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Living in the End Times with Amos and Ex
by Amos & Ex
Since 2018, your Living in The End Times hosts Amos and Ex have read politics, philosophy, literature, and technology through film.
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Head like a Holes
A & E dig into the 2003 Disney vehicle Holes, which takes on a different connotation in the wake of headlines referencing the Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.
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19
A few small beers
A&E explore the kinks and confusions of Paul Thomas Anderson's VERY WELL MADE "One Battle After Another" (2025), wondering where Thomas Pynchon is when you need him.
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18
Three days of the condor
A&E chat not only Sydney Pollack's 1975 film Three Days of the Condor, but Robert Redford's spymaster sequel Sneakers (1992). We also crush on how smokin hot Redford was in 1975 and muse on cyberpunk.
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eXistenZ is EssenZ
A&E chat David Cronenberg's 1999 film eXistenZ and Cute Accelerationism by Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic.
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Jodie Foster's Army
A&E reconsider Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver (written by Paul Schrader), seeing it as a prescient commentary on MKULTRA and simulation.
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15
Videodrome killed the radio star
A&E discuss David Cronenberg's 1983 masterpiece Videodrome.
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14
The computer always wins
A&E chat Andrew Bujalski's lo-fi 2013 film Computer Chess as a way into thinking about consciousness, replicants, desiring machines, and the impossibility that a better human-machine interface has not already been developed. Plus Silkworm.
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The Glory of Love
A&E chat Hideaki Anno's 1997 film The End of Evangelion in an effort to think through apocalypses of all sorts, including those both genetic and spiritual.
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Writing the future with William Gibson
A&E talk William Gibson, AI, and writing the world in which we want to live.
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Pile Driver
Discussion of Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 cult film Drive.
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10
Robocops and incels
Jacking in to director Jose Padilha's 2014 remake of Robocop to talk cyberpunk, trans, AI and agency in 2025.
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9
A complete known unknown
Both appreciating and ultimately dismissing James Mangold's latest addition to the Bob Dylan filmography, A Complete Unknown.
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8
Inherent Vice
On the genius of Paul Thomas Anderson's translation (2014) of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice (2009) in the current moment (2025).
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Child of God, or Inland Empire
Thinking about consciousness and art via the late great David Lynch's final feature film Inland Empire (2006).
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Under the rainbow
A&E consider Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as the ritual incantation it was obviously meant to be.
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5
Showing Europe how we do it, or, Suspiria 2018
Exploring the failures of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and especially late capitalism in Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake of Dario Argento's 1977 film Suspiria.
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4
Caesar in Cosmopolis
A&E on the American election and its overlay with David Cronenberg’s 2012 adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis.
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3
Under the Silver Lake
Today's moving picture, in all senses of the term, is David Robert Mitchell's 2018 stoner noir film "Under the Silver Lake," which A&E agree, is like a fine wine: better with each passing year.
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2
I saw the TV gloat
A&E discuss Jane Schoenbrun's 2024 film "I Saw the TV Glow" exploring, among other topics, media's shaping of our adolescence and adulthood.
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Repo Man, or, Training Day 1984
A&E chat Alex Cox's brilliant/incendiary/prescient low budget classic Repo Man (1984) in an effort to get a better handle on 2024.
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Since 2018, your Living in The End Times hosts Amos and Ex have read politics, philosophy, literature, and technology through film.
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