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300 episodes
Language
English
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Yes
Date created
2016/11/19
Latest episode
2026/10/20
Average duration
100 min.
Release period
25 days

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Welcome to Anti-wave Podcast, where Robert Cannon + Ira Heffler discuss all your Anti-wave movie needs. What the hell is Anti-wave, you ask? Great question. In short, Anti-wave is a way to describe films that seek to buck the typical Hollywood trends. Anti-wave is an opportunity to reimagine the way we construct genre films. Anti-westerns have been popular in the years since WWII, but where are the anti-sports films that try to shake off the expected formulaic writing? This podcast tries to find those films for you. Along the way, we deliver some laughs, get into film theory, and speak with filmmakers who share our anti-sentiment. So, welcome to Anti-wave Podcast! We hope you enjoy the ride.

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Episode 332: Digger and You Can See Everything and Top 5 Recreation Movies
2026/10/20
This week, Robert takes on Digger and You Can See Everything, while Ira wonders why both titles sound like things a judge has specifically ordered him to stop doing. Join Robert and Ira as they change things up and discuss two movies: Digger and I Can See Everything, and share their top 5 reenactment movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be two totally different people for you to imagine being, first a super wealthy baron who f***s up the environment to make shit loads of money and give people what they want but there’s something really weird about you and your actions not only of you but those around you, but we won’t find out until later, and second you’re a hot blonde who invented a machine that can identify potential diseases with only one drop of blood and it’s all fake and you swindled investors out of shit loads of money and you’re married to another grifter with a big dick and you’ll soon be locked up in prison for a very long time, and if you want to know what happens to you in both of these totally separate situations, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 331: Primetime and Top 5 Least Faithful Biopics
2026/10/06
This week, Robert dives into predators, ratings, and televised humiliation, while Ira learns that bringing condoms to meet a 13-year-old is apparently frowned upon. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Primetime and share their top 5 least faithful biopics. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be the host of a popular TV show that catches pervs and pedos who are out to f**k under-age kids and you’ve found a perfect decoy who looks like a kid to set up the pervs and pedos and trap them before they do the nasty, but you slowly get more and more obsessed and even you, Mr. Morality, do some bad shit like cheating on your wife and you catch more pervs and pedos including a rabbi and you get more and more nutso and a major sting operation gets botched when you show up at an elected official’s house and he blows his brains out and you kind of go off the deep end but your boyish-looking decoy gets his SAG card, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 330: Arlington Road and Top 5 Paranoia Films
2026/09/22
This week, Robert learns that sometimes the paranoid guy really is right, while Ira learns that accusing the family next door of terrorism is apparently a poor icebreaker. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Arlington Road and share their top 5 paranoia movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a college professor teaching political science with emphasis in terrorism and your wife died in a botched FBI raid and your new main squeeze is a cute hot coed, and neighbors moved in next door but you realize there’s something unsettling about the dude when you discover he’s changed his name and assumed the identity of a different person and you begin to suspect he’s been involved in blowing up buildings and shit, and your hot coed girlfriend is the voice of reason as you spin and become more and more obsessed with this guy, and he bonds with your son and takes him to sleep-away Scout camp with his boy, but shit gets real as you discover more damning stuff and your hot coed girlfriend now suspects they’re up to no good and she follows them and they kill her, and your neighbor is in a truck filled with bombs and you frantically follow the truck as they drive to blow up a government building, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 329: The End of Oak Street and Top 5 Suburbia Films
2026/08/18
This week, Robert dives into dinosaurs, time travel, and the collapse of suburban normalcy, while Ira wonders whether any of this is covered by homeowners insurance. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss The End of Oak Street and share their top 5 suburbia films. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a hot wife married to a bland and boring wuss of a husband who is a pizza delivery driver and drinks and even though you’ve got two kids, you plan to leave his sorry ass and some weird shit goes down, including a huge pile of shit on your neighbor’s front lawn and you realize your neighborhood has been sent back in time when dinosaurs ruled the Earth, and while you and your family are battling these huge and hungry creatures, your bland and boring husband gets swallowed by one of them and a glowing orb appears and you can see your neighborhood in the orb without monsters, so you jump into the glowing orb and end up in a neighbor’s swimming pool with no monsters in sight, and if you want to know the fate of your bland and boring hubby, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 328: Motor City and Top 5 ‘70s Movies
2026/07/28
This week, Robert tears into a revenge story where actions speak louder than words, while Ira wonders if talking less would actually improve this podcast. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Motor City and share their top 5 ‘70s movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a big-ass dude with bulging muscles, and you meet a hot waitress and propose to her and have hot sex with her, but you are set up by some drug dealers who put a shit load of drugs in the trunk of your car, and your hot girlfriend thinks you’re a bad dude and she watches you being interrogated and she yanks off her engagement ring and you are sent to prison and while you’re pumping iron to build your muscles even more, your fiancé hooks up with the drug dealer who put you away, and she loves the rich lifestyle and stays with him in his mansion, and you see a pic of them together and you escape and find the bitch who two-timed you, but she’s f****d up with heroin and you carry her out of the mansion and as you escape with her, the bad dude accidentally kills the bitch and the bad dude‘s henchman comes after you and you two have a big-ass bloody fight in an elevator and then you toss him off a tall building and you find the dealer who stole your girlfriend and there’s a big car chase but after a big-ass car crash, you hobble towards the bad dude’s car wreckage but he’s gone, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 327: Disclosure Day and Top 5 Worst Spielberg Movies
2026/06/23
This week, Robert explores what happens when the biggest secret in history finally comes out, while Ira wonders if the aliens are smart enough to avoid social media. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Disclosure Day and share their top 5 worst Spielberg movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a hot TV weather girl and while on the air, you suddenly make these weird-ass guttural clicking sounds, and then you read peoples’ minds and speak Russian and you communicate with birds and deer, and you team up with a dude you feel connected to, but there are the baddies who are out to get you and things get really f****d up with lots of crazy shit, including you and your spiritual buddy in a car that plows into a moving train, and the good guys make a replica of your childhood home so you can re-create the alien trauma you went through when you were a little girl and you’re holding a magic stick that makes you and your friends invisible and you race back to the TV studio and broadcast to the world a bunch of videos of alien encounters and they bring out an old ugly-ass alien in a wheelchair and you hug it, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 326: Obsession and Top 5 Make-a-Wish Movies
2026/05/26
This week, Robert explores the blurry line between attraction and insanity, while Ira insists every terrible relationship starts with someone saying, “Trust me.” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Obsession and share their top 5 make-a-wish movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a lonely somewhat shy guy who works at a music store with a cat that just died and there’s a hot girl you work with but she only wants to be friends and you’re crushing on her and you wish she would really be into you and you almost get the nerve to tell her, but you’re a wimp and you buy a wishing stick and wish she would fall madly in love you, but then weird shit happens and she has extreme mood swings including screaming like a f*****g banshee but the sex is hot, and she won’t leave your home and she duct tapes the door making it difficult for you to leave and she leaves you creepy notes at work and the sandwich she made is your fried dead cat and when you tell her it’s boys night out, all hell breaks loose and she goes anyway and makes a crazy ass scene, and when another girl is interested in you, she bashes her face into a bloody pulp and your only way out is to swallow a shit load of pills and she sobs, and then suddenly the spell is broken and she pushes your dead body off the couch onto the floor, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 325: Project Hail Mary and Top 5 Save-the-World Movies
2026/04/14
This week, Robert breaks down cosmic isolation and save-the-world ingenuity, while Ira realizes his backup plan in space is just panicking quietly. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Project Hail Mary and share their top 5 save-the-world movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to wake up on a spaceship a long ass way from Earth and you begin to remember you’re a former molecular biologist teaching science to kids and Earth will soon freeze and you become buddies with an ugly alien and your ugly alien buddy’s planet will also soon become extinct, and because the ship’s atmosphere will kill your ugly alien buddy, he goes into an airtight ball and rolls around a lot, and you remember you didn’t want to go on this mission, you were drugged by a woman who’s a good karaoke singer and you and your ugly alien buddy save both planets and you go to your ugly alien buddy’s planet and teach science to little ugly alien kids, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 324: Oscars and Top 5 Never Seen Before Movies
2026/03/17
This week, Robert dives into the glamour, politics, and questionable taste of the Oscars, while Ira admits he’d accept an award just for staying awake through the whole thing. Join Robert and Ira with special guest film professor Eric Swelstad as they discuss THE OSCARS and share their top 5 ‘never-seen movies.’ Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeartRadio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you want to know everything about the Oscars, and we do mean everything, from Conan O’Brien dressed as the Weapons witch as he runs into the top movies, and the usual winners and losers and political rants, and the snubs and songs and speeches, and the ratings and relevance and rants, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 323 - The Taking of Pelham 123 (Both Versions) and Top 5 ‘70s Remake Movies
2026/02/25
This week, Robert dives into crime, conductors, and crooked motives, while Ira admits his biggest transit crisis is forgetting where he parked. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss both versions of The Taking of Pelham 123 and share their top 5 ‘70 movie remakes. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a New York City subway dispatcher and some thugs hijack a subway and threatened to kill the passengers until they get a shitload of money and they will kill one hostage for every minute that has passed after the deadline, and the goofy self-absorbed mayor is of no help, and you bond with the main thug and carry the money onto the subway and the thugs jump off the subway and it’s a runaway train and you chase the thugs and then it comes down to you and the ringleader, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 322 - Tickled and Top 5 Fetish Movies
2026/02/10
This week, Robert dives into a story that starts with harmless curiosity and somehow ends in lawsuits, blackmail, and grown men being paid to giggle, while Ira questions every email he’s ever opened. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss TICKLED and share their top 5 fetish movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist and you’re curious about the underground ‘sport’ of tickling with young athletic men and as you do research on the sport, some shady figures threaten you and you discover there’s more here than meets the eye and we’re talking bullying, threats of ruined reputations, fake identities, credit card fraud and then you uncover even more starting stuff with much more going on than just giggles, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 321 - mother! and Top 5 Worth a Second Watch Movies
2026/01/27
This week, Robert descends into cinematic anxiety and biblical chaos, while Ira spends the entire time asking the perfectly reasonable question: “Why doesn’t anyone just leave?” Join Robert and Ira as they discuss MOTHER! and share their favorite top 5 ‘worth a 2nd watch’ movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a woman in a house with your husband who is a poet with writer’s block and is distant, and then a visitor and his wife show up and you become more and more frustrated with these uninvited guests, and when the couple accidentally shatters a crystal object you tell them to leave and then things go bonkers and chaotic while other people arrive and invade your home, and you’re pregnant and your brooding old man is finally happy and hordes of people show up at your home and you give birth to a baby boy and you don’t want your hubby to hold the kid and he reaches into your chest and pulls out your heart and we’re talking some heavy religious symbolism here, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 320 - Producing
2026/01/06
This week, Robert breaks down the art of keeping a film alive through sheer willpower, while Ira admits producing sounds suspiciously like being blamed for everything. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of producer on micro budget films, focusing on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a film producer, which involves feeding the cast and crew and running around town to get camera gear and batteries and lots of props, including combination locks, a porn collection, tennis shoes, and fake scars and guns, and keeping security at a distance and being a sounding board for the director and scouting the subways and driving to the desert to record gunshots and shattering my car window and stomping barefoot in a pool of blood under a freeway tunnel for a scene that wasn’t used, then this podcast is for you!
Episode 319 - Director of Photography (Special Guest: Trevor Davis)
2025/12/09
This week, Robert dives into the dark arts of cinematography, Ira claims he invented the Dutch angle by accident, and Trevor Davis patiently explains how he saved Prowler from looking like security-cam footage. Join Robert and Ira as we discuss the role of the Director of Photography with our special guest TREVOR DAVIS, who was the DP extraordinaire on our upcoming feature, PROWLER. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered who is responsible for the overall “look” of a film and what a Director of Photography does to achieve that - in particular on our film, which was beautifully shot entirely at night - then this podcast is for you!
Episode 318 - Pi and Top 5 Micro-budget Movies
2025/11/18
This week, Robert unravels spirals of obsession like a man who’s seen too much, while Ira tries to remember how to add without using his phone. Join Robert and Ira as they discuss Pi and share their top 5 micro-budget movies. Listen for free through iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, iHeart Radio, or Google Podcast Music. So, if you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to be a compulsive Jew and you’re obsessed with patterns and mathematics and nature and a cute Latina neighbor tries to be your friend and you befriend an Hasidic Jew who talks about the Talmud and you see how everything in the world even the stock market is in the form of a Golden Ratio, Golden Triangle, Golden Rectangle and ultimately a Golden Spiral, and another Jew tries to talk you out of what you’re doing, and a mysterious woman gives you a chip for your computer, but you trip out on drugs and try to pull a chip out of your head and you collapse and your cute Latina neighbor comes to your aid and you hit your head and you watch a bug and you go back to the old Jew and confront him, and that mysterious woman and her henchmen chase you and want what’s in your head, and the Hasidic Jew saves you and wants what’s in your head, and a group of orthodox rabbis want the number in your head, and the old Jew has a stroke and you smash your computer and burn a bunch of numbers and take a drill to your head, then this podcast is for you!

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4.5 out of 5
20 reviews
★★★★★
sixftlion 2020/12/03
Super entertaining & educational
I love the raw and edgy humor the hosts have, it makes me burst out in loud laughter pretty much each episode, yet there is seriousness and lots of ed...
★★★★★
Saintsfan1987 2020/10/15
Only the best
Robert and Ira, without fail, consistently seem to have an excellent grasp with what’s going on in the world, how that relates to film and provide hil...
★★★★★
Charles Martel III 2020/07/05
Love it.
Awesome show. Hosts are fun and have good camaraderie. I really appreciate that they take a very fair look at movies that others may be happy to conde...
★★★★★
HelloandNo 2020/03/12
Can’t get enough
Love this show. Always keeps me interested and always look forward to new episodes. Can’t recommend it enough. -Tabby from Your New Best Friends podc...
★★★★★
Eddie B123 2018/08/10
Fantastic and original film podcast
I’m very picky about my film podcasts, and this one is now my favorite.
★★★★★
Sea Monkey Minus 2018/01/03
Great show guys!
Love the format guys keep it up!
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