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PREVIEW - #643 - In Search of Lost Timelines
Ari Aster's EDDINGTON (2025) takes us back to the lockdown year of 2020, satirizing the many archetypes and discourses - right, left, and centre - that flourished during the pandemic. We attempt to a…
Published on 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #642 - Penn and Teller's Bullshit
In the 2000s, there was one form of political iconoclasm that was guaranteed to never get you in any trouble, and it was called libertarianism. At the behest of our Superdelegate patron tier, we retu…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
#641 - Every Man for Himself and God Against All
In Werner Herzog's INTO THE INFERNO (2016), a self-described cinematic poet teams with a Cambridge scientist for a documentary about volcanos that marries scientific inquiry with a healthy respect fo…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
PREVIEW - #640 - Discretionary Time (Newsroom Part 16)
The timeline of Aaron Sorkin's THE NEWSROOM is getting further and further into the 2012 presidential election... so it only makes sense that Season 2 Episode 6 ("One Step Too Many") is the horniest …
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
#639 - Pod is Not Great
A superstar atheist has a near-death experience and becomes a born-again Christian in LET THERE BE LIGHT (2017), the directorial debut of Kevin Sorbo. We take a spiritual journey that leads us to the…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #638 - Class of '68
In a tumultuous year of American history, Frederick Wiseman's cinéma vérité classic HIGH SCHOOL (1968) depicts an ordinary Philadelphia school as a system of authority and repression. Some things nev…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
#637 - Approved by the Angel Guild
Angel Studios, the company that gave you Sound of Freedom, has become a major player in the faith-based movie market... so we wanted to check out one of their movies that's NOT about child traffickin…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #636 - Righteous Daughters of Jihadi Excellence (Newsroom Part 15)
From war crimes overseas to revenge porn at home, it all comes back to social media. In Season 2 episode 5 of THE NEWSROOM ("News Night with Will McAvoy"), a dizzying number of Twitter- and Buzzfeed-…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
#635 - Fall of the Dinosaur Hour
In our last (for now) dive into John Cleese's bizarre centrist chat-show THE DINOSAUR HOUR, our host find himself flummoxed by the unabashedly right-wing politics of special guest Caitlyn Jenner. We …
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago
PREVIEW - #634 - Old Skin on the New Rules
We all know where Bill Maher stands on the issues nowadays... but where was the bleeding edge of the centre-left in the Iraq War era? We dug up his Bush-era special BILL MAHER: VICTORY BEGINS AT HOME…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago