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Part I of II: WarGames (1983) w/ Sam Ratner & Andy Facini | Ep. 47
Van and Lyle are joined by Sam Ratner, Policy Director at Win Without War, and Andy Facini, Communications Director at the Council on Strategic Risks…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) w/ Dan Borus | Ep. 46
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Van and Lyle are joined by historian Dan Borus, Professor Emeritus a…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Stephen Spielberg's Munich (2005) w/ Eli Valley | Ep. 45
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Artist and writer Eli Valley joins us to wrestle with Steven Spielbe…
7 months ago
The Report (2019) w/ Adrian Horton | Ep. 44
The Guardian arts writer Adrian Horton joins us to discuss The Report, Scott Z. Burns’s dramatization of Senate staffer Daniel J. Jones’s investigati…
7 months, 1 week ago
Lone Survivor (2013) w/ Wes Morgan | Ep. 43
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The combat journalist Wes Morgan joins us to unpack Peter Berg’s Lon…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) w/ Osita Nwanevu | Ep. 42
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Osita Nwanevu joins us to revisit David Lean’s epic with an eye towa…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The Hunt for Red October (1990) w/ Remember Shuffle Pod | Ep. 41
Van and Lyle are joined by Ben and Jordano from the Remember Shuffle podcast to take on The Hunt for Red October (1990), John McTiernan’s Cold War su…
8 months, 1 week ago
Carlos (2010) w/ Noah Hurowitz | Ep. 40
In this episode, Van and Lyle are joined by journalist and author Noah Hurowitz (El Chapo) to discuss Olivier Assayas’ Carlos, the sweeping 2010 mini…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (2025) w/ Sandipto Dasgupta | Ep. 39
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Van and Lyle are joined by Sandipto Dasgupta—legal scholar, politica…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Costa-Gavras' State of Siege (1972) w/ Alex Aviña and Stuart Schrader | Ep. 38
In this episode, we discuss Costa-Gavras’s State of Siege, a tightly constructed political thriller based on the real-life kidnapping and execution o…
9 months ago