PEL Presents PMP#228: Spielberg's Alien Fetish

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

Aug 16, 202657:12Society & Culture

We discuss the various films Steven Spielberg has released about alien encounters: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), E.T. The Extra Terrestrial (1982), War of the Worlds (2005), and our inciting film, Disclosure...

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