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Anti-wave
Hosted by Cannonball of Death · EN
Welcome to Anti-wave Podcast, where Robert Cannon + Ira Heffler discuss all your Anti-wave movie needs. What the hell is Anti-wave, you ask? Great question. In short, Anti-wave is a way to describe films that seek to buck the typical Hollywood trends. Anti-wave is an opportunity to reimagine the way we construct genre films. Anti-westerns have been popular in the years since WWII, but where are the anti-sports films that try to shake off the expected formulaic writing? This podcast tries to find those films for you. Along the way, we deliver some laughs, get into film theory, and speak with filmmakers who share our anti-sentiment. So, welcome to Anti-wave Podcast! We hope you enjoy the ride.
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Episode 325: Project Hail Mary and Top 5 Save-the-World Movies
Apr 1401:43:58Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert breaks down cosmic isolation and save-the-world ingenuity, while Ira realizes his backup plan in space is just panicking quietly. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Project Hail Mary and share their top 5 save-the-world movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to wake up on a spaceship a long ass way from Earth and you begin to remember you’re a former molecular biologist teaching science to kids and Earth will soon freeze and you become buddies with an ugly alien and your ugly alien buddy’s planet will also soon become extinct, and because the ship’s atmosphere will kill your ugly alien buddy, he goes into an airtight ball and rolls around a lot, and you remember you didn’t want to go on this mission, you were drugged by a woman who’s a good karaoke singer and you and your ugly alien buddy save both planets and you go to your ugly alien buddy’s planet and teach science to little ugly alien kids, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 324: Oscars and Top 5 Never Seen Before Movies
Mar 1701:53:27Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert dives into the glamour, politics, and questionable taste of the Oscars, while Ira admits he’d accept an award just for staying awake through the whole thing. Join Robert and Ira with special guest film professor Eric Swelstad as they discuss THE OSCARS and share their top 5 ‘never-seen movies.’ Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you want to know everything about the Oscars, and we do mean everything, from Conan O’Brien dressed as the Weapons witch as he runs into the top movies, and the usual winners and losers and political rants, and the snubs and songs and speeches, and the ratings and relevance and rants, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 323 - The Taking of Pelham 123 (Both Versions) and Top 5 ‘70s Remake Movies
Feb 25Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert dives into crime, conductors, and crooked motives, while Ira admits his biggest transit crisis is forgetting where he parked. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss both versions of The Taking of Pelham 123 and share their top 5 ‘70 movie remakes. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a New York City subway dispatcher and some thugs hijack a subway and threatened to kill the passengers until they get a shitload of money and they will kill one hostage for every minute that has passed after the deadline, and the goofy self-absorbed mayor is of no help, and you bond with the main thug and carry the money onto the subway and the thugs jump off the subway and it’s a runaway train and you chase the thugs and then it comes down to you and the ringleader, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 322 - Tickled and Top 5 Fetish Movies
Feb 1001:21:12Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert dives into a story that starts with harmless curiosity and somehow ends in lawsuits, blackmail, and grown men being paid to giggle, while Ira questions every email he’s ever opened. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss TICKLED and share their top 5 fetish movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist and you’re curious about the underground ‘sport’ of tickling with young athletic men and as you do research on the sport, some shady figures threaten you and you discover there’s more here than meets the eye and we’re talking bullying, threats of ruined reputations, fake identities, credit card fraud and then you uncover even more starting stuff with much more going on than just giggles, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 321 - mother! and Top 5 Worth a Second Watch Movies
Jan 2701:39:34Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert descends into cinematic anxiety and biblical chaos, while Ira spends the entire time asking the perfectly reasonable question: “Why doesn’t anyone just leave?” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MOTHER! and share their favorite top 5 ‘worth a 2nd watch’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a woman in a house with your husband who is a poet with writer’s block and is distant, and then a visitor and his wife show up and you become more and more frustrated with these uninvited guests, and when the couple accidentally shatters a crystal object you tell them to leave and then things go bonkers and chaotic while other people arrive and invade your home, and you’re pregnant and your brooding old man is finally happy and hordes of people show up at your home and you give birth to a baby boy and you don’t want your hubby to hold the kid and he reaches into your chest and pulls out your heart and we’re talking some heavy religious symbolism here, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 320: Producing
Jan 601:46:13Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert breaks down the art of keeping a film alive through sheer willpower, while Ira admits producing sounds suspiciously like being blamed for everything. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of producer on micro budget films, focusing on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a film producer, which involves feeding the cast and crew and running around town to get camera gear and batteries and lots of props, including combination locks, a porn collection, tennis shoes, and fake scars and guns, and keeping security at a distance and being a sounding board for the director and scouting the subways and driving to the desert to record gunshots and shattering my car window and stomping barefoot in a pool of blood under a freeway tunnel for a scene that wasn’t used, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 319 - Director of Photography (Special Guest: Trevor Davis)
Dec 901:40:14Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert dives into the dark arts of cinematography, Ira claims he invented the Dutch angle by accident, and Trevor Davis patiently explains how he saved Prowler from looking like security-cam footage. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of the Director of Photography with our special guest TREVOR DAVIS, who was the DP extraordinaire on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered who is responsible for the overall “look” of a film and what a Director of Photography does to achieve that - in particular on our film, which was beautifully shot entirely at night - then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 318 - Pi and Top 5 Micro-budget Movies
Nov 1801:52:17Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert unravels spirals of obsession like a man who’s seen too much, while Ira tries to remember how to add without using his phone. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Pi and share their top 5 micro-budget movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a compulsive Jew and you’re obsessed with patterns and mathematics and nature and a cute Latina neighbor tries to be your friend and you befriend an Hasidic Jew who talks about the Talmud and you see how everything in the world even the stock market is in the form of a Golden Ratio, Golden Triangle, Golden Rectangle and ultimately a Golden Spiral, and another Jew tries to talk you out of what you’re doing, and a mysterious woman gives you a chip for your computer, but you trip out on drugs and try to pull a chip out of your head and you collapse and your cute Latina neighbor comes to your aid and you hit your head and you watch a bug and you go back to the old Jew and confront him, and that mysterious woman and her henchmen chase you and want what’s in your head, and the Hasidic Jew saves you and wants what’s in your head, and a group of orthodox rabbis want the number in your head, and the old Jew has a stroke and you smash your computer and burn a bunch of numbers and take a drill to your head, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 317 - Caught Stealing and Top 5 No Way Out Movies
Oct 1401:35:39Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert gets lost in a spiral of violence and moral decay, while Ira just wants to know if “stealing hearts” counts as a felony. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss CAUGHT STEALING and share their top 5 ‘no way out’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to have a hot girlfriend and you have hot sex with her and you’re an alcoholic, but when you agree to take care of your neighbor’s cat, a couple of bald thugs beat the shit out of you, and the detective has an attitude and your girlfriend is killed and someone put a key inside fake dog shit and these two Sephardic Jews come after you and they kill the detective and you and the cat end up on a tropical island, then this podcast is for you!
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Episode 316: Adaptation
Sep 1601:25:35Tap to summarizeThis week, Robert turns chaos into cinema while Ira reminds everyone that sometimes failure is just another word for “first draft.” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss the element of adapting and how it applies to low-budget filmmaking, including their own film PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered about the importance of adapting in filmmaking and know when to be tenacious and not let go, or know how to make something work when you need to think on your feet, or know when to really adapt by tossing out your original idea and modify what you had in mind and instead go with your Plan B, then maybe - just maybe - this process will make your film even better by being more organic and raw and honest, then this podcast is for you!
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