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Listening to Your Conscience - 'Pinocchio' (2022) d. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson, 'Heathers' (1988) d. Michael Lehmann & 'Donnie Darko' (2001) d. Richard Kelly
Season 6 Episode 4
What is the relationship between the conscience and the self? Can listening to our conscience ever be a bad thing? If not our conscience, what should…
3 years, 5 months ago
Going Undercover - 'Mean Girls' (2004) d. Mark Waters, 'The Departed' d. Martin Scorsese & 'Le Doulos' (1962) d. Jean-Pierre Melville
Season 6 Episode 4
How can going undercover threaten our identity? What kinds of people go undercover? Can we ever reach a point of no return when going undercover? Fol…
3 years, 5 months ago
Dark Knights - 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (2001) d. Chris Columbus, '12 Angry Men' (1957) d. Sidney Lumet & 'Ladybird' (2017) d. Greta Gerwig
Are the people we hate always our true enemies? Can personal flaws ever be a badge of honour? Are we adept at recognising hate in ourselves? Building…
3 years, 5 months ago
21st Century Vigilance - 'Saw' (2004) d. James Wan, 'V for Vendetta' (2005) d. James McTeigue & 'The Dark Knight' (2008) d. Christopher Nolan
Season 6 Episode 1
What is the nature of state control in the 21st century? When do the ends justify the means? Can we simultaneously act righteously and avoid enemy at…
3 years, 6 months ago
Containing the Year - 'The Apartment' (1960) d. Billy Wilder, 'My Night at Maud's' (1969) d. Éric Rohmer & 'When Harry Met Sally' (1989) d. Rob Reiner
Season 5 Episode 22
What is the relationship between people and space? How should we compartmentalise people and key life events? Can we meet people more than once? As w…
3 years, 6 months ago
A Kafkaesque Christmas - 'Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life' (1993) d. Peter Capaldi, 'Brazil' (1985) d. Terry Gilliam & 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) d. Stanley Kubrick
Season 5 Episode 21
Under what circumstances do we seek isolation? Can systems designed to serve us ever imprison us? Can we ever be imprisoned by desire? As we enter th…
3 years, 7 months ago
Russia, Part II - 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) d. Sergei Eisenstein, 'Mirror' (1975) d. Andrei Tarkovsky & 'The Sacrifice' (1986) d. Andrei Tarkovsky
Season 5 Episode 20
How can social change be instantly ignited? Are human beings doomed to a prison of idealism? How should we act in the wake of annihilation? To conclu…
3 years, 7 months ago
Russia, Part I - 'Kompromat' (2022) d. Jérôme Salle, 'Andrei Rublev' (1966) d. Andrei Tarkovsky & 'Ivan the Terrible Parts, I & II' d. Sergei Eisenstein
What does Russia feel that it has to protect? What is required when establishing a cultural identity? What is required to protect a cultural identity…
3 years, 7 months ago
Ruling Over the Dominion - 'Willow' (1988) d. Ron Howard, 'Margrete - Queen of the North' (2021) d. Charlotte Sieling & 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2012) d. Wes Anderson
Season 5 Episode 18
Can tyrants maintain their power forever? Is absolute power unattainable in reality? Do human beings idealise a certain form of governance? Following…
3 years, 7 months ago
Raising Hell, Raising Heaven - 'Hellraiser' (1987) d. Clive Barker, 'Armageddon Time' (2022) d. James Gray & 'Gladiator' (2000) d. Ridley Scott
Season 5 Episode 17
How closely related are our concepts of heaven and hell? Whose good intentions pave the way to hell? What might be the path to heaven? Viewing heaven…
3 years, 8 months ago