Pod Casty For Me

Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine
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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.

  1. 12H AGO

    The Knick Season 1 (2014) with Dave Maher

    TV time! Almost immediately after "retiring" from feature films, Steven Soderbergh directed ten episodes of THE KNICK, a period medical drama for Cinemax about the early days of modern surgery. Joining us to talk about nearly ten hours of television is comedian and host of the podcast This Is Your Afterlife, Dave Maher! We have a wide-ranging discussion covering everything from prestige television antiheroes to addiction to chronic illness to racial disparities in medical care to what Kimi would like to do with Dave if she ever gets him alone. It's a real fun extra-long episode, and still probably our lowest ep-length-to-subject-length ratio ever. Take off your white shoe and dig in! Further Reading: "No Leeches, No Rusty Saw, But Hell Nonetheless" by Alessandra Stanley The Knick: Anatomy of a Series by Steven Soderbergh et al. "The Binge Director" by Matt Zoller-Seitz "Meet the Man Who Makes Sure The Knick Is Medically Accurate" by Marcus Jones "Syphilis Noses and Finding the Right Dirt: The Knick's Production Designer on Making the Show Look Real" by Matt Patches "'The Knick' Creators on How They Went From Writing Studio Rom-Coms to Steven Soderbergh's New TV Show" by Ben Travers Further Viewing: ER (1994) GANGS OF NEW YORK (Scorsese, 2002) MAD MEN (2007) THE PITT (2025) Follow Dave Maher: https://thisisyourafterlife.com/ https://x.com/ThisIsDaveMaher https://www.instagram.com/thisisyourafterlife/ https://www.instagram.com/thisisdavemaher/ Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    2h 41m
  2. PATREON PREVIEW: Jigarthanda DoubleX (2023) with Gigi

    MAR 6

    PATREON PREVIEW: Jigarthanda DoubleX (2023) with Gigi

    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. How come nobody told us there was a 2023 Tamil film with a fully CGI Clint Eastwood?! Well, at least our guest did - so luckily we're joined today by Gigi aka Girl aka @SummerOfFilm to talk Karthik Subbaraj's 2023 "Pandyaa Western" JIGARTHANDA DOUBLEX. Hop on board for a crash course in Desi cinema and its political contexts, what Clint means to Desis, and why we all have to stop Getting RRR Vibes From This. We cannot stress enough how nuts the CGI Clint is in this movie, folks. And the rest of it is great too! It's on Netflix right now, go watch it! And listen to the ep! As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Follow Gigi: https://x.com/SummerOfFilm https://letterboxd.com/moviehideen/ Gigi's Further Viewing List: AURAT (1940) NADODI MANNAN (1958) AAYIRATHIL ORUVAN (1965) SHOLAY (1975) DAKU HASINA (1987) KODAMA SIMHAM (1990) KUSHI (2000) KANCHANA (2011) JIGARTHANDA (2014) Gigi's Further Reading List: Cut-outs, Caste and Cine Stars: The Word of Tamil Politics by Vaasanthi Conversations With Mani Ratnam by Baradwaj Rangan https://letterboxd.com/nrh/ https://muckrack.com/subha-rao/articles https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/anupama-chopra/movies

    6 min

  3. FEB 27

    Behind The Candelabra (2013) with Eva Anderson

    Shine up those rhinestones, everybody: it's the BEHIND THE CANDELABRA episode. We're talking Soderbergh's sort-of-final film before his sort-of-retirement, a 2013 Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon - and we're joined by writer and Liberace expert Eva Anderson! We talk Vegas, camp, Douglas's infamous throat cancer disclosure, plastic surgery, palimony, the closet, Eva's absolutely insane experiences touring Liberace's home and other associated places, and lots more. You know what they say... too much of a good thing is wonderful (also unfamiliar to listeners of this show). Further Reading: Behind the Candelabra: My Life with Liberace by Scott Thorson and Alex Thorleifson Liberace: An American Boy by Darden Asbury Pyron The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies by Vito Russo "Michael Douglas on Liberace, Cannes, cancer and cunnilingus" by Xan Brooks "The Boy Toy's Story" by David Segal Further Viewing: DRACULA (various) SUNSET BOULEVARD (Wilder, 1950) THE INFORMANT! (Soderbergh, 2009) THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES (Greenfield, 2012) SCOTTY AND THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD (Tyrnauer, 2017) Follow Eva Anderson: https://www.instagram.com/evafay/ https://bsky.app/profile/evafay.bsky.social Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    1h 56m
  4. PATREON PREVIEW: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

    FEB 20

    PATREON PREVIEW: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

    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. Handsome leading man jumps from television to film working with a handful of dynamic filmmakers before hopping in the director's chair himself - sound familiar?! Unfortunately, it turned out a lot better when Clint did it. But we're talking about George Clooney anyway, starting with his 2002 directorial debut CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MIND, based on the clearly-a-joke-to-everyone-but-Clooney "unauthorized autobiography" by Gong Show producer/host Chuck Barris. Written by Charlie Kaufman (rewritten by Clooney), produced by Section Eight, edited by Stephen Mirrione...what could go wrong? We'll tell you! As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

    9 min

  5. FEB 13

    Side Effects (2013) with Jane Altoids

    Listen to this episode twice and call us in the morning! That's just a joke and is not medical advice. But we ARE talking about Soderbergh's 2013 pharmaceutical thriller SIDE EFFECTS today, with our friend poet/podcaster/famous celebrity Jane Altoids! Topics may include: Hitchcock, the history of madness, women being called crazy, big pharma, our own experiences with mental illness, Blake Lively, Soderbergh's then-impending retirement, the asylum and the prison, the mad rights movement, CONTAGION, and more. Give it a listen! Further Reading: Health Communism by Artie Vierkant and Beatrice Adler-Bolton Quick Fixes by Benjamin Y. Fong Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Soderbergh interview by Nigel M. Smith for Indiewire "Trojan Horses and Immaculate Math: An Interview with Steven Soderbergh" by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky "How New York's mentally ill get lost in courts, jails and hospitals" by Ben Hattem Further Viewing: DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Wilder, 1944) GASLIGHT (Cukor, 1944) SPELLBOUND (Hitchcock, 1945) LES DIABOLIQUES (Clouzot, 1955)   Follow Jane Altoids: https://x.com/staticbluebat Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    2h 7m
  6. PATREON PREVIEW: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

    FEB 6

    PATREON PREVIEW: 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

    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. You voted, we watched! For our second Listener Choice episode, we're sitting down with Michael Bay's 2016 action docudrama 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI, a supposedly just-the-facts look at the 2012 attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya. The film is brutally short on context, but don't worry - that's what we're here for. Join us to talk interventionism, AMERICAN SNIPER, Office Jim, Hillary Clinton, and more. Plus - a message from Maxwell. "Worse Than Benghazi" by David Mizner "13 Hours and the Benghazi Scandal" at Spy Culture Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

    8 min

  7. JAN 30

    Magic Mike (2012) with Zoë Ligon

    It's here, lawbreakers: our episode on Steven Soderbergh's 2012 runaway hit MAGIC MIKE. Is this a sobering look at economic precarity after the Great Recession? Or is it a movie about gyrating hunks? Here to help us answer that question is writer, adult content creator, and proprietor of Spectrum Boutique, Zoë Ligon! We talk transactional desire, hot bods, side hustles, Zoë's experience seeing Magic Mike Live in Vegas, and a lot more. Look: you're horny, let's do it - listen to the episode, that is! Plus, a brief note about Minneapolis. Further Reading: "'How Would You Like A Lap Dance?': The Oral History of 'Magic Mike'" by Kate Lloyd "Where Mike Got The Magic" by Tressie McMillan Cottom Further Viewing: SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER (Badham, 1977) BOOGIE NIGHTS (Anderson, 1997) BEAU TRAVAIL (Denis, 1999) STEP UP (Fletcher, 2006) MAGIC MIKE XXL (Jacobs, 2015) MAGIC MIKE'S LAST DANCE (Soderbergh, 2023)   Follow Zoë: https://www.thongria.com https://www.spectrumboutique.com Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/ https://twitter.com/podcastyforme https://www.instagram.com/podcastyforme/ https://www.youtube.com/@podcastyforme Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PodCastyForMe Artwork by Jeremy Allison: https://www.instagram.com/jeremyallisonart

    2h 8m
  8. PATREON PREVIEW: Moneyball (2011)

    JAN 23

    PATREON PREVIEW: Moneyball (2011)

    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. 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.

    11 min
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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.

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  • Creator
    Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    158
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2022
  • Show Website
    Pod Casty For Me

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