Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions 676 - The King of Comedy with Stavros Halkias

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.

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Episodes

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30 Aug 2026

23 Aug 2026

16 Aug 2026

09 Aug 2026

06 Aug 2026

02 Aug 2026

26 Jul 2026

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28 Jun 2026

21 Jun 2026

14 Jun 2026

07 Jun 2026

31 May 2026

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17 May 2026

10 May 2026

03 May 2026

26 Apr 2026

19 Apr 2026

12 Apr 2026

05 Apr 2026

29 Mar 2026

22 Mar 2026

15 Mar 2026

08 Mar 2026

01 Mar 2026

22 Feb 2026

15 Feb 2026

08 Feb 2026

01 Feb 2026

25 Jan 2026

18 Jan 2026

11 Jan 2026

04 Jan 2026

21 Dec 2025

14 Dec 2025

07 Dec 2025

30 Nov 2025

23 Nov 2025

16 Nov 2025

09 Nov 2025

02 Nov 2025

26 Oct 2025

19 Oct 2025

12 Oct 2025

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Episodes

The King of Comedy with Stavros Halkias

Raging Bull with David Krumholtz

New York, New York with Lin-Manuel Miranda

Taxi Driver with Tracy Letts

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore with Katey Rich

Mean Streets with Miriam Bale

Who's That Knocking at My Door / Boxcar Bertha

A Conversation with Andrew Stanton

Toy Story 5

In the Blink of an Eye with Joey Sims

The Odyssey

Finding Dory with Zach Cherry

John Carter with Matt Singer

WALL-E with David Ehrlich

Finding Nemo with Rebecca Alter

Disclosure Day

The Way Back with Alex Ross Perry

Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World with John Hodgman

The Mandalorian and Grogu with Chris Gethard

The Truman Show with J.D. Amato

Fearless with Timothy Simons

Green Card with Esther Zuckerman

Dead Poets Society with Nia DaCosta

The Mosquito Coast with Sean Fennessey

Witness with Amanda Dobbins

The Year of Living Dangerously with Tracy Letts

Gallipoli with Jennifer Kent

The Last Wave with BenDavid Grabinski

Picnic at Hanging Rock with Jane Schoenbrun

The Cars That Ate Paris

The Eleventh Annual Blank Check Awards with Joe Reid

Die My Love with Alison Willmore

You Were Never Really Here with Sean Clements

We Need To Talk About Kevin with Jia Tolentino

Send Help

Morvern Callar with Emily Yoshida

Ratcatcher

No Other Choice

Is This Thing On?

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Ella McCay with Richard Lawson

Honey Don't with Mattie Lubchansky

Drive Away Dolls with mxmtoon

The Tragedy of Macbeth with Dana Schwartz

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs with Paul Scheer & Jason Mantzoukas

Hail, Caesar! with Shirley Li

Inside Llewyn Davis with Rachel Zegler

A House of Dynamite

True Grit with Stavros Halkias

A Serious Man with Marc Maron