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#571 - Benn's Bandwagon
With a dreary United States presidential election covering every surface, we search for some solace in politics from the past. Early in the Thatcher …
1 year, 8 months ago
PREVIEW - #570 - Krusty Brand Seal of Approval
We return to one of our perennial favourite topics, THE SIMPSONS, to consider two episodes from very different eras of its run: the legendary Season …
1 year, 8 months ago
#569 - Roadside Picnic
Is Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (1979) about the Soviet Russia in which it was made? And if not, then where exactly is "The Zone"? We wade into one of …
1 year, 8 months ago
PREVIEW - #568 - Not Another Superdelegate Movie
We were told my our Superdelegate patron tier that the direct-to-video sequel BRING IT ON: ALL OR NOTHING (2006) was a potent 2006 time capsule. Frie…
1 year, 8 months ago
#567 - Requiem for a Joker
Five years after Joker because an era-defining cultural phenomenon, its sequel, JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX (2024), is the biggest flop of the year. We sifte…
1 year, 8 months ago
PREVIEW - #566 - When Crime Gets Too Criminal
Is crime a disease? And have we possibly found the cure? We're always up for a right-wing action movie on this podcast, so it was about time we got t…
1 year, 8 months ago
#565 - Morbid Symptoms
First, Will reports on visiting that most American of landmarks, Graceland. Then, we take the temperature of the U.S. presidential election in its wa…
1 year, 9 months ago
#564 - The Bill Gates Problem (w/ Tim Schwab)
The new Netflix documentary WHAT'S NEXT: THE FUTURE WITH BILL GATES (2024) positions the Microsoft founder as "one of the good billionaires." But wha…
1 year, 9 months ago
PREVIEW - #563 - Mulholland Drive, Part 2
In the exciting conclusion of our discussion of David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001), Betty becomes Diane and fantasy merges with reality... or perh…
1 year, 9 months ago
#562 - Springtime in the Hague
Movies can transport us to strange and wonderful dreamworld, including a world where a UK Prime Minister faces real risk of arrest from the Internati…
1 year, 9 months ago