Movie Breakdown

Never Seen It Podcast — Episode 70 Rosemead (2025)

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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Never Seen It Podcast — Episode 69 The Black Phone (2021)

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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Never Seen It Podcast – Episode 55 The Big Lebowski (1998)

In this laid-back but surprisingly deep episode of the Never Seen It podcast, we roll into the world of The Big Lebowski — the 1998 cult hit from Joel and Ethan Coen. From ferrets in bathtubs to White Russians, toe conspiracies, and one hell of a rug, we explore what makes this stoner-detective-comedy so unforgettable….

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Never Seen It Podcast – Episode 52 Inland Empire (2006)

This week on The Never Seen It Podcast, we enter the shadowy, hypnotic labyrinth that is David Lynch’s Inland Empire — and honestly, we’re still trying to find our way out. In true Lynch fashion, this one’s a full-on fever dream: fragmented timelines, identity blurring, eerie rabbits, haunted Hollywood lots, and more emotional dread than…

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