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#394 - The View from Nowhere
Upon its release, Steven Soderbergh's TRAFFIC (2000) offered something novel: a cinematic tapestry that criticized America's War on Drugs. More than …
3 years, 5 months ago
PREVIEW - #393 - Gabbo is Coming
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/393-gabbo-is-77029119 What if they made a blockbuster but the block doesn't bust? We sift t…
3 years, 6 months ago
#392 - Rising Expectations
Filmed in the aftermath of the 1970 "October Crisis" that brought martial law to Canada, Gilles Groulx's radical documentary 24 HOURS OR MORE (1973) …
3 years, 6 months ago
#391 - The Third Annual Michael & Us Year-in-Review Extravaganza
As we enter 2023, it's time for our annual look back on the movies that defined our podcast over the past 12 months. In our third Year-in-Review Extr…
3 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #390 - The Santa Clause 2, or The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/76653894 If you'll indulge us, we'd like to keep the holiday spirit going a little longer b…
3 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #389 - Don't Go Into the Light
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/76177655 With the yuletide season upon us, our Superdelegate patron tier has voted for us t…
3 years, 6 months ago
#388 - House of Pelosi
The 20-year filmmaking career of Alexandra Pelosi has been building up to this moment: a hagiographic documentary portrait of her mother, the outgoin…
3 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #387 - Capitalist Hauntology
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/75918320 In this episode, we discuss a variety of decaying institutions and lost futures. W…
3 years, 6 months ago
#386 - Musicians for Free-Range Chickens
In 1991, actor/martial artist/philosopher/current Russian special envoy to the U.S. Steven Seagal hosted Saturday Night Live for the first and only t…
3 years, 6 months ago
PREVIEW - #385 - Canon Fodder
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/75607790 With the decennial Sight & Sound "Greatest Films of All Time" poll dominating Film…
3 years, 7 months ago