On the eve of the premiere of not one, but two of his Hallmark Christmas movies, screenwriter Russell Hainline joins us to discuss the Twitter-poster-to-Hallmark-writer pipeline, his upcoming projects “The Nights Before Christmas” and “Mistletoe and Mimosas,” and his favorite movie of all time, Mel Brooks’s durable Western spoof.
Blake Howard
Blake Howard is a writer, film critic, podcast host and producer behind One Heat Minute Productions, which includes shows One Heat Minute, The Last 12 Minutes Of The Mohicans, Increment Vice, All The President’s Minutes, Miami Nice and Josie & The Podcats. Endorsed and featuring legendary filmmaker Michael Mann, One Heat Minute was named by New York Magazine and Vulture as one of 100 Great Podcasts To Listen To and nominated for an Australian Podcast Award. Creator of the Australian film collective Graffiti With Punctuation, Blake is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic with bylines in Empire Magazine, SBS Movies, Vague Visages, Dark Horizons, Film Ink and many more.