FOLLOWING FILMS

  Today I'm joined by director of photography, Ricardo "Rick" Diaz, about his work on the hit Netflix film INCOMING. The film has a perfect blend of goofiness and raunchiness and is a coming-of-age story. It's reminiscent of favorites such as American Pie, Can't Hardly Wait, and Superbad. Diaz's goal was to capture the film in a way that evokes nostalgia and humor without making it look like the standard visual format we usually see in comedies of this nature.

I'm thrilled to have Krzysztof Trojnar, an exceptional director of photography, joining me on the latest episode of the Following Films Podcast. Krzysztof shot the first four episodes of Netflix's breakout hit series, Baby Reindeer. Together, we explore the show's remarkable impact, delve into his unique approach to the material, and bond over our shared love for Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia. Baby Reindeer has soared to become Netflix's most-watched show of all time. If you haven't seen it yet, you're in for a treat. Sit back, relax, and enjoy our conversation!

  After visiting a crime scene, an ambitious and insensitive tabloid crime photographer falls victim to a mysterious illness that makes him lose his five senses one by one. DISAPPEAR COMPLETELY is coming to Netflix on April 12th

In Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always, thirty years after the wise and powerful Zordon formed the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, the team comes face to face with a familiar threat from the past. In the midst of a global crisis, they are called on once again to be the heroes the world needs. Inspired by the legendary mantra from the franchise “Once a Ranger, Always a Ranger,” Once & Always reminds everyone when you become a Ranger, you are always a part of the Ranger family and always welcome. 

  DIRECTED BY  Sally El Hosaini PRODUCED BY  Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Tim Cole, Ali Jaafar WRITTEN BY   Jack Thorne and Sally El Hosaini STARRING Nathalie Issa (Yusra), Manal Issa (Sara), Matthias Schweighöfer (Sven), Ahmed Malek (Nizar), James Krishna Floyd (Emad), Nahel Tzegai (Shada) and Kinda Alloush (Mervat) with Ali Suliman (Ezzat) Based on a true story, THE SWIMMERS follows the journey from war-torn Syria to the 2016 Rio Olympics. Two young sisters embark on a harrowing journey as refugees, putting both their hearts and champion swimming skills to heroic use. 

Fans of the global phenomenon Netflix series Stranger Things will be able to unlock their powers and help save Hawkins The year is 1985. The town is Hawkins. But the location is New York City. Netflix and experience discovery platform Fever have teamed up to deliver a new immersive Stranger Things experience which launches at The Duggal Greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard on May 7. Here, fans are transported into the Stranger Things Universe - a world of supernatural mystery, enduring friendships, and 80s nostalgia in an atmospheric celebration of the beloved, award-winning show. The adventure begins with a visit to Hawkins Plaza - where fans come to discover that things are not what they seem - and eventually find themselves in the darker side of Hawkins Lab and the Upside Down. This brand new storyline, developed exclusively with the show’s creators, propels guests into a parallel universe where they must unlock their secret powers to face the gauntlet of lurking terrors and help sa...

When a peaceful colony on the edge of the galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of the tyrannical Regent Balisarius, they dispatch a young woman with a mysterious past to seek out warriors from neighboring planets to help them take a stand. Cast : Michiel Huisman (The Flight Attendant, The Haunting of Hill House, Game of Thrones), Cary Elwes (Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, Mission: Impossible 7, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel), Alfonso Herrera (Ozark, Sense8), and Corey Stoll (Billions, The Many Saints of Newark, West Side Story) join the cast of Zack Snyder’s sci-fi adventure film. Director : Zack Snyder  Writers : Zack Snyder, Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad Story By : Zack Snyder and Kurt Johnstad Producers : Deborah Snyder, Wesley Coller and Zack Snyder for The Stone Quarry; Eric Newman for Grand Electric Executive Producers : Bergen Swanson, Sarah Bowen for Grand Electric, Shay Hatten and Kurt Johnstad Rebel Moon is the first feature to fall under the first look partnershi...

  Avail. 3/1/22 The Guardians of Justice -- NETFLIX SERIES When their seemingly fearless leader self-destructs, a team of troubled superheroes must confront festering evil in the world — and in themselves. Worst Roommate Ever -- NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY Violent con artists. Stone-cold killers. These terrifying true stories unveil some of the worst cohabitation experiences one could ever imagine. 21 21 Bridges A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) Battleship Christine Coach Carter Due Date Freddy vs. Jason Gattaca The Gift The Green Mile My Best Friend's Wedding Public Enemies Redemption The Replacements Richie RichThe Shawshank Redemption Shooter Shrek Shrek 2 Sorry to Bother You Starship Troopers Texas Chainsaw 3D Top Gun V for Vendetta Where the Wild Things Are Zoolander

  Today I'm joined by Cristina Rodlo and Marc Menchaca to discuss their top ten Netflix thriller No One Gets Out Alive. Ambar (Cristina Rodlo) is embarking on her American Dream after years spent dutifully tending to her terminally ill mother in Mexico. She arrives in Cleveland illegally, with very little money and unsuitable clothing for what’s expected to be the coldest winter on record. After finding cash-in-hand work at a local garment factory, she rents the cheapest room available from Red (Marc Menchaca) in a near derelict boarding house. Kept awake by the other tenants’ sobbing, disturbing nightmares and strange unearthly noises echoing from the basement, Ambar begins to wonder exactly who - or what - lives inside the house with them. Soon it becomes clear that Ambar has walked into a trap, one where she will soon be introduced to the evil that has been lurking in the basement. Ambar must fight to escape her living nightmare, but in a house where no one listens to the s...

Fifteen years after the release of his cult classic film comes director Billy Corben’s Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami, a six-part saga on the South Florida traffickers indicted in one of the largest drug cases in U.S. history. Alleged to be the chief U.S. distributors for two of Colombia’s biggest cartels, Cuban exiles Augusto “Willy” Falcon and Salvador “Sal” Magluta were accused of smuggling over 75 tons of cocaine into the U.S. in the 1980s. The high school friends built a reputed $2 billion empire that made Willy and Sal, aka “Los Muchachos,” two of Miami’s biggest celebrities. While law enforcement plotted their takedown, the world champion powerboat racers managed to skillfully outrun and outmaneuver prosecution for decades before the chase finally came to an end. Featuring colorful interviews with those closest to them, their defense team, and the Feds tasked with taking them down, the series paints a vivid portrait of the last of Miami’s “cocaine cowboys.”    For...

  In the 1970s, five men struggling with being gay in their Evangelical church started a Bible study to help each other leave the "homosexual lifestyle." They quickly received over 25,000 letters from people asking for help and formalized as Exodus International, the largest and most controversial conversion therapy organization in the world. But leaders struggled with a secret: their own “same-sex attractions” never went away. After years as Christian superstars in the religious right, many of these men and women have come out as LGBTQ, disavowing the very movement they helped start. Focusing on the dramatic journeys of former conversion therapy leaders, current members, and a survivor, PRAY AWAY chronicles the “ex gay" movement’s rise to power, persistent influence, and the profound harm it causes. Launching Globally on Netflix August 3rd

Here are the titles leaving Netflix in July. If they've been sitting in your queue for months (years) its time time for some clean up! Leaving 7/5/21 The Iron Lady Leaving 7/7/21 The Invitation Leaving 7/14/21 Holidays Leaving 7/15/21 The Princess and the Frog Leaving 7/19/21 Love Sick: The Series: Season 1 Leaving 7/22/21 Oh My Ghost Oh My Ghost 2 Oh My Ghost 3 Oh My Ghost 4 Leaving 7/28/21 The Croods Leaving 7/30/21 Spotlight Leaving 7/31/21 A Clockwork Orange  Bride of Chucky Child's Play 2 Child's Play 3  Eat Pray Love  Four Christmases  Freak Show  Fred Claus  Friends with Benefits G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra Grand Designs: Season 10  Grand Designs: Season 15  Hardcore Henry  Hinterland: Seasons 1-3 Hook Horns Jupiter Ascending King Arthur  Little Baby Bum: Nursery Rhyme Friends: S1 The Little Rascals Mad Max My Best Friend's Wedding Nacho Libre  Nights in Rodanthe The Patriot  Remember Me Seed of Chucky Step Up: Revolutio...

Today I chat with Sophia Nahli Allison about her Oscar nominated short documentary film A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA. The film is currently streaming on Netflix. A reimagined narrative of Latasha Harlins through intimate memories shared by her cousin and best friend. The injustice surrounding the shooting death of 15-year-old Latasha Harlins at a South Central Los Angeles store became a flashpoint for the city’s 1992 civil uprising.  As the Black community expressed its profound pain in the streets, Latasha’s friends and family privately mourned the loss of a vibrant child whose full story was never in the headlines. Three decades later, director Sophia Nahli Allison’s A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA removes Latasha from the context of her death and rebuilds an archive of a promising life lost. Oral history and memories from Latasha’s best friend and cousin converge in a dreamlike portrait that shows the impact one brief but brilliant life can have. Director Sophia Nahli Allison grew up in Sout...

  Directing large-scale projects for clients as diverse as Toyota and Google, Anheuser Busch, Panasonic, and a foray into feature filmmaking, Jonny Zeller’s work isn’t best described within the confines of one specific genre. The common thread? Powerful cinematic storytelling.  Today, Zeller’s award-winning work has been featured in both television and film domestically and internationally. His commercial and branded work features A-list talent and has gone on to secure various awards including American Advertising Awards, Webby, Reel Screen, and Hermes Award honors. Zeller’s proof of concept short film SCARS is based on viral IP and has gone on to win several awards in the festival circuit.  I had Zeller on the show to discuss his work as 2nd unit director on the feature “Deadly Illusions” starring Kristin Davis, Dermot Mulroney and Shanola Hampton which has been a huge hit on Netflix. Visit, jonnyzeller.com for more. To hear my conversation with Jonny press play on the...

How big is Netflix? It can seem incredibly small when you look through the same 15-20 titles that the all powerful Netflix algorithm constantly spits up at you. But it turns out there is far more than I thought. The folks over at reviews.org did some deep diving and found out exactly how much content we are paying for. According to their research if you were to attempt to "finish" Netflix, it would take you approximately four years, two months, and eight days to watch all of their available content. If this is true, and I believe their methodology was sound, Netflix is doing a shit job of showing me stuff beyond my perceived narrow interests. Highlights from the article: If you were streaming 24/7, it would take 4 years 2 months, and 8 days to watch everything on Netflix. Watching all of Netflix would equal 256 roundtrips to the moon. The average user only watches 2% of the Netflix library in a year. Assuming no titles were added or removed and you watch...

Throughout the 1970s and ’80s, the “Five Families” of the New York mafia—Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Luccese—held a powerful, and seemingly insurmountable, grip on the city. In this three-part docuseries from RAW (Don’t F**K With Cats) and Brillstein Entertainment, award-winning documentarian Sam Hobkinson details the incredible story of the history-making organized crime investigation and prosecution case brought against New York’s most formidable mob bosses. Through interviews with dozens of law enforcement officials, ex-mafia associates and others, FEAR CITY: NEW YORK vs. THE MAFIA sheds light on how the mafia’s control of unions, high-rise construction and other industries netted billions for organized crime. Previously unheard surveillance recordings, news footage and archival material alongside new interviews and reenactments paint a shocking and captivating portrait of this “Golden Era of the Mob.” FEAR CITY will premier on Netflix Wednesday, July 22nd   ...

In this video posted by Vanity Fair the composers of the hit Netflix show Stranger Things, Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, break down the music of the show. Kyle and Michael talk about how they were approached by the Duffer Brothers to score the show, the biggest influences on their music, and the differences between the music of Stranger Things season one and season two.

In this new genre-defining anthology series, acclaimed Academy Award-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro will present a collection of personally curated stories, that are both equally sophisticated and horrific. With this first live-action series, del Toro and Netflix extend their collaboration, which began with the award-winning animated series Trollhunters. On 10 After Midnight, creator and executive producer del Toro will bring his own visionary style as both a writer and director to certain episodes. In addition, he will hand pick a team of the genre's best writers and exciting new filmmakers to bring his selection of stories to life. Guillermo del Toro is the writer and director of the Academy Award-winning film The Shape of Water, which earned four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Score and Best Production Design. Del Toro is the creator of the critically acclaimed and Emmy Award-winning DreamWorks Trollhunters on Netflix, which will ret...

Episode 198 In honor of Mother's Day, we're covering a film that focuses on a pair of fathers, played by Adam Sandler and Chris Rock, who are trying to keep it together as their children get married in the new Netflix "movie," The Week Of. Try to contain your excitement. MOVIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK: Tully, You Were Never Really Here, Watchmen, Drive, Two Night Stand, The Week Of

Magic Lantern Pictures and Exodus Cry present Liberated: The New Sexual Revolution , a feature documentary about coming of age in today's young adult hookup culture. The film provides a shocking insight into attitudes and behaviors regarding sex, the normalization of sexual violation, and the struggle against conceptions of gender and sexuality shaped by the media and popular culture. The powerful, unflinching film will launch a world impact screening tour on university campuses across the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand beginning late Feb 2018. Each screening will be followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and subjects who will share their experiences during filming, as well as how their lives have been impacted since. The film is currently available on Netflix. Each year thousands of college students from around the globe flock to popular resort beaches for the generational rite of passage known as spring break. Over the course of a week filled with booze an...