I think it is safe to say that 2025 is in full swing already and if you’re after distractions from the absolute mayhem of international politics with Trump back in the White House and everything else that seems to be bringing humanity closer to the brink with each passing minute, here’s a little round-up of all our January activities over at the Uncut Gems Podcast and its Patreon bonus content.
For 2025 we decided to make a few tiny changes to our operations and we thought we’d commit each month of the year to a different director. Therefore, we started the year with a month-long retrospective of the professional partnership between Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg, over the course of which we discussed all five movies they made together. As a suitable tie-in to these conversations we decided to follow up with a theme of authentic immediacy permeating Berg’s movies and chose to talk about Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday.
Episode 206 (Lone Survivor)
Episode 207 (Deepwater Horizon)
Episode 208 (Patriots Day)
Episode 209 (Mile 22 and Spenser Confidential)
Bonus Tie-in 44 (Bloody Sunday) (full episode on Patreon)
This month we also launched a brand new series which will run for the entirety of the year (and, who knows, maybe longer if we find some mileage in it) where we will set some time aside to talk about a handful of well-known movies turning fifty and thirty this year. To this end, we began with Hal Ashby’s Shampoo.
The 50-30 Series 01 (Shampoo) (full episode on Patreon)
Finally, we also launched our brand new director marathon which is set to run for a longer while. In it we will go, one by one, through the cinematic exploits of one Mike Nichols, and we begin these conversations with a wonderful chat about his debut Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Enjoy!
Flasz On Film 
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