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PODCAST

Pod Casty For Me

Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine

Pod Casty For Me: a left politics and culture podcast about the films of Steven Soderbergh (formerly Clint Eastwood and Paul Schrader), one movie per episode. Hosted by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine. New episodes every other Friday.

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09:10

PATREON PREVIEW: The Hit (1984)

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2025/10/17

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 celebrate the late Terence Stamp by taking a look at Stephen Frears's 1984 proto-LIMEY existential gangster film, THE HIT. Plus: a little bit of Pasolini's TEOREMA talk for good measure. Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork. Follow Pod Casty For Me: https://www.podcastyforme.com/

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01:48:44

Soderbergh Ep. 17: Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

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2025/10/10

We're going back to Vegas for one more job...it's the thrilling conclusion to the trilogy, OCEAN'S THIRTEEN! Well, maybe "thrilling" is arguable. But the episode sure is! We're talking Oprah, Steve Wynn, Mexican labor action, Five Diamond status - it's all here, folks. Further Reading: "Steve Wynn's Biggest Gamble" by Nina Munk Meet The AAA Diamond Rating Experts Further Viewing: DOWN BY LAW (Jarmusch, 1986) SEA OF LOVE (Becker, 1989) HARD EIGHT (Anderson, 1996) SHREK THE THIRD (Miller, 2007) THE

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10:07

PATREON PREVIEW: Clint Character Tier List with Aaron...

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2025/10/03

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. Friend of the show Aaron from Hit Factory joins us to assemble the definitive Tier List of characters played by Clint Eastwood. Along the way, we answer important questions like: What is a Tier List for? What makes a good character? Has Ian developed any insane theoretical frameworks lately? What happens in Joe Kidd, again? Plus, a Pine Cone Crime

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01:53:59

Soderbergh Ep. 16: The Good German (2006) with Peter...

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2025/09/26

After 2005's digital day-and-date experiment BUBBLE, Soderbergh swung hard in the other direction with a Golden Age Hollywood pastiche: his (loose) adaptation of Joseph Kanon's postwar Berlin mystery THE GOOD GERMAN. Joining us is film writer and literal historian Peter Raleigh! We talk adaptation, aesthetic imitation, Denazification, CASABLANCA, and much more. Check it out! Further Reading: The Good German by Joseph Kanon Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt Commemorating Hell: The

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08:12

PATREON PREVIEW: Legally Blonde (2001) with Veronica...

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2025/09/19

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. A year after ERIN BROCKOVICH, another unashamedly feminine legal professional challenged norms and won at the box office in LEGALLY BLONDE. Here to talk gender performance, turn-of-the-millennium feminism, and Reese Witherspoon's many crimes is writer Veronica Phillips! Really fun episode. Plus, Carmel gets its own Columbo in the Pine Cone Crime

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02:13:31

Soderbergh Ep. 15: Bubble (2005) with Evan from Left...

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2025/09/12

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

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08:29

PATREON PREVIEW: Robocop (1987) & Jake's Trip to...

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2025/09/05

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. 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,

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01:59:26

Soderbergh Ep. 14: Nightwatch (1997)/Criminal (2004)

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2025/08/29

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

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09:42

PATREON PREVIEW: Silence (2016) with Robert Rubsam

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2025/08/22

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. 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! Follow Rob Rubsam: https://www.robertrubsam.com/ Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy

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02:12:26

Soderbergh Ep. 13: Ocean's Twelve (2004) with Rory...

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2025/08/15

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

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09:53

PATREON PREVIEW: Pleasantville (1998)

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2025/08/08

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. 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

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02:37:23

Soderbergh Ep. 13: Solaris (2002) with Aaron Thorpe

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2025/08/01

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,

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10:15

PATREON PREVIEW: Songs About Clint with Jetski

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2025/07/25

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. 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

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02:34:52

Soderbergh Ep. 12: Full Frontal (2002) with Chadd...

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2025/07/18

Yeah, like we weren't going to go over two and a half hours on FULL FRONTAL. Following the generational run of OUT OF SIGHT, THE LIMEY, ERIN BROCKOVICH, TRAFFIC, and OCEAN'S ELEVEN, Steven Soderbergh did what anyone would do: he shot a semi-improvised ensemble Hollywood satire on a consumer grade digital camera. The result, FULL FRONTAL, is a fascinating film about connection, mediation, performance, and the film industry, so who better to talk about it with than our Hollywood bigwig buddy,

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07:44

PATREON PREVIEW: Unforgiven (2013) with Comrade Yui

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2025/07/11

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. 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: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb3MlmPw9MfDK4chNVQ4gdA

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03:01:24

Soderbergh Ep. 11: Ocean's Eleven (2001) with Patrick...

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2025/07/04

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

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08:45

PATREON PREVIEW: Baby's First Unforgiven with...

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2025/06/27

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. 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: https://x.com/josh_axa Thanks as always to Jetski for our theme music and to Jeremy Allison for our artwork

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01:54:19

Soderbergh Ep. 10: Traffic (2000) with Benjamin Y. Fong

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2025/06/20

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

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09:59

PATREON PREVIEW: Walking Tall (1973)

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2025/06/13

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. 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

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02:43:13

Soderbergh Ep. 9: Erin Brockovich (2000) with Carlee...

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2025/06/06

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

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