On the raucous tenth episode of a new podcast, n+1 film critic A.S. Hamrah joins co-hosts Clementine Ford, Vincenzo Barney, and Christian Lorentzen to talk about his new books Algorithm of the Night: Film Writing 2018-2024  and Last Week in End Times Cinema. Topics discussed include the beautifully lit movie screens of New York City; Amy Adams; Hillbilly Elegy; MTV girls; Amazon propaganda; aliens and their anatomy; giant baskets full of gourmet cheese; bribery and backlash; Trumpist cinema; Nocturnal Animals; Bidenist cinema and whether such a thing existed; Megalopolis; The Cotton Club; Apocalypse Now; The Godfather Part III; One From the Heart; Garden of Stone; Francis Ford Coppola; whether a film can also be admirable and “a failure”; Hollywood studio propaganda against auteurs and the trade magazines that publish it; Bond villains; Yaphet Kotto; Christopher Lee; James Stewart; biopics and their recent proliferation; farmhands of Lunenberg, Massachusetts, and their taste in movies; whether popularity indicates quality or the opposite; the effects of time on films’ reputations; Sinners; One Battle after Another; Hamnet; the Paris Theater; Noah Baumbach; Whit Stillman; Martin Scorsese; Chloé Zhao; David Fincher; the effects of location on the film-going experience; Christopher Nolan; setting The Odyssey in the Greater Boston Area; Quentin Tarantino; Gaza; the IDF; good and evil; revenge; whether in the future corporate publishers will publish literature and Hollywood studios will make movies; and much more. Thank you for listening.