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#620 - Creation In Pectore
In last year's Oscar contender CONCLAVE (2024), the election of a new pope at Vatican City becomes a centrist parable for navigating an era of politi…
1 year, 2 months ago
#619 - A Celebration of Specialness
In the delightful TRUE STORIES (1986), David Byrne offered a whimsical view of the late Reagan era through the lens of a fictional Texas town. We con…
1 year, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #618 - That Barton Fink Feeling
A socially-conscious East Coast playwright gets a taste of Hollywood in BARTON FINK (1991). We discuss Barton, Madman Mundt, and "the common man." PL…
1 year, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #617 - No Country for Little Tramps
In this solo documentary episode, Will considers the events that led to Charlie Chaplin's political exile from the United States in 1952, and the les…
1 year, 2 months ago
#616 - When the Whistle Blows
Sure, he's incredibly annoying now, but how funny was Ricky Gervais in his prime? We return to our old mandate of interrogating things we liked when …
1 year, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #615 - Vengeance Must Be Profound
In LONDON HAS FALLEN (2016), Gerard Butler has to save both the American President AND Great Britain from Middle Eastern terrorists... and ends up ki…
1 year, 2 months ago
#614 - Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Made in the rubble of postwar Japan, RECORD OF A TENEMENT GENTLEMAN (1947) finds Yasujirō Ozu exploring his familiar preoccupations of family and mod…
1 year, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #613 - The Paucity of Hope
In the summer of 2016, with a guaranteed Hillary Clinton presidency was on the horizon, the Obama Era enjoyed a premature victory-lap with SOUTHSIDE …
1 year, 3 months ago
#612 - The Classical Work That All of Us Have Done
In 2011, William Shatner directed a documentary where he interviewed all of his fellow Star Trek captains. But the resulting film, THE CAPTAINS (2011…
1 year, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #611 - Technology and Empire
In a moment when Canada is under existential threat, we look back on a great Canadian thinker who argued that Our Home and Native Land was already an…
1 year, 3 months ago