About Pods Against Tomorrow: Reinvestigating Film Noir
Pods Against Tomorrow reinvestigates the noir genre one film at a time. Join our hosts, Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush, along with a rotating guest — our "Ace in the Hole" — as they delve into an analysis of classic, neo-, and pastiche film noirs. Each episode explores the timeless themes that shaped the film noir genre and changed American pop culture forever.
Pods Against Tomorrow reinvestigates the noir genre one film at a time. Join our hosts, Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush, along with a rotating guest — our "Ace in the Hole" — as they delve into an analysis of classic, neo-, and pastiche film noirs. Each episode explores the timeless themes that shaped the film noir genre and changed American pop culture forever.
This week's Ace in the Hole is Soren Sorensen, documentary filmmaker and Screen Studies program director at Clark University. His most recent film is Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums, which is available on Amazon for rent or purchase. The film's soundtrack LP is available at your local record store on Otá Records. The lone member of PaT's five-timers club, Soren joins us to discuss Robert Altman's 1973 post-hippie counter-cultural PI-satire and feline extravaganza, THE LONG GOODBYE.
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30 Aug 2026
Strange Days (1995) with Andi Graceson
Pods Against Tomorrow reinvestigates the noir genre one film at a time. Join our hosts, Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush, along with a rotating guest — our "Ace in the Hole" — as they delve into an analysis of classic, neo-, and pastiche film noirs. Each episode explores the timeless themes that shaped the film noir genre and changed American pop culture forever.
This week's Ace in the Hole is Andi Graceson. After their brief career at MTV, Andi is now an Adult Services Librarian focusing on digital literacy and outreach at the Berkshire Athenaeum in Pittsfield, MA. Andi holds a Bachelors Degree in Film Studies and Computer Science from Clark University, an MS in Communications from Clark University, and an MLIS from the University of Alabama. They're a known lover of trashy genre films, and a known hater of Yorgos Lanthimos. Andi believes any future wiretripping should be accessed privately with a VPN, and that all users should be wary of streaming services that don't support ownership of S.Q.U.I.D. tech. Andi joins us for the second time to discuss Kathryn Bigelow's 1995 VR-Noir, STRANGE DAYS!
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21 Jul 2026
Raging Bull (1980) with Joseph Reynoso
Pods Against Tomorrow reinvestigates the noir genre one film at a time. Join our hosts, Hugh Manon and Abe Doubleday-Bush, along with a rotating guest — our "Ace in the Hole" — as they delve into an analysis of classic, neo-, and pastiche film noirs. Each episode explores the timeless themes that shaped the film noir genre and changed American pop culture forever.
This week's Ace in the Hole is Joseph Reynoso. Joseph is a clinical psychologist with a psychoanalytic practice in New York City for children and adults, including a subspecialty with athletes. He is also co-editor for the Psychoanalysis and Sport section of the multi-disciplinary open access journal Cogent Social Sciences.
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Who has been a guest on Pods Against Tomorrow: Reinvestigating Film Noir
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Michael Gray
James Hazelden
Daniel Cho
Katie Stebbins
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4.8 / 5
9 ratings
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