12: Civil War
We're back in the Alex Garland space, confronted, once again, by one of his ideology-free films. Civil War asks us to imagine an America that is UNDER SIEGE from internal forces...but does it, in any ...
23 Huhti 20241h 3min
11: Ex Machina
Is the AI apocalypse coming soon? Will our large language model chat bots soon...take over the world? Has artificial general intelligence come to bury us and not to praise us? This week we're discussi...
16 Huhti 20241h 2min
10: 3 Body Problem Season One
We discuss the recent NYC EARTHQUAKE and the vertiginous thrills and community-building possibilities implicit in moments of seeming crisis before diving deep into Netflix's new television program, 3 ...
9 Huhti 20241h 8min
9: The Leftovers Season One
This week the pod is looking at a television program we love, the first season of Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta's The Leftovers. We get into themes of religion, madness, and bureaucracy and how the...
2 Huhti 20241h 8min
8: Dune
It's Dune season and the pod is talking all things Arrakis. Covering both parts of Denis Villeneuve's epic adaptation, this episode explores various themes: resource management, intelligence agency wi...
26 Maalis 20241h
7: Don't Look Up
In this episode the pod plunges into the depths of Adam McKay's 2021 satire Don't Look Up. Is it the contemporary equivalent to the keen and biting satire of Dr. Strangelove? Does its central analogy ...
19 Maalis 202456min
6: Dr. Strangelove
Michael and Stu discuss Stanley Kubrick's 1964 black comedy, Dr. Strangelove or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Are the concerns of this film relevant to a contemporary audience? Ha...
12 Maalis 20241h 7min
5: Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus
Michael and Stu discuss apocalyptic themes in Mary Shelley's genre-inventing science fiction classic, Frankenstein. Are we, as a society, on the verge of being overrun by monsters of our own making? C...
5 Maalis 20241h 17min
