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Tom van der Linden's empathic film essays are voiceover philosophy—clips illustrate, they don't carry the argument. · Niche: film philosophy video essays Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LikeStoriesUntold Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tomvanderlinden/

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Episodes

  1. The 10 Best TV Shows of 2025

  2. The Best Movies of 2025

  3. The Worst Kind of Sequel

  4. Transcending Time | Interstellar's Hidden Meaning Behind Love and Time

  5. I Watched MAGA's Favorite Movie

  6. The Most Tragic Movie of the Decade

  7. Why So Many People Didn't 'Get' Oppenheimer

  8. Mediocre Movies That Changed My Life

  9. Can the Male Still Gaze?

  10. is this cinema's most overused gimmick?

  11. The Before Trilogy | Portraying a Real Relationship

  12. My wife almost died, and I thought about movies...

  13. The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Overcoming Maladaptive Daydreaming

  14. The Most Underrated Type of Villain

  15. Kingdom of Heaven | Addendum: Why Balian won the Battle for Jerusalem

  16. I Read "No Country for Old Men", Here's What the Movie Didn't Tell You:

  17. How One Classic Movie Became an Antidote to Modern Cynicism

  18. The Ryan Gosling Movie That Became Every Guy's Personality

  19. When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie

  20. America's Most Misunderstood Filmmaker

  21. The Grey — A Philosophy of Heroic Suffering

  22. Are We Heading Toward Complete Moral Ruin?

  23. Kingdom of Heaven | A Kingdom of Conscience, or Nothing - Kant's Moral Philosophy

  24. Dunkirk re-edited as a Silent Film – The Power of Visual Storytelling

  25. The Unexplored Depths of Spider-Man 3 – Facing the Dragon of Grandiosity

  26. This is What Eternal Damnation Looks Like

  27. I Went to Cannes to See 2025’s Most Promising Movies

  28. When a Woman Makes a Movie About Men

  29. We've Forgotten how to Travel

  30. Modern Movie Culture has a Problem

  31. The 10 Best Movies of 2024

  32. What Makes a Great King? Exploring the Archetype of the King in Movies and Television

  33. The Tree of Life | Crafting an Existential Masterpiece

  34. Why Movies Just Don't Feel "Real" Anymore

  35. Every Christopher Nolan Movie Ends the Same

  36. McCarthy's Greatest, Terrible Book is Becoming a Movie, What Will It Look Like?

  37. This is Hollywood's Liberal Fantasy, and it's Falling Apart

  38. Movie Monologues that Radicalized my Moral Philosophy

  39. Cormac McCarthy's Most Profound Story

  40. Why Star Wars Can’t Move Forward

  41. This YouTuber Won't Stop Plagiarizing

  42. They Remade the Battle of Helm's Deep in a Hospital Show, and It's Insane

  43. In Search of the Distinctively Human | The Philosophy of Blade Runner 2049

  44. Do I use AI? What's my Process? Movies I've Seen the Most? | 1.000.000 Subscriber QandA

About this show

Tom van der Linden's empathic film essays are voiceover philosophy—clips illustrate, they don't carry the argument. · Niche: film philosophy video essays

Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden 2nd Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@LikeStoriesUntold Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/tomvanderlinden/

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How many episodes does Like Stories of Old have?

Like Stories of Old has 44 episodes on PodParley. The most recent episode was published on November 8, 2026.

What is Like Stories of Old about?

Tom van der Linden's empathic film essays are voiceover philosophy—clips illustrate, they don't carry the argument. · Niche: film philosophy video essays Links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/LikeStoriesofOld One-Time Donation: https://www.paypal.me/TomvanderLinden 2nd Channel:...

How often does Like Stories of Old release new episodes?

Like Stories of Old publishes daily, based on its 44 episodes since October 2026.

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