A moovie podcast
Join us and Dan Harris (Philosophy, CUNY) to discuss HOME ALONE! We consider the film’s permission structure for excusing parental negligence, humoring breaking and entering, the film’s ideological implications about the nuclear family, and what Kevin really thinks he did to his parents. Christmastime begins with the COWS now!
This is my house. I have to defend it.
Kevin
We sit down with film historian Joseph McBride to discuss George Cukor’s 1944 film, Gaslight. We discuss Cukor’s reputation among the great studio directors, his skill working with actors, the social and political dimensions of the film, including what makes diagnosing and resisting gaslighting so challenging.
I thought you were being polite, you really wanted to see her? If you really wanted to see her all you had to say was, ‘Show her in Nancy.’
Gregory Anton
Cars, men, masculinity, westerns, scorpions, frogs, wanderers, conservative values, violence, very hot people, and more… it’s Nicholas Winding Refn’s DRIVE with Roxana Hadadi!
Getting to be around you and Benicio was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Driver
Join us and Matt Strohl (Philosophy, Montana) to live from Song to Song and discuss Terence Malick, genuine freedom, the challenges of dealing with aesthetic dismissal, the value of “difficult” art, family, situated abstractionism, art and commerce, temptation, regret, second chances, and much more!
I gotta go back and start over, like a kid. I didn’t have the right heart in me.
BV
We get crazy with the flesh with Becca Rothfeld (The Washington Post) discussing David Cronenberg’s 1986 film THE FLY. We discuss erotic transformation, de-evolution, gothic horror, mind/body interactions, Veronica’s many excellent fits, inside-out baboons, and much more!
I bet you think you woke me up about the flesh, but you only know society’s straight line of the flesh, you can’t penetrate beyond society’s sick gray fear of the flesh. Drink deep, or taste not the plasma spring.
Seth Brundle
Death becomes HER?! What does this title even mean? We get into that and more with Sean O’Connell (Managing Editor for @CinemaBlend and co-host of @ReelBlend). What is this film’s ideological stance on the pursuit of beauty? What makes this film a queer masterpiece? Where does it fit into Bruce Willis’s career? Who wore it (death) better — Goldie or Meryl? 💀
The morgue? She’ll be FURIOUS!
Ernest Menville
We are joined by Emily St. James to discuss Jane Schoenbrun’s excellent sophomore outing. We discuss transformative experiences, leaps of faith, egg cinema, kissing on the astral plane, nostalgia and the specialness of inaccessibility, and (if that’s not enough) why we do this podcast at all! It’s a very special episode, and we want to hear what you thought about the film! Email us at cowspod@gmail.com!
I told myself, “This isn’t normal. This isn’t normal. This isn’t how life is supposed to feel.”
Maddy
In space, no one can hear you deepfake a dead actor into your movie! We’re joined by Scout Tafoya to talk Alien: Romulus. We discuss the film’s thematic resonances with the Alien franchise, immigration, the fear of undifferentiation, psychoanalytic readings of the alien, human/android relationships, orphans in space, and go on many long rants about the state of movies and artificial intelligence. Join us!
Get away from her… you bitch!
Andy
We are joined by Aaron Casias and Carly Gomes of Hit Factory to discuss William Hurt’s first film, Ken Russell’s wild and delirious Altered States! We discuss solipsism, God, losing faith, hallucinogens, academia, and why regressing into an ape form might be many conservatives ultimate fantasy.
“I’m a professor of endocrinology at the Harvard Medical School. I’m an attending physician the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a consulting editor to the American Journal of Endocrinology, and a fellow and vice president of the Eastern Association of Endocrinologists, the president of the journal club, and I’m not going to listen to any more of your cabalistic quantum frigging dumb limbo mumbo jumbo!”
Mason
We sit down with Katey Rich (The Ankler) to discuss Ridley Scott’s macho film about two women’s goodbye middle finger to the patriarchy. We discuss the film’s radical rejection of stereotypical gender norms, the female gaze, women being friends, why Christopher McDonald is the funniest person ever, and whether Brad Pitt robs convenience stores shirtless or clothed. Come drive off a cliff with us!
Louise, no matter what happens, I’m glad I came with you.
Thelma
Cows in the Field