Episodes

  • The Running Man is just a regular guy
    Nov 15 2025

    This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with writer-director Edgar Wright. His newest project is an adaptation of the 1982 Stephen King novel The Running Man, starring Glen Powell. They discuss the thrill of collaborating with King on the project, the prescience of the novel, and why it was important to make the protagonist an ordinary guy.

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    24 mins
  • The Knife director Nnamdi Asomugha has The Treat
    Nov 15 2025

    Although he’s been retired from the NFL for more than a decade, director and actor Nnamdi Asomugha still gets inspired by a team coming together under difficult circumstances. For his treat, he credits the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers about paratroopers in World War II with keeping him going while recuperating from a football injury.

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    6 mins
  • Who’s with comedian W. Kamau Bell?
    Nov 8 2025

    Elvis speaks with director, TV host, and comedian W. Kamau Bell, on making audiences laugh on his current stand-up tour Who's With Me?. They discuss his brand of comedy, what's happening in late night TV and what made his CNN series United Shades of America different from other travel shows.

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    24 mins
  • The Treat: "Eddington" director Ari Aster
    Nov 7 2025

    Director Ari Aster’s films often go in unpredictable directions. That’s apparent in his works including Midsommar, Hereditary, and his latest, Eddington, which stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, and Emma Stone. For his treat, he pays homage to a 2024 French film that is more than meets the eye.

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    4 mins
  • Director Nia DaCosta on the power of Hedda
    Nov 1 2025

    Director Nia DaCosta’s new film Hedda is a daring adaptation of the 1891 Henrik Ibsen play Hedda Gabler. DaCosta talks with Elvis about not treating the original text too seriously, using physical spaces to define characters, and what Hedda surprisingly has in common with DaCosta's previous films The Marvels and Candyman.

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    24 mins
  • Actor Jeremy Strong on the spiritual ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’
    Oct 25 2025

    This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with Emmy award winning actor Jeremy Strong about his new film Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere. Strong plays Springsteen's producer and manager Jon Landau in the film about the making of the 1982 album Nebraska. Then, Elvis speaks with photographer Chris Fenimore, who is also the creator of the influential Esquire column "Five Fits With." And on the Treat, Emmy winning writer and director Larry Charles talks about the book that influenced his particular take on comedy.

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    53 mins
  • What lights Martin Scorsese up when he’s in front of the camera?
    Oct 17 2025

    At 82-years-old, Oscar-winning director Martin Scorsese’s excitement for creating moving images is as palpable as ever. This quality shines throughout actor/filmmaker Rebecca Miller’s new Apple TV+ documentary Mr. Scorsese and she’s here to tell us all about her process, including the key to getting her subject to open up on camera. Plus, writer Brad Inglesby (Task, Mare of Easttown) joins just ahead of the Task finale to explain how his family and his experiences with Catholicism found their way into the show (among other thought-provoking anecdotes). And Superman director James Gunn is gonna rock your world with this week’s Treat.

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    53 mins
  • Luca Guadagnino on “After the Hunt”
    Oct 11 2025

    This week on The Treatment, Elvis speaks with director Luca Guadagnino, whose latest film is After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield, and Ayo Adebiri. Then, actor and director Colin Hanks stops by to talk about his new documentary John Candy: I Like Me. And on the Treat, Andor creator Tony Gilroy honors his family.

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    53 mins