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Nova has announced the launch of Four the Record, a new podcast hosted by real-life mates Tim Blackwell and Joe Hildebrand. Weekly episodes of the podcast will drop on the Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel show’s podcast feed every Thursday morning.

Four the Record is a weekly 20-minute podcast where Nova’s Tim Blackwell fires four probing questions at journalist, podcaster and TV host, Joe Hildebrand on a hot topic dominating the headlines.

No spin. No Bs. Just one current issue, four big questions, and Joe’s unfiltered take.

Said Tim on the Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel today about the new podcast, “So Joe knows everything, right? And I don't. I'm kind of like this classic radio person…so I know the tip of every issue. I don't know what's under the under the surface of any issue, the underbelly. Today, we're going to launch episode one, and it's me asking four...

Nova has announced the launch of Four the Record, a new podcast hosted by real-life mates Tim Blackwell and Joe Hildebrand. Weekly episodes of the podcast will drop on the Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel show’s podcast feed every Thursday morning.

Four the Record is a weekly podcast where Nova’s Tim Blackwell fires four probing questions at journalist, podcaster and TV host, Joe Hildebrand on a hot topic dominating the headlines.

No spin. No Bs. Just one current issue, four big questions, and Joe’s unfiltered take.

Said Tim on the Ricki-Lee, Tim & Joel today about the new podcast, “So Joe knows everything, right? And I don't. I'm kind of like this classic radio person…so I know the tip of every issue. I don't know what's under the under the surface of any issue, the underbelly. Today, we're going to launch episode one, and it's me asking four questions...

Joseph Quinn’s much-anticipated project of the year will be The Fantastic Four: First Steps, but right now, critics are raving about his another performance. He has heaped praises from moviegoers for his gut-wrenching acting performance in Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza’s war-action film, Warfare.

Quinn plays the role of leading Petty Officer Sam, a character based on the real-life Navy Seal veteran Joe Hildebrand. Through Quinn’s character, the film explores Hildebrand’s experience with Ptsd and trauma during his time in the service. From the words of the critics, it appears that Quinn was exceptional in the role.

Joseph Quinn as Sam in a still from Warfare | Credits: A24

After collaborating with A24 for the critically acclaimed film Civil War last year, Garland once again joined forces with the studio for a war movie. He is co-writing and co-directing Warfare with Ray Mendoza, a former U.S.

While finishing “Civil War,” sound designer Glenn Freemantle and supervising sound editor Ben Barker were informed by director Alex Garland that his next film — “Warfare” — based on a real-life mission in Iraq, would be even smaller and contain no music. They were all in. But little did Freemantle and Barker realize what a subjective and immersive sound experience they were in for.

The passion project of Iraq vet Ray Mendoza, who served as military advisor on “Civil War,” “Warfare” recounts the enemy surveillance mission that Mendoza was on as a young Navy Seal communications officer that turned into an Al Qaeda ambush in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006. Writing and directing with Garland, Mendoza took a uniquely forensic approach to the harrowing 24-hour ordeal, relying on the collective memories of everyone involved to achieve visceral authenticity.

“We just knew it was an absolute, brilliant opportunity for us,” Freemantle told IndieWire. “Everything was...

Warfare, co-directed and co-written by Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, draws from firsthand accounts of a Navy Seal mission in Ramadi, Iraq, in November 2006. The script is based entirely on the memories of Mendoza and his fellow SEALs, offering a close-up view of an overnight surveillance operation that shifted into active conflict.

The film begins with a unit of Navy SEALs splitting into three teams. Their task: occupy a residential building under cover of darkness to observe enemy movement and secure the area for incoming ground forces. The mission, carried out in a region known for Al Qaeda activity, unfolds in confined interior spaces with little exposition and minimal dialogue. Military jargon is used without translation, and characters are shown as coordinated parts of a functioning team rather than as individually profiled figures.

The cast includes D’Pharaoh Woon-a-Tai as a young Ray Mendoza. Woon-a-Tai gained attention for his work on Reservation Dogs,...

Warfare stars Joseph Quinn and Charles Melton were honored to help pay tribute to retired U.S. Navy Seal Elliott Miller on behalf of co-directors Ray Mendoza and Alex Garland.

Mendoza, who’s also a retired Seal himself, previously worked as the military advisor on Garland’s Civil War and contributed to the design of its battle sequences. Along the way, he struck up a friendship with the English filmmaker, before sharing the story of his fellow Seal, Miller, and the rest of their platoon’s evacuation during a 2006 mission in Al Qaeda-controlled territory of Ramadi, Iraq. Upon wrapping Civil War, Garland decided to turn the harrowing account in their follow-up film, anointing Mendoza as co-writer and co-director of Warfare.

Mendoza and Miller’s team of U.S. Navy SEALs, which was regarded as Operation 1, were surveilling a residential neighborhood when they were attacked by neighboring insurgents, gravely wounding Miller (Cosmo Jarvis) and Quinn’s character,...

Here’s When Warfare Arrives In Theatres! (Photo Credit – Instagram)

A24’s real-time gritty war thriller Warfare, co-written and directed by Iraq War veteran Ray Mendoza and visionary filmmaker Alex Garland (known for Civil War and 28 Days Later), is set to arrive in theatres soon. This gripping film immerses audiences in an intense, boots-on-the-ground narrative of modern warfare, camaraderie, and survival.

Set deep in insurgent territory, Warfare follows an elite Navy Seal platoon on a high-stakes surveillance mission that spirals into chaos. Inspired by firsthand accounts and the memories of those who lived through it, the film delivers an unfiltered look at the harrowing realities of combat and the unbreakable bonds forged on the battlefield. Warfare will arrive in theatres in India and the US on April 11, 2025.

The film boasts a talented ensemble cast led by Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn as Sam, a character inspired by Joe Hildebrand,...

It seems only right that a crowd of veterans were the first to see Warfare, U.S. Navy Seal Ray Mendoza’s feature directorial debut, co-written and co-directed with Alex Garland.

On Wednesday night, A24 put on a special screening of the film at the L.A. American Legion Theater, with many of the real men behind the story present among the military community in the audience.

Warfare reunites Garland with Civil War military advisor Mendoza and this film plays out real events in real-time, based on Mendoza and his platoon’s experience on a mission in Iraq in 2006. When things take a very extreme turn, the Platoon must find a way out, with all of their lives hanging in the balance.

During a post-screening Q&a, Garland said of working with the veterans involved: “I’m a civilian and we hear about the military, and people sometimes think they understand, and they don’t.

Every generation or so, filmmakers endeavor to bring audiences into the nightmarish experience of armed conflict, and a new standard is set in the process; that is precisely what Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza have done with Warfare. In a historic live screening event at the Legion Theater at Hollywood Post 43, Warfare was shown to veterans, select media, and some of the filmmakers with a Q&a that followed and dug into the process that allowed Garland and others to join Mendoza's mission to bring his actual experience of one day in the 2006 Ramadi conflict to the screen.

Films such as Black Hawk Down, Saving Private Ryan, and Dunkirk all come to mind when considering seminal moments in the medium where filmmakers utilized the tools available to take audiences into the experience of the combat veteran. Warfare takes it all up a notch, stripping away a lot of the...

For the world premiere of “Warfare,” the directorial debut of Navy Seal veteran Ray Mendoza, who worked as a military advisor on “Civil War” with co-writer and director Alex Garland, A24 hosted an audience different from the usual industry set.

Given how the film is based on a real-life mission Mendoza survived during the Iraq War, on Wednesday night, the Hollywood American Legion Theater in L.A. was mostly comprised of an appropriate audience: fellow veterans and members of the military community, with representation from partners including Veterans In Media And Entertainment, Navy Seal Foundation, Warrior Heritage Foundation, Team Rubicon, Team Rwb, Writers Guild Foundation – Veterans Writing Program, Screen Actors Guild Veterans Committee, the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Space Force.

So when the post-screening Q&a for the intense war chronicle began, much of the conversation was about memory and honesty. “It was based on memory.

In this roundup from the Encore & Mumbrella Annual, we look back at the seven top rentaquotes over the last 12 months.

1. Steve Allen

Media veteran Steve Allen is the go-to guy for media-related quotes. Allen has many years’ experience in the industry having worked with, for, or alongside some of today’s heavy hitters. As one Mumbrella reporter pointed out this year, “there’s a reason why people call Steve Allen”. He always delivers.

Joe Hildebrand

2. Joe Hildebrand

If there was an award for top pundit of 2012, Joe Hildebrand would surely be the key contender. The Chaser’s Hamster Wheel skewered the News Limited journalist for being on every channel across the television spectrum and rightly so. He is a regular on Seven’s Sunrise and The Morning Show, Q&A, Sky News and Paul Murray Live and has even managed to parlay his punditry into hosting his own show, Dumb Drunk and Racist,...