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...
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A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage. Exclusive subscriber-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview
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#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...
PREVIEW - #727 - Uwe Unchained
One of the most popular movies on the streaming channels this week is a low-budget, far-right action movie starring a disgraced actor and di...
#726 - Crystal Head Triple Herkimer Diamond Filtered Newfoundland Deep Aquifer Vodka (w/ Chris Berube)
If you want to know if we're alone in the universe, who ya gonna call? We welcome back longtime friend of the show Chris Berube to discuss D...
PREVIEW - #725 - Artificially Unintelligible
We catch up on the news - including the long-awaited ouster of Keir Starmer in the U.K., the slow death of the CBC in Canada, and the DSA vi...
#724 - Refuse to Lose
At the long-awaited behest of our Superdelegate patron tier, we look back one of the landmarks of 2000s-era Indie Twee, LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE...
PREVIEW - #723 - Accept No Substitutes (w/ Adam Johnson)
It's the late 1990s, and your kids are being terrorized by the greatest menace to ever hit the schoolyard... steroids. We welcome Adam Johns...
#722 - Negative Buzz
Across this podcast's long existence, we have attempted to give you a magisterial study of the art and politics of the 2000s. And no compreh...
PREVIEW - #721 - A Tedious Mediocre Slog
After 25 years of conservative political dominance, the indie black comedy THE LAST SUPPER (1996) asked: should liberals just try killing th...
#720 - Hanging Chads
In the year 2000, Al Gore conceded a presidential election he won to George W. Bush in attempt to save the legitimacy of American institutio...
PREVIEW - #719 - Grogu's On First
In about 10 short years, Star Wars has gone from Hollywood's top franchise to a summer box office also-ran. We checked out STAR WARS: THE MA...
#718 - Would That It Were So Simple
Like all empires, the Hollywood studio system had its decadent stage. We discuss Joel and Ethan Coen's HAIL, CAESAR! (2016), which pits an i...