Media and tech aren’t just intersecting — they’re fully intertwined. And to understand how those worlds work, and what they mean for you, veteran journalist Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers - and gets them to spell it out in plain, BS-free English. Part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
That’s a wrap (for now)
That's A Wrap (2024) · Dec 7, 2023
An Elon-free year in review
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) · Dec 20, 2022
B.J. Novak on “Vengeance”, podcasts and the downside of the streaming boom
Vengeance (2022) · Jul 28, 2022
Director Rhys Thomas on his unlikely journey from SNL to Disney’s Hawkeye
Hawkeye (1988) · Nov 23, 2021
Behind the making of The Dissident, the movie about Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
The Dissident (2020) · Jan 7, 2021
NYT’s James Poniewozik on the virtual conventions; CNN’s Brian Stelter on Trump + Fox
Hoax (2019) · Aug 27, 2020
Meet the man who made Netflix’s most popular movie
Extraction (2020) · May 21, 2020
How The Safdie Bros. landed Adam Sandler for Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems (2019) · Jan 9, 2020
'The Front Runner' director Jason Reitman
The Front Runner (2018) · Nov 1, 2018
'Big Game' author Mark Leibovich
Big Game (2014) · Sep 25, 2018
'The Land of Steady Habits' director Nicole Holofcener
The Land of Steady Habits (2018) · Sep 18, 2018
'Eighth Grade' director Bo Burnham
Eighth Grade (2018) · Jul 26, 2018
'Get Out' producer Jason Blum (Live at SXSW)
Get Out (2017) · Mar 15, 2018
How Netflix makes a hit (Steven Soderbergh and Scott Frank, co-creators, ‘Godless’)
Godless (2017) · Dec 14, 2017
Andy Weir on 'The Martian,' 'Artemis' and when we'll live on the moon
The Martian (2015) · Nov 30, 2017
Why Ken Burns won't leave PBS for HBO
The Vietnam War (2020) · Sep 14, 2017
What Peter Thiel’s war against Gawker can tell us about Trump (Brian Knappenberger, director, "Nobody Speak")
Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press (2017) · Jun 22, 2017
Why this four-hour Grateful Dead documentary took 14 years to make (Amir Bar-Lev, director, 'Long Strange Trip')
Long Strange Trip (2017) · May 25, 2017
Making a superhero movie for adults (Scott Frank, screenwriter, 'Logan')
Logan (2017) · Feb 23, 2017
Documentarian Alex Gibney says the Stuxnet virus was a "new kind of weapon"
Zero Days (2016) · Jul 7, 2016
"Warcraft" director Duncan Jones: Don't watch this movie on an iPhone
Warcraft (2016) · Jun 2, 2016