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
Melding Video Games and TV Shows
This week I’m thrilled to be joined by Jacob Navok, the CEO of Genvid Entertainment, to discuss his company’s new partnership with DC Comics, DC Heroes United. A combination mobile game and Justice L…
00:58:56 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
The Christmas Movie Industrial Complex
This week I’m joined by Russell Hainline, the screenwriter of the forthcoming Netflix original Hot Frosty as well as a whole bunch of Hallmark original Christmas movies (including last year’s The San…
00:52:32 |
Sat 09 Nov 2024
Alfred Hitchcock, Master of Fear and Desire
This week I’m joined by Mark Cousins, the writer and director of the new documentary, My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock. We talked about his movie’s unorthodox presentation, why Hitchcock remains eternally…
00:33:52 |
Sat 02 Nov 2024
The Four Horsemen of the Media Apocalypse
Good show, long show today with the Entertainment Strategy Guy (subscribe to his Substack here). I’m going to offer up timestamps here, which I don’t usually do, because there’s a ton of stuff covere…
01:03:29 |
Sat 26 Oct 2024
A Second Look at 'Caligula'
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Thomas Negovan, who oversaw the reconstruction of Caligula: The Ultimate Cut. Combing through 96 hours of the original negatives, Tom rebuilt the film from the g…
00:45:31 |
Sat 19 Oct 2024
The Movie Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to See
I’m joined by Gabriel Sherman, the writer of The Apprentice, on this week’s episode. Sebastian Stan plays Donald Trump in this movie in theaters now about the future president’s relationship with not…
00:41:31 |
Sat 12 Oct 2024
Why Is It So Hard to Find Something to Watch on Streaming?
On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by Parrot Analytics’s Brandon Katz to discuss a vexing issues for streaming channels and audiences alike: why do the services have such a difficult time helping p…
00:39:57 |
Sat 05 Oct 2024
Devo's Groundbreaking Work
This week I’m talking to a friend here in Dallas, Bart Weiss, about the Ernie Kovacs Award taking place this weekend at the Texas Theatre. This year’s honoree is Jerry Casale from the band Devo, and …
00:39:10 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
How Social Media Is Warping Our Sense of Everything
NOTE: This is the correct audio file! Apologies, crossed my Audioboom streams the first time around.
On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by Jason Pargin to discuss his latest novel, I’m Starting to…
On this week’s episode, I’m rejoined by Jason Pargin to discuss his latest novel, I’m Starting to…
01:05:53 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
The Death of a Community
This week I’m joined by Amy Nicholson, the director of the documentary Happy Campers, which is now available for rental or purchase on VOD at Apple. We discussed the ragtag oceanside community Amy do…
00:54:50 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
Will Rogers and the American Spirit
This week I talked to Steven Watts about his new book, Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People. Rogers was a fascinating figure, one who straddled America’s status as a largely agrarian, …
00:38:34 |
Sat 07 Sep 2024
John Magary on the Art of Editing
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by John Magary, editor of the new film Between the Temples. We discuss how he got into the editing business, the role of the editor in building the rhythm and flow …
00:55:40 |
Sat 31 Aug 2024
The Social Media Trap for Teens
My guest this week is Valentina El Harizi, an 18-year-old first-time filmmaker who has an entry at the DIFF Shorts Film Festival. (If you get this email early enough and happen to live in the Dallas …
00:39:20 |
Sat 24 Aug 2024
Disney's Future Is the Past
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Robbie Whelan, who covers the wide world of Disney for the Wall Street Journal. We talked about all the stuff Disney rolled out at D23 (Sequels! Theme park addit…
00:47:55 |
Sat 17 Aug 2024
Brad Thor's World of Intrigue
This week I met with novelist (and Bulwark+ member!) Brad Thor in a shadowy location (upstairs at Dallas’s magnificent flagship Half Price Books) to discuss his latest book of international intrigue,…
00:52:53 |
Sat 10 Aug 2024
Documenting the Rise of Nazism
I’m joined this week by Thomas Doherty, Brandeis professor and author of Hollywood and Hitler, 1933-1939, and Maria Elena de las Carreras, lecturer in film studies at the UCLA School of Film and Tele…
00:54:07 |
Sat 27 Jul 2024
Ryan Faughnder on Paramount's Big Changes
This week I’m being rejoined by the Los Angeles Times’s Ryan Faughnder to discuss the sale of Paramount to David Ellison. What does this mean for the various arms of Viacom? Then we discussed the col…
00:35:40 |
Sat 20 Jul 2024
Jennifer Esposito on 'Fresh Kills'
On this week’s episode I’m joined by Jennifer Esposito, the director, writer, and star of Fresh Kills, a mob movie told from the perspective of mob wives and mob daughters. We discussed her career in…
00:43:05 |
Sat 13 Jul 2024
Nielsen's Ratings Evolution
Often, when people discuss television viewing these days they’ll conclude their chat with something like “But we just don’t know what people are watching.” That is an increasingly outdated view of th…
00:36:07 |
Sat 06 Jul 2024
Documenting 'How to Rob a Bank'
On this week’s episode, I’m joined by Stephen Robert Morse and Seth Porges, the producers and directors of How to Rob a Bank. Streaming now on Netflix, the true-crime doc’s subject, Scott Scurlock (a…
00:31:51 |
Sat 29 Jun 2024
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