Reel Confessions: Chris Ryan

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.5 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Chris Ryan steps into the confession booth and it’s all Heat, all the time. Paul and Amy get into Chris’ ride-or-die devotion to Heat, his deep love of Michael Mann, and spirited debates over Public Enemies, Ferrari, and the elusive The Keep. They talk Yorgos Lanthimos, the art of avoiding trailers, and play a chaotic round of Christopher Nolan-themed F/M/K. You can join the Unspooled conversation on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6 Follow Paul and Amy on Letterboxd for more of their movie hot takes! https://letterboxd.com/paulscheer/ https://letterboxd.com/theamynicholson/ Paul’s book Joyful Recollections of Trauma is out now! Find it at https://www.harpercollins.com/products/joyful-recollections-of-trauma-paul-scheer Check out more of Paul's writing on his Substack https://substack.com/@paulscheer Episodic Art by Kim Troxall: https://www.unspooledart.com/ Learn more about the show at Unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and on Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or where you listen to podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Unspooled Real Confessions. I am Paul Shear.
0:05.3	And I'm Amy Nicholson. And this is the show where we dim the lights and ask our guests to bear their cinematic souls to tell us about the movies they love, the movies they hate, the movies they're embarrassed to admit they own.
0:14.9	And the reasons you might not want to sit next to them in a dark theater.
0:18.4	Today we have a podcasting legend.
0:21.3	That's right, Chris Ryan.
0:23.3	You know him from The Ringer.
0:24.9	He is the co-host of The Watch with Andy Greenwald.
0:27.6	And of course, the rewatchables.
0:30.4	I love his opinions.
0:32.2	I love hearing him to talk about films.
0:34.2	Please welcome Chris into the confessional.
0:36.9	Oh, I'm sorry. films, please welcome Chris into the Confessional.
0:52.0	Chris, you have not been shy that one of your favorite movies of all time is heat.
0:56.1	But I want to know, is there a Michael Mann movie that's me?
0:58.2	Oh my God, Amy.
1:00.1	You're to really start this way?
1:05.7	Here's the fun thing about Michael Mann is that there have been several films that I've been about when I first saw them in the theater.
1:09.3	But part of the project here is to somehow rehabilitate and rediscover every single Michael
1:16.8	man movie, with the exception of maybe the keep, because I don't even know if Bill has seen
1:22.0	that, but as like our group project, these two men going through life, just rewatching Black Hat over and over
1:29.8	and over again. I have to say that we've been like having several conversations about public
1:35.0	enemies, which was like the last holdout. Yeah, that's a tricky one. Yeah. The only one that he doesn't
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