Hit Factory Podcast
@hitfactorypod.bsky.social
America's first and only movie podcast. Hosted by Aaron (@notoriouslightning.bsky.social) and Carlee (@deepimpactcrier.bsky.social).
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December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
HIT FACTORY PRESENTS...
NEW HIT FACTORY // DENZEMBER 2 kicks off with Spike Lee & Denzel Washington's first collaboration, MO' BETTER BLUES, a film about jazz, the appropriation of Black music, and the pursuit of greatness at the expense of human connection. Minnie Zondi is our guest. Links below.
December 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY // DENZEMBER 2 kicks off with Spike Lee & Denzel Washington's first collaboration, MO' BETTER BLUES, a film about jazz, the appropriation of Black music, and the pursuit of greatness at the expense of human connection. Minnie Zondi is our guest. Links below.
HIT FACTORY PRESENTS...
December 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
HIT FACTORY PRESENTS...
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BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.
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The concept of making a movie about white supremacy and the military violence that enforces it with your Zionist pal Jonny Greenwood. (FTR I had a blast watching this movie I just think PTA is ideologically hollow and willfully focused on politics as vibes and vibes only.)
BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.
December 4, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The concept of making a movie about white supremacy and the military violence that enforces it with your Zionist pal Jonny Greenwood. (FTR I had a blast watching this movie I just think PTA is ideologically hollow and willfully focused on politics as vibes and vibes only.)
BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
BONUS HIT FACTORY // Better late than never, we discuss Paul Thomas Anderson's latest hit ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, its bracing formalism, its political limitations, and its status as an object of impassioned discourse. Link below.
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Go to this for me
SF BAY AREA - Come see Todd Haynes' disquieting, shapeshifting masterpiece SAFE in a new 30th anniversary 4K restoration on Saturday, December 13th at The Roxie, introduced by Hit Factory Pod! Tickets and info below.
December 3, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Go to this for me
SF BAY AREA - Come see Todd Haynes' disquieting, shapeshifting masterpiece SAFE in a new 30th anniversary 4K restoration on Saturday, December 13th at The Roxie, introduced by Hit Factory Pod! Tickets and info below.
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
SF BAY AREA - Come see Todd Haynes' disquieting, shapeshifting masterpiece SAFE in a new 30th anniversary 4K restoration on Saturday, December 13th at The Roxie, introduced by Hit Factory Pod! Tickets and info below.
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Since everyone is talking about SHATTERED GLASS I did a great episode of the pod about it on @junkfilterpod.bsky.social
with fellow Glass heads Aaron & Carlee from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social.
Preview of the Patreon episode
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with fellow Glass heads Aaron & Carlee from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social.
Preview of the Patreon episode
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TEASER - 73: Shattered Glass (with Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory)
Podcast Episode · Junk Filter · 2022-02-21 · 4m
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November 27, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Since everyone is talking about SHATTERED GLASS I did a great episode of the pod about it on @junkfilterpod.bsky.social
with fellow Glass heads Aaron & Carlee from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social.
Preview of the Patreon episode
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/j...
with fellow Glass heads Aaron & Carlee from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social.
Preview of the Patreon episode
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/j...
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Released on this day in 1993: CARLITO’S WAY.
I joined @hitfactorypod.bsky.social to discuss it as one of De Palma’s three inarguable masterpieces.
Along the way we talk about SCARFACE as a septum-gored DAS KAPITAL, “natural artifice,” and De Palma as our most underrated melodramatist.
I joined @hitfactorypod.bsky.social to discuss it as one of De Palma’s three inarguable masterpieces.
Along the way we talk about SCARFACE as a septum-gored DAS KAPITAL, “natural artifice,” and De Palma as our most underrated melodramatist.
NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // @aheartofgould.bsky.social joins to discuss Brian De Palma's masterful crime saga CARLITO'S WAY which sees the filmmaker at his most formally audacious, contemplative, and breathtakingly intimate. Link below.
November 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Released on this day in 1993: CARLITO’S WAY.
I joined @hitfactorypod.bsky.social to discuss it as one of De Palma’s three inarguable masterpieces.
Along the way we talk about SCARFACE as a septum-gored DAS KAPITAL, “natural artifice,” and De Palma as our most underrated melodramatist.
I joined @hitfactorypod.bsky.social to discuss it as one of De Palma’s three inarguable masterpieces.
Along the way we talk about SCARFACE as a septum-gored DAS KAPITAL, “natural artifice,” and De Palma as our most underrated melodramatist.
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"Failed State’s dedication to naturalism creates a relationship between Dale and the empty city that borders on apocalyptic." Incredible review out of last night's @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
"Failed State’s dedication to naturalism creates a relationship between Dale and the empty city that borders on apocalyptic." Incredible review out of last night's @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
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VIRTUAL SCREENING TONIGHT! The government doesn't want you to know that a $5 patreon subscription to @hitfactorypod.bsky.social gets you access to our entire back catalog of episodes and a rsvp to this event at no additional charge.
HIT FACTORY PRESENTS - Join us Thursday, November 6, 2025 for a virtual screening of Christopher Jason Bell & Mitch Blummer's FAILED STATE (2023) feat. a live Q&A w/ dir. Christopher Jason Bell. Hit Factory Patrons get access at no additional cost w/ RSVP. Buy your tickets below!
November 6, 2025 at 10:30 PM
VIRTUAL SCREENING TONIGHT! The government doesn't want you to know that a $5 patreon subscription to @hitfactorypod.bsky.social gets you access to our entire back catalog of episodes and a rsvp to this event at no additional charge.
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Tonight!! Come watch this digital screening of FAILED STATE! Hosted by @hitfactorypod.bsky.social and I'll be doing a Q&A after.
9pm EST! !
9pm EST! !
New York!! This Saturday Oct 25 at 7pm... come down to Rockaway and see Failed State!
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Tonight!! Come watch this digital screening of FAILED STATE! Hosted by @hitfactorypod.bsky.social and I'll be doing a Q&A after.
9pm EST! !
9pm EST! !
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Happy November!
This week we do things a little differently as we have a special Clint Eastwood-themed episode with a look at TWO movies, 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024's JUROR #2.
Joining us this time is Aaron from the great podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
This week we do things a little differently as we have a special Clint Eastwood-themed episode with a look at TWO movies, 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024's JUROR #2.
Joining us this time is Aaron from the great podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
1999: The Podcast #084 - True Crime (1999) and Juror #2 (2024)
Hit Factory co-host Aaron joins John and Julia to discuss "True Crime", "Juror #2", and Clint Eastwood's complex politics.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy November!
This week we do things a little differently as we have a special Clint Eastwood-themed episode with a look at TWO movies, 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024's JUROR #2.
Joining us this time is Aaron from the great podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
This week we do things a little differently as we have a special Clint Eastwood-themed episode with a look at TWO movies, 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024's JUROR #2.
Joining us this time is Aaron from the great podcast @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
Here or wherever you get podcasts!
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A good one tomorrow as we look at not one but TWO movies: 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024' JUROR #2 in a special Clint Eastwood episode with Aaron from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!
Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!
November 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A good one tomorrow as we look at not one but TWO movies: 1999's TRUE CRIME and 2024' JUROR #2 in a special Clint Eastwood episode with Aaron from @hitfactorypod.bsky.social
Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!
Subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts!
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TONIGHT! Join us at the beautiful 4-Star Theater. An SF institution!
SF BAY AREA - Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4-Star Theater TOMORROW 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.
November 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
TONIGHT! Join us at the beautiful 4-Star Theater. An SF institution!
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HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.
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Josh Hartnett’s hair in this movie
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Josh Hartnett’s hair in this movie
SF BAY AREA - Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4-Star Theater TOMORROW 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.
October 31, 2025 at 7:29 PM
SF BAY AREA - Hit Factory is hosting a screening of Heather Landsman's haunting archival film THE BEST OF ME at the fabulous 4-Star Theater TOMORROW 11/1 at 8:00pm PT. Tickets and info below.
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Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
Peter Watkins obituary: radical British filmmaker behind The War Game and Punishment Park
The maverick filmmaker and pioneer of the docudrama, whose anti-establishment works redefined political cinema and challenged the very language of mass media, has died aged 90.
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October 31, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Peter Watkins has died, one of the greatest and least known and most uncompromising filmmakers, a life well lived fighting power. www.bfi.org.uk/features/pet...
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The goats of the movie podcast world, I said what I said!
HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The goats of the movie podcast world, I said what I said!
HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
HIT FACTORY HALLOWEEN // Trevor Strunk (@nocartridge.bsky.social) joins to talk Robert Rodriguez's teen Body Snatchers riff THE FACULTY, a deceptively sharp parody with plenty on its mind about social hierarchies, 90s monoculture, & neoliberalism's hold on our sociopolitical horizons. Links below.
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rest in peace kitkat💔
October 28, 2025 at 5:00 PM
rest in peace kitkat💔
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struggled with Kore-eda a little bit...a filmmaker i found stuck in a dispassionate and unfulfilling middle ground between slow cinema's formal discipline and a mawkish dramaturgy.
NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.
October 24, 2025 at 6:02 PM
struggled with Kore-eda a little bit...a filmmaker i found stuck in a dispassionate and unfulfilling middle ground between slow cinema's formal discipline and a mawkish dramaturgy.
NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.
October 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
NEW HIT FACTORY // The fine gentlemen of @podcastyforme.bsky.social join to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's delicate, understated AFTER LIFE - a meditation on death and the hereafter as well as a treatise on artmaking itself; how cinema reflects and retains memory. Links below.