#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...
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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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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...
PREVIEW - #717 - Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie the Pod
As a Toronto-based podcast, we are duty-bound to cover Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol's NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE (2025). We trave...
#716 - The Roger Ebert Mystery Box Episode
We keep bringing up the beloved American film critic Roger Ebert over and over again, and we've decided it's time to finally exorcise this d...
#715 - Failure to Communicate (w/ Josh Lewis)
One of the pillars of the cursed "Everything is Connected" trend of the 2000s, Alejandro González Iñárritu's BABEL (2006) offers a de-politi...
PREVIEW - #714 - Pulp Friction
After too long a drought, we return to the writing of Armond White, the legendarily contrarian conservative film critic (currently with the...
#713 - Downsize This
A year into the Great Recession, one film was brave enough to ask, "But what about the corporate consultants?" We discuss Jason Reitman's on...
PREVIEW - #712 - Perfect Blue (w/ Talking Simpsons)
In a special collaboration with Bob Mackey and Henry Gilbert of the Talking Simpsons and What A Cartoon! podcasts, we discuss Satoshi Kon's...