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Episode 116
Family. Probably best known for sponsoring the Fast and the Furious movies, family is an important part of many global cultures, so it’s no surprise …
2 years ago
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Episode 115
There’s a reason so many of our most reviled and infamous villains are clowns. The Joker, that one Final Fantasy antagonist, Krusty the Klown, and ma…
2 years ago
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)
Episode 114
Teenagers. Normally, they're the last demographic you'd want to arm with deadly weapons and a thorough knowledge of martial arts, what with their uns…
2 years, 1 month ago
Manhunter
Episode 113
How come we don’t hear that much about serial killers these days? I like to think it’s because the global spirit of human brotherhood has just grown …
2 years, 1 month ago
Alien: Romulus
Episode 112
Aliens! They may have already visited our home in the solar system, but if so, then they seem to have mainly come here for tourist reasons and to app…
2 years, 1 month ago
Apocalypse Now
Episode 111
If war is hell, then I suppose it makes some ironic sense that filming a movie about war would be hellish, too. In case you hadn’t heard, wars are me…
2 years, 1 month ago
Magellans on the 2010s
Episode 110
Ah the halcyon days of the 2010s. The era when video games began emerging as the cultural powerhouse they have evolved into, the world was recovering…
2 years, 2 months ago
High and Low
Episode 109
Japan has given us many amazing things: body pillows of questionably aged characters, plumbers who seem to do stunningly small amounts of plumbing, a…
2 years, 2 months ago
Deadpool
Episode 108
It’s hardly revolutionary to say that the superhero genre is on the decline these days. In terms of both review scores and box office returns, movies…
2 years, 2 months ago
Sideways
Episode 107
Ah, snobbery. It’s so often a mask for the discouraged, the downtrodden, the defeated. To puff yourself up over some esoteric details only you and fi…
2 years, 2 months ago