Special guest Tess Lynch joins Megan and Rob to discuss David Robert Mitchell's Under the Silver Lake (2018) and Errol Morris's Gates of Heaven (1978)! Why are the fries at In-N-Out so bad? What do we think about the Impossible Burger? What's the best deli in Fullerton? Did we go full Doughboys on this episode of I-5 Cinemabound? Other topics include: Andrew Garfield in a paddleboat, Jean Seberg in The Corruption of Chris Miller, the similarities between Errol Morris and Christopher Guest, ...

Special guest Mary Anne Carter appears on the podcast to discuss Dumb and Dumber (1994) & Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006). How many stars did Megan give Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!? What airline do we want to sponsor our show? Which celebrity Joshs do Megan and Rob have crushes on? Does Mary Anne think Dumb and Dumber is the best movie in Jim Carrey's filmography? All of this and more! About Mary Anne Carter: Mary Anne Carter is a Seattle-based artist and curator. Her immersive...

Portland artists Jennifer Jones (aka JJ All The Way) and Laura Glazer join Megan and Rob to discuss a common passion: the films of the legendary Agnès Varda! JJ and Laura tell us how their AGNÈS VARDA FOREVER collaborative project came about (you may have seen the flyers around Portland), and we bounce back and forth in conversation between their very complementary film selections: Mur Murs (1981) and Documenteur (1981). We also weigh the pros and cons of binging a director's filmography ve...

Creatures from the deep and creatures who creep! On this episode, Bridey Elliott joins us to discuss The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and My Octopus Teacher (2020). Why is Laura Linney stuck in a cold car? How many photographs of Debra Messing can you have in one movie? Which Richard Gere film is the least horny? Is My Octopus Teacher more wholesome than the internet is letting on? All of this and more! About Bridey Elliott: Bridey is a filmmaker, actor, and comedian. Her first feature Clara’s...

This week Megan and Rob take a trip down memory lane to reflect on the legendary 2004 time capsule, Mean Girls (dir. Mark Waters, written by Tina Fey), and then in a similar vein, chat about Samantha Stark's Framing Britney Spears (2021). Our guest host is none other than the incredible Emilly Prado! Emilly made her radio debut a few years back with our own Megan Hattie when they hosted an advice and music show together on Portland's XRAY FM called "Is Butter A Carb?" We discuss how ...

Special guest and friend of the pod Mary Kobayashi joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) and Dancing with the Birds (2019). On this episode of I-5 Cinemabound, we talk birds of paradise and characters searching for paradise. Is Liam Neeson better in The Ballad of Buster Scruggs than he is in Love, Actually? Does Zoe Kazan wear a bonnet with purpose? Are birds too horny? Did we create a Bill Heck fan club by the end of this episode? All of this and ...

This week Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick get punk af with the multitalented Tea Hacic on two of her favorites, James Merendino's SLC Punk! (1998) and the Punk doc series (2019) from filmmaker Jesse Miller Smith and executive producers Iggy Pop and John Varvatos. Megan also professes her love for Tea's now-defunct-but-still-iconic anonymous Tumblr sex blog Sugartits. Has social media ever been punk? Why did Tea dump her teenage punk boyfriend Jeremy? Did Rob ever go through a punk phase? And mo...

Writer and film programmer Jesse Knight joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (1999) and Kitty Green's Casting JonBenet (2017). It's the season 2 premiere! Jesse dishes on Josh Hartnett's hair! Megan roasts everyone for not knowing enough about Robert Schwartzman! "Butterfly" by Crazy Town gets brought up for some reason! We discuss Kitty Green's unconventional documentary style and Sofia Coppola's short film with Peter Bogdanovich. All of this and...

Julia Shapiro (Chastity Belt, Childbirth, Julia Shapiro) joins Megan Hattie and Rob Patrick to discuss Jonathan Glazer's Birth (2004) and Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (2005)! It's the season finale! Timothy Treadwell may have been the grizzly man, but is Werner Herzog the grisly man? Will Julia finish Nicole Kidman's entire filmography this year? Does Birth officially turn into a thriller when Anne Heche asks someone to giftwrap a present? Why do Megan and Rob remember the station Everwood wa...

Content warning: This episode includes ample discussion of mass shootings (including a personal anecdote from a survivor), drug use, and death, and may be disturbing to some listeners. In our ninth episode, Megan & Rob kick off 2021 with a discussion of Brady Corbet's VOX LUX (2018) and Sebastian Jones & Ramez Silyan's LIL PEEP: EVERYBODY'S EVERYTHING (2019) as selected by Portland experimental filmmaker Stephanie Hough. The result is a fascinating chat about pop culture, youth, fam...