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Episode 296 – Cinema Smorgasbord Sells Out – One Battle After Another (2025) (/w Luke Higginson) » Cinema Smorgasbord When Paul Thomas Anderson drops one of the year's most anticipated movies you know THE BOYS gotta get their opinions down on.. uh.. tape, so on this episode of CINEMA SMORGASBORD SELLS OUT we're watch...

WHAT TIME IS IT? It's time to SELL OUT with Cinema Smorgasbord, and this week we're joined by RELAX, I'M FROM THE FUTURE director @lukehigginson.bsky.social to pop off about PTA and his latest film ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER!

Episode 296 – Cinema Smorgasbord Sells Out – One Battle After Another (2025) (/w Luke Higginson) Podcast Episode · Cinema Smorgasbord · 2025-10-20 · 1h 34m

There are 2 small moments in the film One Battle After Another that closely resemble moments from my film.

I choose to take this as irrefutable proof that PTA is a huge fan of my work.

Loved talking OBAA with @dougtilley.bsky.social and @liamrulz.bsky.social

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This is honestly one of the best endorsements my film has gotten

Had a great time defending the Vampire Movie status of one of my favourite comedies ever made!

Thanks to @toadpuppy.bsky.social and @etrommater.bsky.social for having me on again!

Holly and Casper on the couch 🛋

Study of Caspers from the future hands

Casper smoking

As we live in the more dumpster fire times now than even three years ago, the disaster character that is Casper is more and more reliable. Some sketches I made last year @artana.bsky.social

Thanks for trying again! :)

New albums from both Pup and Car Seat Headrest today!

Big day for fans of loud, funny, overly clever Sadboy indie rock (me)

Thanks so much! It’s a concept I first learned about from the great @jordanbimm.bsky.social and I really enjoyed writing a weird twist on it.

relax i'm from the future will always be the best movie because it has a lecture on nuclear semiotics in the middle of it.

Really enjoyed this conversation where we go deep into the movie’s ideas and I even get challenged on some of them.

We also talk nerdy filmmaking stuff and of course working with the great Rhys Darby!

(I obviously do not co-sign the Quebec OR Cronenberg slander…)

#relaximfromthefuture

Thanks Doug!!

Picturing the Walkmen, The Stills The Von Bondies and a bunch of others huddled in the cold outside staring longingly through the window.

100% agreed on the top and bottom bands.

Full list please

Happy Canadian Film Day!

Watch something Canadian and buy a struggling filmmaker a coffee or a townhouse or something

Pick up somethin' Canadian from boutique brands like Canadian International Pictures or Gold Ninja Video!

Or, heck, just look around and see what Canadian film has to offer (like @lukehigginson.bsky.social's awesome RELAX, I'M FROM THE FUTURE).

Have no opinions on dating apps, but the rest of these are 100% correct.

Ari Aster officially confirmed as a Bono superfan

Personal top films of 2024:

1. The Substance
2. Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World
3. Dune Pt 2
4. A Different Man
5. Anora
6. Red Rooms
7. I Saw The TV Glow
8. Sleep
9. Love Lies Bleeding
10. Exhuma

Main theme of 2024 at the movies: hating yourself and the world you live in!

IF YOU ARE IN ONTARIO PLEASE VOTE TODAY!

And please vote with the knowledge that Doug Ford has personally stolen your money, raised your rent, made services in your province objectively worse and directly threatened your child’s education. A failure by any metric!

And he’ll win if you don’t vote.

The great Gene Hackman displaying the two poles of human emotion.

RIP to one of the Greats

YouTube video by SonySoundtracksVEVO Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Challengers: Match Point | Challengers (Original Score)

If you put on this score on when you sit down to write you will 100% get some pages done. That alone should have earned it an Oscar nomination.

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Second viewing of A Different Man last night. Fucking love this movie.

Could have gone wrong in a million different ways, but nails its dark, funny, brilliant tone throughout.

Scratches a very specific itch I haven’t felt since Being John Malkovich

Really enjoyed @lukehigginson.bsky.social 's Relax I'm From the Future clever, snappy writing, excellent cast, great editing.

Thanks so much, Man!! Really glad you dug it!

One of the greatest artists of the modern era.

RIP David Lynch

Dale Cooper might be my favourite fictional character.

I will never forget watching Eraserhead while my wife was pregnant and finally getting it.

The Deer Lady monologue in The Straight Story still haunts me.

The Return might be the best final statement from any filmmaker.

One of the scariest filmmakers of all time and one of the funniest. One of the best advocates for the basic decency of humanity and one of the best chroniclers of its capacity for depravity.

To be able to put such a pure encapsulation of what was in his head onscreen, seemingly without any consideration of ‘the audience’ is a miracle. To do that and still have it connect with so many people on such a personal level seems impossible. And yet he did it every time.

I always liked David Lynch’s work, but it wasn’t until I started trying to make my own films that I understood how truly special he was.

This was a very fun and thoughtful interview until with about 3 minutes left I answer a question by saying I am ‘pro-history’ and that history is ‘important stuff’, which makes me sound like an absolute moron who has never read a history book.