Episodes
Sept. 11, 2025
210: Protectors of Action
Lauro David Chartrand-Del Valle has a remarkable film and television career spanning over 35 years. Having journeyed from an internationally recognized Stuntman, Coordinator, and Fight Coordinator on epic films like The Last ...
Aug. 28, 2025
209: See Jane Fight
With nearly 20 years of experience as a performer, Tara Macken has worked as a stunt performer, fight coordinator, stunt coordinator and action director. Tara is a 5 time SAG Award nominee for Outstanding Action Performance b...
Aug. 21, 2025
Special Episode – Kill Me Again
UFC standout turned Director, Keith Jardine, and Tait Fletcher (The Mandalorian) sit in on Film Fights with Friends to talk time loops, horror, and Jardine’s directorial debut, Kill Me Again. Written and directed by Jardine, ...
Aug. 14, 2025
208: Straight to the Point with Michelle Waterson
Michelle Waterson-Gomez is an American former mixed martial artist, actress and stuntwoman who has competed across various organizations including Strikeforce and the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC). She is the former In...
July 31, 2025
207: Set Stupidity
In this episode of Film Fights with Friends Steve and Paul share some of the crazier stories from their stunt careers including getting trolled after an appearance on a notorious Saturday Night Live sketch, improv gone wrong ...
July 17, 2025
206: Dying to Work in the Film Industry
Joining Film Fights with Friends is Dr. Paul Heinzelmann, a physician, former clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School and Producer/Director of Safe Sets: Dying to Work in the Film Industry - a feature length explorati...
July 3, 2025
205: Rebellions Are Built On Previz
Mark Stanton-Kelly is a London based fight coordinator, stunt performer and lead stunt double with all round onset experience and skills. Mark is experienced and known for his ability to shoot and edit previz for feature film...
June 19, 2025
204: Avaah Blackwell’s Treks and Wrecks
Avaah Blackwell is a multilingual actor and versatile stunt performer. Classically trained in Europe, Blackwell began her career as a performer after graduating from Prague Film School's "Acting for Film" program at the top o...
June 5, 2025
203: Rick Baker Told Me Not To F**k This Up!
Tom Denier Jr. is a five-time IATSE Make Up and Hair Stylist Guild Award and four-time Emmy Award nominee. He has taken home two guild awards for his work on Saturday Night Live. Tom has worked on such noted productions as FX...
May 22, 2025
202: Wandering Into a Stunt Life
Tim Gallin began his quest to perform in feature films and TV after attending CW Post College on Long Island, NY. His first professional job came by way of the Gong Show in August of 1978. He was a contestant on an Elvis Pres...
May 8, 2025
201: Riley Stearns Doesn’t Hate Dogs
Riley Stearns is an American Filmmaker based in Los Angeles. His film balance on the edge of real and surreal, often focusing upon darker characteristics of the teacher – student relationship. Riley has written and directed ...
April 24, 2025
026: Bonus Episode: Secrecy and Safety Can’t Coexist
In this bonus episode, we look at set safety and whether the historically ‘cowboy’ culture of film sets truly permits a culture of safety. All through our first season, guests from various television and film departments repe...
April 10, 2025
025: Paul and Steve Interrupted
In the season one finale of Film Fights with Friends, Steve and Paul sit down to review the best moments from their first 25 shows. The plan suddenly changes when episode 2 guest Joshua Todd James (screenwriter - Take Cover, ...
March 27, 2025
024: Scott Boyett On Shooting Shooting
Military historian and weapons and armor expert Scott Boyett joins Film Fights with Friends for a comparative analysis of three films, depicting different time periods, from historic, tactical, technical, and theatrical persp...
March 13, 2025
023: Kristen Murphy, Bloodline Fighter
As a stunt double for Taryn Manning in the slasher horror film BLOODLINE KILLER (2024), Kristen Murphy joined an incredible stunt team to brought some complicated fights to the screen. Kristen is a professional dancer turned ...
Feb. 27, 2025
022: Copes on Ropes
Actor turned Comedian turned Stuntman turned Circus Rigger turned Stunt Rigger. Born in Ortonville, Michigan, in 1971. A former school wrestling champion, Brett has since trained in swordplay, film fighting, knife throwing, b...
Feb. 13, 2025
021: Film Football With Friends
Rocco Nisivoccia Jr. is a Director, Producer, and Production Manager who, after film school, landed his first Production Assistant gig on Spider-Man 2 (2004) with one of the most creative pitches we have ever heard. Working h...
Jan. 30, 2025
020: Stunt Coordinating is Child’s Play
Larry Rosenthal is a SAG/AFTRA award winner and four-time nominated stunt coordinator/performer. He won for Best Stunt Ensemble on the television show 24, starring Kiefer Sutherland. He has been stunt performing for over 25 y...
Jan. 16, 2025
019: A Tale of Blacklight and Ice
Critics universally panned Wayne Kramer’s box office flop Running Scared (2006). Top critics on Rotton Tomatoes rate the film at bleak 27% while fans give the film a superior 79% rating. On IMDB, it is Kramer’s highest-rated ...
Jan. 2, 2025
018: Cry Havoc and Let Slip the Headshot!
Singaporean actor, director, martial artist, stuntman and fight choreographer Sunny Pang has appeared is such films as The Night Comes for Us (2018), Buffalo Boys (2018), Diamond Dogs (2017), The Collector (2012), Exiled: The...
Dec. 19, 2024
017: Preston Thomas Is A Shooter
Preston Thomas is a lifelong martial artist and cinephile. Film Jitsu is his second feature film as a director and his first documentary. It is about the crossover between the worlds of martial arts, grappling, filmmaking, an...
Dec. 5, 2024
016: Can Bad Action Be Good Action?
Paul and Steve dive into the listener mailbag to answer the question, “What is your favorite movie with terrible action and a terrible movie with great action?” On the dissection table are classic action films Ong Bak: Thai W...
Nov. 21, 2024
015: So, I Guess I’m Challenging You
Happy Anderson is an actor with an extensive body of work in television and film. On the feature film side, Happy co-starred opposite Will Smith and Edgar Ramirez in David Ayer's Bright (Netflix), opposite Robert DeNiro in Ta...
Nov. 8, 2024
014: Welcome to Watertown Mother…
Cliff Moylan was born and raised in Dorchester, Massachusetts, to an Irish father from County Clare and an Irish-American mother from County Detroit. He is best known for his portrayal of real-life hero Sergeant John MacLella...