Science Fiction Cinema

In this episode, Ryan and Todd return to their Freud series to explore an under-read 1908 essay, "'Civilized' Sexual Morality and Modern Nervous Illness." This essay captures a lot of the early Freud's beliefs and anticipates moments of seismic change in his thought. Top of mind ...  عرض المزيد

REUPLOAD BECAUSE HALF THE EPISODE WAS MISSING:In this early release episode, Ryan and Todd discuss Alejandro González Iñárritu's recent film Digger. Widely panned upon its release a couple of weeks ago--though seemingly embraced by audiences and some contemporary revisions of ini ...  عرض المزيد

In 2020, Chris Ryan and Sean identified a key subgenre in American movies—garbage crime—and laid out what makes it great. Today on the show, a sequel of sorts. With the release of Roland Emmerich’s interstellar disaster movie ‘Moonfall’ in theaters and Steven Soderbergh’s techno- ...  عرض المزيد

The 21st Century Sci-Fi Canon, ‘The Creator,’ and ‘No One Will Save You’ Sean is joined by Chris Ryan to discuss all things science fiction. First, they cover Brian Duffield’s new film, ‘No One Will Save You’ (4:33) before turning to Gareth Edwards’s ‘The Creator’ (14:58) starrin ...  عرض المزيد

Topics covered include: the importance of letting your movie breath, hate-cutting The Green Knight, the fall of Troy, Grail mythology, a mom’s helpful nudge, old-fashioned movie magic, the epic oner from Eternal Sunshine, concentric circles of production and ...