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146 - We're All Going to the World's Fair with Trevor Strunk: Imaginary Futures and Moldavite Jan 26, 2023

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Friend of the show and host of No Cartridge Audio, Trevor Strunk (@hegelbon) returns to discuss director Jane Schoenbrun's horror film We're All Going to the World's Fair. We talk moldavite, Roblox, art and escapism, identity, queer cinema, Atlus games, and connecting with strangers on the computer.
The Shimmering Screen: Jane Schoenbrun's transient aesthetic by Sailor Dinnucci-Radley | Letterboxd Journal
ReComradations
Trev: [1] Marble Hornets [2] Danganronpa
Evan: [1] When Women Kill, dir. Lee Grant (1983) [2] Persona 5 & Shin Megami Tensei 5

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PREVIEW - Akira Kurosawa's I Live in Fear with Megan Linton Nov 11, 2022

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Writer, researcher, and fellow podcaster from Invisible Institutions (also on the Harbinger Media Network,) Megan Linton joins me for this discussion on collective anxiety in the age of COVID, disability and institutionalization, and the masterful direction of Akira Kurosawa in this story of an elderly foundry owner facing the threat of conservatorship over his fear of another atomic attack on Japan in the aftermath of the Second World War.
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145 - Don't Worry Darling - Gaslighting: The Movie with Caitlin & Laura Nov 04, 2022

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Drama. Faux feminism. Gaslighting. It's all here.
Olivia Wilde's follow-up to Booksmart is here and it isn't good! Caitlin and Laura return to the show to discuss the cooler stories this film could have told, its tired politics, some juicy behind-the-scenes Hollywood gossip, and the interior design choices we liked.
ReComradations
Evan: Hold the Girl - Rina Sawayama
Caitlin: How Should a Person Be? by Shiela Heti
Laura: Catch Me If You Can, dir. Steven Spielberg (2002)

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HALLOWEEN SPECIAL PREVIEW - What is a Woman? Commentary Track Oct 31, 2022

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I have prepared a little Halloween special for you all. I've wanted to record commentary tracks for a little while now, and this is a film that I think deserves one. What is a Woman? is the transphobic documentary from legitimate fascist Matt Walsh and Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire website. They're in the movie-making business now, so in service to my listeners, I watched their movie.

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144 - Being Normal at the Georgia Guidestones: Alex's War with Big Shiny Takes Oct 12, 2022

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Alex Jones gets the kid gloves treatment from TFW No GF director Alex Moyer in Alex's War, a sanitized look at Jones' career and InfoWars leading up to the January 6th riot at the U.S. Capitol. We discuss how the post-left has embraced Jones and what this film means for the next phase of the MCU. Eric and Jeremy from Big Shiny Takes return.
ReComradations
Evan: action figure YouTubers + Four Horsemen Studios
Jeremy: [1] The South by Adolph Reed Jr [2] *Reverse Recomradation* writing a book
Eric: The Rehearsal

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143 - Mike & Evan Talk Obi-Wan Kenobi (eps. 1 & 2) Sep 21, 2022

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Friend of the show and audio wizard Mike (@olivesagan) came on the show immediately after the release of the Deborah Chow-directed Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi to chat with me about our relationship to Star Wars and our first reactions to this series. With Andor streaming now, we will never not have Star Wars products to talk about until the day we die.

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PREVIEW - Videodrome with Worst Case Ontario Sep 11, 2022

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Enjoy this clip from my conversation with the hilarious crew from Worst Case Ontario on the classic Canadian body horror masterpiece, Videodrome.
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142 - Top Gun: Maverick, a Tale of Two Brothers (with my Brother Tyler) Sep 11, 2022

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Kino's back from its summer break, and what an episode to come back with.
My brother Tyler joins me to share where our love of movies comes from, our Top Gun fanaticism, and our shared experiences of one of the best blockbusters to grace theatres in years.
ReComradations:
Evan: Petite Maman, dir. Céline Sciamma (2021)
Tyler: home renovations, and looking forward to Jurassic World: Dominion

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141 - Return to Space: The Elon Musk Disrespect Hour with Paris Marx May 26, 2022

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Friend of the show Paris Marx is back to talk about the phenomenon of SpaceX propaganda on our beloved streaming platforms. Return to Space, directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, chronicles the quest of SpaceX to privatize space travel by sending two dads to the International Space Station.
ReComradations:
Evan: watching Hong Sang-soo movies, and notably Nobody's Daughter Haewon (2013)
Paris: Night Raiders, dir. Danis Goulet (2021)

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PREVIEW - Rise of the Planet of the Apes with Rob Rousseau Apr 19, 2022

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Takes From The Forbidden Zone is back!

Rob Rousseau joins me to discuss the first film in the reboot/prequel trilogy, director Rupert Wyatt's Rise of the Planet of the Apes from 2011.
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