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
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- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 50 minutes
- Episodes
- 264
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
"The Monkey"
This week, after a long month of lists, recaps, and Oscar nominated heavy hitters, we lighten the mood with the gory, splatter-filled Stephen King adaptation of The Monkey. Oz Perkins' second film in…
00:33:02 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
"The Brutalist"
It's incredibly easy to overpraise something like Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist just for its degree of difficulty and the unlikelihood of it even existing, but it’s the real deal: a living Great Ameri…
00:59:33 |
Sat 15 Feb 2025
"Nickel Boys"
This week we review RaMell Ross's Nickel Boys, an adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel of the same name. The story of two Black boys who form an unshakeable bond at a segregated reform school in th…
00:42:17 |
Sat 08 Feb 2025
The Most Anticipated Films of 2025
As per tradition, we follow up the best of 2024 with our Most Anticipated Films of 2025 episode as Jeff, Derek, and Amir list what's got them excited going into the new year. Running the gamut of ind…
00:49:51 |
Fri 31 Jan 2025
The Best Films of 2024
Another year of cinema in the rear view as we count down our personal top tens of 2024. A year that highlighted the limits of accessibility for some of its best films, 2024 gave us the most varied li…
01:22:59 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
"Juror #2"
At 94-years young, Clint Eastwood is still going strong with his latest meat-and-potatoes legal thriller, Juror #2. Featuring a murderers' row of actors and a premise to die for, is Eastwood's latest…
00:37:51 |
Fri 10 Jan 2025
"Nosferatu"
Happy new year! We ring in 2025 by reviewing podcast favorite filmmaker Robert Eggers' latest historical horror: his grim vision of the vampire classic, Nosferatu. We talk vampires, Dracula, and Egge…
00:43:14 |
Sat 04 Jan 2025
"Anora"
This week, we review Cannes and awards season darling Anora. Another exploration of director Sean Baker's working class milieus, this story of a fiery stripper who falls in with an immature son of Ru…
00:35:51 |
Fri 20 Dec 2024
"The Beast"
For better or worse, Bertrand Bonello's The Beast is one of the most memorable movies of 2024. A discombobulating sci-fi trip through time that stars Lea Seydoux and George Mackay, it explodes the ke…
00:46:29 |
Mon 16 Dec 2024
"Gladiator II" and "Wicked"
2024's challenger to last year's "Barbenheimer" phenomenon is here in the form of the Gladiator II and Wicked double feature. We review both highly anticipated films, and our discussion just might su…
00:54:02 |
Sat 07 Dec 2024
"Conclave"
This week we review Edward Berger's Conclave, a papal conspiracy thriller in the guise of a serious business, hiding a goofed-up B-movie underneath. We talk about its twists and turns, its murderers'…
00:39:52 |
Sat 23 Nov 2024
"A Different Man"
This week, we review Aaron Schimberg's under-the-radar indie darling, A Different Man, an unlikely companion piece to this year's The Substance and may even overtake it as the essential 2024 text on …
00:40:23 |
Sat 16 Nov 2024
"Red Rooms"
This week we review Pascal Plante's Red Rooms, an under-the-radar indie that's taken the horrorsphere by storm. A serial killer thriller that finds power in its restraint and shocking prescience, Red…
00:39:16 |
Fri 08 Nov 2024
"The Penguin"
This week we review the new Max series continuing Matt Reeves' The Batman saga: The Penguin. Starring Colin Farrell, Cristin Milioti, Rhenzy Feliz, and Clancy Brown, the eight-episode miniseries deta…
00:37:13 |
Fri 25 Oct 2024
"Joker: Folie à Deux
This week, we review Todd Phillips' highly anticipated sequel, Joker: Folie à Deux. Is it a misbegotten misfire? Or is it a movie with a strange set of balls? Is it both? We discuss its interesting m…
00:49:45 |
Fri 11 Oct 2024
"Megalopolis"
Self-financed and over 40 years in the making, Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis is the most divisive movie of the year. Is it an unmitigated disaster or an old master's magnum opus? Or is it somewh…
00:45:53 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
"The Substance"
Once again transmogrifying old-school exploitation into her own feminist styling of New French Extremity, Coralie Fargeat trades in the empowered bloodletting of 2018’s Revenge for body horror. Your …
00:54:37 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
"Rebel Ridge"
Director Jeremy Saulnier follows up his brutal downers of Green Room and Hold the Dark with a politically angry new action thriller. With a star-making turn from actor Aaron Pierre, Rebel Ridge rides…
00:47:38 |
Sat 14 Sep 2024
"Life After Fighting"
It's a deeper cut this week as we dive straight into a smaller, VOD action gem with Bren Foster's kinetic martial arts actioner, Life After Fighting. We review this by-your-bootstraps indie gem that …
00:37:35 |
Fri 30 Aug 2024
"Alien: Romulus"
Fede Álvarez takes over the reins of Xenomorph terror with Alien: Romulus. In this episode, we review the first Alien movie in seven years, and the first in over a decade to depart from series godfat…
01:03:50 |
Fri 23 Aug 2024
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