At a sold-out* screening at the American Cinematheque's Friends of the Fest podcast film festival of Miami Vice on 24 August 2024 at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre, hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard surprised the audience with a Q&A with the icon Michael Mann. The conversation traverses Mann's inspirations for the film, his favourite scenes, the editorial philosophy, immersive actor preparation, and the fantastic supporting cast. Finally, the cherry on top was an update on the development of HEAT 2.

* our second sell-out screening in two years

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard talk to Turner and Bill Ross - The Ross Bros. - the filmmaking sibling partnership behind films like BLOODY NOSE, EMPTY POCKETS & GASOLINE RAINBOW about how COLLATERAL brought movie stars like Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx closer to their specific brand of independent cinema than ever before.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard talk to the West Coast editor of Letterboxd, Mia Vicino, in the wake of her sensational interview with the Mann himself, The Official Michael Mann Watchlist.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard discuss the announcement of the ‘Friend of the Fest 2024’ MIAMI NICE PRESENTS MIAMI VICE screening at the American Cinematheque on Saturday August 24 (7:00pm) at the Egyptian Theatre.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the MOST WANTED guest of the series to date, the legend behind Jose Yero, John Ortiz. Dive in disco guys and gals, you're in for one of the most thrilling episodes yet.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join a member of the editorial team on FERRARI to talk about his insane first experience in feature filmmaking - watching and learning from editorial master Pietro Scalia, the sliding doors of what might have been seeing the Mann archives, an 80-year-old auteur bending space and time to realise his vision and driving around L.A with the legendary Michael Mann.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the wonderful writer and educator Fran Hoepfner. We discuss the Mann spectrum from opera to vibes, the dead zone of 21st-century cinema in the early 2000s, the shock of what Eddie Marsan is doing, and so much more.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join Alfonso de Portago of Michael Mann's Ferrari, Gabriel Leone. In this episode, we talk about being indoctrinated to The Last of the Mohicans as a kid, the extensive preparation for Ferrari and the serendipity of playing de Portago and Senna (in the upcoming Netflix series) back-to-back.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the legendary mastermind director, screenwriter and producer of HEAT and MIAMI VICE, co-author of HEAT 2 and director of FERRARI, Michael Mann. In this episode, we talk about contradictions and complexities that inspired and awed Mann and his collaborators making FERRARI, the essential perceptual differences between consuming things on a cinematic or home screen, the zeitgeist of MIAMI VICE and anticipating a return to Ciudad del Este to shoot HEAT 2.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join another sound editor from Miami Vice (2006), and many other television shows and feature films, Joseph Tsai. We discuss Joseph’s amazing generosity, and his invaluable contribution to our community, reach into the vault of his notes written about making MIAMI NICE and hear first-hand what it’s like to attend Michael Mann University.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join filmmaker and storyteller behind Girls Room (2020), The Beauty of Blackness (2022) and Black Monday (2019), Tiffany J. Johnson. We discuss a 'meeting cute' with Katie based on a shared love of Michael Mann, going backwards through the Mann body of work via ALI and COLLATERAL, the lack of cabs in L.A, and most importantly, being dubbed “the Al whisperer” after working with Al Pacino. 

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join staff writer at Crooked Marquee, author, and Angelino Zach Vasquez, who miraculously connects James Cameron, Vince McMahon and Michael Mann (and so much more).

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join writer and host of INCREMENT VICE Travis Woods in a bumper new episode featuring a mural that thematically reverberates through this taught thriller, Vincent’s death echoing ‘The Death of Socrates’ and so much more.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join freelance writer and film critic Courtney Howard in the second of two new episodes to talk about seeing Colin Farrell in the wild, our determination to get John Ortiz on the show, and how men would rather seduce a drug kingpin's woman (or do a podcast about it) rather than go to therapy.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join freelance writer and film critic Courtney Howard in the first of two new episodes to talk about her journey from "meh" to "drop the remote" on Miami Vice 2006, before Katie derails the chat to fantasize about the prospect of more Vice, Florida compels it.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join educator and host of The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast Veronica Fitzpatrick in the second of two new episodes to discuss how Cartel's put on a better party than AI, the Tom Cruise 'meaningful squint' and the impressions that abound in COLLATERAL.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join educator and host of The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast Veronica Fitzpatrick in the first of two new episodes to discuss Jamie Foxx's account of his sex scene with Naomi Harris' body double and begin unpacking the failed L.A infrastructure depicted in COLLATERAL.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the Katherine and Frank Price Endowed Chair for Study of Race and Popular Culture at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts - Dr Todd Boyd - to talk through the entanglement of SCARFACE and the MIAMI VICE TV Series, the way fans embraced and anointed them into the cultural canon, and so much more.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the filmmaker behind SUITABLE FLESH, MAYHEM, POINT BLANK and the co-host of THE MOVIE CRYPT podcast - Joe Lynch - to talk through his many conflicted feelings about MIAMI VICE.

Hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join educator and host of The Bright Wall/Dark Room Podcast Veronica Fitzpatrick to discuss "I dance" as a precursor to "DTF", the weird corollary between the Linkin Park / Jay Z collab and Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx pairing and so much more.