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Queen is Dead - A Film, TV and Culture Podcast — 190 episodes
David Lynch's The Straight Story | The Strange Story (Part 6) #192
Spider-Man: Brand New Day But Same Old Spidey (Affectionate, Mostly!) #191
A (Dis)Honorable 2026 for Bollywood So Far? | Assi | Main Vaapas Aaunga | O'Romeo, Tu Yaa Main, Ikkis & many more! #190
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey & The Compromise of Mixing Substance with Spectacle #189
Dhoom to Alpha - From Action to Exhuastion? | The Rapid Demise of YRF's Spyverse #188
English Language Queer Cinema of Trash, Class & Classy Trash | Pink Flamingos | Benediction | Bound #187
European Queer Cinema of Lack and Excess | The Meetings of Anna | Querelle | Stranger by the Lake #186
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 3) - Disclosure Day & (Naïve) Optimism #185
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 2) - Minority Report, War of the Worlds, & Ready Player One | Countdown to Disclosure Day #184
Asian Queer Cinema of Alienation | Happy Together | The River | Tropical Malady #183
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu — How Can A Cynical Cash Grab be this Cute? #182
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 1) - Close Encounters with E.T & A.I | Countdown to Disclosure Day #181
Patriot & the Value (and Pitfalls) of Mahesh Narayanan's Subdued Approach to Mainstream Cinema #180
The Devil Wears Prada 2 - A Legacy Sequel That's Actually Good?! #179
Kristoffer Borgli's "The Drama" & All the Real and Reel Life Drama that Surrounds It #178
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller's Project Hail Mary - A Sci-Fi Classic that this World Needs & Deserves (for Better or Worse) #177
English & International Language Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Miscellaneous Edition) #176
International Language Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 2 - Europe & South America) #175
International Language Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 1 - Asia & Middle East) #174
Hollywood Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 3 - Ensemble Edition) #173
Hollywood Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 2 - For the Guys) #172
Hollywood Movie Catch-Up for 2025 (Pt. 1 - For the Gays and Gals) #171
One Banger (or Not?) After Another | Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another #170
One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
BEST of 2025 (SO FAR) - Part 2 | Badass Ravi Kumar & everything else! #168
Bittersweet Bond: Timothy Dalton days #167
David Lynch's Lost Highway | The Strange Story (Part 5) #166
Indie Indian Cinema Round-Up | Homebound, Sabar Bonda, Humans in the Loop & Jugnuma #165
BEST of 2025 (SO FAR) - Part 1 | Badass Ravi Kumar & everything else! #164
The Highs and Lows of Spike Lee's Highest 2 Lowest #163
WORST of 2025 (SO FAR) | Badass Ravi Kumar & 5 more! #162
Taiwanese New Wave & The Value of Slow Cinema | Taipei Story | Vive L'Amour | Millennium Mambo #161
Ari Aster's Eddington - THE Neo-Classical Western FOR this Decade #160
Coolie (2025) - Who is at fault? | Also, Exorcism of War 2 #159
David Lynch's Wild At Heart | The Strange Story (Part 4) #158
28 Years Later - A Molotov Cocktail of Formal Experimentation and Narrative Subversion #157
James Gunn's Superman - The Comic Bookiest Comic Book Movie Ever Made (for better & much worse) #156
Materialists, Past Lives & The Celine Song Debate #155
David Lynch's Blue Velvet | The Strange Story (Part 3) #154
Mission Impossible VII & VIII: or, How We Learnt to Start Reckoning with the Super Seriousness of Mr. Scientology #153
Mission Impossible IV, 5 & VI: or, How we Learnt to Start Worrying for Mr. Scientology (via Benji & Ilsa) #152
Mission Impossible I, 2 & III: or, How We Learnt to Stop Worrying & Love Mr. Scientology #151
David Lynch's The Elephant Man | The Strange Story (Part 2) #150
David Lynch's Eraserhead | The Strange Story (Part I) #149
Bollywood's Artless Trash vs. Artful Trash | Nadaaniyan | Badass Ravikumar | Loveyapa #148
Best International Films of 2024! | The Substance, Anora, Nickel Boys, Queer, I Saw the TV Glow, & many more! | #147
Anora & The Humanist Cinema of Sean Baker | The Burden of Representation Cont... #146
Luca Guadagnino's Queer & Call Me By Your Name | The Burden of (Queer) Representation #145
Best Indian Films of 2024! | Vaazhai, Kottukkaali, Kishkindha Kaandam, Merry Christmas & many more! #144
Black Warrant (2025) - A Great Indian Netflix Show in This Economy?! #143
Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu: Forever in the Shadow of F. W. Murnau and Werner Herzog's Nosferatwos #142
Robert Eggers & His Acutely Authentic Brand of Nightmarish Cinema #141
The Most Disappointing Films of 2024 | Disclaimer, Emilia Pérez, Agra & 3 more! #140
Talk the Talk - Discussing Meiyazhagan & I Want to Talk | Shoojit Sircar | C Prem Kumar #139
All We Imagine as Light & The Gently Surreal Cinema of Payal Kapadia #138
Is Gladiator 2 any good? | What is up with FFC's Megalopolis? #137
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - The Horrors of Everything (including Book-to-Screen Adaptation) #136
Hammer Horror Films 101 | Dracula (1958) | Rasputin - The Mad Monk (1966) #135
Horror Movie Catch-Up for 2024! ft. The Substance, Longlegs, Oddity, Strange Darling & many more! #134
Kinds of Kindness & Waves of (Greek) Weirdness | The Absurd Cinema of Yorgos Lanthimos #133
Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey - The Dawn of Everything | A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) #132
Stanley Kubrick's Ultra-Violent & Erotic Odysseys | Lolita | A Clockwork Orange | Eyes Wide Shut #131
BEST OF 2024 (SO FAR) #130
Stanley Kubrick's Historical Odysseys | Barry Lyndon | Spartacus #129
Stanley Kubrick's (Anti)War Odysseys | Fear and Desire | Paths of Glory | Dr. Strangelove | Full Metal Jacket #128
Queer Coding, Reading and Camp Sensibility in Bollywood | Karan Johar | Farah Khan #127
Queer Desire and its Arrhythmic Rhythm in Claire Denis' Beau Travail #126
Queer Representation in Bollywood | Geeli Pucchi | Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga | Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui #125
Civil War (2024) - Useless or Useful Provocation? #124
In the Mood for Hate (Or Humanism) | R.M.N. (2022) & The Old Oak (2023) #123
Malayalam Movie Round-Up P2: Aavesham & Premalu #122
Masaki Kobayashi's Anti-Samurai Trilogy | Harakiri | Kwaidan | Samurai Rebellion #121
The Imtiaz-Rahman Trilogy | Rockstar | Highway | Tamasha #120
Imtiaz Aaj Kal | Jab We Met Harry & Sejal | Love Aaj Kal 2009/2020 #119
Michael Haneke - The Austere Austrian Auteur | Code Unknown (2000) | Caché (2005) | The White Ribbon (2009) #118
Malayalam Movie Round-Up P1: Aattam & Bramayugam #117
Murder Mystery Mubarak | The Last of Sheila (1973) | Gosford Park (2001) #116
Dune Part Two - An Epic of Scale and Substance #115
The Classical, The Revisionist, and The Spaghetti Western | Stagecoach, Winchester '73, & Once Upon a Time in the West #114
Killer Soup - Overflavoured/Undercooked or Deliciously Tasty? #113
Best Indian Films of 2023 | Hostel Hudugaru Bekagiddare, Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, Sapta Sagardaache Ello, Jigarthanda DoubleX & many more! #112
Cinema of Rajkumar Hirani #111
The Great, Good, and Garbage Men of Bollywood in 2023 | Animal 🤬| Sam Bahadur 🥱| 12th Fail 🥲 #110
Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon (The Spoiler-Filled Discussion) #109
The Serial Killer Obsession | Se7en | Zodiac | Red Rooms #108
Mumbai Film Festival - MAMI | Part 4 | Ghaath | Indi(r)a's Emergency | Priscilla #107
David Fincher's The [Stone-Cold] Killer | Neo-Noir & Le Samouraï #106
Mumbai Film Festival - MAMI | Part 3 | Joram | Rajat Kapoor | Fallen Leaves #105
Mumbai Film Festival-MAMI | Part 2 | Kennedy | Maestro | Stolen #104
Mumbai Film Festival - MAMI | Part 1 | Killers of the Flower Moon #103
Halloween Special : Japanese Horror #102
Leo - A History of Violence on Steroids? #101
Jafar Panahi's Post-Arrest Cinema -- Revealing Ecstatic Truths #100
Khufiya — VB Puppeteers a Shayarana Spy #099
Wes Anderson's Dahl Houses & Asteroid City #098
Sujoy Ghosh's Jaane Jaan & The Problem with Adaptations | Q & A #097
Jawan - The Angry (Old) Man in a New, Massy Bottle | Review w/ Curioser Adithiyan #096
Best of the Year 2023 (so far) #095
The Friedkin Connection #094
The Historical Epic w/ Cinephile Sanket | Ben-Hur (1959) & Doctor Zhivago (1965) #093
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani - KJo's Return to Form? But When Was He Ever Gone? #092
Nolan At War | Dunkirk & Oppenheimer | Nolan Retrospective PART 4 #091
Nolan's Magic Tricks | The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Tenet (briefly) | Nolan Retrospective PART 3 #090
Nolan's Knight Trilogy | Batman Begins, The Dark Knight & The Dark Knight Rises | Nolan Retrospective PART 2 #089
Nolan Noir | Following, Memento & Insomnia | Nolan Retrospective PART 1 #088
Rajeev Ravi: Senses of (Dis)location #087
Slow Cinema 101 w/ Matthew Cody Lang | The Turin Horse, The Headless Woman & Passing Summer #086
The Art & Commerce of Adaptation w/ Sidharth Jain #085
Succession Finale - The Perfect Ending? #084
Mainstream Political Cinema in Bollywood 2023 | Bheed, Faraaz, & Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat #083
Decoding Beau is Afraid (?) #082
The "God's Lonely Man" Cinema of Paul Schrader w/ Gordon Glasgow Goodman #081
Jubilee: The Bruised Beauty of Golden Age Hindi Cinema #80
John Wick: Chapter 4 - The Best Action Film since Mad Max Fury Road? #079
Classic Film Noir - The Most Mutable Film Style | M, Double Indemnity, Stray Dog #078
Pre-OSCARs Blast(ing) PART 2 | Best Animated, Documentary, International, Feature Film | Best Direction | Men Crying #077
Pre-OSCARs Blast(ing) PART 1 | Sound, Visuals, Writing, and Performances #076
The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg's Thorny Love Letter to Art and Family #075
Best Indian Films of 2022 | Vikram, Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, Natchathiram Nagargirathu, A Night of Knowing Nothing & many more! #074
Trial by Fire (2023) - Breaching Conventional Borders #072
Fleabag - Packaging Grief in Tears of Laughter #071
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio & Alejandro González Iñárittu's Bardo - The Sublime and the Surreal (or Shit) #070
In Inisherin & Bruges #069
Monica O My Darling and Qala - Style as Substance? | Upcoming Netflix Releases #068
Park Chan-Wook's Decision To Leave - A Digital Noir for the Ages #067
Ruben Östlund's Triangle Of Sadness - Sophisticated Slapstick or Sluggish Satire? | Brief Q & A #066
Andrew Dominik's Blonde - "Biopic" as (Exhausting & Obvious) Surrealist Horror #065
R. Balki's Chup - ★ or ★★★★★ ? #064
Satyajit Ray's Calcutta Trilogy w/ Anisha Roy | Pratidwandi | Seemabaadha | Jana Aranya #063
Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva - 😭 😡 🤬 #062
Jordan Peele's Nope - Intellectualizing the Spectacle? #061
Anurag Kashyap's Dobaaraa: Better than Oriol Paulo's Mirage? | Bollywood Cinema Today, Boycotting, IMDb, & KWK #060
"Eat the Rich" Narratives w/ Film.Trance | Parasite | Knives Out & Us #059
Dogme 95 w/ The Bong Cinephile | Festen, Idioterne, Julien Donkey-Boy & Open Hearts #058
The Female Gaze w/ Ahendrila Goswami | Piku | The Namesake #057
JugJugg Jeeyo, Chupke Chupke & Favorite Hindi Film and TV Comedies w/ Sudeshna Oruganti #056
Best Films of 2022 (SO FAR) #055
"Elevated" Horror Films Discussion | Men Explained | Crimes of the Future Explained #054
Anubhav Sinha's aNEk - Why didn't it work? | Assamese Cinema - Bhaskar Hazarika & Rima Das #053
India via. The Outsider's Gaze | Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi & The White Tiger #052
Discussing Badhaai Do | Jalsa | Sharmaji Namkeen #051
Japanese Cinema 101 w/ The Bong Cinephile | Rashomon, In the Realm of the Senses, & Drive My Car #050
The Art, The Artist, and The Audience #049
Karan Johar and the Affective Value of Mainstream Bollywood w/ Jasmin A. Singh | Discussing Jasmin's short film "Purple" #048
Post-Oscar Jabs | The Ceremony | Extended discussion on the Documentary and Animated Categories | The Major Winners in the "Big" Categories #047
Pre-Oscar Bash(ing) #046
The Batman - A Detective Story? #045
Approaching Indian Cinema from the Outside w/ Film Critic Mike McCahill | A Brief Discussion on "Annette" and "Memoria" #044
Did Mahaan live upto our expectations? #043
Gehraiyaan - Productively Complicated or Messily Plotted? #042
The Films that Changed Our Lives w/ Cinetasticc & Simp For Cinema #041
Best Indian Films of 2021 #040
World Cinema 101 | Part 2 w/ The Bong Cinephile #039
Another Q & A that went on for too long...| Obscure Film Recommendations| The Marginalization of Art Cinema| Part 1 w/ The Bong Cinephile #038
Best Hindi Films of 2021 & The Curious Case of Atrangi Re #037
Hitch-Mas: Hitchcock for the Holidays (Christmas Special) #036
Some Movies we Saw in October + Q&A Answered #034
Last Night in Soho - (W)Righteous Horror #033
Edgar Wright - Joyous Cinephilia #032
In Theatres Now - Eternals #031
Halloween Special - Some Horror Films We Love #030
Halloween Special - Midnight Mass: Contemplative Horror Done Right? #029
In [IMAX] Theatres Now: Dune #028
Some films we watched in September | Part 2 w/ Arijit Paul #027
Sardar Udham — Biopic turned inside out? #026
The (In)Significance of Film Critics w/Hindustan Times critic Rohan Naahar #025
In Theatres Now - No Time To Die #024
In Theatres Now - Old (& Free Guy briefly) #023
Mumbai Diaries 26/11: Good, Bad and the RGV #022
The Q&A went on for too long... | Theatres vs. OTT | One host disappears... | Part 1 w/ Arijit Paul #021
Anubhav Sinha #020
Shershaah - To critique or not to critique? #019
Best Hindi Films of 2021 (so far) #018
Some Movies We Saw For The First Time In July + Q&A Answered! #017
Quick Thoughts - Toofaan #016
Malik - What We Liked and Disliked #015
We Talked To A Professor Of Film... + Kannada Movies 101 #014
Is Netflix's 'Ray' worthy of Satyajit Ray? #013
Only one of us liked Sherni... #012
Did Jagame Thandiram live upto our expectations? #011
Films Based On Football! #010
(Not So) Quick Thoughts - Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar #009
Ram Gopal Varma has a streaming platform?! + Our Favourite Indian TV Shows/Web Series! #008
Quick Thoughts - Drishyam 2 #007
Is Sci-Fi the best genre of film? + GREATEST Sci-Fi Film Recommendations #006
The Genius Of Kamal Haasan & Virumaandi #005
New Year's Special - AK v/s AK & The Nature Of Fame #004
Anurag Kashyap
Why Do Biopics Suck? #002
On the Cinema Experience #001