HeyJaredFilms at First Sight
Joe and Graham celebrate and explore cinema, new and old, through the lens of the first time viewer. Such a wide angle includes the underserved medium of short films as well as the glancing into the future through film festivals and upcoming releases!
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- Sep 11, 2026
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Episode 106: Black Zombie (2026) (opens the original)
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This week we are joined by director, David Dylan Thomas to discuss Maya Annik Bedward's new documentary Black Zombie , a formative look at how Haitian Vodou as well as the Haitian Revolution helped create one of the most iconic monsters in cinema history, the zombie. So, tune in as we discuss the documentary at large, the importance of understanding and recontextualizing the past, and we check in on David's work-in-progress feature film, White Meat .
Episode 105: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) (opens the original)
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Joe is joined by Steve and new guest to the show, Sarah Beck from the West Chester Film Festival, to kick off a series of four films intertwined in various themes of power & control. First up is Elio Petri's masterful blend of suspense and black comedy, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion . Will the gang fall under the spell of Gian Maria Volonté's self-assured police inspector, or will the rampant corruption just hit too close to home? Tune in to find out!
Short Ends: La Jetée (1962) (opens the original)
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Joe is joined by Steve to go on one last journey in our trek through post-apocalyptic cinema with La Jetée , a French experimental short film that tells the tale of a man sent back through time to help find a solution to the end of mankind as we know it, all through a singularly narrated series of still-frame images. Will the fellas survive the experimental exploration of time? Tune in to find out!
Episode 104: Lady Champagne (2026) (opens the original)
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Joe is joined by Rachel and Tillie from the Zombie Grrlz Horror Podcast Network to discuss the explicit joy that is the slapstick comedy of the year, Lady Champagne . It's a night of big hair and bigger euphemisms with the latest adventures of Champagne Horowitz Jones Dickerson White ("... so she's been married a couple of times!!"). Will the silly onslaught be too much for the gang or will they live on see what other disasters await San Francisco's most fabulous exotic dancer? Tune in to find o
Episode 103: The World, the Flesh and the Devil (1959) (opens the original)
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It may not be the end of the world as we know it, but it is the end of our monthlong look at post-apocalyptic cinema. Wit from Another '80s Podcast joins us to chat about Ranald MacDougall's The World, the Flesh and the Devil . Will this late '50s sci-fi flick hit all the right notes or will the crew wish it were still trapped in a small mine in Pennsylvania? Tune in to find out!
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