S4E26.5: The Zone of Interest [PREVIEW]

Kill James Bond!

November, Abigail, and Devon

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv & Film:film Reviews

4.7 • 615 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Some streams come to a head in this episode, as we discuss Jonathan Glazer's film of our time, The Zone of Interest. Rudolph Hoess, the commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, lives with his family in a house just off the camp itself. ----- Friend of the show Bella, a refugee evacuated from Afghanistan in 2021, is raising money for her gender confirmation surgery! Anything you can give would be hugely appreciated! https://www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/team-bella ----- Check out friend of the show Mattie's new book Simplicity here, or wherever fine graphic novels are sold! ----- FREE PALESTINE Hey, Devon here. In our home, we talk a lot about how insane everything feels, and agonise constantly over what can be done to best help the Palestinians trapped in Gaza facing the full brunt of genocidal violence. My partner Rebecca has put together a list of four fundraisers you can contribute to- all of them are at work on the ground doing what they can. -Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestinehttps://www.gofundme.com/f/to-preserve-whats-left-of-humanity-global-solidarity -Water is Life, a water distribution project in North Gaza affiliated with an Indigenous American organization and the Freedom Flotillahttps://www.waterislifegaza.org/ -Vegetable Distribution Fund, which secured and delivers fresh veg, affiliated with Freedom Flotilla alsohttps://www.instagram.com/linking/fundraiser?fundraiser_id=1102739514947848 -Thamra, which distributes herb and veg seedlings, repairs and maintains water infrastructure, and distributes food made with replanted veg patcheshttps://www.gofundme.com/f/support-thamra-cultivating-resilience-in-gaza ----- WEB DESIGN ALERT Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind our website). If you need web design help, reach out to him here: https://www.tomallen.media/ Kill James Bond is hosted by November Kelly, Abigail Thorn, and Devon. You can find us at https://killjamesbond.com , as well as on our Bluesky and X.com the every app account

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another bonus episode of Kill James Bond.
0:20.1	I am November Kelly. I am joined, as
0:22.2	always, by my friends Abigail Thorne and Devon. Hello. Hello. And we're really here to ask,
0:28.6	what if we made the whole episode out of the jarring shift in tone? Yes, yes, yes. What if we started
0:34.9	with a jarring tone and just stayed there? We're going to be flipping the switch between Mordland and A Reverent a lot in this podcast.
0:41.1	It's staying heavily on Mordland.
0:42.8	What if we did an episode of our comedy podcast about films and talked about the film,
0:51.2	The Zone of Interest?
0:52.7	Mm-hmm.
0:53.9	Yes.
0:54.1	Abby, this was your pick, right? of interest. Yes.
0:56.4	Abby, this was your pick, right?
0:57.0	It was.
0:57.6	It was.
0:59.6	I enjoy the work of Jonathan Glazer.
1:02.6	We've done a couple of his films on the podcast before.
1:05.8	And also, I just figured it's a really good film.
1:10.0	And I do, in fact, have one very funny thing to say about it.
1:14.4	Listeners, if you're not familiar, a zone of interest is a 2023 film, which is about Rudolph Hoss, who ran Out Switch.
1:18.2	So, strap in for a fun time.
1:21.0	It's not a laugh riot, no.
1:22.5	It's a Jonathan Glazer film, too, so it's, there's a lot of, like, horror.
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