Another Pod Casty For Me Experience: we're talking Steven Soderbergh's 2005 experiment BUBBLE - day-and-date release experiment, digital cinematography experiment, first-time actor experiment, improvised script experiment - with our buddy Evan from Left of the Projector! And this one's set at a factory, so you know we go crazy on it. We get into film distribution economics, working people on film, first-time actors, naturalism, digital cinema, eastern Ohio accents, and much more. Really tremendous film and tremendous conversation. It's also Jake's dang birthday, so you better enjoy this episode!!!

Further Reading:

"Eight Hours Are Not A Day" by Matthew Ross

"An Interview with Steven Soderbergh" by Scott Indrisek

Further Viewing:

Interview with Debbie Doebereiner

HARLAN COUNTY USA (Kopple, 1976)

STROSZEK (Herzog, 1977)

BLUE COLLAR (Schrader, 1978)

SLACKER (Linklater, 1990)

CLERKS (Smith, 1994)

CITY OF GOD (Meirelles and Lund, 2002)

ELEPHANT (Van Sant, 2003)

FISH TANK (Arnold, 2009)

WESTERN (Grisebach, 2017)

THE 15:17 TO PARIS (Eastwood, 2018)

BAD TRIP (Sakurai, 2021)

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This week we're looking at another one of Dirty Harry's spiritual children, Paul Verhoeven's 1987 ROBOCOP. Violence, corporate greed, police stuff - much to talk about here. But we're also talking about it because Verhoeven is a Dutch guy and Jake just got back from a trip to Amsterdam, which we gotta talk about too! OCEAN'S TWELVE locations, European public infrastructure, visiting the Anne Frank House during Israel's genocide of Palestinians - big ep.

Plus: a message from Hotel Detective Maxwell Pierson.

Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

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A little something different this week: we're looking at two Soderbergh-scripted adaptations of international genre films! First, Soderbergh adapted Ole Bornedal's 1994 NATTEVAGTEN as 1997's NIGHTWATCH, also directed by Bornedal, starring post-TRAINSPOTTING, pre-PHANTOM MENACE Ewan McGregor as a night watchman at a spooky morgue. Next, Soderbergh turned Fabián Bielinsky's 2000 Argentine heist smash NUEVA REINAS (NINE QUEENS) into 2004's CRIMINAL, the directorial debut of Gregory Jacobs starring John C. Reilly and Diego Luna. Why did Sodey do this? Is there anything of the man in these adaptations? Do you need to watch four films before you listen to this episode? The answer to the last question is no! Fun ep, please enjoy.

Further Reading:

Steven Soderbergh: Interviews, ed. Anthony Kaufman

Further Viewing:

LOCAL HERO (Forsyth, 1983)

THE KINGDOM (Von Trier et al, 1994)

HARD EIGHT (Anderson, 1996)

PUSHER (Refn, 1996)

FUNNY GAMES (Haneke, 1997/2007)

FIGHT CLUB (Fincher, 1999)

LA CIENAGA (Martel, 2001)

BORGEN (Price et al, 2010)

ZAMA (Martel, 2017)

LA FLOR (Llinás, 2018)

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Writer and PCFM official Catholicism Correspondent Rob Rubsam is back for another Martin Scorsese examination of faith: 2016's SILENCE. We talk Jesuits, Japan, nuance, and our own religious baggage. Great, thoughtful ep - hope you enjoy!

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OCEAN'S ELEVEN was a monster hit, and so naturally Steven Soderbergh made a sequel. An extremely normal sequel that didn't confuse or piss off almost everyone who saw it. We're getting silly today talking about OCEAN'S TWELVE - a very silly movie - with writer and film critic Rory Doherty! We're both sick right now so that's all the episode description you get, sorry! Good movie, good ep - check it out.

Further Reading:

"Why OCEAN'S 12 Is Actually A Good Movie" by Matt Goldberg

Further Viewing:

TO CATCH A THIEF (Hitchcock, 1955)

THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU (Nolfi, 2011)

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In 1998, Steven Soderbergh produced Gary Ross's PLEASANTVILLE, a visually inventive satire of nostalgia and small-town repression - and in 2025, we did a dang Patreon episode on it. We talk passion, desire, old TV, and the ongoing push for safe limits on production working hours following the death of camera operator Brent Hershman.

Watch Haskell Wexler's Who Needs Sleep?

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Steven Soderbergh's second release of 2002, after FULL FRONTAL, was another very odd move: a remake of Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS (well, more of a new adaptation of the Stanislaw Lem novel). Underappreciated at the time, Soderbergh's SOLARIS has grown in reputation as one of the great science fiction films of the 2000s - so we brought on a bonafide science fiction expert, Aaron Thorpe, to talk about it! Join us for a thoughtful and wide-ranging conversation about the purpose of science fiction, comprehending the vastness of space, grief, blackness in sci-fi, and OSMOSIS JONES. Don't worry, it's plenty stupid, too.

Further Reading:

Solaris by Stanislaw Lem

Sculpting in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky

Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects by Graham Harman

Myths of the Near Future by J.G. Ballard

Further Viewing:

SOLARIS (Tarkovsky, 1972)

CONTACT (Zemeckis, 1997)

EVENT HORIZON (Anderson, 1997)

OSMOSIS JONES (Farrelly, 2001)

STAR TREK: NEMESIS (Baird, 2002)

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This week we're taking a look at a bunch of songs about, featuring, or otherwise related to Clint Eastwood...which is a great reason to bring on Jetski, aka Ian Ostaszewski, the composer of the Paid Costly For Me theme music! We chat Gorillaz, Metallica, the Beastie Boys, My Chemical Romance, and more - plus Ian's podcast-related birthday present!

Let us know if you want more of this, because there are a lot of songs about Clint.

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