Before a string of successful plays (August: Osage County, Bug) and brilliant performances on screen (Homeland, Lady Bird, Ford v Ferrari), Tracy...
Director Errol Morris—with his brief history as a private detective and door-to-door salesman—has transformed the world with his boundless curiosity...
This week, Sam sits down with Honey Boy director Alma Har’el. She discusses the sacrificial act of independent filmmaking, the synchronicity of her...
This week on the show is actor, writer, and comedian Randall Park! He reflects on his strikingly diverse childhood friend group, becoming ‘the...
Edward Norton has built a career out of shape-shifting. Just look at his beginning in film: The People vs. Larry Flynt, Primal Fear, Everyone Says I...
In 2016 Robert invited me to sit with him at his home away from home: Marco’s in West Hollywood. At his corner table next to the window, he ate there...
Ladies and gents, Gary Gulman! With a new special on HBO and a guest role in Todd Phillips’s mind-gripping Joker, comedian Gary Gulman has a...
This week, Hustlers actress Trace Lysette joins us on the show! She reflects on “giving birth to herself” in New York (8:30), developing Tribe with...
This week we’re joined by podcaster/filmmaker/writer Scott Aukerman! He talks about his his first TV appearances back in high school (08:12)...
Karley Sciortino is on this week. She reflects on her childhood, growing up Catholic in the age of Britney Spears, and sexual awakenings (05:16), her...
This week, Sam sits down with renowned writer, director, and former film critic, Peter Bogdanovich. They discuss the fragmentation of the old...
This one has been long over-due… Justin Simien, friends! The sensible mind behind Dear White People talks about his high school days, pointing...
We’re back, with Whitney Cummings! She starts off with some personal thoughts about love, then discusses her self-perception, being so-called...
Ron Perlman! We talk standouts from this week’s Democratic debates (04:53), the state of independent film (11:49), finding a love for acting at...
Comedy icon Jeff Garlin is on this week! We get into texting woes (07:54), getting divorced after 25 years (11:29), being single again at 57 (13:45)...
The brain behind BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg, is with us this week. He dives right in, talking about the privilege of being a white man...
“I feel like I always get asked the same questions,” says actor Michael Kelly. Well, hopefully, not today. Kelly joins us on the show to talk...