Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Alabama Solution (2025) (Guest: Joseph Margulies) (episode 63)
The Alabama Solution is a searing documentary about Alabama’s prison system and the broader crisis of mass incarceration. Directed by Andrew Jarecki …
1 day, 11 hours ago
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) (Guest: Daniel Ortiz) (episode 62)
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1943 film, Shadow of a Doubt (1943), sets a murder story inside what seems the safest place imaginable: an ordinary American famil…
1 month, 1 week ago
Blade Runner & Blade Runner 2049 (episode 61)
This episode we look at Blade Runner (1982) (dir. Ridley Scott) and its sequel Blade Runner 2049 (2017) (dir. Denis Villeneuve), two films that imagi…
2 months ago
Erin Brockovich (2000) (Guest: Dror Ladin) (episode 60)
Erin Brockovich (2000) (directed by Steven Soderbergh) is based on the true story of Erin Brockovich, a legal assistant without formal training, who …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Monster (2003) (Guest: Mara Malagodi) (episode 59)
This episode examines a case that sits at the uneasy boundary between criminal adjudication, media power, and moral authority: the prosecution and ex…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow (2024) (Russian) (Guests: Rachel Denber & Anna Nemzer) (episode 58)
My Undesirable Friends: Part I—Last Air in Moscow (2024) is Russian-language American documentary film written and directed by Julia Loktev (with co-…
4 months ago
Small Things Like These (2024) (Guest: Sean Patrick Donlan) (episode 57)
Small Things Like These (2024), adapted by Edna Walsh from Claire Keegan’s 2021 novel, tells the story of how coal merchant Bill Furlong (Cillian Mur…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Syriana (2005): Special Commentary (Guest: Peggy McGuiness)
We return to Syriana, a film we discussed previously in Episode 40, but one that feels newly urgent in light of the current war with Iran. When it wa…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lives of Others (2006) (Guests: Mark Drumbl & Barbora Hola) (episode 56)
This episode looks at The Lives of Others, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s haunting exploration of surveillance, complicity, and the brittle archi…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Killing Fields (1984) (Guest: Alexandra Meise) (episode 55)
The Killing Fields (1984), directed by Roland Joffe, depicts the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia and the genocide that followed, which resulted in t…
6 months ago