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...
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#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...
#733 - I've Never Been to Philadelphia
To sustain the illusion of America, you need to compartmentalize or deny a lot of violence. We discuss David Cronenberg's existentialist mas...
PREVIEW - #732 - A Bicycle for the Mind
So beyond being the famous turtleneck guy, what exactly did Steve Jobs do during his long tenure at Apple? According to Aaron Sorkin and Dan...
#731 - Are You Havin' a Laugh?
From back in an era when Ricky Gervais was widely considered funny, he cashed all his chips on a New Atheism-themed studio comedy built arou...
PREVIEW - #730 - The Malaise of Modernity
Jacques Tati rebuilt Paris from the ground up - and bankrupted himself in the process - to make his masterpiece PLAYTIME (1967), a gentle sa...
#729 - Washington Heights
Like 'em or not, Angel Studios have emerged as the only explicitly right-of-centre movie company that knows what movies look like. But does...
#728 - Sex, Lies, and LLCs
The very same year as Parasite, one of Hollywood's most accomplished filmmakers tried to take on the corrupt financial system, with less-tha...