Fiends for mojitos Katie Walsh and Blake Howard begin their drink-along podcast through every loveable morsel of Michael Mann's misunderstood masterpiece MIAMI VICE (2006).

On their addictive podcast dedicated to Miami Vice, called Miami Nice, critics Katie Walsh and Blake Howard regularly invite guests on to talk about the film. (I’ve been on, as you might imagine.) But unlike most other podcasts devoted to single titles, the guests on Miami Nice are rarely there to talk about some specific element of the picture. Rather, the podcast serves almost as a confessional. Guest after guest talks about how they became obsessed with this strange, once-detested marvel of a movie and the circumstances that led them to it. Then they (and by they, I of course mean we) try to make sense of the film and ascertain why it’s so … habit-forming. Usually, there comes a point when it seems that everybody has simply run out of words.

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Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic, journalist, podcast host, and moderator. She reviews weekly film releases for the Tribune News Service, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a frequent guest host of the Maximum Fun podcast Switchblade SistersHer writing has been published inVanity FairRolling StonePlayboy,The PlaylistNerdist,SlateThe HairpinindieWIREWomen and HollywoodTown & CountryMovielineCAP the Magazineand Nonficsand she frequently contributes film reviews to KCRW’s Press Play with Madeline Brand. She has covered many international film festivals as a critic and reporter, and has moderated dozens of Q&As with filmmakers and actors around LA. She is a part-time lecturer at Chapman University, teaching the Film Studies class “Practices of Writing About Film.”

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TOKYO NICE: Episode Six  “The Information Business”  and  Episode Seven  “Sometimes They Disappear” - Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka
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TOKYO NICE: Episode Six “The Information Business” and Episode Seven “Sometimes They Disappear” - Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka

In this special bonus episode of MIAMI NICE aka TOKYO NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard discuss the simmering intensity of Ayumi Tanida’s Tozawa and Ansel Elgort’s Jake Adelstein as the worst stalker in Tokyo the in the sixth and seventh episodes of the terrific new HBO MAX series Tokyo Vice directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka.

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MIAMI NICE: Sophisticated Counter Intel w/ Mark Olsen
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MIAMI NICE: Sophisticated Counter Intel w/ Mark Olsen

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard joins writer and podcaster for the L.A Times, Mark Olsen. Mark debunks his experience moderating a Thief and Collateral with Michael Mann, comparing the relationship of HEAT and Miami Vice to Goodfellas and Casino, and "the gift from heaven" that is the Miami Nice Cut.

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MIAMI NICE: One of a Colin w/ Dan Mecca
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MIAMI NICE: One of a Colin w/ Dan Mecca

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard joins co-host on The B-Side Podcast, co-founder of The Film Stage and filmmaker Dan Mecca. Dan joins us to unpack the MIAMI NICE cut, and to excavate the fascinating rollercoaster career of Colin Farrell.

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MIAMI NICE: To See If You Go Meet The Mann w/ Justin Liberman
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MIAMI NICE: To See If You Go Meet The Mann w/ Justin Liberman

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard joins former Michael Mann assistant during the COLLATERAL & MIAMI VICE, Justin Liberman. Justin shares his incredible tale from waiting tables to working at Michael Mann's office at Forward Pass and seeing the pre-production of the abandoned Worcester Cold Storage, the casting 'what-ifs' of Collateral and an insider's guide to the chaos of Miami Vice.

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MIAMI NICE:  The Sound of Vice with Elliott Koretz
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MIAMI NICE: The Sound of Vice with Elliott Koretz

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join one of three people, including Michael Mann, that contributed to both the Miami Vice T.V series and the 2006 film, Sound Designer and Sound Supervisor, Elliott Koretz. Elliott, Katie and Blake discuss working on the Miami Vice pilot, the work of a Sound Supervisor when you’re working with Michael Mann, Mann’s two-hour sleep cycle in the edit of his films and secret ingredients in the Collateral sound design.

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MIAMI NICE:  Colin Farrell's Handler Pt. 2 with Japheth Gordon
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MIAMI NICE: Colin Farrell's Handler Pt. 2 with Japheth Gordon

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join filmmaker, writer, producer and COLIN FARRELL’S HANDLER on Miami Vice, Japheth Gordon. Katie and Blake talk with Japheth who paints a picture of the wild reality of making Miami Vice, the tension between the stars, Michael Mann’s work ethic and the way movies were made BEFORE the global financial crisis.

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MIAMI NICE:  Colin Farrell's Handler Pt. 1 with Japheth Gordon
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MIAMI NICE: Colin Farrell's Handler Pt. 1 with Japheth Gordon

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join filmmaker, writer, producer and COLIN FARRELL’S HANDLER on Miami Vice, Japheth Gordon. Katie and Blake talk with Japheth who paints a picture of the wild reality of making Miami Vice, the tension between the stars, Michael Mann’s work ethic and the way movies were made BEFORE the global financial crisis.

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MIAMI NICE:  This is the End with Joshua Caldwell
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MIAMI NICE: This is the End with Joshua Caldwell

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join Director, Producer, Writer, MENDING THE LINE, INFAMOUS, NEGATIVE, LAYOVER and MTV Movie Award Winner, Joshua Caldwell. Katie and Blake talk with Josh about his fascination with Michael Mann's aesthetic, the regret that he can't re-see Miami Vice again in the theatre with a memory wipe and finally ending with the end, as we should.

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MIAMI NICE: "Miami Vyce" with Vyce Vyctus
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MIAMI NICE: "Miami Vyce" with Vyce Vyctus

This episode of MIAMI NICE hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard joins the action film aficionado Vyce Victus. Katie, Blake and Vyce discuss the meta-American Empire apparatus expressed through the Bay-formers series, watching HEAT in basic training and generally championing "Gangster Ass Movies" (Trademark Vyce Victus).

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