A&E discuss the first season of writer Nic Pizzolatto's television series True Detective, exploring its connections to Graham Greene, the Gospel of Mark, Nietzsche, Epstein, Huey Long, and more.

A&E furrow our brows in a discussion of Jordan Peele's 2017 film Get Out.

A & E dig into the 2003 Disney vehicle Holes, which takes on a different connotation in the wake of headlines referencing the Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

A&E explore the kinks and confusions of Paul Thomas Anderson's VERY WELL MADE "One Battle After Another" (2025), wondering where Thomas Pynchon is when you need him.

A&E chat not only Sydney Pollack's 1975 film Three Days of the Condor, but Robert Redford's spymaster sequel Sneakers (1992). We also crush on how smokin hot Redford was in 1975 and muse on cyberpunk.

A&E chat David Cronenberg's 1999 film eXistenZ and Cute Accelerationism by Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic.

A&E reconsider Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver (written by Paul Schrader), seeing it as a prescient commentary on MKULTRA and simulation.

A&E discuss David Cronenberg's 1983 masterpiece Videodrome. 

A&E chat Andrew Bujalski's lo-fi 2013 film Computer Chess as a way into thinking about consciousness, replicants, desiring machines, and the impossibility that a better human-machine interface has not already been developed. Plus Silkworm. 

A&E chat Hideaki Anno's 1997 film The End of Evangelion in an effort to think through apocalypses of all sorts, including those both genetic and spiritual.