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11 Oct 2023
17 - The Wind That Shakes The Barley
We discuss Ken Loach's brilliant war epic The Wind That Shakes The Barley in an unintentionally relevant episode. Plus: Jackson takes a pop quiz.
31 Aug 2023
15 - Django/The Great Silence w/Cody Severtson
Cody joins us again to talk Spaghetti Westerns and the ways they channel both Italian and US politics of the 1960s and 70s.
28 Jul 2023
14 - Broken Arrow, High Noon & Rio Bravo w/Cody Severtson
In part 1 of our miniseries on Westerns we discuss a trio of movies with varying degrees of Hollywood Blacklist connections with our friend and first guest, Cody Severtson.
3 Jul 2023
13 - Trumbo (2015) and the Hollywood Blacklist
We discuss Jay Roach's Trumbo (2015), a pretty ok biopic about blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo. We also talk about a few much shittier movies about the blacklist, including The Front (1976), Guilty by Suspicion (1991), and Good Night and Good Luck (2005).
12 Jun 2023
12 - M3GAN and AI in Film
We talk Gerard Johnstone's delightful horror-comedy M3GAN as well as Ex Machina, Black Mirror, and Blade Runner in a jumbo-sized ep about how much AI sucks.
16 May 2023
BONUS: Tyler and Jackson Explain Everything
We do things a little different this time by discussing our philosophy towards film criticism and film more broadly. We also discuss the importance (or unimportance) of the artist's intent, how much we weigh the ideology of the film, and whether or not attempting to review films objectively is even possible.
29 Apr 2023
11- Matewan
In Episode 11, we discuss John Sayles' brilliant Matewan (1987), which dramatizes the events leading up to a violent skirmish between striking miners and the Baldwin-Felts detective agency in 1920s West Virginia.
This one was already long enough so no theme music this time.
16 Mar 2023
10 - Barry
In this episode, Jackson and Tyler discuss "Barry", the godawful 2016 Barack Obama biopic chronicling the former president's first year at Columbia University.
14 Feb 2023
9 - Knives Out/Glass Onion
Jackson and Tyler discuss the Knives Out cinematic universe, the difficulties of parodying Elon Musk, and contrast Glass Onion's attempts to satirize tech bros with Gerard Johnstone's M3GAN (2022).
17 Jan 2023
8 - 2022 In Review
We discuss our favourite (and least favourite) movies of 2022
23 Dec 2022
7 - It's a Wonderful Life (Part 2)
In part 2 of our Christmas mega-sode, we discuss the murderer's row of blacklisted screenwriters that worked on early drafts of the film's script, its second life as tv holiday staple, and its inclusion in a 1947 FBI file on communist influences in Hollywood.
22 Dec 2022
6 - It's a Wonderful Life (Part 1)
We discuss Frank Capra's deceptively complex 1946 Christmas classic It's a Wonderful Life and its relationship to both left and right-wing poltiics.
5 Dec 2022
5 - Bong Joon-ho
For the first time, we discuss multiple works of a director rather than a single movie itself. In episode five, Jackson and Tyler dive into the films of Bong Joon-ho, specifically The Host (2007), Snowpiercer (2013), Okja (2017), and Parasite (2019). They also have their first major disagreement of the show, with Jackson expressing a dissenting opinion on Parasite that is sure to elicit a clam and rational response from fans of the film.
15 Nov 2022
4 - Judas and the Black Messiah
We discuss Shaka King's Judas and the Black Messiah (2021). Fred Hampton, The Panthers, and how desperately we lack figures and organizations like them on the modern left. We also talk a little bit about the 1971 documentary The Murder of Fred Hampton, and read some excerpts from a wide-ranging array of reviews and press clippings related to the movie.
29 Oct 2022
3 - Ready Or Not
It's Halloween, so we're bringing you all a new episode a few days early. We talk about the satirical horror film Ready Or Not, which features the spookiest monster of all... fuckin' rich people!
20 Oct 2022
2 - The Boondock Saints
In episode 2, we discuss Troy Duffy's The Boondock Saints (1999), which is quite possibly the worst movie we've ever seen. We also inevitably talk a lot about Pulp Fiction, and a little about Overnight, the fantastic documentary that chronicles Duffy falling ass-backwards into directing a successful movie.
26 Sept 2022
1 - Che
In our debut episode, we discuss Steven Soderbergh's 2008 war epic "Che", which chronicles Che Guevara's role in the Cuban Revolution as well as his subsequent capture and death in Bolivia in 1967.
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