The Film Talk

By Jett Loe and Gareth Higgins

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The 20-year human conversation about movies and what they mean. In 2006 TV director Jett Loe and peace activist Gareth Higgins both walked out of the same, terrible, movie at the Queen's Film Theatre in Belfast, Northern/North of Ireland. They encountered each other in the lobby, started talking, and so began a 20 year, and counting, conversation about movies, how they're made, and more importantly, what they mean. They enjoyed their conversations so much they began recording and distributing them, with the first incarnation of the show debuting that year. It's still going.

Episode Date
Digger: A Requiem for the World We Find Ourselves In
Oct 08, 2026
Should We Stop Anthropomorphizing AI? What 2001, Colossus and The Outer Limits Can Teach Us
Oct 03, 2026
Coyote vs. Acme: Absurdity, Empathy, and Why We Keep Going
Sep 18, 2026
Steven Spielberg Ranked: Our Number Ones, and What Greatness Means
Sep 11, 2026
Steven Spielberg Ranked: Late Epiphanies and the Road to No. 1
Aug 12, 2026
Blue Heron: Grief, Family, and the Miracle of Being Seen
Aug 05, 2026
The Odyssey: War, Homecoming, and Our Responsibility to Act
Jul 31, 2026
Steven Spielberg Ranked: Sam Neill, Near Misses, and the Top Tier
Jul 17, 2026
The Mandalorian and Grogu: Does Star Wars Still Have Moral Weight?
Jul 10, 2026
Steven Spielberg Ranked: War Horse, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, and the Movies That Divide Us
Jul 05, 2026
Disclosure Day: Spielberg, Wonder, and the Courage to Listen
Jun 21, 2026
Steven Spielberg Ranked: Raiders, Duel, and the Madness of Ranking Art
Jun 16, 2026
Steven Spielberg Ranked: The Absurdity of Applying Metrics to Art
Jun 14, 2026
Backrooms: AI Anxiety and the Death of the Analog World
Jun 07, 2026
Natchez: Southern Charm, American Myth, and the Need to See Clearly
May 25, 2026
Field of Dreams: Fathers, Sons, Regret, and the Possibility of Repair
Apr 22, 2026
Project Hail Mary: When Big-Hearted Sci-Fi Leaves Us Cold
Mar 30, 2026
Oscars 2026: The Movies, the Crafts, and the Stories We Choose
Mar 14, 2026
Song Sung Blue: The Crowd-Pleaser That Missed Its Crowd
Feb 04, 2026
Marty Supreme and Eephus: Exhilarating, Empty—or Both?
Jan 20, 2026
The Best Films of 2025: The Movies That Mattered
Jan 01, 2026
Avatar: Fire and Ash: Does Avatar Need the Big Screen to Work?
Dec 22, 2025
Rob Reiner, Train Dreams, and Sorry, Baby: Kindness, Grief, and How Movies Can Hold Pain
Dec 16, 2025
Frankenstein: Why Tell This Story Again?
Nov 11, 2025
Bugonia: The Genre You Shouldn't Know Before You See It
Nov 07, 2025
A House of Dynamite: Is Dread Enough?
Oct 31, 2025
Tron: Ares, Diane Keaton, and the Radical Act of Being Yourself
Oct 24, 2025
One Battle After Another: A Great Film That's Painful and Funny at Exactly the Same Time
Oct 01, 2025
Weapons: A Horror Film for Our Age / Remembering Terence Stamp
Aug 27, 2025
Superman: Kindness as Radical Power
Jul 16, 2025
28 Years Later: Horror, Compassion, and Caring About Strangers
Jul 08, 2025
The Phoenician Scheme: Wes Anderson, Harris Yulin, and Learning to Love the Artificial
Jun 20, 2025
Mountainhead and Friendship: Can Men Really Be Friends?
Jun 17, 2025
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning: Why This Impossible Movie Works
May 23, 2025
Jean de Florette and Manon des Sources: Crime, Hope, and Atonement
May 20, 2025
Sinners: What Ryan Coogler's Film Means for the Future of Movies
May 01, 2025
Black Bag: Trust, Marriage, and Politics in a Dangerous Moment
Apr 03, 2025
Gene Hackman, the Oscars, and the Responsibilities We Can't Duck
Mar 20, 2025
Oscars 2025, Part Two: Nickel Boys, Wicked, The Substance and More
Feb 28, 2025
Oscars 2025, Part One: Anora, The Brutalist, Conclave, Dune and More
Feb 16, 2025
The Brutalist: Beauty, Ambition, and the Cost of Building Something Real
Feb 02, 2025
David Lynch Remembered: The Dream Never Ends
Jan 24, 2025
The Best Films of 2024: The Movies That Mattered
Jan 01, 2025
A Complete Unknown: Bob Dylan, Identity, and the Mystery of Other People
Dec 31, 2024
Wicked: Transcendence, Ugliness, and the Tension of Opposites
Dec 01, 2024
What to Watch After an Election: Movies for Purpose, Connection, and Joy
Nov 21, 2024
Conclave: Power, Compassion, and the Possibility of Change / Remembering Teri Garr
Nov 09, 2024
Joker: Folie à Deux: Brokenness, Meaning, and the Movie Everyone Was Busy Scoring
Oct 16, 2024
Megalopolis One Point Five
Oct 08, 2024
Kris Kristofferson and John Amos - Still With Us
Oct 03, 2024
Megalopolis - Part 1
Sep 30, 2024
Reagan: Can a Bad Movie Become Great Art?
Sep 15, 2024
James Earl Jones - Still With Us
Sep 10, 2024
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: Can Tim Burton Still Surprise Us?
Sep 07, 2024
Trap: Hitchcock, Shyamalan, and the Fractured Male Psyche
Aug 22, 2024
Deadpool & Wolverine
Aug 09, 2024
The Bikeriders and Inside Out 2 Reviewed and an Appreciation of Donald Sutherland
Jul 04, 2024
Hit Man: Desire, Identity, and the Lies We Tell Ourselves
Jun 20, 2024
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
May 28, 2024
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
May 18, 2024
Roger Corman - Mourning a Giant
May 14, 2024
Challengers
May 03, 2024
Civil War
Apr 21, 2024
Perfect Days, Louis Gossett Jr. and M. Emmet Walsh
Apr 03, 2024
Dune: Part Two: Power, Trauma, and the Myth of Redemptive Violence
Mar 20, 2024
[Teaser] Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny - Bonus Episode
Mar 14, 2024
Every Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee of 2024 - Part 2
Mar 09, 2024
Every Academy Awards Best Picture Nominee of 2024 - Part 1
Mar 06, 2024