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Watch With Jen - S7: E24 - '70s Disaster Movies with Larry Karaszewski & Dan Waters

Brilliant screenwriters, hilarious storytellers, & insightful cinephiles Larry Karaszewski (ED WOOD & THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT) & Dan Waters (HEATHERS & BATMAN RETURNS)

Watch With Jen - S7: E23 - Screen Censorship with Isaac Butler

Award-winning cultural historian Isaac Butler returns to the podcast to discuss screen censorship, the arts battles of the '80s & '90s with the rise of the religious righ

Watch With Jen - S7: E22 - Harry Dean Stanton with Sean Burns

Boston-based WBUR and Spliced Personality Substack film critic Sean Burns returns to the podcast to help celebrate the centennial of the beloved iconic character actor (&

Watch With Jen - S7: E21 - A Darker Shade of Blue: Serpico & French Connection II with Blake Howard

"Just say, 'Dance, monkey, dance!'" My honorary kid brother from Oz, One Heat Minute Productions' podcaster Blake Howard, returns to the show this week to chat about two

Watch With Jen - S7: E20 - Dana Andrews with Sheila O'Malley

Sheila O'Malley is one of our greatest film writers, historians, & critics of screen acting. Her essays & reviews on The Sheila Variations blog & Roger Ebert's site are a

Watch With Jen - S7: E19 - Arnold Schwarzenegger with Jed Ayres, Jordan Harper, & Priscilla Page

You're in for a treat this week! Queue up Watch With Jen's long-overdue reunion of covering iconic action superstars with my dear friends (& frequent guests) Jed Ayres, J

Watch With Jen - S7: E18 - Island Movies with Lina Chern

Delightful Mary Higgins Clark award-winning mystery writer Lina Chern drops by the podcast once again for a perfectly summery, vacation-and-sunscreen-season-worthy tour o

Watch With Jen - S7: E17 - Game of Death Movies with Jed Ayres

Encyclopedic cinephile, writer, and pal Jed Ayres joins us once again to discuss the action-horror subgenre Games of Death. Taking us on a journey from THE MOST DANGEROUS

Watch With Jen - S7: E16 - Joan Cusack with Nell Minow

Earlier this year, I had a blast revisiting five of my favorite Joan Cusack performances for RogerEbert.com's Women Writers Week celebration. My friend, the prolific Movi

Watch With Jen - S7: E15 - Early Jonathan Demme with Mike Miley

This week, film scholar and author Mike Miley returns to the podcast to discuss one of his favorite directors, Jonathan Demme. Intriguingly, Mike opted to focus on Demme'

Watch With Jen - S7: E14 - Girls of Summer '96 with Kate Hagen

My good friend, Black List Senior Vice President Kate Hagen, returns to Watch With Jen for this throwback summer celebration of 1996 films written, directed, and starring

Watch With Jen - S7: E13 - Steven Spielberg with Barbara VanDenburgh

It was a joy to bring on a fellow Arizona critic & film scholar, the brilliant & funny Barbara VanDenburgh, to discuss the masterful Arizona-raised filmmaker Steven Spiel

Watch With Jen - S7: E12 - Riz Ahmed with Roxana Hadadi

The brilliant and soulful Roxana Hadadi returns with this episode devoted to one of her current favorite actors, the great Riz Ahmed. Similar to past conversations focuse

Watch With Jen - S7: E11 - Photography Movies with Leslie Byron Pitt

Every time Leslie Byron Pitt is on the podcast, we go deep, & this episode is no exception. A film blogger and hobbyist photographer, Leslie is also a fellow podcaster, c

Watch With Jen - S7: E10 - Joan Crawford with William Boyle

CITY OF MARGINS, SHOOT THE MOONLIGHT OUT, & SAINT OF THE NARROWS STREET author William Boyle returns to the show to discuss Old Hollywood icon Joan Crawford's incredible

Watch With Jen - S7: E9 - Gregg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy with S.A. Cosby

Hot off the news that he's just sold one million copies of his books, my wonderfully talented friend, KING OF ASHES and ALL THE SINNERS BLEED novelist S.A. Cosby returns

Watch With Jen - S7: E8 - Unofficial Sequels with Dan Mecca & Conor O'Donnell

The charming and inventive B-Side pod boys return to the show to discuss a trio of films that seem like they could be unofficial sequels to other movies telling the same

Watch With Jen - S7: E7 - Juzo Itami & Nobuko Miyamoto with Jordan Harper

Straight from the pages of today's New York Times, Watch With Jen's first podcast guest, author Jordan Harper, returns ahead of the release of his fittingly titled new th

Watch With Jen - S7: E6 - "When You Wish Upon a Star." Disney Magic with Laurel Hightower

Current and aspiring writers of all backgrounds will love this episode, devoted to storytelling, humanism, empathy, and creativity. Horror author Laurel Hightower makes h

Watch With Jen - S7: E5 - Coming-of-Age Movies with Candice Frederick

Recently on the pod, I reunited with the gifted arts journalist Candice Frederick, one of my oldest friends from the early days of Film Twitter. Candice was one of the fi