We sit down with Dan Wack (Philosophy, Knox College) to discuss Elaine May’s Mikey and Nicky! We talk gangsters, friendship, honesty, barriers, hangout films, misogyny, character studies, and much more! It’s very hard to talk to a dead person. I have nothing in common. Nicky
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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (2010)
Let’s get it started, in the TUB! We sit down with Mitchell Beaupre (Letterbox’d) to discuss male friendship, regrets, the allure of youth, reliving our best and worst days, the comic genius of Crispin Glover, and what happened in Cincinnati! If that guy doesn’t lose his arm soon, I’m gonna fucking take it from himContinue reading “HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (2010)”
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)
Join us and proverbial bringer-of-Christmas-cheer Emily St. James as we dive into Frank Capra’s existentialist Christmas classic It’s a Wonderful Life! We talk about the film’s overt and subtle political messaging, which got it labeled Communist propaganda soon after its release, and contrast the zero sum deadlocked conflict of Potter with the generosity and warmthContinue reading “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946)”
THE MASTER (2012)
The cows are joined this week by Dan Harris (Philosophy, Hunter College) on their journey through past lives to uncover and exorcise a few trillion-year-old traumas. We consider how Paul Thomas Anderson depicts a divided soul across three individuals struggling to find order and humanity in a chaotic, animalistic, world, and explore how trauma andContinue reading “THE MASTER (2012)”