Soderbergh Ep. 9: Erin Brockovich (2000) with Carlee from Hit Factory
Release Date: 06/06/2025
PATREON PREVIEW: Unforgiven (2013) with Comrade Yui
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This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to to hear more for just $5 a month. Our dear friend Comrade Yui joins us to discuss Lee Sang-il's 2013 remake of UNFORGIVEN, which stars Ken Watanabe and transposes the action to Meiji Japan. We talk Japanese history, Westerns vs. jidaigeki, Pokémon metaphysics, and pantsing. Great ep, please enjoy. Follow Comrade Yui: Yui's review of UNFORGIVEN (2013): Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
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Soderbergh Ep. 11: Ocean's Eleven (2001) with Patrick Willems
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Ante up, listener! It's the OCEAN'S ELEVEN episode. After the unbelievable one-two punch of BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC, Steven Soderbergh took a victory lap by remaking a dull Rat Pack movie into one of the most entertaining films ever made - and it made a bunch of money and everyone loves it. Including our guest, filmmaker and YouTuber Patrick Willems! We talk heists, movie stars, Vegas, pleasure - this is a real fun one, folks. Enjoy. Further Reading: Rebels on the Backlot by Sharon Waxman The BFI Companion to Crime, ed. Phil Hardy Further Viewing: GIDGET (Wendkos, 1959) OCEAN'S 11...
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PATREON PREVIEW: Baby's First Unforgiven with "Zoomer" Josh Aalcides
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This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to to hear more for just $5 a month. Jake's 23-year-old coworker Zoomer Josh is back, and this time we made him watch UNFORGIVEN. We talk Westerns, Hackman, the anti-ICE demonstrations in LA, and Josh's journey as a young cinephile. Plus: a dumb game! Follow Zoomer Josh: Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Follow Pod Casty For Me: Support us on Patreon: Artwork by Jeremy Allison:
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Soderbergh Ep. 10: Traffic (2000) with Benjamin Y. Fong
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The second half of Soderbergh's unbelievable year 2000 was TRAFFIC, his sprawling adaptation of the 1989 Channel 4 miniseries about the many sides of the drug trade. At the time, it was hailed as a highly nuanced and humane look at narcotics. But how does it look from 2025? Joining us to discuss is professor and author of our much-cited Quick Fixes: Drugs in America from Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge, Benjamin Y. Fong! We talk macroeconomics, "Mexico filter," drug movies, Benicio Del Toro's accent, and a whole lot more. Really fascinating episode, we hope you enjoy! Further Reading: ...
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PATREON PREVIEW: Walking Tall (1973)
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This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to to hear more for just $5 a month. In the aftermath of DIRTY HARRY, there were plenty of films looking to get in on the semi-legal vigilante craze. One of the most successful of these was Phil Karlson's WALKING TALL, starring the great, recently departed Joe Don Baker as real-life Tennessee lawman Buford Pusser, who was all too willing to tell the world how he beat the corruption out of McNairy County with a fencepost. Except that he was kind of full of hot air, and the whole thing is - at least for...
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Soderbergh Ep. 9: Erin Brockovich (2000) with Carlee from Hit Factory
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Soderbergh finally hit a box-office home run in 2000 with ERIN BROCKOVICH, a Julia Roberts-starring biopic about a paralegal with a big personality and a nose for corporate environmental malfeasance, and the one-two punch of BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC in a single year cemented him as a truly major filmmaker. This is one of the big ones, so we brought in our friend Carlee from Hit Factory to talk about basically everything: capitalism, the climate, gender, fashion, interpassivity, Todd Haynes, and Sheryl Crow. Great ep! Don't use ChatGPT even as a joke! Further Reading: Superman's Not Coming by...
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PATREON PREVIEW: Duck, You Sucker! (1971)
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This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to Patreon.com/PodCastyForMe to hear more for just $5 a month. We return to our very slow trip through the films of Sergio Leone with 1971's DUCK, YOU SUCKER!, also known as A FISTFUL OF DYNAMITE, also known as GIÙ LA TESTA, a story of the Mexican Revolution starring Rod Steiger and James Coburn. It's a real humdinger of an episode, as Jake's allergies flare up while he tells a long story about some unpleasant men at the barbershop, Ian explains the Mexican Revolution, and we both read passages from...
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Soderbergh Ep. 8: The Limey (1999) with Elena Lazic
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In 1999, Steven Soderbergh pushed his formal experimentation even further, rendering a straightforward revenge tale into a modernist masterpiece. In the process, the Terence Stamp/Peter Fonda joint THE LIMEY examines memory, the legacy of the 60s, and inaugurates Sodie's obsession with Cockney rhyming slang. Film writer and podcaster and UK resident Elena Lazic joins us to get limey! Good ep! Further Reading: Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties by Mike Davis & Jon Wiener Further Viewing: POINT BLANK (Boorman, 1967) POOR COW (Loach, 1967) EASY RIDER (Hopper, 1969) GET CARTER...
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PATREON PREVIEW: Jackie Brown (1997) with Jane Altoids
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This is a preview of a premium episode from our Patreon feed, Paid Costly For Me! Head over to to hear more for just $5 a month. GET SHORTY and OUT OF SIGHT weren't the only high-profile Elmore Leonard adaptations of the 1990s. Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited follow up to PULP FICTION was a race- and setting-swapped adaptation of Rum Punch retitled JACKIE BROWN, starring exploitation icons Pam Grier and Robert Forster. Podcasting's preeminent Elmore Leonard discusser Jane Altoids returns to the show to talk race, class, and Ray Nicolet in what might be Tarantino's best film! Follow Jane...
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Soderbergh Ep. 7: Out of Sight (1998) with Bilge Ebiri
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It's the OUT OF SIGHT episode, and our guest is Bilge Ebiri. Do we need to sell you on this? OK, fine: in 1998 Steven Soderbergh took a job for hire directing an Elmore Leonard adaptation and ended up finding the style that would define much of his career, minting George Clooney as a movie star, capturing Jennifer Lopez's best-ever performance, working with Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman and a bunch of other people for the first time, and making one of the most watchable films of the 1990s. Jake also read the whole book. We talk about Leonard's moral universe, prison stuff, cop stuff, crime...
info_outlineSoderbergh finally hit a box-office home run in 2000 with ERIN BROCKOVICH, a Julia Roberts-starring biopic about a paralegal with a big personality and a nose for corporate environmental malfeasance, and the one-two punch of BROCKOVICH and TRAFFIC in a single year cemented him as a truly major filmmaker. This is one of the big ones, so we brought in our friend Carlee from Hit Factory to talk about basically everything: capitalism, the climate, gender, fashion, interpassivity, Todd Haynes, and Sheryl Crow. Great ep! Don't use ChatGPT even as a joke!
Further Reading:
Superman's Not Coming by Erin Brockovich
"Digging For The Truth" by Robert B. Welkos
Further Viewing:
A CIVIL ACTION (Zaillian, 1998)
LEGALLY BLONDE (Luketic, 2001)
FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017)
DARK WATERS (Haynes, 2019)
EVIL DOES NOT EXIST (Hamaguchi, 2023)
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