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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MIAMI NICE:  Sea Penis w/Jordan Harper (Pt. 2)
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MIAMI NICE: Sea Penis w/Jordan Harper (Pt. 2)

This is the second of two episodes where hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join screenwriter, and award-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA & EVERYBODY KNOWS, Jordan Harper. Katie and Blake talk to Jordan and discuss the concept of “utopic elsewhere”, and the Freudian reading of the “GO FAST BOAT.”

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MIAMI NICE:  I come to bury him w/Jordan Harper (Pt. 1)
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MIAMI NICE: I come to bury him w/Jordan Harper (Pt. 1)

This episode hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard screenwriter and award-winning author of SHE RIDES SHOTGUN, THE LAST KING OF CALIFORNIA & EVERYBODY KNOWS, Jordan Harper. Katie and Blake talk to Jordan about the episodic nature of Miami Vice, wanting to consume Colin Farrell’s ANIMA, and “Strap yourselves in” coming on the show not to praise previous guest Travis Woods, rather to bury him.

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COLLATERAL CONFESSIONS: Off Sunset with Justin Liberman
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COLLATERAL CONFESSIONS: Off Sunset with Justin Liberman

This episode hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join former Michael Mann assistant during the COLLATERAL & MIAMI VICE, Justin Liberman. Katie, Blake and Justin discuss his first hand experience on the set of COLLATERAL, potential alternate titles of the film and another example of why the Cruise/Mann collaboration is truly electrifying.

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MIAMI NICE: The Swen Cut w/Ryan Swen
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MIAMI NICE: The Swen Cut w/Ryan Swen

This episode hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join a freelance film critic and contributor to Reverse Shot, Criterion, Film Comment and The Film Stage, Ryan Swen. Katie, Blake and Ryan discuss his love of BLACKHAT and his pandemic project to create an approximation of the infamous director’s cut and the consistent request to stoke the fires of modern MANN-dom.

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COLLATERAL CONFESSIONS: His name's not even Vincent with Stuart Beattie
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COLLATERAL CONFESSIONS: His name's not even Vincent with Stuart Beattie

This episode hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join the screenwriter of Collateral, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, Stuart Beattie. Katie, Blake and Stuart discuss the lengthy “shoot your shot” genesis of COLLATERAL, subverting the inherent trust of driving and being driven, before weighing in on Vincent’s full name and who Jason Statham plays in the film.

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COLLATERAL CONFESSIONS: Vincent Collateral with Amy Nicholson
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COLLATERAL CONFESSIONS: Vincent Collateral with Amy Nicholson

This episode hosts Katie Walsh, and Blake Howard join podcasting legend (Unspooled, Feature Presentation, Halloween Unmasked) and Tom Cruise scholar Amy Nicholson for the first “formalised” COLLATERAL CONFESSIONS digression on MIAMI NICE. Amy shares her controversial feelings about where Collateral fits in the Tom Cruise oeuvre before endorsing the “Vincent Collateral” character name.

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MIAMI NICE: Michael Mann, Drip Lord w/Jonah Weiner
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MIAMI NICE: Michael Mann, Drip Lord w/Jonah Weiner

This episode hosts Katie Walsh and Blake Howard join a contributing writer to the New York Times whose profile Michael Mann’s Damaged Men took him into the trenches of FERRARI pre-production, Jonah Weiner. Jonah, Katie and Blake discuss his experiences of his trip to Rome, director “fits”, Italian Neo-Realist movie recommendations and drinking wine in the afternoon with the one and only Michael Mann.

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