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PREVIEW - #523 - From the Freezer to the Plate
You've seen Air, you've seen Blackberry, and are you ready for the Corporate I.P. genre to reach its baroque period? We discuss Jerry Seinfeld's UNFR…
2 years, 5 months ago
PREVIEW - #522 - The Everything Company (w/ David Moscrop and Mitchell Thompson)
A new campaign to boycott Canada's biggest grocery chain raises a plethora of issues about how monopolies work in Canada, and what role governments a…
2 years, 5 months ago
#521 - The Nazarene Troublemaker
In the election year of 2004, an ultraviolent subtitled right-wing Christian movie became a genuine cultural phenomenon and political lightning-rod. …
2 years, 5 months ago
PREVIEW - #520 - Pastor Dave Goes to Washington (w/ Alex Shephard)
We had to do it. We heard that GOD'S NOT DEAD: WE THE PEOPLE (2021), the fourth entry in the Evangelical film franchise, goes all-in on the culture w…
2 years, 5 months ago
#519 - Triangle of Badness
If all of our current class hierarchies were eliminated, what would replace them? This question is at the core of TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022), the art…
2 years, 6 months ago
#518 - The Devil, Probably
Less than a decade after the revolutionary potential of the May 1968 protests, Robert Bresson's THE DEVIL, PROBABLY (1977) follows a disaffected yout…
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #517 - The Civil War Episode
Aiming straight for the zeitgeist, CIVIL WAR (2024) is a disaster movie for the post-January 6th America. But in deliberately removing any politics o…
2 years, 6 months ago
#516 - Embrace the Fire (w/ Alex Shephard)
By the third entry of the God's Not Dead franchise, its creative team had clearly started listening to their critics. The result was a kinder, gentle…
2 years, 6 months ago
UNLOCKED - #492 - The Eddie Anderson Story
When he emerged on radio, he was celebrated as a pioneering black star in a white entertainment landscape. By the time of the Civil Rights Movement, …
2 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #515 - Escape from the Dinosaur Hour
With the world in flames, it was time to have a little fun. We return to one of our all-time favourite discoveries, checking in on John Cleese's mind…
2 years, 6 months ago