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#366 - Coronation Training Montage
We mark Queen Elizabeth's passing by looking at towering work of royalist kitsch, THE KING'S SPEECH (2010). We discuss how this Oscar-winner humanize…
4 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #365 - Journeys With John
PATREON EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/365-journeys-72120783 Luke finally returns to the podcast, and have we got a doozy of a mov…
4 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #364 - The Obligatory My Son Hunter Episode (w/ Chris Berube)
PATREON EXCLUSIVE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/71837828 At last - conservatives have made a movie about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Director …
4 years, 1 month ago
#363 - Pull the Strings! (w/ Valerie Faye)
Popularly known as "one of the worst movies ever made," Ed Wood's GLEN OR GLENDA? (1953) was a pioneering attempt at progressive cinematic treatment …
4 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #362 - Hands Across America (w/ John Semley)
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/71449739 In the mid-'90s, a car dealership in Texas offered contestants a chance to win a f…
4 years, 1 month ago
#361 - In Old Brazil (w/ Violet Lucca)
One of the key films of Brazil's Cinema Novo movement, Glauber Rocha's masterpiece TERRA EM TRANSE aka ENTRANCED EARTH (1967) envisions a fictional L…
4 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #360 - A Hitch in Time
PATREON EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/360-hitch-in-71080314 A new book collection, A HITCH IN TIME, brings together a wide range …
4 years, 1 month ago
#359 - Alex's War
The new documentary ALEX'S WAR (2022) seeks to "look past the caricature" of the Infowars gadfly Alex Jones. Your hosts find themselves disagreeing o…
4 years, 1 month ago
PREVIEW - #358 - The Arc of Progress
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/posts/358-arc-of-70689387 A wonk who believe…
4 years, 2 months ago
#357 - A Vast and Ecumenical Holding Company
Our Superdelegate patron tier was mad as hell that we hadn't yet discussed Sidney Lumet and Paddy Chayefsky's NETWORK (1976) and wasn't going to take…
4 years, 2 months ago