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PREVIEW - #198 - The Luck of Barry Lyndon
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/45808512 It's the first episode chosen by our SuperDelegate Patreon tier, and they mercifully chose a good movie: Stanley Kubrick's BARRY LYNDON (1975)…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
#197 - Winter Light
A lot of us are feeling cold, isolated, and depressed right now, so what better time to revisit Ingmar Bergman's WINTER LIGHT (1963)? We discuss crises of various kinds of faith, and the personal and…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
PREVIEW - #196 - The First Annual Michael & Us Year-in-Review Extravaganza
PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/45507789 If there's one thing we can all agree on, it's that 2020 has been a great year. To mark the end of another year of podcasting, we looked back …
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
#195 - Joy to the New World Order
For our annual holiday episode, we finally did the inevitable: a deep-dive into the ideology of Disney/Tim Allen joint THE SANTA CLAUSE (1994). We got a little drunk with holiday cheer on this one, f…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
PREVIEW - #194 - Last Tango in Trumpland
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/45231887 To see out the Trump era, we looked back on an early piece of #Resistance kitsch: the feature-length (well, 50-minute) Funny or Die …
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
#193 - Full Spectrum Dominance
The '90s brought a wave of movies about divorced or absentee fathers/husbands, and none had more explosions than James Cameron's TRUE LIES (1994). We revisited this action classic to decipher how the…
Published on 4 years, 10 months ago
PREVIEW - #192 - Why We Love the World's Worst Film Critic
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/44978933 In one of our wildest and wooliest episodes yet, we introduce the Michael & Us community to one of our longest-standing obsessions: …
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
#191 - The Ministry of 1984 ½
Terry Gilliam sought to update George Orwell for the 1980s with his career-defining film BRAZIL (1985), but his future dystopia isn't animated by an ideology like Oceania's. We attempt to untangle th…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
PREVIEW - #190 - The Lion and the Unicorn
PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/44728064 From self-described Democratic Socialist to current-day darling of the online right, George Orwell's reputation is in flux. We look …
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago
#189 - JOHN RAMBO INNOCENT!!! (w/ Micah Uetricht)
Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a mixed-up vet. We're joined by Jacobin deputy editor Micah Uetricht to parse the ambiguous politics of FIRST BLOOD (1982), where Sylveste…
Published on 4 years, 11 months ago