Join host Blake Howard, co-writer/director Phil Alden Robinson (Field of Dreams), star Stephen Tobolowsky and a misfit team of the best film minds to decode and appraise the evergreen SNEAKERS (1992).
"STAND BY ME”
In the fourth episode, host Blake Howard longingly remembers the short and profound career of River Phoenix in SNEAKERS with:
Author, screenwriter and podcaster - Lee Zachariah
One of the greatest living film critics, whose episode of Netflix’s Profane and Profound is one of the best film critiques of the century, Walter Chaw
Author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, and host of POD THOMAS ANDERSON - Ethan Warren.
And co-writer/director of SNEAKERS - Phil Alden Robinson
"PUSHERMAN”
In the third episode, host Blake Howard unpacks the impact of Sidney Potier in and beyond SNEAKERS with:
Author, screenwriter and podcaster - Lee Zachariah
Film Historian, critic, writer for TCM. Co-host of the CineHistorians podcast - Raquel Stecher
Film and culture critic - Craig Lindsay. Holla at him at @unclecrizzle.
"THE HEART OF ROCK AND ROLL"
In the second episode, host Blake Howard unpacks the importance of Robert Redford’s casting as Martin Bishop in SNEAKERS and how it unlocked the “best version of the movie possible” with:
Author, screenwriter and podcaster - Lee Zachariah
New York-based writer, editor, director and author of Miss May Does Not Exist: The Life and Work of Elaine May, Hollywood’s Hidden Genius - Carrie Courogen
Film critic, video essayist, filmmaker, and author of Cinemaphagy: On The Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper & But God Made Him a Poet: Watching John Ford in the 21st Century - Scout Tafoya
And co-writer/director of SNEAKERS - Phil Alden Robinson
"CAN I KICK IT?"
In the first episode, host Blake Howard introduces SNEAKERS as an intergenerational cinematic remix with:
Australia’s premiere music journalist - Sosefina Fuamoli
Award-winning Author, screenwriter and podcaster - Maria Lewis
Author, screenwriter and podcaster - Lee Zachariah
Writer and film essayist - Priscilla Page
And co-writer/director of SNEAKERS - Phil Alden Robinson