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Back to SearchThe End of the Tour
Episode 45
It’s a big, scary, lonely old world out there, ladies and gents, full of nasty and uncomfortable things like trigonometry, team building exercises, a…
2 years, 10 months ago
Jurassic Park
Episode 44
Dinosaurs! Who doesn’t love dinosaurs? There’s just something inherently cool about the idea of an ancient, mysterious kingdom of animals preceding u…
2 years, 10 months ago
Black Mirror: Fifteen Million Merits
Episode 43
The entertainment world is awash with dystopias these days, probably because the real world is as well. Crack open a book or sit down for a movie and…
2 years, 10 months ago
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
Episode 42
It’s unlikely that any one movie, book, or play can lay legitimate claim to having single handedly invented any given genre. Storytelling has a long …
2 years, 10 months ago
Scream VI
Episode 41
Scream is one of horror’s most celebrated and popular franchises. Acting as a kind of State of the Genre address for decades now, Scream intermittent…
2 years, 11 months ago
Magellans in front of the TV
Episode 40
From Saturday morning cartoons to the evening news to science fiction classics, television programs offer up more information, entertainment, and val…
2 years, 11 months ago
Silence
Episode 39
Silence. According to tired parents, librarians, and corporations accused of using child labor, it’s golden, and you’ve probably agreed at one point …
2 years, 11 months ago
The Matrix
Episode 38
Reality. Most people don’t think about it very much, content to just live in it and let that be the end, but philosophers have been asking questions …
2 years, 11 months ago
Top Gun: Maverick
Episode 37
Planes. They are big and fast and make loud noises and the ones used by the United States military can shoot things. This was the central conceit of …
3 years ago
The Silence of the Lambs
Episode 36
This week was Valentine’s Day, so it’s a week for thinking about those people who make your heart go pitter-patter. The people who give you butterfli…
3 years ago