The Strange Harbors Podcast
Welcome to The Strange Harbors Podcast. Hosted by Derek Wong, Jeff Zhang, and Amir Touray, The Strange Harbors Podcast is a weekly discussion of all things pop culture, with an emphasis on film and television. Join us every week as we dive deep into big blockbusters, indie favorites, and under-seen hidden gems.
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Television
Horror
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 264
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
"Alien: Earth"
Xenomorphs get the prestige television treatment with Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth. Mashing up extraterrestrial horror with corpo-palace intrigue, the eight-episode first season looks to expand the wor…
00:43:56 |
Fri 05 Sep 2025
"Weapons"
Zach Cregger follows up his 2022 surprise hit Barbarian with another bout of sneaky horror with Weapons. Centered around a town grappling with a singular classroom of missing children, Cregger's soph…
00:43:14 |
Mon 25 Aug 2025
"Eddington"
Leaving Cannes critics perplexed and polarized this spring, Ari Aster's Eddington takes aim at the fabric of the American zeitgeist. Is it the defining finger on the pulse of COVID-abetted brain rot?…
00:53:20 |
Sat 09 Aug 2025
"The Fantastic Four: First Steps"
New Earth. Fresh start. The MCU's latest brings Marvel's First Family to the big screen in a retro-futuristic, sci-fi epic. Will a red-hot, A-list cast and a heavy-hitting, non-cloud Galactus finall…
01:03:15 |
Mon 04 Aug 2025
"28 Years Later"
As Jeff calls it on his Letterboxd review: "A movie of surprisingly gentle compassion but also dudes getting their entire spinal columns hauled out of their neck holes." This week we review the reuni…
01:03:26 |
Sat 26 Jul 2025
"Superman"
James Gunn stewards a new DC Cinematic Universe with the hotly anticipated Superman. Starring David Corenswet, Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Hoult, Nathan Fillion, and Edi Gathegi, this new version of t…
01:07:10 |
Fri 18 Jul 2025
"Ballerina" and "F1"
Jeff is on vacation this week, so it's up to Derek and Amir to pull off the rare double feature episode. In a week of dueling popcorn blockbusters, which crowdpleaser — John Wick spinoff Ballerina o…
00:51:26 |
Sat 12 Jul 2025
"Materialists"
Celine Song's followup to 2023's gem Past Lives explores the world of matchmaking through a spin on the classic love triangle. Song turns her signature gentle tension on its head with a take on moder…
00:41:18 |
Fri 04 Jul 2025
What We're Watching, Summer 2025
This installment of our What We're Watching series is a television catchup episode, where we discuss two big, recent hits — both in their second seasons — that we just haven't had time to cover in fu…
00:47:36 |
Thu 19 Jun 2025
"Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning"
Arguably one of the best action franchises of all time comes to a presumed end with Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning. Somehow, the most divisive entry yet, Christopher McQuarrie and Tom Crui…
01:01:20 |
Wed 04 Jun 2025
"Andor" Season 2
Critically-acclaimed Andor has returned. Politically sophisticated and emotionally bracing, Tony Gilroy's Star Wars series about the birth of a rebellion has returned for a second and final season. D…
01:04:11 |
Fri 23 May 2025
2025 Summer Box Office Wager
It's that time of the year again where we make our friendly bet on the season's box office results. After two years in a row of Amir taking the bag, Derek and Jeff are trying extra hard in 2025 to ta…
00:45:36 |
Sun 04 May 2025
"Sinners"
Ryan Coogler's Sinners is one of the year's best films: a purposefully messy vampire metaphor just overflowing with passion and ideas, painted across a tapestry of folklore, diegetic blues, and epic …
01:00:46 |
Sun 27 Apr 2025
"The Pitt"
On this week's podcast, we review the latest streaming sensation on Max and the spiritual successor to ER, The Pitt. A medical drama like no other, the series prides itself on its realism and its rea…
01:11:46 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
"A Working Man"
Director David Ayer re-teams with Jason Statham for another professionally titled actioner: A Working Man. Following up last year's The Beekeeper, will the duo recapture the absurd magic of their deb…
00:36:39 |
Fri 04 Apr 2025
"Daredevil: Born Again"
For our first television episode of 2025, we review the long-anticipated revival of Marvel's Man Without Fear — Daredevil: Born Again. Is the new series able to find the best version of itself despit…
00:46:24 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
"Black Bag"
This week, we review director Steven Soderbergh's second film to be released in as many months. Black Bag sure is steamy — Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett playing married spooks certainly heigh…
00:44:27 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
"Mickey 17"
It's been six long years since the last Bong Joon-ho film, Parasite, swept through the 2020 Oscars, including the prize of Best Picture. A beloved filmmaker that has brought us both intimate, grounde…
00:42:14 |
Sat 15 Mar 2025
The 97th Oscars Recap
A welcome respite from Jimmy Kimmel's irony-pilled sarcasm, the 97th annual Academy Awards found late-night legend Conan O'Brien in the host chair. Jeff, Derek, and Amir break down the broadcast and …
00:45:36 |
Thu 06 Mar 2025
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