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The Cult Popcast
by thecultpopcast
Two industry-working film nerds talk movies, television, and all manner of popular culture. This variety podcast contains thoughtful analysis and detailed review on everything from the biggest budget blockbusters to the smallest indie gems. Join the cult!
Episodes
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Episode 262 "Black Mirror" Season Six
Back in Black... Mirror.
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Episode 261 "The Flash"
There and back again.
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Episode 260 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"
Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 was such a delight. Man! I can't wait to see what James Gunn is gonna do next.
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Episode 259 "Dave" Season Three
Dave! What can you say about this show? It’s on Hulu. It’s funny, sad, inspiring, frustrating… and delightfully weird. Dave Burd is unapologetically himself - but can he learn from his mistakes? Can he grow the f up and find true love? Let’s find out together.
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Episode 258 "Ted Lasso" Season Three
Ted Lasso premiered in 2020 right when the world needed it most. The spirited positivity and optimism of the titular soccer coach filled people with hope through the covid lockdown, and made AppleTV+ a must have service in its opening year. Now, three seasons later, Ted’s story is over, but his...
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Episode 257 "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
A lot of great shows have wrapped in the last year, and here’s another one. After five successful seasons, Amazon Prime’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel is taking a bow. Filled with charm, laughs, and a fantastic cast, showrunner Amy Sherman-Palladino’s comedic period piece will be missed.
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Episode 256 "Jury Duty"
Here’s a fun idea for a show: a ridiculous jury trial where everything is fake and everyone is an actor, except for one regular guy who’s not in on the joke. Freevee’s new original series Jury Duty is just that. It’s actually hilarious, and most people haven’t even heard of it. Check a look....
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Episode 255 "Barry" Season Four
Oh wow. HBO’s quirky action-speckled dramedy Barry has come to curtain call, and show creator/writer/director/actor Bill Hader is ending it on his own terms. Love it or hate it, there’s really nothing on TV like it. Filled with surprising twists, surreal existentialism, and topical commentary,...
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Episode 254 ”The Mandalorian” Season Three
The Mandalorian Season 3 has dropped, and things are starting to heat up. But despite making some big moves in the story, Dave Filoni and Jon Favreau’s Disney+ Star Wars series is still prone to rambling and meandering. Let's get it together, guys! This show still has such huge potential…
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Episode 253 ”Succession” Season Four
Succession Season 4 is now over, and the Shakespearean saga of the Roy family has officially come to a close. With a story and setting that deftly satirize the turbulent sociopolitical times we’re living in, it’s no surprise that HBO’s hit show has captured the zeitgeist for several years now.…
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Episode 252 ”Beau Is Afraid”
| Review | Holy Moses, Ari. You’ve really outdone yourself this time. Beau is Afraid is the third feature film from Ari Aster, the acclaimed A24 auteur who gave us Hereditary and Midsommar. This film is not like either of those, though. This is a batsh*t insane surrealist odyssey into the deeply...
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Episode 251 ”The Bad Batch” Season Two
| Review | The bad batch is back, and it’s looking like a much needed win for Disney+. We pick up with Omega and the squad as they’re running dangerous odd jobs just to make a living out in this new Imperial controlled galaxy. Meanwhile, illusive new threats are rising in dark corners of the...
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Episode 250 ”Hogwarts Legacy”
| Review | You’re a wizard, Steven! We’ve got another video game cast today to talk Hogwarts Legacy, the Wizarding World action RPG from Avalanche Software and Warner Bros Games released earlier this year. Set a hundred years before the events of Harry Potter, this carefully crafted open world...
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Episode 249 ”Shrinking” Season One
| Review | AppleTV+ continues to build up their growing catalog of uplifting dramadies with Shrinking, where Jason Segel plays a grieving therapist who throws caution to the wind and starts telling his clients what he really thinks. Hijinks ensue. Amd they got Harrison Ford in there too!
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Episode 248 ”Air”
| Review | How do you like them Jordans? Benjamin Affleck and Matthew Damon are reunited once again in Air, the new historical bi-epic that chronicles the signing of young basketball prodigy Michael Jordan to a flailing running shoe company called Nike. Man the 80's were cool...
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Episode 247 ”Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves”
| Review | Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves is a movie that nobody expected to be as good as it was. It was hilarious, clever, and full of heart, all while wrapped in this vividly depicted fantasy world. Clearly John Francis Daley and Jon Goldstein love the source material. Hey, you guys...
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Episode 246 ”The Super Mario Bros. Movie”
| Review | Dread it, run from it, Nintendo arrives all the same. And now it's here: The Super Mario Bros. Movie has smashed records to become the second highest grossing animated film of all time. That's over a billion bucks, courtesy of Brooklyn's little red plumber turned multidimensional hero.
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Episode 245 ”John Wick: Chapter 4”
| Review | All this, for a dog? Almost a decade after Keanu's titular once-retired hitman took the world by storm, he's back to end his desperate crusade, once and for all. With the stunts and world-building as wonderfully ambitious as ever, John Wick: Chapter 4 shows this franchise still has gas...
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Episode 244 ”Mad God”
| Review | After over thirty years in the making, VFX legend Phil Tippet has finally completed his twisted stop motion passion project, Mad God. If you enjoy darkly macabre and generally insane art, then this one-way descent into dystopian hellscape is the fever dream for you.
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Episode 243 ”Memoria”
| Review | Accomplished Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a master of the slow, meditative cinema. His latest film, Memoria, is no exception; it's a fascinating sensory experience that asks big questions and answers very little. Don't worry though, Tilda Swinton is here to hold your hand.
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Episode 242 ”Decision to Leave”
| Review | Korean cinema is back on the menu with Park Chan-wook’s Decision to Leave. Typically known for his stylish and provocative plots of sensual trysts and violent revenge, Park cools off just a little here to capture a more contemplative and intimate noir between an insomniac detective and...
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Episode 241 ”Shazam! Fury of the Gods”
| Review | Four years ago, Shazam! was a breath of fresh air in the messy DC superhero pipeline of the time. It’s sequel, Shazam! Fury of the Gods tries to capture that lightning in a bottle for a second time. Unfortunately, the movie seems doomed to failure because of massive delays, and then...
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Episode 240 ”The Last of Us” Season One
| Review | Finally, a really good video game adaptation. You wouldn’t think it would be that hard to pull from years of highly successful IP, but here we are (looking at you, Halo). HBO gets it though. They’ve just created another cultural sensation with The Last of Us, a big budget television…
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Episode 239 ”Cocaine Bear”
| Review | Apex predator, high on cocaine… yeah, this is cinema. Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear is a campy B-movie premise wrapped in Hollywood quality production - it’s a fun, bloody, hilarious, terrifying, and heart-warming romp with a great cast. In the words of that one kid, “It seems like the...
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Episode 238 ”Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania”
| Review | Ladies and gentlemen, the next era of the Marvel Cinematic Universe has officially kicked off with Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. While deeply flawed in many ways, the latest Peyton Reed flick does give us more of the fantastic actor Jonathan Majors. There’s also some fun quantum...
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Episode 237 ”Skinamarink”
| Review | The boys have a super-mega-cast cooked up for today, as Gabe runs Steven through some recent horror/thriller movies he’s seen on his own. First is Knock at the Cabin, the hot new Shyamalan joint about a family contending with what may or may not be the end of the world. Next comes...
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Episode 236 ”Pokémon” Scarlet and Violet
| Review | Is it future or is it past? The long standing and successful intellectual property Pokémon takes the stage with the current generation named Scarlet and Violet. Steven finally gets to gush about something he sort of likes… or likes a lot? who’s to say really? Get ready to hear a whole...
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Episode 235 ”2023 Oscars Recap”
| Review | Another year, another smugly tone-deaf circlejerk of the cultural elite… but we just can’t look away. And many questions linger: will there be another era defining slap? Will there be upsets and bad jokes and wildly ostentatious outfits that make it impossible to see the stage if…
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Episode 234 ”Puss in Boots: The Last Wish”
| Review | Pray for mercy from... Puss in Boots! The swashbuckling feline is back and better than ever for his second “solo” film following up the original Shrek spin-off back in 2011. We catch up with Puss in his later years, as years of adventuring and roguish heroism have left him on the last…
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Episode 233 ”Bardo”
| Review | It’s been almost a decade since Alejandro Iñárritu’s legendary one-two punch of Birdman and The Revenant. His new Netflix production, Bardo, is a meandering and meditative existential wide lens nonlinear dream walk through the director’s own inner self. His fears and insecurities, his...
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Episode 232 ”Aftersun”
| Review | I think it’s nice that we share the same sky. Aftersun is a dreamy and wistful slice of life that tells the story of a father and daughter on holiday at a fading little resort in Turkey. Loosely inspired by writer/director Charlotte Wells’ own childhood experiences with her father…
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Episode 231 ”Women Talking”
| Review | Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. Sarah Polley’s big screen adaptation of the Miriam Toews novel Women Talking is the final Best Picture nomination we’ve yet to cover for this year’s Academy Awards. Described as “an imagined response to real events,” it’s a powerful story with a…
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Episode 230 ”Atlanta” Season Four
| Review | In November 2020, Donald Glover tweeted that Atlanta seasons 3 and 4 would be some of the best television ever made, on the same level as The Sopranos. Well, the show is over now, and the TCP is here to evaluate. However you feel about it, one thing is for sure: there is really nothing...
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Episode 229 ”All Quiet on the Western Front”
| Review | War is hell, always has been - but World War I was a new kind of hell for its time. Originally a novel published in 1928, Netflix’s All Quiet on the Western Front is a retelling of that infamous conflict, from the perspective of a group of young German men fighting in it. Initially...
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Episode 228 ”Empire of Light”
| Review | You’d think the dynamic duo of Sam Mendes and Roger Deakins would turn out some kind of spectacular and ambitious movie, especially after their last banger, 1917. But Empire of Light is not a globetrotting thrill ride or wartime epic. It’s about a quiet little theater in a small…
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Episode 227 ”Alpha Zulu” by Phoenix
| Analysis | Why choose your body over time? French pop sensation Phoenix has risen from the ashes of the pandemic with their seventh studio LP, Alpha Zulu. Coming in strong with new riffs on their classic sound, this album aims to be as timeless as The Louvre it was recorded in. But is it? Check…
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Episode 226 ”The Whale”
| Review | Adapted from Samuel D. Hunter’s stage play of the same name, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale marks the triumphant return to the big screen for 90’s heartthrob and action star Brendan Fraser. It’s a small but powerful story of love, loss, and that old familiar struggle against the dark…
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Episode 225 ”Babylon”
| Review | Lights, camera, action! Babylon is 2022’s latest and greatest sensationalist love letter to the history of Hollywood and cinema as an art form. It’s Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood meets La La Land and set in the roaring twenties (with perhaps a little extra coke-fueled craziness thrown...
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Episode 224 ”Avatar: The Way of Water”
| Review | We are not in Kansas anymore! Avatar: The Way of Water is finally out in theaters after a decade of production, and James Cameron is keen to make a few more billion dollars at the box office. Wait, there's gonna be three more? Bro.
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Episode 223 ”2022 Retrospective”
| Analysis | Hop on the band wagon, this train’s leaving. We’re talking Bros, White Noise, Jeremy Render, 1899, Golden Globes, and our top ten films of 2022. You will hear a sneak peek at our feelings on Avatar, Babylon, The Whale, and many more.
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Episode 222 ”White Lotus” Season Two
| Review | Mike White’s smash HBO hit is back with a new season! The White Lotus is a seasonal anthology series which means we also have a new resort location and ensemble cast as well. (Except for our queen Jennifer Coolidge who is back to kick some ass.) Come watch another group of rich and...
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Episode 221 ”Bones and All”
| Review | There’s a deep sense of irony in Luca Guadagnino making a movie about cannibalism after directing Armie Hammer in Call My By Your Name (whose career was recently upended after being exposed for a wild cannibalism kink). Art imitates life. Anyway, based on Camille DeAngelis’ novel…
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Episode 220 ”Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
| Review | Everyone knows the classic tale of the wooden boy whose nose grows when he lies, but the original story from the 19th century is quite different from the Disney version we’ve come to love over the years. Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio delivers a fresh and yet thematically faithful...
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Episode 219 ”Andor” Season One
| Review | This is what revolution looks like. Let’s call it… war. Produced for Disney by the brilliant Tony Gilroy, Andor is a shocking testament to the true narrative potential of Star Wars. This first installment of a two season series details the brutal beginning of the Rebel Alliance, whose...
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Episode 218 ”Glass Onion”
| Review | An object that seems densely layered, but in reality, the center is in plain sight… that would be Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion, the latest entry from the auteur in what will be a series of films inspired by the many novels of Agatha Christie. Returning to center stage is Daniel Craig as...
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Episode 217 ”The Fabelmans”
| Review | Family, art… it’ll tear you in two. Steven Spielberg is one of the most celebrated and accomplished directors of all time, and The Fablemans is his chance to finally tell his own story. A dramatized account of the master storyteller’s formative years, this movie is just as much a love...
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Episode 216 A Tribute to Jason David Frank
| Review | The man, the myth, the Green Ranger is gone... and it feels that a great White light in the world has gone with him. We've never met him but he has left an indelible impression on Steven since his youth. We are here to talk about the legacy and passion that JDF left behind.
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Episode 215 ”The Crown” Season Five
| Review | A quasi sequel episode to us previously talking about Netflix's The Crown. We're talking all things royal today as we discuss season five as well as the recent Harry and Meghan doc... also produced by Netflix.
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Episode 214 ”The Menu”
| Review | Please don’t say mouthfeel. The Menu is a sleek and stylish comedy-thriller with sharp commentary on consumerism and class. Helmed by veteran prestige television director Mark Mylod, this carefully portioned film is a decadent experience amidst the mass produced garbage competing for...
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Episode 213 ”The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special”
| Review | I was going to write a witty description for this episode, but my small, soft brain is numb due to the sheer amount of superhero media Steven is making me consume. I will say this: the Guardians of the Galaxy are cool, and so is Kevin Bacon. See you in May for Volume 3.
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Two industry-working film nerds talk movies, television, and all manner of popular culture. This variety podcast contains thoughtful analysis and detailed review on everything from the biggest budget blockbusters to the smallest indie gems. Join the cult!
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