The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast

The Hunt for Red October (with Chris Cantwell)

This month Chad and Elizabeth are joined by writer, producer, director, and showrunner Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire, The Terror: Devil in Silver)—an original BWDR

Disclosure Day (with Frank Falisi)

To kick off our upcoming Summer Blockbusters issue, we invited longtime BW/DR contributor—and podcast five-timer!—Frank Falisi to help us work our way through Disclosure

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

We're back, and just in time for summer blockbuster season! Join Chad Perman and new co-host Elizabeth Cantwell as they talk their way through one of the biggest/best sum

Magnolia (1999)

Not only is this Veronica and Eli’s last episode, it’s our fourth annual Cruisemas. With the release of One Battle After Another, we revisit Paul Thomas Anderson’s blank

The 63rd New York Film Festival (with Fran Hoepfner, Frank Falisi, and Eli Sands)

It’s officially fall when the NYFF finally ends. In this episode, Veronica sits down with Fran Hoepfner, Frank Falisi, and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 63rd N

Seven (with Adam Nayman)

Happy 30th birthday to David Fincher’s Seven (1995). Joining us to celebrate is special guest Adam Nayman, Toronto-based critic, lecturer, and author of, among other book

Rope (with Michael Koresky)

Hello, champagne. This month we welcome back to the podcast Michael Koresky (listen here to his first visit, discussing A.I.: Artificial Intelligence). Michael is MoMI’s

Beginners (2010)

For a taste of summertime sadness, we look at a pick from curator Christos Nikou (Apples [2020] and Fingernails [2023]): Mike Mills’s semi-autobiographical bleak comedy B

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (with Bilge Ebiri)

Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Bilge Ebiri—the man, the myth, the legend—joins us to bookend our discussion of all things Mission: Impossible from a couple

Trouble in Paradise (1932)

On this month’s bite-sized episode we're zooming in on a snappy/passionate moment from Ernst Lubitsch’s effervescent 1932 screwball comedy, Trouble in Paradise. We get i

Speed (with Travis Woods)

Pop quiz, hotshot: join us as we welcome back BWDR veteran and De Palma completist ⁠Travis Woods⁠ for a special conversation on one of our all-time favorites, Jan de Bont

The Passenger (1975)

This month’s micro-episode takes us inside the mysterious, sensual brilliance of Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger, a curated pick from director Ezra Edelman: "The

Bram Stoker's Dracula (with Angelica Jade Bastién)

This month we sit down with Vulture critic Angelica Jade Bastién, author of the newsletter Madwomen & Muses, where she recently started writing about “Movies That Fuck.”

The Celebration (1998)

This month's bite-sized episode zooms in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, The Celebration (1998), one of Palestinian director/writer/produce

Rewind: A.I. Artificial Intelligence (with Michael Koresky)

In honor of guest Michael Koresky's new book announcement, we're revisiting this conversation with him from last summer about Steven Spielberg's A.I. Michael's new book,

A Different Man (with Frank Falisi)

We’re back with an episode analyzing writer-director Aaron Schimburg’s Kafkaesque body swap, A Different Man. Joining us is critic, actor, and BWDR darling Frank Falisi

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Our first mini-episode of 2025 looks to one of director Andrew Haigh’s curated picks: Billy Wilder’s subversive farce Some Like It Hot. We get into the unlikely moderni

Gladiator (with Blake Howard)

Be thankful we did your Gladiator II homework, rewatching Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 1 (2000) with amateur Russell Crowe historian Blake Howard. This is a Gladiator II-sp

Don't Look Now (1973)

This month’s mini-episode takes us into the rich opening sequence of a pick curated by director Andrew Haigh: Nicolas Roeg’s Venetian nightmare, Don’t Look Now . We get

Rewind: The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

This holiday season, we're revisiting last year's holiday special: an audio essay of one of the most popular articles we've every published on the site: Ethan Warren's ⁠A