This week on the show, Certain Women director Kelly Reichardt joins Sam for a conversation about her unique and beautiful filmmaking, the loneliness...
The awesomely talent jazz star Esperanza Spalding stops by Talk Easy to talk openly about her career, navigating the boys club in jazz, being an...
Legendary documentary filmmaker Steve James joins the show to talk with Sam about his extraordinary career, his masterpiece “Hoop...
This week on a special TIFF 2016 edition of Talk Easy, Sam sits down with Chicago Tribune film critic Michael Phillips at the Toronto International...
This week’s guest, comedian Lauren Lapkus is known to most people from her roles in Orange is the New Black and Jurassic World, but she made...
Think of any great comedy project in the last decade and Ben Schwartz probably had something to do with it. Jean-Ralphio on Parks and Recreation...
On this week’s show, Sam is joined by the great and talented actress Melanie Lynskey. Hailing from New Zealand, Lynskey got her start at 15 in...
Charlene deGuzman made waves on the internet three years ago when her short film, “I Forgot My Phone,” which she wrote and starred in...
You probably know Kate Micucci from somewhere, whether it was her role in Scrubs, or How I Met Your Mother, or The Big Bang Theory, or When in Rome...
Alan Arkin has been acting in movies since the 1960s, delivering decades worth of great and memorable performances, including indelible turns in The...
Nico Segal, aka Donnie Trumpet, is a musician out of Chicago whose work with Chance the Rapper and Vic Mensa has gained him notoriety in the worlds...
Eric André is the host of the bizarre, surreal, insane The Eric André Show on Adult Swim. His style of comedy can be described as erratic, insane...
Alex Gibney is one of the most successful and prolific documentary filmmakers in the business. His films have covered controversial figures like...
Alissa Wilkinson, chief film critic at Christianity Today, joins Sam to talk about growing up Evangelical, being homeschooled, moving to...
Legendary Oscar-nominated actor Robert Forster invited Sam to his favourite breakfast spot for a wide ranging chat about his life and career. Back to...
Sam sits down with Amy Nicholson, the new Chief Film Critic for MTV News, to talk about her experiences growing up in San Antonio, her college life...