The Movie of Your Life with Richard Roeper

Richard Roeper interviews actor Theo Rossi about his projects Come With Me (now in theaters and available on Apple TV), Bruton, and the breaking news that Rossi and several Sons of Anarchy castmates are reuniting for a new FX series, Legends, built around a clever, unexpected, Galaxy Quest/Curb-style premise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper interviews director-screenwriter Julia Hart about her Netflix hit Don’t Say Good Luck, which stars Sunny Sandler as a high schooler cast in Waitress while facing her mother’s cancer diagnosis, alongside Melanie Lynskey, Max Greenfield, Steve Buscemi, and Bebe Neuwirth; Hart explains how she, producer-husband Jordan Horowitz, and novelist Laura Henkin developed Henkin’s first screenplay and cast Sandler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper welcomes acclaimed comedian and actress Jane Lynch, discussing her tour with Kate Flannery (The Trouble With Angels), her Dolton upbringing, early jobs, and the moment at age 12 during a St. Jude “port of call” show that sparked her desire to perform. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper interviews writer-director Michael Russell Gunn and actor Aya Cash about their film The Brink of War, set during the 1986 Reykjavik Summit where Reagan and Gorbachev’s private negotiations helped begin the end of the Cold War. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Movie of Your Life welcomes former MLB All-Star and two-time World Series champion Hunter Pence, who shares his love of baseball’s challenge, his transition into broadcasting, and advice for young players about pursuing what they love, embracing failure, and exploring roles beyond playing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper reflects on an historic 2026 summer at the movies and the recurring claim that “movies are dead,” tracing past disruptions from TV and VHS to streaming and the pandemic’s theater closures, including Chicago’s Navy Pier IMAX. They discuss major hits led by Spider-Man: Brand New Day—praised for its grounded, emotional story about Peter Parker being erased from everyone’s memory—and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a true-IMAX epic projected to top $1.5 billion despite “woke casting” backlash. Roeper shares highlights from his private New York screening and extensive interview with Nolan, including Nolan’s admiration for Orson Welles and Citizen Kane, plus Roeper’s history with Nolan since Memento and The Dark Knight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tony Award-winner Laura Benanti discusses her autobiographical one-woman comedy show, "Laura Benanti: Nobody Cares", coming to Chicago for five performances at Steppenwolf’s downstairs theater, and why playing herself in a show she wrote feels more vulnerable than performing someone else’s material. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper interviews stand-up comedian and podcaster Holly Brown about her dark comedy podcast "Everybody Knows But Me", inspired by her father’s deathbed confession that he had twin sons everyone else in the family knew about. Brown, a Valley girl raised in Los Angeles whose dad worked on ’90s sitcoms including Frasier, explains how she uses sitcom structure, actors, and sound design to process grief, family dysfunction, and healing through humor, and teases whether she eventually meets her half-brothers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper interviews Steve Sarowitz, Paylocity founder and chairman/financial backer of Wayfarer Studios and Wayfarer Theaters. Sarowitz addresses recent legal controversy involving Justin Baldoni, saying accusations were false and his Baha’i faith and loyalty to Baldoni helped him endure the ordeal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper talks with filmmaker and actor Beth Lane about her Netflix documentary Unbroken, which chronicles the true story of seven Jewish siblings hidden for two years outside Berlin during World War II, the only known family of seven to survive the Holocaust together before being separated in foster care after arriving in America. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor Gary Cole discusses returning to the Chicago stage for the first time in 25 years to star in Mia Chung’s Catch as Catch Can at Steppenwolf Theatre during its 50th anniversary season (running through July 12). Cole also shares favorite films, his first impactful theater movie, a surprising in-room Entourage casting, and his choice of a dream set to observe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper welcomes journalist-filmmaker David Greene and Old Crow Medicine Show’s Ketch Secor to discuss their documentary Louder Than Guns, created after the Covenant School tragedy in Nashville to explore whether music, conversation, and community can help bridge America’s gun divides. Join Greene and filmmaker Doug Pray June 24th at Wayfarer Theaters Highland Park for a screening of the film and Q&A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper welcomes Corey Hendrix, a West Side Chicago actor known for The Chi, Fargo, and The Bear, discussing how Chicago’s theater and improv communities shaped his craft and his commitment to authenticity in Chicago-set stories. He shares advice for aspiring actors, details preparing for Sweeps’ sommelier arc in The Bear through tastings and experts, and names the films that were influential to him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Actor and longtime comic Jeremy Piven, known for his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning work as Ari Gold on Entourage, discusses his storied film and television career. Piven is currently on the road and Chicago area folks can see his stand-up June 12–14 at the Chicago Improv in Schaumburg. Tickets at improv.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper hosts Olivia Newman and Shelby Van Pelt to discuss the Netflix film adaptation of Van Pelt’s "Remarkably Bright Creatures", starring Sally Field. Newman describes the key adaptation challenges and casting Alfred Molina as Marcellus’s voice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Denise Richards stars in the indie thriller "Dirty Hands" now available on Apple TV and Prime Video. Richards discusses how promoting the film has changed following the sudden death of actor and co-star Patrick Muldoon and also reflects on her Seinfeld “The Shoes” guest spot, her 1990s run (Starship Troopers, Wild Things, The World Is Not Enough, Drop Dead Gorgeous), her interest in comedy, and her moviegoing memories. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Writer-director and Billions co-creator Brian Koppelman discusses his career, creative habits, and films that influenced him. Koppelman describes building “scaffolding” through morning pages, transcendental meditation, and journaling to overcome creative blocks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper compares reactions to Project Hail Mary and other space/alien films with an inspirational tone: from Close Encounters of the Third Kind to Interstellar, touching on themes of benevolent aliens, survival, and what comes after a mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper welcomes Chicago native and 15-year NBA veteran Kendall Gill (University of Illinois “Flyin’ Illini,” fifth overall pick in the 1990 NBA Draft, former steals leader, now a Bulls analyst). Gill previews Illinois’ Sweet 16 matchup with Houston, saying Thursday’s game is the key to a potential Final Four run and don't miss his surprising guilty pleasure movie pick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Richard Roeper welcomes pioneering astronaut Colonel Eileen Collins to discuss the documentary Spacewoman, directed by Hannah Berryman, and Collins’ appearances at Wayfarer Theaters in Highland Park on March 30. Collins reflects on being the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle, the personal costs of sharing family history in the film, and why the shuttle program ended in 2011 in favor of safer capsule designs with escape systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices