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RAGE Works Network-All ShowsFilm Fights With Friends - Season 2 / Episode 3 | Tom Denier Jr.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’s Pose, which garnered him a 2021 Emmy nod, Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), The Holdovers (2023), Werewolves Within (2021) and You Were Never Really Here (2017). Perhaps some of his most graphic and brutal fight scene makeup appeared in season 6 of Showtime’s Ray Donovan and in S. Craig Zahler’s 2017 feature Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn.Tom’s IMDB: ht...
2025-12-191h 12
Film Fights With Friends215: How Not to Get Into Stunts! “How do I get into stunts?” The eternal question anyone working in the stunt business will be faced with repeatedly. The question often leaves us in a predicament. After all, we don’t want to crush anyone’s dreams. Everyone should be able to try making a living how they want. Having said that, there is no one path, quick fix or cheat code for getting into this business. What is very clear, however, is what NOT to do if you want to become a stunt performer. The simple fact is that people who ask advice often don’t want the un...
2025-11-211h 27Film Fights With Friends213: The Set MosquitoClay found his way into unit photography when Zack Snyder gave him a chance to shoot Watchmen. That lucky break has led to nearly 20 years of work, including Sucker Punch (2011), Man of Steel (2013), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014), Suicide Squad (2016), Justice League (2017), A Star is Born (2018), I am the Night (2019), and Rebel Moon Parts One and Two (2023/24). His enthusiasm has never waned. While his credits include big-budget superhero films, he treats every project as a unique opportunity to hone his skills, make friends, and deliver strong images. Of course on Film Fights with Friends, fight scenes are the main course...
2025-10-241h 31Film Fights With Friends209: See Jane FightWith 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 by a Stunt Ensemble in a Motion Picture (The Batman, Avengers: Endgame, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Avengers: Infinity War and Furious 7), a 2 time nominee for Outstanding Action Performance by a Stunt Ensemble in a Comedy or Drama Series (Westworld) and an Emmy nominee for Outstanding Stunt Performance in Amazon’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Her Emmy nod honored the epic series ending fight in ep...
2025-08-291h 10Film Fights With FriendsSpecial Episode – Kill Me AgainUFC 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, Kill Me Again tells the story of Charlie (Brendan Fehr - Roswell, Final Destination), a notorious serial killer known as the Midnight Mangler, who finds himself trapped, reliving the same violent night over and over. Initially embracing his grisly urges, Charlie soon becomes desperate to escape the endless nightmare. Fehr is reunited with his Roswell co-star Majandra Delfino, Tait Fletcher (The Mandalorian, Breaking Ba...
2025-08-2242 minFilm Fights With Friends207: Set StupidityIn 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 on The Punisher, calling out the leaker of Ray Donovan fight footage, a cautionary tale about working on friends’ passion projects and more!MENTIONS:SNL Safelite Sketch: https://vimeo.com/247846876 TAMMFF Film Freeway: https://filmfreeway.com/TAMMFF FILM FIGHTS WITH FRIENDSDo you listen to our show as an audi...
2025-08-011h 00
RAGE Works Network-All ShowsFilm Fight With Friends - Episode 26 | Bonus Episode.Bonus Episode: Secrecy and Safety Can’t CoexistIn 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 repeatedly raised concerns about set safety. We dove into issues ranging from stunts, rigging, child performers, general safety, and firearms. One common thread that appeared again and again was the fact that one must always be willing to voice concerns over safety and in so doing, potentially lose a job. This compilation from season...
2025-07-281h 35Film Fights With Friends206: Dying to Work in the Film IndustryJoining 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 exploration of systemic issues impacting the health and wellbeing of film workers. This critically important documentary weaves together candid interviews with technicians, union representatives, public health experts, and notable performers (Jon Hamm and John Malkovich) with the story of Dr. Paul's effort to conduct research into health and safety in the film industry. The cumulative impacts of sleep deprivation, toxic exposure, stress, long hours, ac...
2025-07-181h 13Film Fights With Friends203: Want To See My Effect?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’s Pose, which garnered him a 2021 Emmy nod, Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), The Holdovers (2023), Werewolves Within (2021) and You Were Never Really Here (2017). Perhaps some of his most graphic and brutal fight scene make up appeared in season 6 of Showtime’s Ray Donovan and in S. Craig Zahler’s 2017 feature Brawl in Cell Block 99 starring Vince Vaughn.Tom’s IMDB...
2025-06-061h 12Film Fights With Friends126: Bonus Episode: Secrecy and Safety Can’t CoexistIn 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 repeatedly raised concerns about set safety. We dove into issues ranging from stunts, rigging, child performers, general safety, and firearms. One common thread that appeared again and again was the fact that one must always be willing to voice concerns over safety and in so doing, potentially lose a job. This compilation from season one presents some important conversations on the topic. In...
2025-04-251h 35
Talk Toomey with Joshua ToomeyMachine Head The Burning Red 25th Anniversary with Ahrue LusterIn this episode of the Nu Pod, hosts Joshua Toomey and Ro Kohli, along with guest Ahrue Luster, former guitarist of Machine Head and current Lions at the Gate, discuss Machine Head's album "The Burning Red," released 25 years ago. They touch on the influence of producer Ross Robinson, the polarizing nature of the album, and its impact on the nu-metal scene. The conversation delves into the recording process, highlighting the emphasis on emotion and feeling in the music. They also explore the opening track, "Enter the Phoenix," and the polarizing "Desire, The Fire," dissecting its origin and unique...
2024-03-011h 22
Good Company with BowlingAhrue Luster- Lions at the GateCheck out my conversation with Ahrue Luster formerly guitarist from Machine Head, ill nino and now his new band “Lions at the Gate”. We discuss touring with Nita Strauss . We also talk about Ahrue not drinking. It’s a great episode.
2023-07-0724 min
HAPPY DAZE with Jesse DracmanHAPPY DAZE 3: “Ahrue Luster”(Lions at the Gate, ex Ill Nino/Machine Head)Ahrue and I have been friends for a while and share a great deal in common. Toured together and been friends for a long time. He’s an awesome guitarist and we share the joys he’s experiencing today with his brothers in Lions At the Gate. Phenomenal band. He shares their journey, early childhood influences and some cool tales and insights about the art of song and being in a band. It’s a real happy chat and I couldn’t be more happier to bring this show back with good friends.
2023-05-2350 min
The Ex-Man with Doc CoyleAhrue Luster (Lions At The Gate, ex-Ill Nino, ex-Machine Head)Doc welcomes Lions At The Gate guitarist, Ahrue Luster, to the show, and they. talk about how he moved around a lot growing up, moving to the Bay Area with thrash band, The Horde Of Torment, how he got the audition for Machine Head, what the experience of making The Burning Red with producer Ross Robinson was like, why he left Machine Head and ended up in Ill Nino so quickly, the challenges of learning the Latin guitar style, what the creative process with Ill Nino was like, how leaving the band, death in the family, and divorce caused...
2022-02-091h 25
Good Company with BowlingAhrue Luster (Lions at the Gate, ill nino, Machine Head) - Ep062This week Scott sits down with Ahrue Luster from Lions at the Gate for a great conversation. As with previous guest Cristian Machado, Ahrue is a member of Lions at the Gate; a group picking up momentum quickly. The conversation begins with a discussion of how the band came together. The fast turnaround from band formation to recording is staggering and the results speak for themselves.Before Lions at the Gate, Ahrue Luster was a member of Machine Head; notably on the album The Burning Red. In this chat, Ahrue shares the story of how h...
2021-10-1556 min
Life Is Peachy Podcast#EP8 Machine Head "The Burning Red" with Robb FlynnThe Life Is Peachy Podcast is an immersive, cinematic audio-documentary interview experience; unlike any other podcast, always with a guest and to the soundtrack of your favourite album 🍑Robb Flynn joins #EP8 to celebrate 1999’s black sheep “The Burning Red”.LIP Links:LIFE IS PEACHY PODCAST (Main Channel) - https://linktr.ee/lifeispeachypodcastLIP MIXTAPE SESSIONS (Second Channel) - https://linktr.ee/LIPMixtapeSessionsLEAVE A REVIEW - https://apple.co/38Ol9IdPATREON - https://www.patreon.com/lifeispeachypodcastINSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram...
2021-07-261h 35
Thunder UndergroundEpisode 304 - Cristian MachadoIn this episode we are joined by Cristian Machado. Cristian talks about his new solo album “Hollywood y Sycamore”, reworking Ill Nino songs, the emotional aspect behind his new music, finding a new audience, releasing music during a pandemic, covering Post Malone and Pink Floyd, covering Life of Agony and the choice to cover Weeds, leaving Ill Nino, his future project with ex-Ill Nino members Ahrue Luster and Diego Verduzco, providing legal assistance for families during the pandemic, listening to music from Jesus Piece, Ghost Mane, Sevendust, Run the Jewels, Deftones and a ton more! We kick the episode off with...
2020-12-1000 min
Rockstar Dad ShowAhrue Luster of Ill NiñoJaret and Gary answer your emails and catch up with Ill Niño’s Ahrue Luster and his daughter!
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2019-08-2158 min
The Kerri Edelman ShowThe Kerri Edelman Show presents Hard Rock/Metal Band MotograterA genre-defying alternative metal outfit founded in Santa Barbara, CA, Motograter was formed in 1995 and take their name from a homemade springed/percussion instrument that's made of heavy cable, cranks, and gears. With the release of new single "Dorian", the band is ready to build on its legacy and climb back to the top of the Hard Rock and Metal world. The song is off to the fastest start @ Active Rock Radio in the band's career, with more than 30 stations already playing the song. It is charting Top 30 on both the Billboard Rock Indicator chart and the Under The Radar...
2017-08-081h 23
Scars and GuitarsAhrue Luster (ILL NIÑO, ex-Machine Head)Ahrue Luster (ILL NIÑO, ex-Machine Head). Ahrue joins Andrew to discuss ILL NIÑO's August 2017 Australian tour. Ahrue also offers some excellent commentary about his time in Machine Head.
2017-06-0115 min