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#720 - Hanging Chads
In the year 2000, Al Gore conceded a presidential election he won to George W. Bush in attempt to save the legitimacy of American institutions. Safe …
4 months, 1 week ago
PREVIEW - #719 - Grogu's On First
In about 10 short years, Star Wars has gone from Hollywood's top franchise to a summer box office also-ran. We checked out STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#718 - Would That It Were So Simple
Like all empires, the Hollywood studio system had its decadent stage. We discuss Joel and Ethan Coen's HAIL, CAESAR! (2016), which pits an idealogue …
4 months, 2 weeks ago
PREVIEW - #717 - Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Pod
As a Toronto-based podcast, we are duty-bound to cover Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE (2025). We travel back to…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
#716 - The Roger Ebert Mystery Box Episode
We keep bringing up the beloved American film critic Roger Ebert over and over again, and we've decided it's time to finally exorcise this demon. Bef…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
#715 - Failure to Communicate (w/ Josh Lewis)
One of the pillars of the cursed "Everything is Connected" trend of the 2000s, Alejandro González Iñárritu's BABEL (2006) offers a de-politicized loo…
5 months ago
PREVIEW - #714 - Pulp Friction
After too long a drought, we return to the writing of Armond White, the legendarily contrarian conservative film critic (currently with the National …
5 months ago
#713 - Downsize This
A year into the Great Recession, one film was brave enough to ask, "But what about the corporate consultants?" We discuss Jason Reitman's onetime cri…
5 months, 1 week ago
PREVIEW - #712 - Perfect Blue (w/ Talking Simpsons)
In a special collaboration with Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert of the Talking Simpsons and What A Cartoon! podcasts, we discuss Satoshi Kon's PERFECT B…
5 months, 1 week ago
#711 - Beast of Burden
He's the first YouTube billionaire, and he did it by being more algorithm than man. We discuss Mr. Beast, and the new flesh. PLUS: There's a hot new …
5 months, 2 weeks ago