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AMELIE (2001)

Join us and Brianna Ashby (Bright Wall / Dark Room) to discuss 2001’s AMELIE! We discuss loneliness, color theory, mediated interactions, breaking through stasis, and whether this is a post-COVID movie made before COVID! Without you, today’s emotions would be the scurf of yesterday’s. Hipolito

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (2006)

We’re joined by two philosophers of art to discuss how they’ve helped each other come to a greater appreciation for this quirky but lovable entry into the Fast and Furious franchise. We discuss how art can change depending on the context in which it is embedded, and the ways the franchise could have gone afterContinue reading “THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT (2006)”

FRED CLAUS (2007)

Join us and ⁠Emily St. James⁠ to discuss Fred Claus (streaming now on Max)! We marvel at the film’s strange and unnecessarily complicated backstory about the cosmology of sainthood, discuss Santa Claus’s moral epistemology, elf-yourself levels of CGI, why everyone deserves a second chance, and somehow spend five minutes discussing the phenomenon of “ugly hot”.Continue reading “FRED CLAUS (2007)”