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Join our Patreon for bonus episodes, and thank you to our Patreon subscribers for supporting the show! This week we talk about Avatar The Way of Water.We say goodbye to our wonderful listeners and revisit some of our past opinions and favorite
With violent right-wing movements around the world in the 2010s, there's never been a better time to visit Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life. In proper Malick fashion, we jump from point to point, ranging from the director's career, his unique f
What is the cult-classic Nicolas Cage film Mandy actually about? We discuss the masculinity and religious overtones of this insane film from director Panos Cosmatos.In our Patreon episode, we talk way too much about Neon Genesis EvangelionWhere
A Ghost Story offers us a remedy to nihilistic thoughts as we discuss the isolation and depression of our modern age, we also talk about A24 as a brand, what a $100,000 film looks like, as well as Red Letter Media and film criticism on the inte
Worldwide political extremism has a lot of us turning to film and entertainment in 2016. We talk about Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden, a South Korean film that Andrew has been looking forward to discussing since the beginning of the podcast. T
According to the NYT, the racial politics of Bone Tomahawk are "abysmal", and it may not be a film we enjoyed, but it makes for an episode packed with great discussions. We talk about what role western films have in contemporary Hollywood, the
What (if anything) does Darren Aronofsky's reinterpretaion of the biblical flood myth have to say about environmentalism in today's world? How does a $160 million blockbuster fit into the career of an indie director like Aronofsky? We discuss t
40 years after The Holy Mountain, we revisit famed director Alejandro Jodorowsky with his surreal autobiographical film, The Dance of Reality. What is it like for a midnight cult director to return to the world of cinema after so many years? We
Once again, we're joined by Noah Cannon who is here to help us wrangle the most labyrinthine film on our list: Cloud Atlas, technically one of the most expensive independent films ever made from the Wachowski sisters and Tom Tykwer. There's a l
We talk about leaving our home town, writing as therapy, mental illness in modern films, and more on this week's episode all about Young Adult.Join our Patreon for Andrew's take on Amazon's Rings of PowerWhere to watch Young AdultRoger Ebert's
Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy inspires a variety of discussions about hyperreality, film festival bubbles, and why Iran banned a film directed by one of their greatest filmmakers.Join our Patreon for a discussion on the infamous 2010 Oscars
As the events of the Great Recession play out, we turn to Greece where the country's debt crisis is (or isn't) showcased in the dark allegory of Yorgos Lanthimos' Dogtooth.Join our Patreon to hear what other movie we were going to talk about fo
Twilight and the mania surrounding the franchise at the time offers us an opportunity to talk about fandoms, romance, (Cronenberg,) modern gothic-horror, and how volatile criticism is thrown at media made for women versus media made for men.Joi
In the wake of 9/11, anti-Muslim bigotry swept across the western world. Artists like Marjane Satrapi push against the hatred with her graphic novel turned animated film, Persepolis, showing audiences what it was really like to live through the
We talk about the Spanish film Volver and the life of its esteemed director Pedro Almodóvar.Where to watch VolverRoger Ebert's reviewClip from Ebert & Roeper (with Mario Van Peebeles)Almodóvar Leading Ladies on Drag Race EspañaWhere to watch P
A History of Violence inspires discussions of the American psyche in a post-9/11 world and survival of the fittest within the human species. We talk about how this film fits into the careers of David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen.On our Patreo
While the Saw franchise would later go on to be defined by blood and guts and 3D gimmicks, Arthur and Andrew really admire the genuine tension and horror of the first film. We discuss the successful career of James Wan, how horror films have ch
While the US launches a second war with Iraq, we turn to talk about the burgeoning Korean film industry and Kim Ki-Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring. We discuss movies that tackle adult topics, how we relate to the philosophy in
Arthur and Andrew venture to the grandiose world of Bollywood to discuss Devdas. We talk about the major differences between the films we've come to expect in the west and the melodrama of the masala musical genre. We also talk about the state
For Arthur and Andrew, the Bosnian War of the 1990s may have been overshadowed by the 9/11 terrorists attacks in 2001, but it's certainly still worth exploring in a film like No Man's Land. This week we discuss how this movie subverts the expe
Arthur and Andrew are back and talking about the movies of the new millennium! Terrorists threaten the world AND the beauty pageants of San Antonio! Learn about screenplay tropes, contemporary Hollywood, and our opinions on Rotten Tomatoes as w
On the eve of the new millennium, Sofia Coppola's bold debut feature The Virgin Suicides premiered to critical acclaim. We're joined by James Westervelt as we take a look at the way the film uses the aesthetic of 90's independent film to tackle
In 1995, a group of Danish filmmakers including Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg railed against the state of modern movies and drafted the Dogme 95 manifesto. We take a look at Vinterberg's The Celebration, the first film of the Dogme 95 ca
Poetic cinema as Tarkovsky intended... We discuss John Woo's Face/Off! How this film came to be, 1990s cheese in this film versus Showgirls, and whether this film has established itself as a "classic".Our Patreon, where we lament the loss of ph
Before the 1990s, we wouldn't expect to see a film like The Watermelon Woman, a microbudget movie by a black queer filmmaker about black queer issues. But it's also a staple of 1990s independent cinema for its self-reflexivity: a film about fil
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