Screenwriter/Producer/Director Brian Helgeland joins Mase & Sue on the CULTURE POP PODCAST to discuss the road in making his latest film, FINESTKIND, streaming on Paramount+. It is a semi-autobiographical crime thriller starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ben Foster, Toby Wallace and Jenna Ortega. We also talk about his Academy Award-winning adapted screenplay, LA CONFIDENTIAL, his long-standing friendship with author James Ellroy, his scripts for MYSTIC RIVER, & 42, working with Chadwick Bozeman, and a movie studio pitch meeting that went awry. Plus, first-hand knowledge of being buried alive and Snoop Dogg’s faux announcement.
Episode 321 - Josh Segarra talks “Big Door Prize” plus is this the end of the “Mad Max” franchise
Episode 320 - Christopher McDonald on “Hacks” & “Happy Gilmore 2” plus standing ovations at Cannes and Coppola’s “Megalopolis"
Episode 319 - “Sugar” Finale Watch-Along with Mase & Sue
Episode 318 - Blockbuster season - from “Furiosa” to “Deadpool & Wolverine” - plus “Funny Girl” star Katerina McCrimmon
Episode 317 - “Sugar” Watch-Along Episode 7 - The mission is over. Sugar still looking for Olivia.
Episode 316 - Comedian/Actor Allan Havey on Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, the movie theatre experience & the perfect MAD MEN finale
Episode 315 - “Sugar” Watch-Along Episode 6 - The twist. Where do we go from here
Episode 314 - “Manhunt” star Matt Walsh, Luca Guadagnino’s “Challengers” & Sue’s triathlon
Episode 313 - Culture Pop - “Sugar” Watch-Along Episode 5 - Where is Olivia? Is there a twist coming?
Episode 312 - Radio legend Phil Hendrie
Episode 311 - “Sugar” Watch-Along Episode 4 plus Taylor Swift’s “Tortured Poets Department”
Episode 310 - “Love Lies Bleeding” star Katie O’Brian plus “Civil War,” “Monkey Man” & “Funny Girl"
Episode 309 - “Sugar” Watch-Along - Episodes 1-3 with Mase & Sue
Episode 308 - Palm Royale star Julia Duffy, Beyonce’s Cowboy Carter & on-stage at The Whiskey.
Episode 307 - Food & travel with "Somebody Feed Phil” star Phil Rosenthal
Episode 306 - Actor Simon Baker, Limbo
Episode 304 - Rory Sovel, Religion, Sex and a Few Things in Between
Episode 303 - Judy Reyes, Birth/ReBirth
Episode 302 - Academy Awards preview
Episode 301 - Susie Essman, Curb Your Enthusiasm
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