

One Heat Minute Productions
Blake Howard
ONE HEAT MINUTE PRODUCTIONS began with film journalist Blake Howard examining Michael Mann's 1995 crime opus HEAT chronologically, in 60-second increments, in the aptly titled "One HEAT Minute." The finale featured the legendary mastermind director, screenwriter and producer behind the film Michael Mann.The show continues with:“Fun City Cinema” and “A Very Good Year,” hosts Jason Bailey and Mike Hull proudly present a new podcast, “GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC”. The premise? Once every two weeks, we invite a guest (filmmakers and actors, critics and historians, comedians and musicians) who loves movies to join us on our crusade through our film-by-film rundown of Danny Peary’s beloved 1986 movie guide.THE LINE UP is a physical media podcast to unbox, unpack and unveil upcoming releases. Alexei Toliopoulos and Blake Howard (and others) host them.TOO MUCH MOVIE is a show lost in 90s movies that are "too much" in the best possible way. Rob Belushi, Chris Candy and Blake Howard host it.Completed series: THE LAST (12 minutes) OF THE MOHICANS A TWELVE-EPISODE LIMITED PODCAST SERIES FOCUSING ON THE CLIMAX OF MICHAEL MANN'S 1992 EPIC THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS. INCREMENT VICE, Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice, a scene at a time. Hosted by Travis Woods ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MINUTES is a podcast where conversations about movies, journalism, politics and history meet. JOSIE AND THE PODCATS is a limited podcast series diving into the history, the production, the music, the legacy, and the fandom surrounding the 2001 cult classic Josie and the Pussycats. Maria Lewis hosts it.ZODIAC: CHRONICLE a 24-part investigation into David Fincher's 2007 genre-altering masterpiece Zodiac.POD THOMAS ANDERSON: A nine-part miniseries on the films of Paul Thomas Anderson. The series is written by the author of The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson: American Apocrypha, Ethan Warren and produced by Blake Howard.PODCASTER AND COMMANDER: An audio documentary podcast series about the sea-faring classic - Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. The series will be an oral history of the film's conception and production, a discussion of the film’s critical reception, and the increasing resonance in the now 19 years since its release. Hosted by Blake Howard'MIAMI NICE is a "Modern Mann" campfire podcast that pours over every loveable morsel of Michael Mann's misunderstood masterpiece Miami Vice (2006). The show's expanding catalogue frequently strays into the world of other contemporary Mann productions like Collateral (Collateral Confessions), Tokyo Vice (Tokyo Nice) and Blackhat. Hosted by Katie Walsh and Blake HowardROMIN: Join host Blake Howard and a handpicked team of film experts as they ambush John Frankenheimer’s RONIN (1998). Over 12 episodes, they'll explore the mysteries of the briefcase MacGuffin, praise co-writer David Mamet’s tough, balletic dialogue, and break down the film’s iconic action and chase sequences. Tune in because, as Sam says, 'Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt. That's the first thing they teach you.
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Oct 21, 2025 • 22min
ONE HOT FEST: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT w/ Bilge Ebiri
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.Synopsis:A small mishap triggers a chain reaction of ever-growing problems.BILGE EBIRI IS A FILM CRITIC/WRITER/EDITOR AT NEW YORK MAGAZINE. HE HAS CONTRIBUTED TO PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS L.A. WEEKLY, THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE VILLAGE VOICE (RIP). BILGE IS ALSO A WRITER AND DIRECTOR, KNOWN FOR NEW GUY (2003), PURSE SNATCHER (2006) AND THE BARBER OF SIBERIA (1998).TWITTER: @BILGEEBIRI WEBSITES: THE VILLAGE VOICE ARCHIVE, ROTTEN TOMATOESOne Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 19, 2025 • 16min
ONE HOT FEST: BUGONIA w/ Dan Mecca
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.Synopsis:Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.Dan MeccaCo-host of The B-Side podcast, co-founder of The Film Stage and filmmaker.One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 19, 2025 • 1h 9min
GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC: “MS. 45” with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Few people know their genre cinema like Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, whose many, MANY books, essays, chapters and commentaries have been contextualizing and magnifying horror and exploitation for years now. Today she joins us to discuss Abel Ferrara’s seminal rape-revenge film “MS. 45” — out in a new 4K from Arrow Video, with heavy involvement from Alexandra. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 19, 2025 • 12min
ONE HOT FEST: YOHANNA w/ Stephen A. Russell
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.Synopsis:The young nun Yohanna's encounter with the underworld of child labour in Sumba restores her sense of purpose in life.Stephen A. Russell is a Scotstralian and an Award-winning film critic, arts journo and political dork.Rotten Tomatoes One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 19, 2025 • 13min
ONE HOT FEST: SIRÂT w/ Alexei Toliopoulos
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.Synopsis:A father, accompanied by his son, goes looking for his missing daughter in North Africa.ALEXEI TOLIOPOULOSAlexei is a comedian, writer, podcaster, film critic and technically a critically acclaimed investigative documentarian. You know him from being funny on Question Everything, talking about movies on The Mix and on heaps of podcasts. Alexei owns over 2000 Blu-ray DVDs and three blu-ray DVD players.One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 17, 2025 • 13min
ONE HOT FEST: JIMPA w/ Stephen A. Russell
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.Synopsis:Hannah and her non-binary teenager Frances visits her gay grandfather Jimpa at Amsterdam . Frances expresses a desire to stay with their grandfather for a year, challenging Hannah's parenting beliefs and forcing her to confront past issues.Stephen A. Russell is a Scotstralian and an Award-winning film critic, arts journo and political dork.Rotten Tomatoes One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 16, 2025 • 19min
ONE HOT FEST: FRANKENSTEIN w/ Katie Walsh
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.Synopsis:A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.Katie Walsh is a Los Angeles-based film critic, journalist, podcast host, and moderator. She reviews weekly film releases for the Tribune News Service, and the Los Angeles Times, and is a frequent guest host of the Maximum Fun podcast Switchblade Sisters. Her writing has been published in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Playboy,The Playlist, Nerdist,Slate, The Hairpin, indieWIRE, Women and Hollywood, Town & Country, Movieline, CAP the Magazine, and Nonfics, and she frequently contributes film reviews to KCRW’s Press Play with Madeline Brand. She has covered many international film festivals as a critic and reporter, and has moderated dozens of Q&As with filmmakers and actors around LA.Check out Rotten Tomatoes for links to recent reviews.One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 16, 2025 • 13min
ONE HOT FEST: MEGADOC w/ Sean Burns
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.Synopsis:A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis (2024).Sean BurnsSean Burns is a film critic for WBUR’s Arts & Culture and a contributing writer at North Shore Movies and Crooked Marquee. He was Philadelphia Weekly’s lead film critic from 1999 through 2013, and worked as a contributing editor at The Improper Bostonian from 2006 until 2014. His reviews, interviews and essays have also appeared in Metro, The Village Voice, Rolling Stone, The Boston Herald, Nashville Scene, Time Out New York, Philadelphia City Paper and RogerEbert.com.A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Burns was a recurring guest on the late David Brudnoy’s WBZ 1030 AM radio show, and in 2002 received an award for Excellence in Criticism from the Greater Philadelphia Society of Professional Journalists. Currently a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the Critics Choice Association, he’s also “the most annoyingest person ever,” according to his niece.WEBSITE: splicedpersonality.comTWITTER: @SeanMBurnsOne Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute & @OHMPodsMERCH: https://www.teepublic.com/en-au/stores/one-heat-minute-productionsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 15, 2025 • 17min
ONE HOT FEST: Mat Kesting CEO & Creative Director Adelaide Film Festival
ONE HOT FEST – ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL is a special mini-series from One Heat Minute Productions, diving into Australia’s most charismatic celebration of cinema. Host Blake Howard takes you inside the Adelaide Film Festival — from filmmaker interviews and festival dispatches to reviews and discussions with guests and critics — relaying the energy, stories, and spirit that make it one of Australia's most electric film events.In this episode, we talk to the CEO & Creative Director of the Adelaide Film Festival, Mat Kesting, about the identity and personality of the fest and its growing connection with the community. Mat Kesting GAICD - CEO & Creative DirectorMat Kesting is a festivals and programming specialist having worked in the sector since the late 1990s. Named as a one of Screen International’s Future Leaders, Mat has led the Adelaide Film Festival since 2019 as CEO & Creative Director. In this time, he has curated the AFF Investment Fund investments overseeing more than 50 commissions, driven year on year box office and audience growth, a doubling of the AFF Investment Fund and overseen AFF’s transition from biennial to annual presentation. Mat has held an association with AFF since 2008 in various programming roles and has a deep love for the organisation and championing Australian cinema.Previously, Mat was Exhibition Manager at the Mercury Cinema and Program Manager at the Brisbane International Film Festival. Mat has also produced the 15/15 Film Festival and worked with the AFTRS, Lumiere Cinemas, ACMI and various other arts festivals. Mat is Deputy Chair, Festival City Adelaide and has a passion for the Adelaide’s renown cultural life.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Oct 14, 2025 • 1h 5min
BONUS: ONE HEAT MINUTE W/ BONNIE TIMMERMANN
In this special bonus episode of ONE HEAT MINUTE, Rob Belushi and I talk to the legend Bonnie Timmermann about her terrific documentary BONNIE, her eye for talent and her incredible collaborations with Michael Mann, Tony Scott and more.About BONNIE TIMMERMANNBonnie Timmermann is a legendary American casting director and producer known for discovering stars and championing diversity, most famously for her long-term collaboration with Michael Mann on projects like Miami Vice.One Heat Minute ProductionsWEBSITE: oneheatminute.comPATREON: One Heat Minute Productions PatreonTWITTER: @OneBlakeMinute @OHMPodsSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/one-heat-minute-productions/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy


