Leave The World Behind with Sam Esmail

It’s officially that time of year again: Oscar season! We’re now just a few weeks away from the 98th Academy Awards and to celebrate, over the coming days and weeks we’ll be posting conversations about movies in the mix for all sorts of major awards at this year’s ceremony (not j ...  Show more

The Plague is writer-director Charlie Pollinger’s unflinching portrait of childhood bullying in which the titular contagion is a skin rash that may or may not be real. Set in 2003, at an all-boys summer camp, it follows Ben – played by Everett Blunck – as he enters a group with a ...  Show more

In episodes three and four of For All Mankind season four, respectively titled: ‘The Bear Hug’ and ‘House Divided’, the Soviets are dealing with a coup that has stripped Gorbachev of his Presidency. As Margo deals with the repercussions of this, she is reunited with the myster ...

Question reality through different dimensions and worlds with immersive tales of science-fiction and mystery with QCODE’s Hidden Signal, a new podcast anthology series. In the first installment, EVERGREEN, Hannah (Lana Condor) finds herself trapped inside her boss Fin Gorale’s (A ...  Show more

The Midnight Shorts section of the Sundance Film Festival is known for creative, weird, and visually innovative horror. The 2023 lineup features short films with dark, weird, cringey stories that were created with love and intention.  In today’s episode, No Film School’s GG Hawk ...  Show more

On this week’s show, the panel is first joined by Slate business and culture writer Nitish Pahwa to discuss Monkey Man, Dev Patel’s dazzling but muddled directorial debut. The ultra-violent action flick stars Patel as Kid, a young man who works his way into a secret brothel for t ...  Show more