Hello and welcome to a special still-unnamed channel 33 movies podcast.

My name is Sean Fennesy, I'm the editor of the ringer.

Today I'll be talking with film director Doug Lyman, who has a new film called The Wall

Coming Out Soon.

But first, I'm happy to be very excited to be chatting with Allison Wilmore.

Allison is the film critic for Buzzfeed and also the co-host of I Can Honestly Say, My

Favorite Movies Podcast, which is film spotting SVU.

Allison, that's a true story.

How are you doing today?

That's amazing.

I'm great.

Well, after hearing that, I'm really great.

Okay, I greased the wheels.

I greased the wheels.

So Allison, like I said, I spoke to Doug and he's had quite an interesting career and

you know, given your experience.

I was wondering if you could kind of put him in context for us.

What kind of filmmaker is Doug Lyman and what kind of movies does he make?

Well, he's kind of all over the place.

I think a filmmaker who's worked, I've really enjoyed, but it's hard to say that he specializes

in one particular thing.

You know, the first thing I ever saw from him was Swingers, which LA classic about you

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