More musical chairs at WarnerMount

Kim Masters and Matt Belloni share the latest WarnerMount updates, including former Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz joining David Ellison to run the new studio, Cindy Holland’s departure as Casey Bloys prepares to lead its streaming division, and the latest questions surrounding the fate of CNN.

Malcolm McDowell on how he landed A Clockwork Orange

This week, Kim Masters speaks with actor Malcolm McDowell about his six-decade career and the long journey to finally making his latest film, the western Last Train to Fortune. McDowell reflects on his friendship with mentor and director Lindsay Anderson, shares stories from the set of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, and looks back at the chaotic production of Caligula, including how Penthouse founder Bob Guccione took control of the film and added unsimulated material in post-production.

Barry Jenkins: The Legacy Of Moonlight

Ten years ago, Moonlight premiered in theaters with an entirely Black cast and a haunting queer story that captivated audiences. It quickly earned critical acclaim and won three Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Director Barry Jenkins joins Sam to celebrate the film’s enduring legacy. He also breaks down how the project reflects his own relationship with his mother, and shares a very touching story involving a bootleg Moonlight DVD. Plus, he reveals his surprising pop culture scriptures…Turns out, even Barry Jenkins can appreciate reality TV!

WEEKEND FILM REVIEWS: Digger, Verity, Atonement

It took world-class makeup and prosthetics to turn Tom Cruise into Digger Rockwell, the titular star of Alejandro Inñaritu’s climate apocalypse satire Digger — even though Rockwell happens to be roughly as old as Cruise is in real life. The actor’s dramatic physical transformation is one of many heightened choices in the film, which, according to critic Christy Lemire, makes its arguments too loudly for them to land. “It is frantic, it is shrieky, it is incessantly pitched at the same level for nearly all of its two-hour running time,” Lemire says.

“The approach is let’s turn everything to 11 — in fact, let’s turn everything to 12 or 13,” says critic Tim Grierson. “It’s a movie that’s really hard to sit through.”

Lemire and Grierson also review Verity, The Last First: Winter K2, and Atonement.

Kerry Washington Has a Podcast?!

Flashback to 2012. Monoculture is omnipresent. ‘Scandal’ is on every Thursday night. Twitter is ablaze with reactions to the iconic Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington. Sam Sanders never misses an episode.

Flash forward to today, and Kerry now has a lot in common with Sam. She just launched a new podcast called Street You Grew Up On. The show revolves around one simple question — Can you tell me about the street you grew up on? Kerry explores the people, places, family stories, and defining moments that made them who they are.

She tells Sam all about launching the show and how interviewing relates to acting.

Plus, they get into all their memories of the Scandal era, today’s political climate and her favorite pop culture scriptures.