How contextual is power in 2024?

In this week's episode, comedian and film critic Henry Bretz joins us to discuss how Sean Baker's Palm d'Or-winning film 'Anora' examines how fast power can be won and lost in contemporary society.

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What might be the cause of international suffering?

In this week's episode, we are joined by freelance film writer Christopher Smol to discuss the examinations of complicity, gentility and retrospective guilt in James Ivory's 1993 drama, The Remains of the Day.

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The Wind Rises (2013) d. Hayao Miyazaki

Oppenheimer (2023) d. Christopher Nolan

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How can wounded intergenerational bonds be healed?

In this week's episode we are joined by writer-director Chloe Abrahams to discuss her new film, 'The Taste of Mango', which is being released to UK and Irish cinemas on 29 November 2024.

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How do you tell a true story?

In this week's episode we are joined by co-editor of the new Australian documentary 'Like My Brother', Archie Chew, to discuss his approach to the film and documentary filmmaking more broadly.

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How closely related are absurdism and realism?

In this week's special episode, we chat with Kyle, Eli and Cole Thiele, the writers and directors of 'Sofa, So Good', a new absurdist comedy that explores the depths of existentialism by following two cousins carrying a couch across Dayton, Ohio.

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What is the appeal of disassociation?

Combining recent conversations about the irresistible appeal of media and the challenges that are inherent to revolution, this week's episode examines Todd Phillips' highly anticipated sequel to 'Joker', 'Joker: Folie à Deux'.

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'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) d. Miloš Forman

'Pierrot le Fou' (1965) d. Jean-Luc Godard

'The Substance' (2024) d. Coralie Fargeat

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In this week's halloween special, we are joined by the man behind 'Too Much Film School', Matthew T. Price, to discuss John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic. In our discussion, we explore how the film's iconic antagonist resembles the indifference of evil and the utility of awareness in an increasingly distracted world.

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How should we understand overbearing mothers?

In this week's special episode, we are joined by director Tumpal Tampubolon as we discuss the symbols and themes explored in his gripping new film, 'Crocodile Tears'.

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What's the point of taking life seriously?

Combining recent conversations about impulsive behaviours and monolithic purposes, this week's episode centres on Danny Boyle's 1996 slick crime drama, 'Trainspotting', to contemplate the downside of elevating pleasure to the highest priority.

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'Candy' (2006) d. Neil Armfield

'Requiem for a Dream' (2000) d. Darren Aronofsky

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Should you respect the pain you feel?

An official selection at this year's London Film Festival, Jesse Eisenberg's new film, 'A Real Pain', is at the centre of this week's discussion on the strange relationship between gaining perspective and building mental fortitude.

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Various buddy comedies

'Old Joy' (2006) d. Kelly Reichardt

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