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Project Big Screen

‘Springsteen’ and ‘A House of Dynamite’ Reviews + The Top 10 Music BioPics of All Time

Project Big Screen

Barstool Sports

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 136 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Project Big Screen, we review two movies: ‘SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE’ and ‘A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE’. Has Kathryn Bigelow lost her fastball? Should we stick a fork in the music biopics? Stick around to see what we think are the greatest from the genre! We give our reactions to other things we’ve been watching the past week as well as discuss the biggest news stories of the week… What’s going on with Star Wars right now?? Also on the episode, we’re joined by ‘CHAD POWERS’ co-creator, ‘AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY’ writer, and friend of the program, Michael Waldron. Make sure to like and subscribe — and if you want to be a part of our fan rankings, listen for Gooch’s instructions in this episode on how to join! Timecodes: Intro - (0:00) Springsteen Review - (1:38) Springsteen SPOILERS - (18:06) A House of Dynamite Review - (28:33) House of Dynamite SPOILERS - (40:21) Ad - (51:49) Failed Star Wars Pitches - (53:26) Rocky Almost Died - (59:26) Cowardly Lion Reveal - (1:01:00) Scorsese Docu-Series - (1:02:34) Expos Documentary - (1:03:01) Klemmer’s Pets on a Train Review - (1:04:37) If I Had Legs I’d Kick You - (1:09:30) Regretting You - (1:09:58) Dead of Winter - (1:10:17) The Astronaut - (1:10:40) Physical Media Corner - (1:10:54) Hamnet Reactions - (1:12:44) Interview With Michael Waldron - (1:15:32) Top 10 Music BioPics - (1:47:08) Follow us on Social Media: barstool.link/pbs X | Twitter | Letterboxd: @ProjBigScreen IG | Tik Tok: @ProjectBigScreen Our Personal Letterboxds: Jeff: @JeffDLowe Gooch: @Bobby_Gooch Kenjac: @Kenjac Klemmer: @ChrisKlemmer Kirk: @KirkMinihane


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0:00.0

Hey, Project Big Screen listeners.

0:01.5

You can find us every Monday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.

0:05.6

Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music.

0:17.0

This week on Project Big Screen, we are talking about the Bruce Springsteen movie, Deliver Me from Nowhere, a pretty big one for this podcast. What do we think about it? Did we like it? Springsteen fans, how they feel, non-Springstein fans, how they feel? A House of Dynamite, which is on Netflix. We have an interview with Michael Waldron, showrunner behind Chad Powers, as well as a hand in the Marvel Cinematic Universe of Loki, the upcoming Avengers movies, and then we rank the top 10 music biopics.

0:44.1

All right, Project Big Screen episode four. We're recording this, the last full week coming up of October.

0:52.4

We officially kick into what should be like mostly good

0:56.8

movies here on out. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem as though we've got that today, folks.

1:04.5

We've got Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere, a pretty big release for two people on this at least. It would be a very

1:12.5

interesting contrast between Springsteen fan and not Springsteen fan in terms of how they view

1:17.0

this movie and if there's a complete overlap of how people feel, which I assume there could be.

1:21.8

And then a house of dynamite, which I saw in theaters, Ken, Gooch saw in theaters as well at a film festival, but it's also on Netflix now. So you can see House of Dynamite on Netflix. We talked about doing Frankenstein and Begonia, but Frankenstein's on Netflix soon and begonia, which is easier for you. We'd rather do those types of movies whenever we can see it. But let's start out with, and at the end, we're going to be doing a top 10 music biopics, which should be quite interesting. Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere, though. Let's start out with that. Originally just titled, Deliver Me from Nowhere, based on the book by the same name, directed by Scott Cooper, who also did the movie's Crazy Heart, Black Mask, Hostiles. Film Chron Chronicles Bruce Springsteen as a young musician on the

2:01.1

cusp of global superstardom, struggling with fame, creative pressure, and the ghost of his past.

2:05.4

He retreats to his New Jersey roots and records his 1982 album, Nebraska, using only a four-track recorder, along with,

2:11.2

being along the way, he deals with his complicated relationship with his father, his manager's expectations.

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A female who is not a real person and his own

2:19.9

need for authenticity.

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Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen in a role that's been majorly hyped for well

2:26.3

over a year now.

2:28.2

Jeremy Strong is in this doing the classic Jeremy Strong thing.

2:31.8

Paul Walter Hous, Stephen Graham, Odessi Young, among the others.

2:36.1

3.5 million at the box office first weekend, 61% around Tomatoes critics.

2:39.7

Audiences do like it, 86%.

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