Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCity of God (ft Eduardo Magalhães III)
Episode 87
If you’re a child of the Brazilian slums in the 1960s, I’m sorry to be the one to tell you, but you’ve been dealt a pretty lousy hand. Growing up you can look forward to such unpleasantness as abject…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
The Menu
Episode 86
Food is what makes the world go round. In a very literal sense it keeps you alive, but it also strengthens economies, buttresses cultures, and, if you have the stomach for it (tee hee), it can be a m…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Past Lives
Episode 85
It doesn’t matter who you are or what you’ve done, each and every one of us humans live lives filled with “what if”s. What if I’d pursued that dream, what if I’d asked that girl to the prom, what if …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The Two Popes
Episode 84
The Pope, or, the Big Kahuna, if you’re speaking official church Latin. When it comes to the Catholic Church, the biggest single religious denomination on the planet, the buck stops at the man in the…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
The Godfather
Episode 83
Crime doesn’t pay, according to people who have never successfully committed one, but those sanctimonious moralizers have clearly never enjoyed the splendor of a Corleone family wedding. There you wi…
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Cloverfield
Episode 82
Ah, to be young and in love. The butterflies, the sense of the future’s great possibilities, the need to traverse a city besieged by a towering monster in order to rescue your heart’s flame from her …
Published on 1 year, 11 months ago
Magellans at the Movies 2023 Recap Spectacular!!!!!!!
Episode 81
2023 was quite a year for movies, between strikes and Barbies there was nary a dull moment for those of us in the cinema reaction business. But now we have reached the end of this storied year, and t…
Published on 2 years ago
Gran Torino
Episode 80
Life can be difficult for old people, what with their failing health, increasing estrangement from an evolving cultural zeitgeist, and now-obsolete wardrobe of bell bottom pants and lederhosen or wha…
Published on 2 years ago
Interstellar
Episode 79
Space. The final frontier, and the thing you always seem to be short on whenever you’re in the company of a sick kindergartener. You may want to flee from little Johnny’s sudden and insatiable need t…
Published on 2 years ago
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Episode 78
The Holy Grail is basically the Holy Grail of points of comparison for very valuable things that are also extremely hard to find. Indiana Jones found it, of course, but he had to leave it where it wa…
Published on 2 years, 1 month ago