The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast

On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of its release, and just in time for Halloween, we sit down with the inimitable film critic and essayist Bilge Ebiri to celebrate Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko.Related reads:Bilge's Vulture profile of Jake Gyllenhaal (March 2024)Stupid Man Suit - Lindsey Romain on Donnie Darko (Issue #111, September 2022) --Producer/Editor/Music: Chad Perman--Support the show on Patreon!--HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

This month, Chad and Elizabeth sit down with author Karina Wolf to discuss midlife crisis and Thomas Vinterberg's 2020 film, Another Round.

This month Chad and Elizabeth are joined by writer, producer, director, and showrunner Chris Cantwell (Halt and Catch Fire, The Terror: Devil in Silver)—an original BWDR contributor who also happens to be Elizabeth's husband—to take a deep dive into the 1990 Sean Connery classic, The Hunt for Red October.You can read all 147 issues of Bright Wall/Dark Room—including our current issue on Summer Blockbusters—here. We’re also on Bluesky⁠ @brightwalldarkroom⁠ and @bwdrpod, and welcome listener feedback or movie ideas for upcoming episodes!

To kick off our upcoming Summer Blockbusters issue, we invited longtime BW/DR contributor—and podcast five-timer!—Frank Falisi to help us work our way through Disclosure Day, the latest summer blockbuster from Steven Spielberg, the director who all but created the genre more than 40 years ago. We get into: the ending (first, of course), empathy, aliens, camera movements, CGI animals, post-Fabelmans Spielberg viewing, are we alone in the universe, and more!

We're back, and just in time for summer blockbuster season! Join Chad Perman and new co-host Elizabeth Cantwell as they talk their way through one of the biggest/best summer blockbusters of all time, James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day, on the occasion of its 35th anniversary next month.