All Episodes

Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime and the Moral Murk of Post-9/11 America

Frederick Wiseman Retrospective #1: The Institutions | Titicut Follies, High School, Law and Order & Hospital

I Have Friends Everywhere - Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another

Hopelessly Inquisitive Men - Paul Thomas Anderson's Inherent Vice and The Master - First Watch

"If You Should Ever Leave Me" - P.T. Anderson's Boogie Nights and Magnolia

"This Tempest In My Mind" - Akira Kurosawa's THRONE OF BLOOD & RAN

Darkness on the Edge of Town - Zach Cregger's Weapons

Hindsight In 2025 - Ari Aster’s Eddington (and the Rest of the Summer)

Skin-deep Society - Joker: Folie à Deux, Megalopolis, and The Substance

CONGRATULATIONS - The 96th Academy Awards & Hideaki Anno's The End of Evangelion

Paradise Lost - Denis Villeneuve's Dune: Part Two

Empire of Stagnation - Marguerite Duras' India Song

Class of 2023: Our Top 10 Films of the Year

First Watches 2023: Our Top 10 First Watches of the Year

Beyond Infinity: Our Top 10 Pixar Features

How Do You Live? - Godzilla Minus One & Hayao Miyazaki's The Boy and the Heron

Battle of the Bonapartes - Ridley Scott's Napoleon (2023) & Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927)

Lord Kill the Pain - Martin Scorsese's The Irishman

Three to Get Ready - Sofia Coppola's Priscilla

The Book of Lamentations - Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon

Horror Through the Eras: The New Millennium & Robert Eggers' The Witch

Horror Through the Eras: Hitchcock to Slasher Icons & Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Horror Through the Eras: Silents to the Hays Code & Jacques Tourneur's Cat People

Boys Night - Remembering William Friedkin & Ira Sachs' Passages

The Cerebral Films of Christopher Nolan

Twilight of the Gods - Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer

Prelude to Oppenheimer - Miyazaki's The Wind Rises & Kobayashi's The Human Condition

The Hunt for Blockbuster Nirvana - The 21st Century Action Pantheon & Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning

Midterm 2023: Our Top 10 Films of the Year (So Far)

The Desolate Cinema of Béla Tarr

The Long Deak-end - Celebrating Roger Deakins at the Texas Theatre & Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049

Buggin' Out - Shin Kamen Rider & Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

The Extinct World: Feudalism & the Czechoslovak New Wave - František Vláčil's Marketa Lazarová

New Kids on the Bloc: Communism & the Czechoslovak New Wave - Miloš Forman's The Firemen's Ball

A Tender Resignation - James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Life During Wartime: Fascism & the Czechoslovak New Wave - Juraj Herz' The Cremator

Riot Girls: Anarchism & the Czechoslovak New Wave - Věra Chytilová's Daisies

The Mommy Issue - A Motherlode of New Releases & Lee Cronin's Evil Dead Rise

Exploring Sight & Sound #1 - Silent Era Deep Cuts & Chantal Akerman's Jeanne Dielman

The Easter Special - Our Seasonal Favorites & Hlynur Pálmason's Godland

Class of 2013 - 10 Year Reunion: Our Top 10 Films of the Year

The Sisyphean Staircase - Chad Stahelski's John Wick: Chapter Four

3rd Round Knockout - Michael B. Jordan's Creed 3

California Dreamin' - Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood

Rabbit Season, Duck Season - Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite

Class of 2022: Our Top 10 Films of the Year

Opening the Vault: Our Top 10 Walt Disney Animated Features

New Horizons - Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans

Feast of Flesh - George A. Romero's Trilogy of the Dead

The Black Panther Lives - Ryan Coogler's Wakanda Forever

Passion for Detail - Park Chan-wook's Decision to Leave

Procedural Breakdown - Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure

A Tale of Two Suspirias

The Art of Immersion - James Cameron's Avatar

The Epochal Cinema of Luchino Visconti

In Defense Of... Van Sant's Psycho Remake

Grief & The Healing Process - Fran Kranz' Mass

The Sky's the Limit - Jordan Peele's Nope

Toothless - Jurassic World Trilogy Breakdown

Summer of Sickos - Top Gun: Maverick & Crimes of the Future

Midterm 2022: Noé's Vortex & Beyond the Multiverse

La Pasión de Almodóvar - Parallel Mothers and All About My Mother

Unlocking the History Behind Costa-Gavras' Z

Sound and Fury - Spielberg's West Side Story & Coen's The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Haze of Youth - PTA's Licorice Pizza

History Is Camp! - Pablo Larraín's Jackie (2016)