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PREVIEW - #730 - The Malaise of Modernity
Jacques Tati rebuilt Paris from the ground up - and bankrupted himself in the process - to make his masterpiece PLAYTIME (1967), a gentle satire of u…
3 months ago
#729 - Washington Heights
Like 'em or not, Angel Studios have emerged as the only explicitly right-of-centre movie company that knows what movies look like. But does their new…
3 months ago
#728 - Sex, Lies, and LLCs
The very same year as Parasite, one of Hollywood's most accomplished filmmakers tried to take on the corrupt financial system, with less-than-spectac…
3 months, 1 week ago
PREVIEW - #727 - Uwe Unchained
One of the most popular movies on the streaming channels this week is a low-budget, far-right action movie starring a disgraced actor and directed by…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
#726 - Crystal Head Triple Herkimer Diamond Filtered Newfoundland Deep Aquifer Vodka (w/ Chris Berube)
If you want to know if we're alone in the universe, who ya gonna call? We welcome back longtime friend of the show Chris Berube to discuss DAN AYKROY…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #725 - Artificially Unintelligible
We catch up on the news - including the long-awaited ouster of Keir Starmer in the U.K., the slow death of the CBC in Canada, and the DSA victories i…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
#724 - Refuse to Lose
At the long-awaited behest of our Superdelegate patron tier, we look back one of the landmarks of 2000s-era Indie Twee, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006)..…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #723 - Accept No Substitutes (w/ Adam Johnson)
It's the late 1990s, and your kids are being terrorized by the greatest menace to ever hit the schoolyard... steroids. We welcome Adam Johnson (of th…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
#722 - Negative Buzz
Across this podcast's long existence, we have attempted to give you a magisterial study of the art and politics of the 2000s. And no comprehensive st…
4 months ago
PREVIEW - #721 - A Tedious Mediocre Slog
After 25 years of conservative political dominance, the indie black comedy THE LAST SUPPER (1996) asked: should liberals just try killing their polit…
4 months ago