On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look Superman, the new superhero film from director James Gunn set to relaunch the DC Comics-based film franchise.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look at the new John Wick franchise spinoff Ballerina.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look at the just concluded 2025 Academy Awards ceremony and offer up some commentary on writer/director Sean Baker’s historic winning streak and among the other winners.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki offer up to commentary on the just announced 2025 Academy Award nominees and their first thoughts on who might take home the coveted Oscar trophies.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take time to remember the career of the great Dame Maggie Smith before taking a trip to inspect Francis Ford Coppola’s life-long passion project, Meagalopolis.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look at the legacy of director Kerry Conran’s groundbreaking Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow and how the film paved the way for how much of modern visual effects are created today.
The Variety article mentioned on the episode can be found here.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki are back from vacation and talk about watching movies while traveling in the movie rich cities of Los Angeles and Paris.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki are back from hiatus and take a deep dive into the third season of Netflix’s hit series Bridgerton.
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While the normal run of the podcast is on one of our regular hiatuses, we present this bonus episode where FilmBuffOnline Editor-In-Chief sits down with author Thom Shubilla to discuss his new book, James Bond And The Swinging Sixties Spy Craze in a chat that ranges from spy movies to the late sixties counterculture, the cult bad film Skidoo and how effective a spy one can be while still wearing a luchador mask.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki chat about how certain movies can feel like certain seasons and a little bit about Netflix’s Bridgerton before diving into their big review of the latest installment of the Ghostbusters franchise, Frozen Empire.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look at the big winners of this year’s Academy Awards, cheering for the winners and revealing what they thought were the biggest surprises of Hollywood’s biggest night.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a deep dive into the second part of director Denis Villeneuve’s adaptation of author Frank Herbert’s science-fiction classic Dune, Dune – Part Two.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look at the changing landscape of streaming services before diving into their review of Disney+’s Percy Jackson And The Olympians.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look at the historic 13 Academy Award nominations for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer as well as all the other films vying for Hollywood’s biggest prize.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, FilmBuffOnline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a deep dive into the 20th anniversary of Peter Jackson’s landmark trilogy finale The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King,
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, FilmBuffOnline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a look at the hit Netflix series The Crown, as it wraps up its six season run.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, FilmBuffOnline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki talk about Stephen King shutting down his “Dollar Baby” short story film rights program and Disney’s plans to release pandemic-era PIXAR films in to theaters early next year before taking a deep dive into Richard Curtis’s holiday classic Love, Actually on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, FilmBuffOnline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki take a deep dive into director Ridley Scott’s historic epic Napoleon.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, Filmbuffonline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki discuss how we as audiences relate to actors aging before diving into a deep look at the classic Scarface on its 40th anniversary.
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On this episode of The Big Picture Podcast, FilmBuffOnline editor-in-chief Rich Drees and Contributing Editor Natasha Bogutzki talk about the end of the Screen Actors Guild Strike, the proper protocol for seeing famous people out in the wild and some of the films they are looking forward to as Awards season kicks into high gear. Then, at the :30 mark, Rich sits down with Mystery Science Theater 3000 writer-producer Matt McGinnis to talk about all things movie riffing, the show’s current fundraising campaign for its upcoming 14th season, next weekend’s annual Turkey Day marathon and more!
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