PREVIEW - #754 - Red Herrings
At the behest of our Superdelegate Patreon tier, we discuss CLUE (1985), and discover the Communism is the red herring. PLUS: Recapping the...
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#753 - A Long, Directionless Walk
Luke tests out the APPLE VISION PRO and it leads us on a long discussion of the many ills (and even some of the upsides) of our emerging tec...
PREVIEW - #752 - Don't Mess With You Don't Mess With the Zohan
At long last, we discuss one of the most popular American liberal Zionist movies of all time, Adam Sandler's YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN (...
#751 - Sorbo: Special Ops
After a run of highbrow content, we're right back in the muck! We treated ourselves to the ridiculous Christian hostage thriller FORGIVEN (2...
UNLOCKED - #750 - Pink Auteur, Red Outlaw (w/ William Andrews)
In the early 1970s, Japanese New Wave auteur Masao Adachi travelled to Lebanon, joined the Japanese Red Army, and chronicled the Popular Fro...
#749 - No One Remembers
On public space, the death of cinema, cruising in Taipei, and Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003). PLUS: How many DIGGE...
PREVIEW - #748 - The Great White Hope
With Sylvester Stallone back in the news, we felt it was time to consider a movie that has become not just a consensus classic, but also a p...
#747 - The Money Monster Bump
Eight years after the start of the Great Recession, and mere months before a certain New York real estate mogul ascended to the presidency,...
PREVIEW - #746 - Chicken Cannon Fodder
We continue our patriotic streak by finally tackling one of the true Canadian cultural institutions of our childhoods. In the days of the mo...
#745 - The Bear Necessities
With Luke returning from a week in the Algonquin wilderness, we discuss another great Canadian outdoorsman, Troy Hurtubise. We discuss the c...
#744 - Talkin' Homer, Morgan and the Straw
Shortly before he was unceremoniously cancelled, Morgan Spurlock (y'all remember him?) directed a documentary about the legendary Simpsons e...
PREVIEW - #743 - They Covet Our Freedom
We mark the quarter-century anniversary of 9/11 by watching the Adam Sandler film REIGN OVER ME (2007), a movie that proves that there's not...
#742 - Raised Eyebrows
In 1967, the creator of the modern conservative movement welcomed one of the most beloved comedians of all time to debate whether the world...
PREVIEW - #741 - Gentlemanly Means Must Be Pursued
In 2004, the nominees for both American political parties attended the same Ivy League secret society. For years, whispers and conspiracy th...
#740 - Zabriskie Point
One of Europe's most revered filmmakers travels to America to make a movie about the times. But instead, he makes a movie out of time. We di...
#739 - House of Slop
A few years after "hope and change" curdled, HOUSE OF CARDS offered a cynic's guide to the Beltway circa Obama's first term. We finally disc...
PREVIEW - #738 - Odysseus and Telemachus's Excellent Adventure
We turn our attention to a bona fide cultural phenomenon and ask: where do Homer's The Odyssey and Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY (2026) in...
#737 - Michael & Us 360°
Like Anderson Cooper before us, we catch up on the news! We discuss the ups and downs of the recent senate primaries in the U.S. PLUS: What...
PREVIEW - #736 - The Larry Crowne Spectacular
When the financial crisis hit and Americans were losing their homes, one movie had the courage to suggest: have you considered going to comm...
#735 - Smells Like NC-17 Spirit
Did you know that a private, monopolistic, unaccountable, and socially conservative organization has free reign to define the limits of arti...