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PREVIEW - #356 - The Evil of Banality
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/70295935 We do our customary check-in on the Wetmovie1 gang, move on to the Canadian pundit class's r…
4 years, 2 months ago
#355 - Omni Consumer Products
Many movies in the 1980s depicted American urban landscapes as lawless hellholes, but Paul Verhoeven's ROBOCOP (1987) was unique for locating the sou…
4 years, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #354 - Division of Playbour (w/ Alex Ross)
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/70079242 COUNTER-STRIKE became a video game phenomenon. It also served as a laboratory for the exploi…
4 years, 2 months ago
#353 - A Tornado, an Earthquake, or a Godzilla (w/ Justin Decloux)
In 1984, Godzilla rose from Tokyo Bay for the first time in nine years for THE RETURN OF GODZILLA. In 1985, an American distributor dramatically recu…
4 years, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #352 - Return of the Michael and Us Mailbag, Part 2
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/352-return-of-us-69623420 In the thrilling conclusion to our two-part mailbag episode, the listeners …
4 years, 2 months ago
#351 - Fear and Loathing in San Francisco
Alexandra Pelosi strikes again! In her documentary SAN FRANCISCO 2.0 (2015), the political scion turns her attention to her home city, gazing with aw…
4 years, 2 months ago
PREVIEW - #350 - Return of the Michael and Us Mailbag, Part 1
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/69344608 You had questions, we have answers. The hosts expound on a wide range of topics - everything…
4 years, 3 months ago
#349 - The Donkey Revolution
Many people threatened to move to Canada when George W. Bush was re-elected in 2004, but the dramedy BLUE STATE (2007) imagines a character who actua…
4 years, 3 months ago
PREVIEW - #348 - From 2010 to Eternity
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/69021053 As a culture and politics podcast, we take seriously our responsibility to cover culture and…
4 years, 3 months ago
#347 - Always Be Closing
Before he was an archconservative, David Mamet wrote a great play and movie about a group of salesmen grinding in a system where morality does not ex…
4 years, 3 months ago