In this episode, we take on Good Boy (2025)—a haunting, emotionally strange horror film told largely through the eyes of a dog. The movie follows Indy, a loyal pup who moves with his owner Todd to a rural family home that may—or may not—be cursed. What begins as an eerie atmosphere slowly unfolds into something…
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In this episode of The Never Seen It Podcast, we take a deep, thoughtful, and often hilarious look at Train Dreams (2025), the Clint Bentley–directed period drama starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, and a scene-stealing William H. Macy . Chosen by special returning guest Chris (MilkmanAmerica), Train Dreams is described as “a thinking movie and…
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In this episode of Never Seen It, we unpack Bugonia (2025), the latest mind-bending film from director Yorgos Lanthimos, and one of his most deceptively accessible movies to date. We went in blind—and quickly found ourselves spiraling into questions about conspiracy culture, corporate power, alienation (literal and metaphorical), and how trauma reshapes reality. We break…
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In our latest episode of Never Seen It, we finally take on Zack Snyder’s 2011 cult favorite (and critical punching bag), Sucker Punch. What starts as a discussion about flashy visuals and over-the-top action quickly evolves into a deeper conversation about interpretation, symbolism, and whether the film has been unfairly dismissed over the years. We…
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In this episode, we finally tackle Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, a film that has only grown more divisive with time. We approach it not just as a Tarantino film, but as a meditation on Hollywood nostalgia, aging masculinity, and the mythmaking power of cinema itself. We start by talking about the…
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In this episode, we sit down to discuss Left-Handed Girl, the 2025 film directed by Shih-Ching Tsou, making her long-awaited solo directorial debut after years of collaboration with Sean Baker (Take Out, Tangerine, Anora). The film follows a mother and her two daughters as they relocate to Taipei to open a noodle stand in a…
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In this episode of Never Seen It, we finally sit down with Joe Dante’s Gremlins (1984), a movie that somehow balances Christmas cheer, creature-feature horror, slapstick comedy, and sharp social commentary all at once. We talk about watching Gremlins through fresh eyes, especially for those of us who only remembered scattered images from childhood like…
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In this end-of-year wrap-up episode of the Never Seen It Podcast, we take a step back from our usual deep dives and instead run through a rapid-fire list of movies that stood out to us this year, an intentionally uncomfortable storyfilms we watched, argued about, and couldn’t stop thinking about, even if they never got…
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In this episode, we dive deep into the film’s powerful and unsettling portrayal of schizophrenia, paying special attention to how the sound design creates an authentic sense of what it feels like to hear literal voices in your head. We talk about how the film uses audio to make the audience experience the same eerie…
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In this episode, we take a deep dive into The Black Phone and unpack the film’s blend of real-world horror and supernatural mystery. We explore how Derrickson uses 1970s true-crime anxieties, child abductions, and local paranoia to ground the story’s paranormal elements, while also asking whether the film fully commits to either side of its…
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