Not just another bad movie podcast, Blank Check reviews directors' complete filmographies episode to episode. Specifically, the auteurs whose early successes afforded them the rare ‘blank check’ from Hollywood to produce passion projects. Each new miniseries, hosts Griffin Newman and David Sims delve into the works of film’s most outsized personalities in painstakingly hilarious detail. Produced by Ben Hosley.
Episodes
- Green Card with Esther Zuckerman5/3/20262 hr 46 min
- Dead Poets Society with Nia DaCosta4/26/20262 hr 36 min
- The Mosquito Coast with Sean Fennessey4/19/20263 hr 6 min
- Witness with Amanda Dobbins4/12/20262 hr 57 min
- The Year of Living Dangerously with Tracy Letts4/5/20263 hr 22 min
- Gallipoli with Jennifer Kent3/29/20262 hr 6 min
- The Last Wave with BenDavid Grabinski3/22/20262 hr 36 min
- Critical Darlings: The 2026 Oscars Ceremony with Griffin Newman3/17/20261 hr 53 min
- Picnic at Hanging Rock with Jane Schoenbrun3/15/20262 hr 33 min
- Critical Darlings: One Battle After Another And Oscar Predictions with David Sims3/12/20261 hr 30 min
- The Cars That Ate Paris3/8/20261 hr 55 min
- Critical Darlings: Sinners And The Academy’s Growing Genre Acceptance with Sam Sanders3/5/20261 hr 29 min
- The Eleventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid3/1/20263 hr 4 min
- Critical Darlings: Sentimental Value and Belated Oscar Breakthroughs with Joe Reid2/26/20261 hr 19 min
- Die My Love with Alison Willmore2/22/20263 hr
- Critical Darlings: The Secret Agent And The Increasingly International Academy2/19/20261 hr 33 min