Junk Filter Podcast

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Junk Filter: A culture podcast for our Extremely Online times. Film, music, politics and jokes. Hosted by Jesse Hawken.

Japanese Chirashi poster for PREDATOR 2 (Stephen Hopkins, 1990)
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Bob (Leonardo Di Caprio) being hugged by his daughter Willa (Chase Infiniti) at the dinner table in One Battle After Another (PT Anderson, 2025)
Publicity photo for Prefab Sprout's 1985 album "Steve McQueen" (aka "Two Wheels Good" in North America): Neil Conti, Martin McAloon, Wendy Smith and Paddy McAloon
Cover of the first single by Prefab Sprout “Lions in My Own Garden (Exit Someone)” (1982)
Joe Cross filming his announcement of his candidacy for mayor via social media - screens within screens throughout Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON
The crew of the USS Churchill entering the mysterious alien spaceship hiding in Halley's Comet in LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper, 1985)
Detail from an alternate poster for LIFEFORCE (Tobe Hooper, 1985)
The great poster for LIFEFORCE with a huge eyeball looking down on the Earth “In the blink of an eye, the terror begins”
Poster art for THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974) showing Gene Hackman as wiretapper Harry Caul listening to elements of the conspiracy he’s been hired to record for mysterious reasons
Gary Bond drinking a pint while getting a classic Australian dirty look from Chips Rafferty in WAKE IN FRIGHT (Ted Kotcheff, 1971)
A shot in John Ford's THE LONG GRAY LINE (1955) showing rows and rows of West Point cadets in a cathedral. Ford innovated the then-new CinemaScope format to favor the Z-Axis (the depth of the image) as opposed to the height and width of a shot.
A Robert Landau photo of a billboard on the sunset strip for LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR, October 1977
Gene Hackman as Harry Caul setting up survelliance equipment in a hotel bathroom in THE CONVERSATION (Coppola, 1974)
Fernanda Torres and her mother Fernanda Montenegro, the first and second Brazilian actors to be Oscar nominated for their work. Montenegro got robbed for Central Station in 1998… will justice be served tonight?
British quad poster for NAKED LUNCH (Cronenberg, 1991)
Richard Gere and Diane Keaton having a drink in LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR (Richard Brooks, 1977)
Chris Hemsworth as a blackhat hacker named Hathaway walking on the tarmac towards his plane in BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, 2015)
Deep focus Cinemascope frame of a church full of West Point cadets in THE LONG GRAY LINE (Ford, 1955)
British Quad poster for Looking For Mr. Goodbar (Richard Brooks, 1977)
Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan in PROOF OF LIFE (Taylor Hackford, 2000)
Eric Bana as Avner in MUNICH (Spielberg, 2005)
Michael Lonsdale and Eric Bana in a field of flowers in the exact mid-point sequence in MUNICH (Spielberg, 2005)
Chris Hemsworth in silhouette bathed in the LED and neon light of Hong Kong in Blackhat (Mann, 2015)
Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan in PROOF OF LIFE (Hackford, 2000)
Gerard Butler as Big Nick and O’Shea Jackson Jr. as Donnie behind the wheel of a getaway Porsche in DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA (Christian Gudegast, 2025)
In a stage spotlight, the silhouette of Timothée Chalamet as Bob Dylan in A COMPLETE UNKNOWN (Mangold, 2024)
Tang Wei and Chris Hemsworth running down a subway escalator in BLACKHAT (Michael Mann, 2015)
Close up of the giant cardboard standup poster for Kraven The Hunter in the lobby of the Yonge & Dundas Cineplex
The Brutalist (2024) - two men embracing in front of a green bus