Pop Culture Confidential

Conversations at the intersection of movies, television, and pop culture.Hosted by Christina Jeurling Birro, this podcast delivers candid interviews with filmmakers, actors, creators, and cultural tastemakers, plus festival and awards-season coverage, reviews, and in-depth explorations of the stories shaping what we watch and why it matters.

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Episodes (536)

Thursday 525: Backrooms, Obsession & The YouTube Creators Filling Cinemas! (Guest: Ryan McQuade)
May 25th 524: Dispatch 10: Final Cannes Report & The Award Winners! Guest, Ryan McQuade
May 22nd 523: Cannes Dispatch 9. Club Kid, Coward, The Man I Love & Jim Queen. Guest:Erik Anderson, AwardsWatch.

Pop Culture Confidential

Jun 4, 2026
1 hours
52 MB

Ryan McQuade of AwardsWatch.com joins Christina to discuss the mega-hits Obsession (directed by 26-year-old Curry Barker) and Backrooms (by 20-year-old Kane Parsons), the rise of YouTube content creators in cinema and more! Plus they talk basketball! :) Don’t miss it

Pop Culture Confidential

525: Backrooms, Obsession & The YouTube Creators Filling Cinemas! (Guest: Ryan McQuade)

Pop Culture Confidential

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