Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBlack 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…
3 years 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 …
3 years 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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 …
3 years, 1 month 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 …
3 years, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Episode 35
Treating mental health problems is a tricky project. The mind is a staggeringly complex structure, composed of layers of experiences and biology that…
3 years, 2 months ago
The Hunt for Red October
Episode 34
It’s the end of the second World War and things are looking up! The Nazis have been defeated and their leaders are on trial for unspeakable war crime…
3 years, 2 months ago