Season 27

Griffin and David discuss Zemeckis' adaptation of the graphic novel Here.

The King of the Uncanny Valley - our boy Bob Zemeckis - is back with his spin on perhaps the most iconic un-real boy in cinema...it's Pinocchio, baby.

Over four months and 19 movies, we have finally reached the end of our mini series on the films of Robert Zemeckis. Richard Lawson (Vanity Fair) joins to discuss 2020's The Witches and #thetwofriends offer up their filmography rankings.

Emily Yoshida is back to welcome you to Marwen.

Now in the final stretch of the Zemeckis mini series, Chris Weitz returns to discuss 2016's WWII spy thriller, Allied.

In 1974 Philippe Petit performed his infamous walk between the Twin Towers. Director Robert Zemeckis many years later after discovering the story in a children's novel would create a 3D film based on this event.

After twelve years since releasing a live action film, Zemeckis comes back to the living with 2012's addiction drama, Flight.

What's today? Why its Christmas Carol day.

This is Beowulf. Yes in 2007 Bobby Z took the Old English epic poem and, once again using cutting edge mo-cap technology, delivered a 3-D movie that this week's guest Jordan Hoffman, aptly describes as resembling a PlayStation 3 cut scene.

In the final days of 2020, Blank Check enters Zemeckis' motion capture technology period with The Polar Express.

Zemeckis and Hanks reunited once again. Another box office and critical success. Filmed over two years, Cast Away captures both talents performing at the top of their respective games.

The central thesis to this week's episode on What Lies Beneath: folks, they just don't make them like they used to.

Actor Jamie Bell joins this week to discuss 1997's Contact.

Jamelle Bouie returns to Blank Check to discuss Forrest Gump.

Now armed with an arsenal of wild special effects, Zemeckis takes it up a notch with 1992's Death Becomes Her - the first to include computer-generated skin on film.

In Back to the Future, Marty ends up in 1955, the same age as his parents. In the sequel he has to jump between that timeline and a bizarre 2015. The natural conclusion to this blockbuster trilogy? A wild western.

Man wouldn't it be weird to have a future controlled by a rich blond bully who hates women, steals things and is awful to everyone?

A noir for kids. Disney and Warner Bros characters together for the first and last time. Live action drama with kooky Tex Avery-style animation. There's really no movie quite like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

It was the #1 film of 1985. It's a theme park ride. An animated series. It spawned video games. Comic books. Musicals. It's in the goddamn Library of Congress.

How did Robert Zemeckis go from commercial flops to a career-defining time-travelling trilogy of blank checks? It's all thanks to his "guarantor" from 1984 - Romancing The Stone, starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner.

How Did This Get Made's Paul Scheer (Black Monday, The League) returns with Jason Mantzoukas (Big Mouth, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) for a rare-Rated R Zemeckis - Used Cars (1980).

Your March Madness winner series has arrived. Chosen by the listeners, our latest subject is Robert Zemeckis, a Hollywood hitmaker who gives us plenty to cover.