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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 01/10/2026

📽️ "American History X" is live now for members on The Next Reel! Pete and Andy open the Radicalized series looking at how the film's color palette tracks one man's break from white supremacy—and whether its compressed timeline earns that change. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 24/09/2026

📽️ Members get early access to our Institutions Eating Themselves finale — "The Personal History of David Copperfield." Iannucci squeezes a 34-hour Dickens audiobook into two visually inventive hours. Live now for members, everyone else next week. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 17/09/2026

📽️ Live now for members: "The Death of Stalin," our Institutions Eating Themselves entry on Iannucci's darkly funny scramble for power after Stalin's death, with a mostly British cast keeping their own accents. Public gets it next week. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 11/09/2026

📽️ "In the Loop" kicks off our Institutions Eating Themselves series, and members get it early! Armando Iannucci's razor-sharp satire of two governments stumbling toward war. Public release next week. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 04/09/2026

📽️ Members get early access to our "Bulworth" conversation now, closing out our Smoke and Mirrors series with Warren Beatty's rapping senator. How much can one character carry before a satire buckles? #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 01/09/2026

One videotape. One mirror. Ten audio files. Sitting in the Dark takes on The Ring, Oculus, and undertone. Three broken families try to document the truth. It goes badly. Articles of Loathing: trustory.fm/sittingintheda… #horrormovies #horrorpodcast #filmsky

Lobby card for Sitting in the Dark “Articles of Loathing” with posters from The Ring, Oculus, and undertone.

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 27/08/2026

📽️ Members get early access to "Wag the Dog," our Smoke & Mirrors series entry. Barry Levinson's satire trades the politician for the machine behind him, and Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and Anne Heche make it sing, despite its flaws. #SmokeAndMirrors #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 20/08/2026

📽️ Members get early access to our take on "Bob Roberts," the opener for our new Smoke & Mirrors series. Tim Robbins wrote, directed, and starred in it—Alan Rickman even helped pay for it. Public release next week. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 17/08/2026

📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! Costume designer Ann Maskrey on "The Grand Budapest Hotel"—Milena Canonero's color world, departmental shorthand, and why the grief hits so hard. Plus, we discuss Ann's work on The Magic Faraway Tree! #filmsky trustory.fm/movieswelike...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 14/08/2026

📽️ Members get early access to our Platformed Lives finale on "Sorry to Bother You" — the desk that drops right into a stranger's life, and the voice cast overdubbing every "white voice" moment. Live now for members. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 06/08/2026

📽️ Members get "Nightcrawler" now - Platformed Lives continues with Dan Gilroy's dark American classic about an amoral self-help devotee who finds his perfect profession in the blood economy of local TV news. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 30/07/2026

📽️ Members get early access now to our take on "The Truman Show," kicking off our new season 16 series, Platformed Lives, about consent and media platforms. Peter Weir waited over a year just to land Jim Carrey for the lead role. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 25/06/2026

📽️ Members get early access to our Horror Debuts series add-on as well as our season closer — "Talk to Me" is live now. The Philippou brothers built their debut around grief and addiction, and we can't stop arguing about that ending. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 18/06/2026

📽️ "Gun Crazy" (1950) — out now for members. 🎥 Joseph H. Lewis's noir about a couple drawn together by a shared obsession with guns, and pulled apart by what that obsession costs them. What's the most fated movie couple you can think of? #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 16/06/2026

📽️ This month’s Film Board episode is live! The crew convenes to take on Spielberg’s latest the-truth-is-out-there romp, #DisclosureDay, and opinions are right mixed. #filmsky #StevenSpielberg trustory.fm/filmboard/disc…

Disclosure Day podcast episode lobby card. Close-up Eyeball and Film Board title.

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 15/06/2026

📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! 📽️Cinematographer Nicole Hirsch Whitaker, ASC joins us to talk about The Conformist, the film that changed her life at sixteen and shaped how she sees. #filmsky 🎥 trustory.fm/movieswelike...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 11/06/2026

📽️ This week's The Next Reel episode is live! "House of Flying Daggers" - Zhang Yimou's wuxia companion to Hero, where a love triangle swallows the political conflict whole. Does the spectacle earn the melodrama? #ZhangYimou #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 11/06/2026

📽️ Zhang Yimou drained all the color from "Shadow" on purpose — every set, every costume built in black and white to look like a Chinese ink wash painting. Andy and Pete dig into the yin-yang logic behind it all. Live now for members. #ZhangYimouSeries #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

Our episode on Zhang Yimou's Shadow is now live for members.

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 10/06/2026

📽️ This month's Cinema Scope episode is live! 🎥 Postwar Crime Procedurals: from "The Naked City" to "In Cold Blood" with Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties. Does the system actually deliver justice? #CinemaScope #filmsky trustory.fm/cinemascope/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 04/06/2026

📽️ "House of Flying Daggers" live now for members in The Next Reel's Zhang Yimou series. Yimou delivers wuxia at its most extravagant. Does the love triangle earn all that spectacle? #ZhangYimou #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 02/06/2026

🎥 Season 16 of The Next Reel is here! 📽️ 48 films. 13 series. Six decades of cinema from a dozen corners of the world. Pete and Andy each picked half, and this season the choices feel more urgent than ever. Members start July 30. Everyone else August 6. #filmsky #filmpodcast

Season 16 of The Next Reel on TruStory FM. Film posters arranged in a grid: The Truman Show, Nightcrawler, Sorry to Bother You, Bob Roberts, Wag the Dog, Bulworth, In the Loop, The Death of Stalin, The Personal History of David Copperfield, American History X, Get Out, The Order.

Season 16 of The Next Reel on TruStory FM. Film posters arranged in a grid: High-Rise, The Platform, Triangle of Sadness, The Menu, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night and Good Luck.

Season 16 of The Next Reel on TruStory FM. Film posters arranged in a grid: Michael Clayton, The Ides of March, Money Monster, The Handmaid's Tale, Persepolis, Promising Young Woman, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Corpo Celeste, The Wonders, Happy as Lazzaro, La Chimera, The Battle of Algiers.

Season 16 of The Next Reel on TruStory FM. Film posters arranged in a grid: The Secret Agent, The Official Story, The Lives of Others, Leviathan, The Big Short, Vice, Don't Look Up, The Confession, State of Siege, Missing, Sibyl, Anatomy of a Fall.

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 28/05/2026

📽️ Zhang Yimou stripped away the color and spectacle and made something more powerful for it. "To Live" is live now for members in our Zhang Yimou series. Pete's dumpling theory alone is worth the listen, as is the shadow puppet conversation. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 21/05/2026

📽️ This week's The Next Reel episode is live! "Alien: Romulus" — Fede Álvarez delivers exactly what the Alien franchise needed. So why can't we stop wishing he'd trusted it to stand on its own? Closing our Alien series. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 21/05/2026

📽️ "Resurrection" is live now for members — our Ellen Burstyn series continues with a film about a healer who refuses every label the world tries to press on her. What happens when love is the only explanation? Check it out! #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 14/05/2026

📽️ This week's The Next Reel episode is live! We're back in the Alien series with "Alien: Covenant"—Scott's prequel sequel that tries to be two films at once and satisfies neither. Nobody changes, David wins anyway, and Danny McBride is great. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 14/05/2026

📽️ Our Alien series finale is live for members now. "Alien: Romulus" is the franchise course correction that almost fully works — we dig into why Fede Álvarez's fan service problem keeps the film from being a great one. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 08/05/2026

📽️ "Alien: Covenant" is live now for members—our Alien series return tackles Scott's most divided prequel sequel: a film caught between creature horror and AI philosophy, with Fassbender doing double duty as the only thing that works. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 06/05/2026

📽️ This month's Cinema Scope episode is live! Tony Shaw, author of "Hollywood's Cold War," joins Andy Nelson to trace the postwar paranoia thriller—from "The Third Man" to "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold." The CIA secretly rewrote "Animal Farm." #CinemaScope #filmsky trustory.fm/cinemascope/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 30/04/2026

📽️ This week's The Next Reel episode is live! "Brian and Charles" closes out Thinking Machines — Pete and Andy debate whether a docu-style film about a Welsh inventor and his washing machine robot sticks the landing. Is the charm enough? #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 30/04/2026

📽️ Our Thinking Machines series concludes with this month's member bonus—"S1M0NE," Andrew Niccol's 2002 satire about a director who builds a digital actress the whole world buys into. Live now for members. #filmsky #ThinkingMachines trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 30/04/2026

📽️ New for members: "House of Games" is live. Pete and Andy debate whether Mamet's ice-cold direction serves or undermines his own writing—David Mamet Directs series. What does this film reveal about who Mamet really is behind the camera? #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 23/04/2026

📽️ "Brian and Charles" closes out Thinking Machines—and it's the warmest AI we've encountered all series. An eccentric Welsh inventor, a washing machine robot, and Pete fully in the bag. Live now for members. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 20/04/2026

📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! 🎥 Producer/writer Josh Hyams joins Andy and Pete to talk about "The Thing"—Carpenter's 1982 classic that blew his mind at age seven and never let go. We also dig into his new movie Mr. Burton, now streaming. #filmsky trustory.fm/movieswelike...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 16/04/2026

📽️ "I Am Mother" is live now for members - the fifth film in our Thinking Machines series. A sealed bunker, 63,000 frozen embryos, and an AI that ended humanity because she genuinely loves her daughter. #filmsky #ThinkingMachines trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 09/04/2026

📽️ "Ex Machina" is live now for members — the Thinking Machines entry where Alex Garland argues that building consciousness without morality is the most dangerous thing a creator can do. Caleb thinks he's running the test. He's not. #filmsky #ThinkingMachines trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 03/04/2026

📽️ This week's Next Reel ep is live! 🎥 In our Thinking Machines series, we dig into Spike Jonze's Her—AI love, a voice-only performance that works completely, and why this film feels truer every year. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 02/04/2026

📽️ The postwar domestic melodrama trapped anxiety inside the house—and filmmakers like Sirk, Minnelli, and Ray coded their critique into Technicolor and decor. Film scholar Patricia White joins Andy to map the cycle from "Mildred Pierce" to "Home from the Hill." #filmsky trustory.fm/cinemascope/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 31/03/2026

📽️ "WarGames" is live now for members (and a tease for everyone else!)—our Thinking Machines bonus asks whether WOPR is the film's most complete character, and how this movie actually changed federal law. #filmsky #ThinkingMachines trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 28/03/2026

Indie Cinema, baby. Chelsea Stardust curates three horror films made for almost nothing and built to last. The Battery, Starry Eyes & Hellbender — new #SittingintheDark. #IndieHorror #HorrorPodcast #filmsky trustory.fm/sittingintheda…

Sitting In The Dark Podcast artwork featuring low-budget movie set and actor in a moster mask

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 26/03/2026

🎥 This week's Next Reel ep is live! 📽️ We dig into Donald Cammell's Demon Seed, the Thinking Machines series entry where AI gets personal—hubris, a smart home turned prison, Julie Christie, and a genuinely bonkers ending. #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 19/03/2026

📽️ This week's The Next Reel episode is live! "The Escape Artist" is one of the more obscure films we've covered — Ricky Jay trained Griffin O'Neal to do real magic in one-ers. The results are something. What drew you to this one? #filmsky #Magicians trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 19/03/2026

📽️ The forgotten "Colossus: The Forbin Project" kicks off our Thinking Machines series. Live for members, everyone else next week!🎥 The AI works perfectly. That's the problem. What does it mean when we build something smarter than ourselves? #filmsky #ThinkingMachines trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 16/03/2026

📽️ This month's Movies We Like episode is live! Costume designer Jenny Beavan joins Andy and Pete on "The Leopard" — and what Piero Tosi's invisible craft still teaches designers today. What film changed how you see costume design? #filmsky trustory.fm/movieswelike...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 12/03/2026

📽️ Returning to our Magicians series with The Escape Artist, Caleb Deschanel's feature debut and a rarely seen American fable. Two sons, two very different fathers, one story that almost holds together. Whose arc did you think the film was actually built around? #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 12/03/2026

Ghostface called. We picked up. Film Board digs into Scream 7 — the chaos, the reveal, the AI angle, and whether the franchise has anything left to it. Tommy gives it sad stars. Steve defends it. @mandymiscast.bsky.social wants a musical. @itsmepete.com is easily swayed. trustory.fm/filmboard/scre…

Ghostface from Scream 7 … a promo shot from the Film Board Podcast.

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 10/03/2026

🎥 Our own @sodacreekfilm.com joins Matthew on the Superhero Ethics podcast to discuss awards season and why there's so much to enjoy this time of year even if some choices make you raise your eyebrows. #BAFTAs controversy covered too! Check it out! #FilmSky trustory.fm/superheroeth...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 05/03/2026

📽️ This week's Next Reel episode is live! 🎥 Michael B. Jordan steps behind the camera for "Creed III"—and Pete and Andy can't stop arguing about whether the script earns the film's final fight. What do you think: does "Creed III" land the legacy question? 🥊 #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 04/03/2026

📽️ This month's Cinema Scope is live! Film historian Foster Hirsch joins to trace the arc of film noir—from wartime origins to the operatic finale of '58—and the question that runs through it all: why does an ordinary person slip into crime? #FilmSky #FilmNoir #ClassicFilm trustory.fm/cinemascope/...

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 28/02/2026

This month on #SittingInTheDark, we went big. Bong Joon-ho’s THE HOST. André Øvredal’s TROLL HUNTER. Takashi Yamazaki’s GODZILLA MINUS ONE. Three cultures. Three monsters. One consistent indictment of the governments that were supposed to protect us. Out now! #filmsky trustory.fm/sittingintheda…

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The Next Reel @thenextreel.com · 28/02/2026

📽️ “Sometimes, it’s easier living the lie.” 🎥 What if the biography was the con? New member bonus on "Catch Me If You Can"—part of our True Lies series. Spielberg, Walken, and a father-son story that's really Spielberg's own. Which relationship hits harder? #filmsky trustory.fm/thenextreel/...

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