Blank Check with Griffin & David

    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.

  • Lost Highway with David Lowery

  • Joker: Hallie À Goodrich

  • Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me with Arkasha Stevenson

  • Wild at Heart with Tatiana Maslany

  • Twin Peaks (Season 1) with Eva Anderson

  • Blue Velvet with Jamie Loftus

  • Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

  • Dune with John Hodgman

  • The Elephant Man with Alex Ross Perry

  • Eraserhead

  • Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1

  • Trap

  • Open Range with Chris Ryan

  • The Postman with Emily St. James

  • Dances with Wolves

  • Gigli with Jen D'Angelo

  • Meet Joe Black with Richard Lawson

  • Scent of a Woman with David Krumholtz

  • Midnight Run with Alan Sepinwall

  • Beverly Hills Cop with Adil & Bilall

  • Going In Style with James Urbaniak

  • Furiosa with Kyle Buchanan

  • Paprika with Emily Yoshida

  • Tokyo Godfathers with Reece Feldman

  • Millennium Actress with Hoai-Tran Bui

  • Perfect Blue with Bowen Yang

  • Basic with BenDavid Grabinski

  • Rollerball with Zach Cherry

  • The 13th Warrior with David Lowery

  • The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) with Amanda Dobbins

  • Die Hard with a Vengeance with Shea Serrano

  • Last Action Hero with Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas

  • Medicine Man with Jamie Lee

  • The Hunt For Red October with Jamelle Bouie

  • The Ninth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • Die Hard with Kevin Smith

  • Predator with Jon Gabrus

  • Nomads

  • The Mirror Has Two Faces with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber

  • The Prince of Tides with Katey Rich

  • A Conversation with Amy Irving

  • Yentl with Jordan Hoffman

  • A Star Is Born (1976) with Rachel Zegler

  • Ferrari with Bilge Ebiri

  • Wonkquaman with Marie Bardi-Salinas

  • Maestro with Marie Bardi-Salinas

  • The Boy and the Heron with J.D. Amato

  • I Love You to Death

  • The Killer with Marie Bardi

  • Mank with Sean Fennessey

  • Gone Girl with Esther Zuckerman

  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Fran Hoepfner

  • The Social Network

  • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button with Richard Lawson

  • Zodiac with Leslye Headland

  • Panic Room with Eva Anderson

  • Fight Club with Alex Ross Perry

  • The Game with Brendan Hines

  • Se7en with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger

  • Alien³ with Matt Singer

  • Decision to Leave with Tatiana Maslany

  • The Handmaiden with Emily Yoshida

  • Stoker with Emily St. James

  • Thirst with Hoai-Tran Bui

  • I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK with Karen Chee

  • Oppenheimer with Marie Bardi

  • Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One with Marie Bardi

  • Sympathy for Lady Vengeance with Karen Han

  • Oldboy with Alison Willmore

  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance with David Ehrlich

  • Joint Security Area

  • The Moon Is…the Sun's Dream / Trio

  • The Cameraman / Spite Marriage

  • College / Steamboat Bill, Jr. with John Hodgman

  • Battling Butler / The General with Jamelle Bouie

  • Seven Chances / Go West with Jamie Loftus

  • Sherlock Jr. / The Navigator with James Urbaniak

  • Three Ages / Our Hospitality with Dana Stevens

  • Yesterday with Zach Cherry

  • T2 Trainspotting with Scott Aukerman & Shaun Diston

  • Steve Jobs with Olivia Craighead

  • Trance with Nia DaCosta

  • 127 Hours with Sean Clements

  • Slumdog Millionaire with Siddhant Adlakha

  • Sunshine

  • Millions with Adam Kempenaar

  • The Eighth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • 28 Days Later with David Rees

  • The Beach with Emily Yoshida

  • Knock at the Cabin with Marie Bardi

  • A Life Less Ordinary with Janet Varney

  • Trainspotting with Charles Rogers

  • Shallow Grave

  • Wendell & Wild

  • Coraline with J.D. Amato

  • Avatar: The Way of Water with Marie Bardi

  • Monkeybone with Justin McElroy

  • James and the Giant Peach with Emma Stefansky

  • The Nightmare Before Christmas with Michael Rianda

  • The Fabelmans

  • Eyes Wide Shut with David Ehrlich

  • Full Metal Jacket with Jon Gabrus

  • The Shining with Timothy Simons

  • Barry Lyndon with Karina Longworth

  • A Clockwork Orange with Alex Ross Perry

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey with Jordan Hoffman

  • Dr. Strangelove... with Sean Fennessey

  • The Woman King

  • Pinocchio (2022) with Podcast: The Ride

  • Three Thousand Years of Longing

  • Lolita with Fran Hoepfner

  • Spartacus with Richard Lawson

  • Paths of Glory with Sarah Marshall

  • The Killing with Patton Oswalt

  • Fear & Desire / Killer's Kiss

  • Star 80 with Julie Klausner

  • All That Jazz with Lin-Manuel Miranda

  • Lenny with Colin Quinn

  • Cabaret with Rachel Zegler

  • Sweet Charity

  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness with Patrick Willems

  • Oz the Great and Powerful with Dana Schwartz

  • Drag Me to Hell with Jamie Loftus & Caitlin Durante

  • Spider-Man 3 with Jamelle Bouie

  • Spider-Man 2 with Chris Gethard

  • Spider-Man with Matt Singer

  • The Gift with Starlee Kine

  • For Love of the Game with Olivia Craighead

  • A Simple Plan with Kevin Smith

  • The Quick and The Dead with Roman Mars

  • Army of Darkness with Eva Anderson

  • Darkman with Chris Weitz

  • Evil Dead II with John Hodgman

  • Crimewave with Brendan Hines

  • The Evil Dead

  • The Seventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • The Power of The Dog with Richard Lawson

  • Bright Star with Fran Hoepfner

  • In the Cut with Jourdain Searles

  • Holy Smoke! with Kyle Buchanan

  • The Portrait of a Lady with Marie Bardi

  • The Piano with Esther Zuckerman

  • An Angel at My Table with Dana Stevens

  • Sweetie with Sarah-Violet Bliss

  • Two Friends

  • The Matrix Resurrections

  • West Side Story (2021)

  • Benedetta with Marie Bardi

  • The Ward with Drew McWeeny

  • Ghosts of Mars with Dave Schilling & Jonah Ray

  • John Carpenter’s Vampires with David Ehrlich

  • Escape from L.A. with Matt Gourley & Paul Rust

  • Village of the Damned with Amy Nicholson

  • In the Mouth of Madness with Angelica Jade Bastién

  • Memoirs of an Invisible Man with Alan Sepinwall

  • They Live! with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger

  • Prince of Darkness with Keith Phipps

  • Big Trouble in Little China with Jason Mantzoukas & Paul Scheer

  • Starman with Katey Rich

  • Christine with Scott Wampler & Eric Vespe

  • The Thing with Emily St. James

  • Escape from New York with Karen Han

  • The Fog with Nia DaCosta

  • Halloween with Alex Ross Perry

  • Assault on Precinct 13 with April Wolfe

  • Dark Star with Emily Yoshida

  • Old with Marie Bardi

  • Space Jam: A New Legacy with James Newman

  • Clifford 2: Hyper-Clifford with Tom Scharpling

  • Joe Dirt

  • Abduction with Jason Concepcion

  • Four Brothers with Jonathan Braylock

  • 2 Fast 2 Furious with Jon Gabrus

  • Baby Boy with Ayo Edebiri

  • Shaft with Demi Adejuyigbe

  • Rosewood with Jamelle Bouie

  • Higher Learning with Micah Peters

  • Poetic Justice with Jourdain Searles

  • Boyz n the Hood with Aisha Harris

  • Don Jon with Hollywood Handbook

  • Ishtar with Clint McElroy

  • Mikey and Nicky with Olivia Craighead

  • The Heartbreak Kid with Avery Edison

  • A New Leaf

  • The Sixth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • Moana with Lenika Cruz

  • The Princess and the Frog with James III

  • Treasure Planet with Emma Stefansky

  • Hercules with Larry Owens

  • Aladdin with Jerah Milligan

  • The Little Mermaid with Esther Zuckerman

  • The Great Mouse Detective with Fran Hoepfner

  • The Witches with Richard Lawson

  • Welcome to Marwen with Emily Yoshida

  • Allied with Chris Weitz

  • teneT

  • Wonder Woman 1984

  • The Walk with J.D. Amato

  • Flight with Olivia Craighead

  • A Christmas Carol with Emily St. James

  • Beowulf with Jordan Hoffman

  • The Polar Express with Joey Sims

  • Cast Away with Nia DaCosta

  • What Lies Beneath with Starlee Kine

  • Contact with Jamie Bell

  • Forrest Gump with Jamelle Bouie

  • Death Becomes Her with Katey Rich

  • Back to the Future Part III with Josh Gondelman

  • Back to the Future Part II with Nicole Byer

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit with Mike Mitchell & Nick Wiger

  • Back to the Future

  • Romancing the Stone with Adam Kempenaar & Josh Larsen

  • Used Cars with Jason Mantzoukas & Paul Scheer

  • I Wanna Hold Your Hand with Patrick Willems

  • The Old Guard

  • Beyond the Lights with Ayo Edebiri

  • The Secret Life of Bees with Jourdain Searles

  • Love & Basketball with Carl Tart

  • Julie & Julia with Romilly Newman

  • Bewitched with Dana Schwartz

  • Lucky Numbers with Alex Ross Perry

  • You've Got Mail with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber

  • Michael with Kevin Porter

  • Mixed Nuts with Charles Rogers

  • Sleepless in Seattle with Katey Rich

  • This Is My Life with Michelle Collins

  • When Harry Met Sally... with Dana Stevens

  • Stargate

  • Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

  • Mad Max: Fury Road with Emily Yoshida

  • Happy Feet Two with Sara Rubin

  • Happy Feet with Caitlin Durante

  • Babe: Pig in the City with Travis McElroy

  • Lorenzo's Oil with Bilge Ebiri

  • The Witches of Eastwick with K. Austin Collins

  • Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with David Ehrlich

  • Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior with Jon Gabrus

  • Mad Max

  • 5th Anniversary Special

  • Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids

  • Ricki and the Flash with Bobby Finger & Lindsey Weber

  • A Master Builder with John Hodgman

  • Rachel Getting Married with Ayo Edibiri and Olivia Craighead

  • The Manchurian Candidate with the Flop House: Dan McCoy, Stuart Wellington, and Elliott Kalan

  • Birds of Prey with Ang Ferraguto, Emma Stefansky, Ashleigh Heaton, and Preeti Chhibber

  • The Truth About Charlie with David Lowery

  • The Fifth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • Beloved with Jourdain Searles

  • Philadelphia with Richard Lawson

  • Silence of the Lambs with Emily St. James

  • Married to the Mob with Ang Ferraguto

  • The Rise of Skywalker

  • Something Wild with Scott Aukerman

  • Stop Making Sense with Demi Adejuyigbe

  • Swing Shift

  • Melvin and Howard (and Jordan Hoffman)

  • Citizens Band/ Last Embrace with Justin McElroy

  • Caged Heat/ Crazy Mama/ Fighting Mad

  • The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

  • The Wind Rises

  • Ponyo on the Cliff with Shirley Li

  • Gemini Man

  • Joker

  • Howl's Moving Castle with David Ehrlich

  • Spirited Away with David Rees

  • Princess Mononoke with Griffin McElroy

  • Porco Rosso with Justin Charity

  • Kiki's Delivery Service with Caroline Framke

  • My Neighbor Totoro with J.D. Amato

  • Castle in the Sky with Emily Yoshida

  • Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with Lulu Wang

  • The Castle of Cagliostro

  • Blackhat with Bilge Ebiri

  • Miami Vice - Pilot Episode

  • Public Enemies with Fran Hoepfner

  • The Lion King

  • Miami Vice

  • Collateral with Katey Rich

  • Ali with Jamelle Bouie

  • The Insider with Andy Levy

  • Heat with Jon Gabrus

  • The Last of the Mohicans with Dana Stevens

  • Manhunter with Chris Cabin and Eric Szyszka

  • The Keep with Alex Ross Perry

  • Thief

  • Pokémon: Detective Pikachu with Dan Hernandez & Benji Samit

  • Assassin's Creed

  • Dumbo with Karen Han

  • Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children with Emma Stefansky

  • Big Eyes with Richard Lawson

  • Dark Shadows with Jamie Loftus

  • Alice in Wonderland with Emily St. James

  • Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street with Michael Cerveris

  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory with Pilot Viruet

  • Big Fish with Chris Gethard

  • Planet of the Apes with Matt Singer

  • Sleepy Hollow with David Lowery

  • The Fourth Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • Mars Attacks! with Paul F. Tompkins

  • Ed Wood with John Hodgman

  • Batman Returns with Emily Yoshida

  • Glass

  • Edward Scissorhands with Julio Torres

  • Batman with K. Austin Collins

  • Aquaman

  • Beetlejuice with Rebecca Bulnes

  • Pee-wee's Big Adventure

  • Ralph Breaks the Internet

  • Home Again with Richard Lawson

  • The Intern with Jamie Lee

  • It's Complicated with Sarah-Violet Bliss

  • The Holiday with Fran Hoepfner

  • Something's Gotta Give with Bobby Finger

  • What Women Want with Lola Kirke

  • The Parent Trap with Elena Lazic and Mani Lazic

  • A Star Is Born

  • Space Jam with James Newman

  • Chosen - The Hire

  • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk with J.D. Amato

  • Life of Pi with Ray Tintori

  • Taking Woodstock with Alex Ross Perry

  • Lust, Caution with Chris Weitz

  • Brokeback Mountain with Las Culturistas

  • Hulk

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon with David Ehrlich

  • Ride with the Devil with Peter Labuza

  • The Ice Storm with Emily Yoshida

  • Hotel Transylvania Trilogy

  • Sense and Sensibility with Shirley Li

  • Eat Drink Man Woman with Alison Willmore

  • Pushing Hands/The Wedding Banquet

  • Family Dog - Amazing Stories

  • Incredibles 2

  • Tomorrowland

  • Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol

  • Ratatouille with Romilly Newman and Joey Sims

  • Solo: A Star Wars Story

  • The Incredibles with Rebecca Drysdale

  • The Iron Giant

  • Josie and the Pussycats with Angela Ferraguto

  • How Do You Know

  • Spanglish with Richard Lawson

  • As Good as It Gets with Chris Gethard

  • I’ll Do Anything: The Musical Cut with Esther Zuckerman

  • I'll Do Anything with Esther Zuckerman

  • Ready Player One

  • March Madness 2018 Recap - Round 3

  • Broadcast News with Katey Rich

  • Terms of Endearment with Valorie Curry

  • March Madness 2018 Recap - Round 1

  • Running Scared with Paul Scheer

  • Elle with Emily Yoshida

  • Hollow Man with Alex Ross Perry

  • Starship Troopers with J.D. Amato

  • Showgirls with Caroline Framke

  • The Third Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • Basic Instinct with Miriam Bale

  • Total Recall with Andrew Jupin and Stephen Sajdak

  • RoboCop

  • Flesh+Blood

  • The Post

  • The Last Jedi

  • Avatarland/The Second Blank Check Mailbag

  • Lost in Space with Joey Sims

  • Justice League

  • Detroit with Black Men Can’t Jump In Hollywood

  • Zero Dark Thirty with Demi Adejuyigbe

  • The Hurt Locker with Sonia Saraiya

  • K-19: The Widowmaker with Richard Lawson

  • The Weight of Water with Karen Han and Emma Stefansky

  • Strange Days with Emily Yoshida

  • Point Break with Lux Alptraum

  • Blue Steel with Jordan Hoffman

  • Near Dark with Mani Lazic

  • The Loveless

  • The Devil Wears Prada with Romilly Newman

  • Here Today Gone Trevorrow - An Emergency Minisode

  • Dunkirk with Bilge Ebiri

  • Interstellar

  • Talking Maul Live @ DCM19 with Peter Serafinowicz

  • The Dark Knight Rises

  • Inception

  • The Dark Knight

  • The Prestige with Alison Willmore

  • Batman Begins

  • Insomnia with Alex Ross Perry

  • Memento with Amy Nicholson

  • Following

  • The Book of Henry

  • The First Blank Check Mailbag

  • Wonder Woman

  • Clifford

  • The BFG

  • Bridge of Spies

  • Lincoln

  • War Horse with Pilot Viruet

  • The Adventures of Tintin with Joe Garden

  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull with David Ehrlich

  • Munich with Emily St. James

  • War of the Worlds with J.D. Amato

  • The Terminal with Jerah Milligan

  • Blank Check

  • Catch Me If You Can

  • Minority Report with Joanna Robinson

  • A.I. Artificial Intelligence with David Rees

  • The Second Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • Saving Private Ryan with Richard Lawson

  • Amistad

  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park

  • Split

  • Best of the Revenge of the Podcast

  • Best of the Attack of the Podcast

  • Best of the Phantom Podcast

  • Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

  • The Man Who Knew Too Little

  • Toruk: The First Flight with Rachel Lang

  • Avatar

  • Aliens of the Deep/Ghosts of the Abyss

  • Titanic with Emily Yoshida and Katey Rich - Part Two

  • Titanic with Emily Yoshida and Katey Rich - Part One

  • True Lies

  • Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day with Sam Rogal

  • The Abyss with Josh Ruben

  • Aliens with Fran Hoepfner

  • The Terminator with Rachel Sanders

  • Piranha II: The Spawning

  • Under Siege 2: Dark Territory

  • Roadies with Layne Montgomery

  • Aloha with Esther Zuckerman

  • We Bought a Zoo

  • Elizabethtown

  • Suicide Squad

  • Denim Invasion Live @ DCM18 with John Trowbridge

  • Vanilla Sky with Richard Lawson

  • Almost Famous

  • Jerry Maguire

  • Singles

  • Say Anything…

  • Fletch

  • The Animatrix

  • Sense8

  • Jupiter Ascending

  • Cloud Atlas with Bobby Finger

  • Speed Racer with Emily Yoshida and J.D. Amato

  • The Matrix Revolutions

  • The Matrix Reloaded

  • The Matrix

  • Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice - The Lost Episode (Remastered)

  • Bound

  • The Buried Secret of M. Night Shyamalan

  • The Visit with Louis Peitzman

  • After Earth with James III

  • The Last Airbender with Seaton Smith

  • The Happening

  • Lady in the Water with Richard Lawson

  • The Village with David Ehrlich

  • The First Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

  • Signs with Murf Meyer and Diana Kolsky

  • Unbreakable with Matt Patches

  • The Sixth Sense with Katey Rich

  • Praying with Anger/Wide Awake

  • Blank Check with Griffin & David Trailer

  • The Podcast Reawakens with Emily Yoshida

  • The Podcast Holiday Special with Pilot Viruet

  • The Podcast Awakens

  • Return of the Podcast

  • The Podcast Strikes Back

  • A New Podcast

  • Watch With Us LIVE! - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • A Conversation with George Lucas - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • More Deleted Scenes with Mike Ryan - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • The Clone Wars Animated Series with Jonathan Braylock - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • Our Performance Review 3.0 with Chris Gethard - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • A Broken Heart with Sonia Saraiya - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • The Jedi Order with Mike Drucker - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • Emperor Darth Sidious - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • The Downfall Of Anakin Skywalker - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • The Beginning of The End - Revenge Of The Podcast

  • The Podcastic Two

  • Watch With Us, Again - Attack Of The Podcast

  • The Deleted Scenes with Chase Mitchell - Attack Of The Podcast

  • Digital Filmmaking with J.D. Amato - Attack Of The Podcast

  • Politics - Attack Of The Podcast

  • Our Performance Review 2.0 - Attack Of The Podcast

  • Count Dooku with Morgan Evans - Attack Of The Podcast

  • Romance with Rachel Lang - Attack Of The Podcast

  • The Angst Of Anakin Skywalker - Attack Of The Podcast

  • The Mysterious Planet Kamino - Attack Of The Podcast

  • Unrest In The Galactic Senate - Attack Of The Podcast

  • Judging The Judge

  • Watch With Us - The Phantom Podcast

  • Final Thoughts - The Phantom Podcast

  • Fan Fiction - The Phantom Podcast

  • Merchandise - The Phantom Podcast

  • The Podrace - The Phantom Podcast

  • A Profile Of Jar Jar Binks And The Gungans - The Phantom Podcast

  • Our Performance Review - The Phantom Podcast

  • Commentary with Connor Ratliff - The Phantom Podcast

  • The Jedi Council - The Phantom Podcast

  • The Royalty Of Naboo - The Phantom Podcast

  • In A Galaxy Far Far Away… - The Phantom Podcast

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