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 aboutContinue reading “ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)”
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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)”
Cows in the Field 