Craig Mazin & John August (Big Fish / The Last Of Us / Scriptnotes podcast) • #377

Craig Mazin & John August (Big Fish / The Last Of Us / Scriptnotes podcast) • #377

Author: Brett Goldstein | Daylight Media November 19, 2025 Duration: 1:11:16
LOOK OUT! It’s only Films To Be Buried With! Join your host Brett Goldstein as he talks life, death, love and the universe with the deluxe double-team screenwriting genius pairing of CRAIG MAZIN and JOHN AUGUST! You may be well versed in the 700+ episode archive of the Scriptnotes podcast, or you may be entirely dehydrated through sheer tear dispensation via Big Fish, or perhaps be a little shaken through exposure to The Last Of Us and/or Chernobyl... Whatever the case - hopefully by now you will have caught at least some of the work generated by these two, as it is a rare thing to have such an insanely great body of work displaying such consistency. A triple-voice dream of an episode which will be sheer indulgence for all movie loving folk, and if you are yet unacquainted with John and Craig, you're about to make some good friends here and hopefully investigate their work after listening... You won't be disappointed. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Video and extra audio available on Brett's Patreon! EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ http://nordvpn.com/brett Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee SCRIPTNOTES podcast SCRIPTNOTES book JOHN'S WEBSITE BIG FISH CHERNOBYL THE LAST OF US –––––––––– BRETT • X BRETT • INSTAGRAM THE SECOND BEST NIGHT OF YOUR LIFE TED LASSO SHRINKING ALL OF YOU SOULMATES SUPERBOB (Brett's 2015 feature film) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There’s a strange and wonderful intersection where the movies we love collide with the lives we’ve lived. Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein explores that very crossroads, hosted by the comedian, actor, and writer-who also mentions swimming. Each week, Brett sits down with a fascinating guest for a conversation that feels like a long, meandering dinner party chat, one that inevitably turns to the big questions. They talk about life, mortality, memory, and joy, but they do it entirely through the lens of cinema. The central, playful premise is simple: if you were to be buried with a handful of films that tell the story of you, what would they be? The answers are never just a list of favorites. Instead, episodes reveal how specific films mark first loves, personal losses, coming-of-age moments, or pure, unadulterated escape. You’ll hear about the movie that made a guest who they are, the one they’d need for comfort, and even the one they’d use to explain humanity to an alien. It’s a surprisingly profound and consistently funny journey, proving that our personal filmographies are perhaps the closest thing we have to a map of our souls. This isn’t a dry critical analysis show; it’s a deeply human podcast about connection, told through the stories we watch on screen.
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Mark Gatiss (Bookish / The League Of Gentlemen / Sherlock) • #359 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

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Duration: 54:08
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