Ratings

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.

    Episode 294: Matchstick Men and Top 5 Heartbreak Movies

    Episode 294: Matchstick Men and Top 5 Heartbreak Movies

    We’re CON-vinced you’re gonna love this week’s episode. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MATCHSTICK MEN and share their top 5 heartbreak movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a con man with a con partner and you con people and you have all these fucked up habits like counting to three and turning the light switches on and off and stuttering and lots of facial tics and you find out you have a daughter you never really knew and she moves in with you and you see a shrink who gives you pills to help with your fucked up disorder, and your daughter goes on cons with you and your partner but a con goes bad when the mark realizes you switched suitcases and he chases you and your daughter and you find out she’s been in jail and you kick her out of the house and you’re out of pills and you go to the pharmacy and discover the pills are merely over-the-counter supplements and you yell at your shrink and you make up with your daughter and take her dancing, but now the mark shows up and is really pissed and your daughter shoots and kills him and you take the rap and get arrested and you’re in a hospital and your shrink shows up and you give him the password to your safe deposit box but you’re not really in a hospital and you’ve been set up and your partner f****d you over and you get out of there and you find out your daughter is not your daughter and you’ve been royally set up and a year later you’re selling carpet and your daughter who is not your daughter shows up, then this podcast is for you!

    • 1 hr 33 min
    Episode 293: Falling Down and Top 5 Snapped Characters

    Episode 293: Falling Down and Top 5 Snapped Characters

    “You forgot the briefcase. YOU FORGOT THE BRIEF CASE!” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss FALLING DOWN and share their top 5 snapped characters. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a middle-age dude with a buzz cut who’s stuck in downtown LA traffic on a hot day and you ditch your car and start walking and go to a pay phone but can’t make a phone call because you don’t have a quarter so you go to a convenience store for some change and when you’re told you have to buy something you go ballistic and ransack the place and then some gang members threaten you because you’re in their hood, and you become even more of a dick at a fast food restaurant and you walk through a golf course and harass the elderly golfers, and along the way you kill a Nazi and fire a rocket launcher and your wife has left you - do you wonder why? - and a police lieutenant who is on his last day of work shoots your sorry ass and you die, then this podcast is for you!

    • 1 hr 53 min
    Episode 292: The Oscars (Special Guest - Eric Swelstad)

    Episode 292: The Oscars (Special Guest - Eric Swelstad)

    Kinda unbelievable that a bunch of fake plastic people would award themselves for playing fake plastic people, but who can resist Ryan Gosling in bubble gum pink, anyway? I’M KEN! Join Robert and Ira along with special guest Eric Swelstad as they discuss THE OSCARS.  Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you want to know everything about the Oscars, and we mean everything from winners, losers, snubs, speeches, song performances, relevance and ratings, and Jimmy’s wildly inappropriate political jabs, then this podcast is for you!

    • 1 hr 21 min
    Episode 291: Silent Night and Top 5 Non-Verbal Movie Moments

    Episode 291: Silent Night and Top 5 Non-Verbal Movie Moments

    This week’s movie has a lot in common with Robert’s farts: silent but deadly. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss SILENT NIGHT and share their top 5 non-verbal movie moments. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a man whose young son is killed and you chase the gang members and get shot in the throat and your wife goes to see you in the hospital, but you can’t talk and your wife takes you home and you miss the little tot and keep seeing images of him and like right out of Rocky, you train by lifting weights and firing guns and learning karate, and you even modify your car and practice doing donuts, and you get one of the henchmen and tie him up and bring him to your home, and then a big ass fist fight in the kitchen and garage and you knock him out, tie him up, and dump him at the ringleader‘s doorstep, and you continue to see images of your son, a lot. Too much. Oh, and your wife leaves you ‘cause you’re kinda a moody dick to her. And then more fights and more images of your son’s face, this time it’s in a Christmas tree ornament, and you’re now in an over-the-top car chase and shoot out, and you finally make your way to the home of the head bad ass dude who’s in a lavish room with orbs and the f****r is dancing with a hottie with tats and there’s another big shoot out, but this time a detective is with you and wants to help, but it’s a bloodbath and not looking too good for you and the detective, then this podcast is for you!

    • 1 hr 48 min
    Episode 290: Flight of the Phoenix and Top 5 Airplane Movies

    Episode 290: Flight of the Phoenix and Top 5 Airplane Movies

    Funny enough, this podcast crash landed and never got off the ground, either… Join Robert and Ira as they discuss both FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX movies and share their top 5 airplane movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a stubborn pilot of a small airplane and you’ve got a motley group of passengers and there’s a sandstorm and you crash in some godforsaken desert with a busted radio, and you and your motley passengers have to deal with starvation, heat, thirst, enemies on camels, and each other, and one of the passengers is an aeronautical engineer and he says he can rebuild the plane, and so you and your motley passengers build a new aircraft from the wreckage, but then you find out this aeronautical engineer only designs toy planes and you and the motley passengers are royally pissed at him for not telling the whole truth, and the rebuilt plane is done and you get in the cockpit and fire off a few cylinders and the motley passengers strap themselves to the wing and up you go, then this podcast is for you!

    • 1 hr 38 min
    Episode 289: Dumb Money and Top 5 Greed Movies

    Episode 289: Dumb Money and Top 5 Greed Movies

    Robert and Ira… Dumb? Absolutely. Money? Not so much. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss DUMB MONEY and share their top greed movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music.  So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a schlub with no money and you follow an obscure stock and tell people on YouTube to buy it and it shoots higher and higher and your followers, including a nurse and a hot lesbian couple, are buying more and more and the head honcho CEOs are pissed because they wanted to do a short sell but now they’re royally f****d and losing a shit load of big bucks, we’re talking hundreds of millions of dollars, and the server shuts down and people are pissed and panicked because they want to sell and now the feds are called in and you’re heralded as a financial guru and you buy your brother a cool car so he can stop delivering food, then this podcast is for you!

    • 1 hr 47 min

Customer Reviews

4.5 out of 5
19 Ratings

19 Ratings

sixftlion ,

Super entertaining & educational

I love the raw and edgy humor the hosts have, it makes me burst out in loud laughter pretty much each episode, yet there is seriousness and lots of educational value on so many levels. The hosts, Ira and Robert, have a great connection and respect for each other, it's inspirational to listen to their interactions. And, they know their stuff about movies. I am not even a movie enthusiast, and I can't stop binge-listening and each episode, I write down several movie titles that I would like to watch. The show is professionally produced, and now on the top of my podcast list. Highly recommended!

Saintsfan1987 ,

Only the best

Robert and Ira, without fail, consistently seem to have an excellent grasp with what’s going on in the world, how that relates to film and provide hilarious yet poignant viewpoints reminding us that conformity is boring and excellence is found in art when people challenge the status quo to create new ideas that matter to us all!

Charles Martel III ,

Love it.

Awesome show. Hosts are fun and have good camaraderie. I really appreciate that they take a very fair look at movies that others may be happy to condemn.

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