Blank Check with Griffin & David
Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. Produced by Ben Hosley.
Inland Empire with David Rees
Mulholland Drive with Leslye Headland
Here
The Straight Story with Dana Stevens
Lost Highway with David Lowery
Joker: Hallie À Goodrich
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me with Arkasha Stevenson
Wild at Heart with Tatiana Maslany
Twin Peaks (Season 1) with Eva Anderson
Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Dune with John Hodgman
The Elephant Man with Alex Ross Perry
Eraserhead
Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1
Trap
Open Range with Chris Ryan
The Postman with Emily St. James
Dances with Wolves
Gigli with Jen D'Angelo
Meet Joe Black with Richard Lawson
Scent of a Woman with David Krumholtz
Midnight Run with Alan Sepinwall
Beverly Hills Cop with Adil & Bilall
Going In Style with James Urbaniak
Furiosa with Kyle Buchanan
Paprika with Emily Yoshida
Tokyo Godfathers with Reece Feldman
Millennium Actress with Hoai-Tran Bui
Perfect Blue with Bowen Yang
Basic with BenDavid Grabinski
Rollerball with Zach Cherry
The 13th Warrior with David Lowery
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) with Amanda Dobbins
Die Hard with a Vengeance with Shea Serrano
Last Action Hero with Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas
Medicine Man with Jamie Lee
The Hunt For Red October with Jamelle Bouie
The Ninth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Die Hard with Kevin Smith
Predator with Jon Gabrus
Nomads
The Mirror Has Two Faces with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber
The Prince of Tides with Katey Rich
A Conversation with Amy Irving
Yentl with Jordan Hoffman
A Star Is Born (1976) with Rachel Zegler
Ferrari with Bilge Ebiri
Wonkquaman with Marie Bardi-Salinas
Maestro with Marie Bardi-Salinas
The Boy and the Heron with J.D. Amato
I Love You to Death
The Killer with Marie Bardi
Mank with Sean Fennessey
Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner
The Social Network
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson
Zodiac with Leslye Headland
Panic Room with Eva Anderson
Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry
The Game with Brendan Hines
Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger
Alien³ with Matt Singer
Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany
The Handmaiden with Emily Yoshida
Stoker with Emily St. James
Thirst with Hoai-Tran Bui
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK with Karen Chee
Oppenheimer with Marie Bardi
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One with Marie Bardi
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance with Karen Han
Oldboy with Alison Willmore
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance with David Ehrlich
Joint Security Area
The Moon Is…the Sun's Dream / Trio
The Cameraman / Spite Marriage
College / Steamboat Bill, Jr. with John Hodgman
Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie
Seven Chances / Go West with Jamie Loftus
Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak
Three Ages / Our Hospitality with Dana Stevens
Yesterday with Zach Cherry
T2 Trainspotting with Scott Aukerman & Shaun Diston
Steve Jobs with Olivia Craighead
Trance with Nia DaCosta
127 Hours with Sean Clements
Slumdog Millionaire with Siddhant Adlakha
Sunshine
Millions with Adam Kempenaar
The Eighth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
28 Days Later with David Rees
The Beach with Emily Yoshida
Knock at the Cabin with Marie Bardi
A Life Less Ordinary with Janet Varney
Trainspotting with Charles Rogers
Shallow Grave
Wendell & Wild
Coraline with J.D. Amato
Avatar: The Way of Water with Marie Bardi
Monkeybone with Justin McElroy
James and the Giant Peach with Emma Stefansky
The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda
The Fabelmans
Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich
Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus
The Shining with Timothy Simons
Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth
A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry
2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman
Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey
The Woman King
Pinocchio (2022) with Podcast: The Ride
Three Thousand Years of Longing
Lolita with Fran Hoepfner
Spartacus with Richard Lawson
Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall
The Killing with Patton Oswalt
Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss
Star 80 with Julie Klausner
All That Jazz with Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lenny with Colin Quinn
Cabaret with Rachel Zegler
Sweet Charity
Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with Patrick Willems
Oz the Great and Powerful with Dana Schwartz
Drag Me to Hell with Jamie Loftus & Caitlin Durante
Spider-Man 3 with Jamelle Bouie
Spider-Man 2 with Chris Gethard
Spider-Man with Matt Singer
The Gift with Starlee Kine
For Love of the Game with Olivia Craighead
A Simple Plan with Kevin Smith
The Quick and The Dead with Roman Mars
Army of Darkness with Eva Anderson
Darkman with Chris Weitz
Evil Dead II with John Hodgman
Crimewave with Brendan Hines
The Evil Dead
The Seventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
The Power of The Dog with Richard Lawson
Bright Star with Fran Hoepfner
In the Cut with Jourdain Searles
Holy Smoke! with Kyle Buchanan
The Portrait of a Lady with Marie Bardi
The Piano with Esther Zuckerman
An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens
Sweetie with Sarah-Violet Bliss
Two Friends
The Matrix Resurrections
West Side Story (2021)
Benedetta with Marie Bardi
The Ward with Drew McWeeny
Ghosts of Mars with Dave Schilling & Jonah Ray
John Carpenter’s Vampires with David Ehrlich
Escape from L.A. with Matt Gourley & Paul Rust
Village of the Damned with Amy Nicholson
In the Mouth of Madness with Angelica Jade Bastién
Memoirs of an Invisible Man with Alan Sepinwall
They Live! with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger
Prince of Darkness with Keith Phipps
Big Trouble in Little China with Jason Mantzoukas & Paul Scheer
Starman with Katey Rich
Christine with Scott Wampler & Eric Vespe
The Thing with Emily St. James
Escape from New York with Karen Han
The Fog with Nia DaCosta
Halloween with Alex Ross Perry
Assault on Precinct 13 with April Wolfe
Dark Star with Emily Yoshida
Old with Marie Bardi
Space Jam: A New Legacy with James Newman
Clifford 2: Hyper-Clifford with Tom Scharpling
Joe Dirt
Abduction with Jason Concepcion
Four Brothers with Jonathan Braylock
2 Fast 2 Furious with Jon Gabrus
Baby Boy with Ayo Edebiri
Shaft with Demi Adejuyigbe
Rosewood with Jamelle Bouie
Higher Learning with Micah Peters
Poetic Justice with Jourdain Searles
Boyz n the Hood with Aisha Harris
Don Jon with Hollywood Handbook
Ishtar with Clint McElroy
Mikey and Nicky with Olivia Craighead
The Heartbreak Kid with Avery Edison
A New Leaf
The Sixth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Moana with Lenika Cruz
The Princess and the Frog with James III
Treasure Planet with Emma Stefansky
Hercules with Larry Owens
Aladdin with Jerah Milligan
The Little Mermaid with Esther Zuckerman
The Great Mouse Detective with Fran Hoepfner
The Witches with Richard Lawson
Welcome to Marwen with Emily Yoshida
Allied with Chris Weitz
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Wonder Woman 1984
The Walk with J.D. Amato
Flight with Olivia Craighead
A Christmas Carol with Emily St. James
Beowulf with Jordan Hoffman
The Polar Express with Joey Sims
Cast Away with Nia DaCosta
What Lies Beneath with Starlee Kine
Contact with Jamie Bell
Forrest Gump with Jamelle Bouie
Death Becomes Her with Katey Rich
Back to the Future Part III with Josh Gondelman
Back to the Future Part II with Nicole Byer
Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger
Back to the Future
Romancing the Stone with Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen
Used Cars with Jason Mantzoukas & Paul Scheer
I Wanna Hold Your Hand with Patrick Willems
The Old Guard
Beyond the Lights with Ayo Edebiri
The Secret Life of Bees with Jourdain Searles
Love & Basketball with Carl Tart
Julie & Julia with Romilly Newman
Bewitched with Dana Schwartz
Lucky Numbers with Alex Ross Perry
You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber
Michael with Kevin Porter
Mixed Nuts with Charles Rogers
Sleepless in Seattle with Katey Rich
This Is My Life with Michelle Collins
When Harry Met Sally... with Dana Stevens
Stargate
Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Mad Max: Fury Road with Emily Yoshida
Happy Feet Two with Sara Rubin
Happy Feet with Caitlin Durante
Babe: Pig in the City with Travis McElroy
Lorenzo's Oil with Bilge Ebiri
The Witches of Eastwick with K. Austin Collins
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with David Ehrlich
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior with Jon Gabrus
Mad Max
5th Anniversary Special
Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber
A Master Builder with John Hodgman
Rachel Getting Married with Ayo Edibiri and Olivia Craighead
The Manchurian Candidate with the Flop House: Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliott Kalan
Birds of Prey with Ang Ferraguto, Emma Stefansky, Ashleigh Heaton, and Preeti Chhibber
The Truth About Charlie with David Lowery
The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Beloved with Jourdain Searles
Philadelphia with Richard Lawson
Silence of the Lambs with Emily St. James
Married to the Mob with Ang Ferraguto
The Rise of Skywalker
Something Wild with Scott Aukerman
Stop Making Sense with Demi Adejuyigbe
Swing Shift
Melvin and Howard (and Jordan Hoffman)
Citizens Band/ Last Embrace with Justin McElroy
Caged Heat/ Crazy Mama/ Fighting Mad
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness
The Wind Rises
Ponyo on the Cliff with Shirley Li
Gemini Man
Joker
Howl's Moving Castle with David Ehrlich
Spirited Away with David Rees
Princess Mononoke with Griffin McElroy
Porco Rosso with Justin Charity
Kiki's Delivery Service with Caroline Framke
My Neighbor Totoro with J.D. Amato
Castle in the Sky with Emily Yoshida
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang
The Castle of Cagliostro
Blackhat with Bilge Ebiri
Miami Vice - Pilot Episode
Public Enemies with Fran Hoepfner
The Lion King
Miami Vice
Collateral with Katey Rich
Ali with Jamelle Bouie
The Insider with Andy Levy
Heat with Jon Gabrus
The Last of the Mohicans with Dana Stevens
Manhunter with Chris Cabin and Eric Szyszka
The Keep with Alex Ross Perry
Thief
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu with Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit
Assassin's Creed
Dumbo with Karen Han
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Emma Stefansky
Big Eyes with Richard Lawson
Dark Shadows with Jamie Loftus
Alice in Wonderland with Emily St. James
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Michael Cerveris
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Pilot Viruet
Big Fish with Chris Gethard
Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer
Sleepy Hollow with David Lowery
The Fourth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Mars Attacks! with Paul F. Tompkins
Ed Wood with John Hodgman
Batman Returns with Emily Yoshida
Glass
Edward Scissorhands with Julio Torres
Batman with K. Austin Collins
Aquaman
Beetlejuice with Rebecca Bulnes
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Home Again with Richard Lawson
The Intern with Jamie Lee
It's Complicated with Sarah-Violet Bliss
The Holiday with Fran Hoepfner
Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger
What Women Want with Lola Kirke
The Parent Trap with Elena Lazic and Mani Lazic
A Star Is Born
Space Jam with James Newman
Chosen - The Hire
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk with J.D. Amato
Life of Pi with Ray Tintori
Taking Woodstock with Alex Ross Perry
Lust, Caution with Chris Weitz
Brokeback Mountain with Las Culturistas
Hulk
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich
Ride with the Devil with Peter Labuza
The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida
Hotel Transylvania Trilogy
Sense and Sensibility with Shirley Li
Eat Drink Man Woman with Alison Willmore
Pushing Hands/The Wedding Banquet
Family Dog - Amazing Stories
Incredibles 2
Tomorrowland
Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Ratatouille with Romilly Newman and Joey Sims
Solo: A Star Wars Story
The Incredibles with Rebecca Drysdale
The Iron Giant
Josie and the Pussycats with Angela Ferraguto
How Do You Know
Spanglish with Richard Lawson
As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard
I’ll Do Anything: The Musical Cut with Esther Zuckerman
I'll Do Anything with Esther Zuckerman
Ready Player One
March Madness 2018 Recap - Round 3
Broadcast News with Katey Rich
Terms of Endearment with Valorie Curry
March Madness 2018 Recap - Round 1
Running Scared with Paul Scheer
Elle with Emily Yoshida
Hollow Man with Alex Ross Perry
Starship Troopers with J.D. Amato
Showgirls with Caroline Framke
The Third Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Basic Instinct with Miriam Bale
Total Recall with Andrew Jupin and Stephen Sajdak
RoboCop
Flesh+Blood
The Post
The Last Jedi
Avatarland/The Second Blank Check Mailbag
Lost in Space with Joey Sims
Justice League
Detroit with Black Men Can’t Jump In Hollywood
Zero Dark Thirty with Demi Adejuyigbe
The Hurt Locker with Sonia Saraiya
K-19: The Widowmaker with Richard Lawson
The Weight of Water with Karen Han and Emma Stefansky
Strange Days with Emily Yoshida
Point Break with Lux Alptraum
Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman
Near Dark with Mani Lazic
The Loveless
The Devil Wears Prada with Romilly Newman
Here Today Gone Trevorrow - An Emergency Minisode
Dunkirk with Bilge Ebiri
Interstellar
Talking Maul Live @ DCM19 with Peter Serafinowicz
The Dark Knight Rises
Inception
The Dark Knight
The Prestige with Alison Willmore
Batman Begins
Insomnia with Alex Ross Perry
Memento with Amy Nicholson
Following
The Book of Henry
The First Blank Check Mailbag
Wonder Woman
Clifford
The BFG
Bridge of Spies
Lincoln
War Horse with Pilot Viruet
The Adventures of Tintin with Joe Garden
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with David Ehrlich
Munich with Emily St. James
War of the Worlds with J.D. Amato
The Terminal with Jerah Milligan
Blank Check
Catch Me If You Can
Minority Report with Joanna Robinson
A.I. Artificial Intelligence with David Rees
The Second Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Saving Private Ryan with Richard Lawson
Amistad
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
Split
Best of the Revenge of the Podcast
Best of the Attack of the Podcast
Best of the Phantom Podcast
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
The Man Who Knew Too Little
Toruk: The First Flight with Rachel Lang
Avatar
Aliens of the Deep/Ghosts of the Abyss
Titanic with Emily Yoshida and Katey Rich - Part Two
Titanic with Emily Yoshida and Katey Rich - Part One
True Lies
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back
Terminator 2: Judgement Day with Sam Rogal
The Abyss with Josh Ruben
Aliens with Fran Hoepfner
The Terminator with Rachel Sanders
Piranha II: The Spawning
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Roadies with Layne Montgomery
Aloha with Esther Zuckerman
We Bought a Zoo
Elizabethtown
Suicide Squad
Denim Invasion Live @ DCM18 with John Trowbridge
Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson
Almost Famous
Jerry Maguire
Singles
Say Anything…
Fletch
The Animatrix
Sense8
Jupiter Ascending
Cloud Atlas with Bobby Finger
Speed Racer with Emily Yoshida and J.D. Amato
The Matrix Revolutions
The Matrix Reloaded
The Matrix
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - The Lost Episode (Remastered)
Bound
The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan
The Visit with Louis Peitzman
After Earth with James III
The Last Airbender with Seaton Smith
The Happening
Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson
The Village with David Ehrlich
The First Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid
Signs with Murf Meyer and Diana Kolsky
Unbreakable with Matt Patches
The Sixth Sense with Katey Rich
Praying with Anger/Wide Awake
Blank Check with Griffin & David Trailer
The Podcast Reawakens with Emily Yoshida
The Podcast Holiday Special with Pilot Viruet
The Podcast Awakens
Return of the Podcast
The Podcast Strikes Back
A New Podcast
Watch With Us LIVE! - Revenge Of The Podcast
A Conversation with George Lucas - Revenge Of The Podcast
More Deleted Scenes with Mike Ryan - Revenge Of The Podcast
The Clone Wars Animated Series with Jonathan Braylock - Revenge Of The Podcast
Our Performance Review 3.0 with Chris Gethard - Revenge Of The Podcast
A Broken Heart with Sonia Saraiya - Revenge Of The Podcast
The Jedi Order with Mike Drucker - Revenge Of The Podcast
Emperor Darth Sidious - Revenge Of The Podcast
The Downfall Of Anakin Skywalker - Revenge Of The Podcast
The Beginning of The End - Revenge Of The Podcast
The Podcastic Two
Watch With Us, Again - Attack Of The Podcast
The Deleted Scenes with Chase Mitchell - Attack Of The Podcast
Digital Filmmaking with J.D. Amato - Attack Of The Podcast
Politics - Attack Of The Podcast
Our Performance Review 2.0 - Attack Of The Podcast
Count Dooku with Morgan Evans - Attack Of The Podcast
Romance with Rachel Lang - Attack Of The Podcast
The Angst Of Anakin Skywalker - Attack Of The Podcast
The Mysterious Planet Kamino - Attack Of The Podcast
Unrest In The Galactic Senate - Attack Of The Podcast
Judging The Judge
Watch With Us - The Phantom Podcast
Final Thoughts - The Phantom Podcast
Fan Fiction - The Phantom Podcast
Merchandise - The Phantom Podcast
The Podrace - The Phantom Podcast
A Profile Of Jar Jar Binks And The Gungans - The Phantom Podcast
Our Performance Review - The Phantom Podcast
Commentary with Connor Ratliff - The Phantom Podcast
The Jedi Council - The Phantom Podcast
The Royalty Of Naboo - The Phantom Podcast