Episode #416: 'East of Wall' with Taylor Gates

Director Kate Beecroft made her debut feature after meeting and living with a singular family, and then building a script and feature film around their lives – with them as the stars. The resulting film, EAST OF WALL won the Audience Award at the (ahem) Sundance Film Festival. Collider’s Taylor Gates (x.com/Elphaba_Anne) joins us to discuss the movie, and to daydream about what kind of movie we’d set at some of our personal favorite real-world locations.
What’s Good
Alonso - Pumpkin Spice Season Creep/Laughing Cow Pumpkin Spice Cheese Wedges (thelaughingcow.com/product/pumpkin-spice) (in principle)
Drea - Chris Ware USPS Stamps (store.usps.com/store/product/250-years-of-deli…)
Taylor - Renee Rapp’s Bite Me
Kevin - Tracy Bonham live w/Chris and Adrienne Woods (instagram.com/reel/DNdoAEKNDlx); Silver Lake sightings
Airplane Jive scene (youtu.be/g0j2dVuhr6s) (watch at your own risk!)
Physical Media merch! (maxfunstore.com/collections/maximum-film)
ITIDIC
• Disney’s Marvel Pulling Out of Georgia (wsj.com/business/media/disneys-marvel-abandons…)
• Anna Faris and Regina Hall Return for Wayans’ Scary Movie Reboot (variety.com/2025/film/news/anna-faris-regina-h…)
Staff Picks
Drea - Relay (justwatch.com/us/movie/relay)
Alonso - Souleymane’s Story (justwatch.com/us/movie/lhistoire-de-souleymane)
Taylor - Private Life (justwatch.com/us/movie/private-life)
Kevin - F1 The Movie (justwatch.com/us/movie/f1)
Linoleum Knife Presents CLUE on August 24 (americancinematheque.com/now-showing/linoleum-…)
Taylor on Collider (collider.com/author/taylor-gates)and Fanversation (americancinematheque.com/now-showing/linoleum-…)

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Kevin Avery (instagram.com/kevinaverycomedy)
Drea Clark (twitter.com/thedreaclark)
Alonso Duralde (bsky.app/profile/aduralde.bsky.social)
Produced by Marissa Flaxbart (instagram.com/flaxbart)
Sr. Producer Laura Swisher (twitter.com/swish)