Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions

Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. Produced by Ben Hosley.

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Blank Check with Griffin & David

Episodes (576)

Sunday You Were Never Really Here with Sean Clements
Thu Feb 12th Critical Darlings: Frankenstein And The Craft Category Juggernauts with Bilge Ebiri
Sun Feb 8th We Need To Talk About Kevin with Jia Tolentino

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Feb 15, 2026
3½ hours
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In 2018, Lynne Ramsay released You Were Never Really Here, a film about a completely implausible scenario...a townhouse on the East side of Manhattan houses a sex trafficking operation that implicates high-level government officials in its web of depravity???? Could you even imagine?!! Hollywood Handbook's Sean Clements joins us to chat about this eerily relevant film, the literary career of Jonathan Ames, Joaquin Phoenix's screen persona, and Joseph Gordon Levitt's recently announced follow-up to Don Jon. Listen to Hayes Davenport's (not a guest on this episode) episode of High & Mighty where he talks about newspaper comics. <...

Blank Check with Griffin & David

You Were Never Really Here with Sean Clements

Blank Check Productions

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