The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood
Sonny Bunch hosts The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, a new podcast featuring interviews with folks who have their finger on the pulse of the entertainment industry during this dynamic—and difficult—time.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 42 minutes
- Episodes
- 249
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Hollywood Imagery's Impact on Politics
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson to discuss her new book about Joan Didion, We Tell Ourselves Stories. I mentioned the book in a newsletter a couple o…
00:43:31 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Bringing Memories of 'Warfare' to Life
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Ray Mendoza, who cowrote and codirected the new A24 movie Warfare with Alex Garland (Civil War, Ex Machina). We discussed the journalistic process of rebuilding …
00:31:12 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
Dystopian Mediocrity
I am pleased to be rejoined this week by Bobby Miller to discuss his new novel, Situation Nowhere. Imagine Brazil by way of Idiocracy but goopier: That’s Situation Nowhere. We talked about some of hi…
00:34:57 |
Fri 28 Mar 2025
The Low Culture That Brought Us to Trump
On this week’s episode I’m joined by Ross Benes, the author of the forthcoming book 1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times. It comes out in a few weeks and I h…
00:36:07 |
Fri 21 Mar 2025
The 2000 Election That Changed America (with Jonathan Gruber)
Sonny Bunch sits down with filmmaker Jonathan Gruber to discuss his new documentary, Centered, which explores the life and legacy of Joe Lieberman. As the first Jewish Vice Presidential candidate, Li…
00:19:24 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
How to Build Your Own Movie Library
A weird question I sometimes get is this: “I want to get into buying movies on disc, Sonny, but I don’t know where to start.” I say it’s weird because the answer seems obvious to me: just buy movies …
00:38:25 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
The 2025 Stunt Awards!
On this week’s episode, I’m plesaed to be rejoined by Brandon Struessnig to discuss one of my favorite packages of the year, Vulture’s annual stunt awards. Who were the big winners? What were some of…
00:38:30 |
Sat 08 Mar 2025
How to Help Veterans Returning Home
This week I was joined by Jake Rademacher, the director of Brothers After War to talk about his new documentary checking in with folks who have returned from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq and…
00:43:15 |
Sat 01 Mar 2025
SNL At 50
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by the New York Times’s James Poniewozik to discuss SNL’s (rather lengthy) 50th anniversary celebration. (Here’s a gift link to James’s piece on his favorite episod…
00:43:57 |
Sun 23 Feb 2025
How to Make a Microbudget Movie
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Jake VerKesen—some of you in the comments might know him by his handle, Jake VK—on the long and winding road to turning an idea for a micro-budgeted indie movie …
01:09:22 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
Documenting Horror
On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by writer/director Philip Gelatt and novelist Paul Tremblay (author of Horror Movieand The Cabin at the End of the World, among other scary books) to discuss the …
00:38:19 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
How Tariffs Will Make Movies More Expensive
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch is rejoined by Jesse Nelson of DiabolikDVD and Cauldron Films to discuss the state of home video. We get to the tariff discussion around 32 minutes in, but before …
00:45:18 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
Why Is Gaming Underperforming Expectations?
On this week’s supersized episode of The Bulwark Goes to Hollywood, I’m rejoined by Matthew Ball to discuss his epic examination of the state of the video game industry and how its growing pains refl…
01:06:53 |
Sat 25 Jan 2025
Revisiting 'Inglourious Basterds'
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Bill Ryan and Dennis Cozzalio to discuss their contribution to the new Arrow Limited Edition release of Inglourious Basterds on 4K. The booklet features a blog-e…
00:56:58 |
Sat 18 Jan 2025
Awards Season in Flux
This week I’m joined by Richard Rushfield and Katey Rich of The Ankler to discuss the state of the awards season post-Golden Globes and in the midst of the Los Angeles fires. (Indeed, Los Angeles res…
00:49:15 |
Sat 11 Jan 2025
The Fascinating Legacy of 'Yacht Rock'
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Steven Hyden, who—in addition to being the author of books on Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, and Radiohead, and a prolific author at Uproxx—served as the story pr…
00:46:07 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
Everything There Is to Know About Star Wars
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Brandon Wainerdi to discuss DK’s hefty and handsome new reference book, Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy. We discussed how…
00:49:33 |
Sat 21 Dec 2024
Bringing Novels Into the Internet Age
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by novelist and Broadway producer Michael Wolk to discuss his new interactive novel, Devil’s Game. You can check it out yourself here; it’s an interesting mix of we…
00:30:19 |
Sat 14 Dec 2024
The Copyrighted Material Being Used to Train AI
On this week’s episode, I talked to Alex Reisner about his pieces in The Atlantic highlighting the copyrighted material being hoovered into large language models to help AI chatbots simulate human sp…
00:40:10 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
Comcast Is Spinning Off Its Cable Assets: What Does that Mean?
This week I’m rejoined by Sean McNulty of The Ankler’s morning roundup newsletter, The Wakeup, to discuss the big news in cable land: ComcastNBCUniversal’s decision to spin (most of!) their cable pro…
00:40:12 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
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