Hanging with Becky
Join movie studio marketing veteran, Becky D'Anna each week as she talks the latest movie release with one of her amazing friends and then puts them through a custom Becky Challenge
Episodes
Becky welcomes her friend, podcaster, film writer, yoga instructor and former librarian Leanne Kubicz to talk about KLARA AND THE SUN, Taika Waititi's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed novel.
Becky and Leanne are both huge fans of NEVER LET ME GO, so when they learned KLARA AND THE SUN was coming to the screen, they made a pact to read the novel first. They both fell in love with the book — its quiet sadness, strange f...
Becky welcomes her friend, writer and former Hollywood book club member Eliot M Gerstel to talk about one of her favorite films of the year: YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, the extraordinary new documentary from Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim about Elizabeth Holmes.
This conversation has actually been eight years in the making. Back in 2018, Becky, Eliot and three other Sony executives read John Carreyrou's Bad Blood together for ...
Becky welcomes her good friend and longtime podcaster Jacob Rivera to talk about one of their most anticipated movies of the year: THE SOCIAL RECKONING, Aaron Sorkin's follow-up to THE SOCIAL NETWORK.
Jacob is the ideal guest for this conversation. He's a massive David Fincher fan who considers THE SOCIAL NETWORK a perfect movie, and in 2020 he joined Leanne Kubicz on Film 89 for an episode celebrating its 10th anniversar...
Becky welcomes back Hanging with Becky producer, Kyle Reardon to talk about a smaller film they're especially excited to champion: THE SCOUT.
Written and directed by Paula González-Nasser, THE SCOUT follows Sofia, a New York City location scout played by Mimi Davila, as she travels from apartment to apartment searching for the perfect spaces for a television pilot. Along the way, she gets brief glimpses into the private lives ...
This week, Becky welcomes back her amazing friend Jon Laubinger for a very different kind of conversation about PRIMETIME, Lance Oppenheim's first narrative feature and a provocative look behind the scenes of Chris Hansen and To Catch a Predator.
Jon is a filmmaker, writer and podcaster — and Becky's former co-host on Director's Take: A Sony Pictures Podcast — as well as someone she trusts deeply to approach diffic...
This week, Becky welcomes back her incredible friend Martin Kessler for a movie they've been waiting a very long time to talk about: RESIDENT EVIL.
Martin is a longtime fan of both the games and movies — so much so that when Becky first dreamed up Hanging with ...
This week, Becky welcomes back her longtime friend Jamie Hancock, host of Wrong Reel and creator of Geekin' with James Hancock, to Hanging with Becky for the show's first-ever international film: Na Hong-jin's South Korean sci-fi action epic HOPE.
Becky and Jam...
This week, Becky welcomes her brilliant friend Kevin Maher — Emmy-nominated comedy writer, comedian, creator of Kevin Geeks Out and recently published New Yorker humorist — to Hanging with Becky for the show's longest conversation yet!
And there may not have been a more perfect movie to finally bring them together.
Becky and Kevin dig into COYOTE VS. ACME, the hilarious, unexpectedly moving Looney Tunes courtr...
This week, Becky welcomes her wonderful friend John Arminio, co-host of the Popcorn Eschaton podcast, to Hanging with Becky to talk Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic drama THE DOG STARS.
John has previously welcomed Becky onto Popcorn Eschaton for deeply personal conversations about THE SEVENTH...
This week, Becky welcomes her very good friend and fellow #BergmanBuddies4Life, Dave Eves to Hanging with Becky for something surprisingly long overdue: their first podcast together devoted to a horror movie.
Becky originally discovered Dave thr...
Longtime friend and returning guest Adam Rackoff is back on Hanging with Becky to dive into THE END OF OAK STREET, the new science-fiction adventure from writer-director David Robert Mitchell.
Becky and Adam both went into the movie not quite knowing what to expect—and discovered an original, wildly entertaining throwback to the kind of summer blockbusters they grew up loving.
They dig into the film's surprising mix of s...
Friend and first-time podcast guest Paul Retterer joins Hanging with Becky to celebrate AVATAR AANG: THE LAST AIRBENDER—the new continuation of the beloved Avatar: The Last Airbender story.
Paul is the friend who spent months convincing Becky and her daughter to finally watch Avatar: The Last Airbender—and once they did, Becky became completely obsessed. For this epis...
For the first time ever, Hanging with Becky heads to San Diego Comic-Con!
Becky celebrates her 20th Comic-Con while returning guest David Booher marks his 18th—and despite attending every one together, they somehow experience two completely different conventions.
From Hall H, the Paramount+ Lodge, the Hero Within Booth, and the Her Universe Fashion Show to comic book signin...
After working on nine Spider-Man films during her career in movie marketing, Becky welcomes producer Kyle Reardon back to Hanging with Becky to dive into one of the year's biggest movie events, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY.
Following a brief spoiler-free discussion, Becky and Kyle swin...
This week, Hanging with Becky opens the vault to share something very special.
Five years before Hanging with Becky, Becky D'Anna and Adam Rackoff recorded the pilot for a podcast called The Movie Insiders—a show where they planned to tell the personal stories behind the movies they worked on throughout their careers in the film industry. Although the series never continued beyond its pilot, Becky has always believed this con...
For years, Becky and Jon Laubinger have shared microphones, interviewed filmmakers, and spent countless hours talking about the movies they love. This week, they're finally reunited on Hanging with Becky to tackle one of the year's biggest theatrical events: Christopher Nolan's ODYSSEY.
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Filmmaker, writer, podcaster, and one of the most knowledgeable horror fans Becky knows, Julia Marchese joins Hanging with Becky to discuss EVIL DEAD BURN.
After seeing the film together the night before recording, Becky and Julia sat down expecting they might disagree. Instead, they discovered they shared many of the...
Film writer and podcaster Martin Kessler joins Becky to look back at the best movies of the year so far.
Without sharing their lists beforehand, Becky and Martin each reveal their Top 5 Films of the Year So Far, leading to genuine surprises, passionate recommendations, and one very meaningful overlap: DISCLOSURE DAY.
Along the way, they celebrate standout horror and science fiction films, champion hidden gems, and compare the movie...
Producer Kyle Reardon returns for his first official episode as a guest to discuss SUPERGIRL and the future of James Gunn's DC Universe.
After falling in love with 2025's SUPERMAN, Becky and Kyle had high hopes for SUPERGIRL. While they both admired the ambition behind the film, they ultimately felt it lacked the emotio...
Documentary and animation producer, Adam Rackoff returns to Hanging with Becky for a very different conversation.
This week, Becky and Adam discuss TOY STORY 5 and the surprisingly powerful themes at the heart of Pixar's latest adventure. Together, they explore parenting, technology, loneliness, rejection, self-worth, and what it means to find your people and embrace who you are.
As parents of only children whose daughters are navi...
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