Slate's Spoiler Specials

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on M3gan, with Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens and features director Jeffrey Bloomer.Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read another Slate review here.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Slate's Dana Stevens and Dan Kois spoil Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery, the sequel to Rian Johnson’s Knives Out. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read Dana’s review here. Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Slate's Dana Stevens and Sam Adams spoil Avatar: The Way of Water, James Cameron’s long-awaited sequel to his 2009 film. Is it true that “the most dangerous thing on Pandora is that you’ll grow to love it too much?” Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read Dana’s review here. Read Sam’s advice on which version to catch here. Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Slate's Dana Stevens and Dan Kois spoil Tár, Todd Fields’ first film in 16 years. Cate Blanchett stars as a world-famous conductor whose life takes an unexpected turn as she prepares for a career-changing opportunity.Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read Dana’s review here. Read Dan’s review here. Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Slate's Dana Stevens and Nadira Goffe spoil Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the sequel to Marvel’s Black Panther. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Slate's Sam Adams and Rebecca Onion spoil the season finale of HBO’s House of the Dragon, the prequel to Game of Thrones. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Slate's Sam Adams and Jeffrey Bloomer spoil the 13th entry in the Halloween franchise, the alleged final showdown between Jamie Lee Curtis's Laurie Strode and Michael Myers. Note: as the title implies, the podcast contains spoilers galore. Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Don’t Worry Darling. Slate’s movie critic, Dana Stevens joins Slate’s associate editor Marissa Martinelli to spoil Olivia Wilde’s latest thriller. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Orphan: First Kill. Slate senior editor Sam Adams joins features director Jeffrey Bloomer to spoil the prequel to the 2009 psychological thriller, Orphan. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on The Sandman. Senior editor, Sam Adams, and Slate’s book critic, Laura Miller spoil the comic book series by Neil Gaiman. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Bodies Bodies Bodies. Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens and Slate writer Nadira Goffe spoil A24’s latest murder mystery, directed by Halina Reijn.Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read another Slate review here.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Bullet Train. Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens and senior editor Sam Adams spoil the latest action comedy release from Atomic Blonde director and John Wick co-creator, David Leitch. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read Dana’s review here.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Nope, the latest from horror auteur Jordan Peele.Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read Dana’s review here.Email us at [email protected] production by Kevin Bendis and Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Thor: Love and Thunder. Slate’s movie critic Dana Stevens and senior editor Sam Adams spoil the newest release from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read Dana’s review here.Email us at [email protected] production by Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Lightyear. Slate’s movie critic, Dana Stevens, and senior editor, Sam Adams spoil the new animated film from Disney. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Read Dana’s review here and Sam’s review here.Email us at [email protected] production by Jasmine Ellis and Kevin Bendis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s June, and in honor of Pride, we’re bringing you a special episode from the Outward podcast!Hosts Christina Cauterucci, Jules Gill-Peterson, and Bryan Lowder dig into the big gay movie of summer 2022: Fire Island. Directed by Andrew Ahn and written by Joel Kim Booster, who also stars in the film, Fire Island explores the magic of queer spaces like the titular enclave—along with the class and race disparities that often beset them. The film, which also stars Bowen Yang, Margaret Cho, and Conrad Ricamora, is a gay resetting of Pride and Prejudice. Does it succeed? The hosts discuss this, and much more, in spoiler-filled detail.This podcast was produced by June Thomas.If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to Outward wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Jurassic World: Dominion. Sam Adams, a senior editor at Slate, is joined by Slate’s features editor, Jeffrey Bloomer to spoil the latest evolutionary stage of the Jurassic World series. True to the spirit of bringing something back from the past, the stars of Jurassic Park—Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill—join the dinos and their JW counterparts Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. The cast is big, the predators are bigger, but the villains and plot lines raised more eyebrows than heart rates among our critics. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Email us at [email protected] production by Jasmine Ellis and Kristie Taiwo-Makanjuola. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Top Gun: Maverick. Film critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate editor and writer Dan Kois to spoil the long awaited sequel, starring Tom Cruise and directed by Joseph Kosinski. Maverick is pressed into service, training a group of young pilots to carry out a dangerous strike in a rogue nation. But it soon becomes clear that only Maverick has the right stuff to lead the mission. Does Maverick fly high, or get grounded?Is Top Gun: Maverick better than the 1986 original? Read Dana’s thoughts on the movie here.Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Email us at [email protected] production by Jasmine Ellis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this week’s episode of The Waves, historian and original Waves host, Marcia Chatelain is joined by sociologist Danielle Lindemann to talk all things reality TV. They discuss Danielle’s new book, True Story: What Reality TV Says About Us and why we don’t take reality television as seriously as we should. Later in the show they talk about why women are more successful at monetizing their reality TV brand and how the genre takes us on a tour of the class system.In Slate Plus: Is The Bachelorette feminist? RecommendationsMarcia: The True Crime Obsessed podcast, Let the Women Do the WorkDanielle: The Netflix series Selling SunsetPodcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Shannon Palus and Alicia Montgomery.Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week’s Spoiler Specials takes on Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. Film critic Dana Stevens is joined by Slate senior editor Sam Adams to spoil the Marvel film that stars Benedict Cumberbatch, Elizabeth Olsen, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Directed by Sam Raimi, the first action scene takes place at the wedding of Doctor Stephen Strange’s (Benedict Cumberbatch) ex (Rachel McAdams) being interrupted by a one-eyed octopus creature from space that’s chasing after America Chavez (Xochitl Gomez).It’s an explosive start to a film that has some of the best –and the worst– of what Marvel movies are famous for.Read Sam’s review of the movie. Note: As the title indicates, this podcast contains spoilers galore.Email us at [email protected] production by Jasmine Ellis. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.