There are few movies that pack a strong enough punch to leave a mark more than 20 years after their initial release. And there’s one movie that has spawned ALL the memes, insults, inspiration and misinterpretations galore. Tonight, we’re breaking the first and the second rule and we’re talking about Fight Club, directed by David Fincher, based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk. And we’re gonna break it down.

Be it Recording a stream, or building an alien teleporter, with technology, there’s always a degree of faith involved. Tonight, we’re back...again... to finish breaking down Robert Zemeckis’ film Contact starring Jodie Foster & Matthew McConaughey.

What do you get when a famous atheist scientist pens a story about first contact and it comes off like a meditation on the nature of belief and the search for meaning? Based on the novel by Carl Sagan and directed by Robert Zemeckis we’re breaking down the movie CONTACT, starring Jodie Foster & Matthew McConaughey.

The Coen Brothers took Homer's "The Odyssey" and transplanted it to the Depression Era American South. We're taking a look at "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou" in this episode.

When last we left our heroic crew, the alien had just burst from their shipmate's chest, and was about to run amok throughout the ship. We're back to finish our breakdown of Ridely Scott's ALIEN.

In 1979, Ridley Scott directed ALIEN and changed the landscape of science fiction & horror films. In this episode we're giving this classic the full IMR treatment.

Because this movie has so much style, one episode was not enough. We're coming back to finish taking a good hard look at Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION.

In this episode, we breakdown Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" in order to learn from it.

The art of writing is all about the economy of words. Don’t give enough detail and your writing is confusing or predictable, give too much and it’s wasted energy or self-indulgent. We’re here today to talk about how a writer can learn when enough is enough.

When it comes to telling great stories, it’s important to have a deft hand while giving a sense of place. Too much and you’ll break the suspension of disbelief, too little and your stories will never take root. In this episode we talk about how to navigate the process of building a world without losing the plot in the twisting and tangling of all that information.

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