A Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast

About A Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast

Welcome to A Piece of Pie: the Queer Film Podcast. Creator and host Brian Rowe welcomes a rotating cast of contributors to discuss/ review movies both new and old; giving them their own unique queer perspective. Podcasts will post bi-weekly.

Publisher

Brian Rowe

Category

arts · society & culture · tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

10 Mar 2018

Latest episode

26 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 160 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   26 Jun 2026

   Chasing Amy & Chasing Chasing Amy

   Brian welcomes filmmaker Sav Rodgers to discuss his documentary Chasing Chasing Amy. The documentary investigates his own complicated feelings with Kevin Smith's 1997 hit, Chasing Amy in which Ben Affleck falls for a lesbian. Revolutionary at the time, its now seen as a problematic attempt from a straight white guy to tell a queer story. Or maybe it's an empathetic queer coming of age tale that was accidentally written by a cis white man. Sav's movie asks that question head-on. Question...

2. 

   12 Jun 2026

   Close Encounters of the Third Kind & Disclosure Day

   With Disclosure Day, legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg returns to the alien invasion genre he's defined for generations. So this week we took a look back at where he started, with just his third theatrical release, Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977. Questions or comments about what we talked about? Click here to let us know!

3. 

   22 May 2026

   Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood & Licorice Pizza

   After 5 and half years, Brian and Max finally wrap up their series on filmmakers Quentin Tarantino & Paul Thomas Anderson. Since mid-2020 they’ve been pairing off the works of the two Gen X auteurs. Chris joins them to discuss Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood, his favorite Tarantino, paired off with PTA’s own Los Angeles love letter, Licorice Pizza. Questions or comments about what we talked about? Click here to let us know!

Inside a recent episode

Pre-Code Hollywood (She Done Him Wrong & Baby Face)

Published 27 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] She plays, you know, more elite. You know, there's stuff that like Katherine Hepburn cannot like disappear into too many roles. And Barbara Stanwyck really could disappear into roles in a way that was like not encouraged or done very often. Like she could do melodrama, screwball comedies, noir. She was in a couple of good holiday-themed rom-coms, like you'd seen on Hallmark today, Westerns and thrillers. She kind of did it all in a way and never, I don't think... I mean, she was a very high-paid actress. She was very well-known at the time. She was nominated for a bunch of Oscars, but never won. […]

Who has been a guest on A Piece of Pie: The Queer Film Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Miguel Long
• Ryan Hake
• Sezin Devi Koehler

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.4 / 5

35 ratings

Spotify

3.7 / 5

6 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

24

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

84

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