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#414 - Artificial Intelligence
We mark the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War by revisiting some of the classic clips from our cowed and deferential news media circa 2003. PLUS: What…
3 years, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #413 - Logistics Matches Dialectics
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/80445971 For years, the conservative film critic Armond White has been the scourge of Rotte…
3 years, 3 months ago
#412 - London and World Assurance
For nearly 20 years, one libertarian businessman with a wildly dangerous theme park held the state of New Jersey under his thumb. We discuss the docu…
3 years, 3 months ago
#411 - I Don't Like Sand
A man spends a night in an isolated woman's desert shack, and loses his identity in the process, in WOMAN IN THE DUNES (1964), Hiroshi Teshigahara an…
3 years, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #410 - Vanderpump Rules the Oscars
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/79902001 First: a passionate Will gives a bewildered Luke a thorough breakdown of the VANDE…
3 years, 4 months ago
PREVIEW - #409 - The Magic of the Movies
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/79746684 We begin with Will setting the record straight on perhaps the most important topic…
3 years, 4 months ago
#408 - My Orwell Left or Right
George Orwell's popularity is at a new high in the post-Trump era, and he's been claimed by both the left and right. We discuss NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR …
3 years, 4 months ago
PREVIEW - #407 - Trust the Fungus
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/79406807 We discuss a movie that has, for some unknowable reason, been much-requested by ou…
3 years, 4 months ago
#406 - I Am Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Abbas Kiarostami's masterpiece CLOSE-UP (1990) used the true story of a poor man who impersonated a famous filmmaker to meditate on class, identity, …
3 years, 4 months ago
#405 - Empire Records: A Michael & Us Symposium (w/ Meagan Day and Branko Marcetic)
Some topics are too vast, too vital for us to cover on our own. Today, we address one such topic. We invited Jacobin Magazine's Meagan Day and Branko…
3 years, 4 months ago