120. The Bling Ring

We discuss Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey with Bilge Ebiri (New York Magazine / Vulture)! We discuss Nolan's sympathetic Odysseus, a man out of time, burdened by guilt and shame, but also a herald of a new age of science and reason. We consider how Nolan made one of the oldest a ...  عرض المزيد

Put on your dancin' shoes, it's time to discuss Billy Elliot with Aaron Meskin (Philosophy, U. of Georgia)! We discuss dance movies, dancing, how the film melds British working class drama with fantastical, nondiegetic dance numbers, how conformity perpetuates class structures, h ...  عرض المزيد

Topics covered include: seeing your first movie at the neighborhood theater, the pressures of live performance, the animal that is the audience, parallels between directing and motherhood, abandoning the miracle, autobiographical filmmaking, feeling like broccoli, the Pacific Oce ...  عرض المزيد

Hollywood's a cutthroat business Approachability: 6/10 (Bloody and twisted, but super fun ) Content Warnings: Animal death; Jump scares; Blood/gore Next Week’s Film  RandomHorror9 T-Shirts! Hosts: Jeffrey Cranor & Cecil Baldwin (Find more of our work on Welcome to Nigh ...  عرض المزيد

Vivid dreams, fashionable bullies, and a murder mystery that cops probably won't be able to help solve - we're recapping Edgar Wright's new film Last night in Soho! We are joined by horror expert and halloween costume master Stephanie Albala to talk about this flawed but gorgeous ...  عرض المزيد

A star-studded cast and a podcast favorite director have teamed up for a motorcycle movie just in time for the peak of summer. Does it live up to its potential? Let's discuss!

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