No Gods, No Monsters

We're all taking our first walk through the critically and culturally acclaimed series Neon Genesis Evangelion. We discuss our collective history with anime, and do our best to dissect "Angel Attack." We discuss the beautiful look of the show, the UN, Babylonian myth, angels, Shinji being a big whiny baby, Freud, and so much more.

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We're getting back to nature, the old ways. Yeah, it's pretty uncomfortable and there's a fascist cult, but it sure does look pretty. We also talk grief, drugs, pagan deities and you get to hear how Charlie and Barto thought the election was going to go.

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For Halloween we look back to the meanest monster to crawl out of the studio system, The Invisible Man. We touch on Bolsheviks, unchecked power, the CIA, the Manhattan Project, and the results of Barto's google search for "Invisible Man, gay?"

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In honor of Halloween, Charlie and Rabbit (with Barto along for the ride) rank and discuss all of the Hellraiser films.

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In Lovecraft stories anything is possible, except the nuclear family. We talk ecology, lawn hermits, the unconscious, and hiring personal wizards as we explore the many shades of the Color Out Of Space.

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We're back and we're done complaining about Shinji. We spy a critique of bureaucracy, more evidence that the Eva is (at least metaphorically) Shinji's mom, and we look to scripture to take a stab at where the Evas and the Angels come from.

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What happens when a Godzilla cell falls into a black hole, merges with an organic crystal, and then absorbs the energy of an exploding star? You guessed it: Purple Godzilla. We scour through the wreckage of this special effects powerhouse to find a struggle between overt force and coercive control, an exploration of the queerness hidden beneath the surface of male conflict, and an image of the Oedipal complex as a force detached from human culture.

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Who decides what is real, and what other powers does that give them? We discuss mental health and how it's treated in the modern world, contradictions as an engine of change, the death of the '60s counterculture, and how the film's unique soundtrack highlights its messages.

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Charlie and Barto are on their own again, this time taking a long and hard look at the least erotic movie ever made about beautiful naked people. We talk dreams, fantasies, the Real, the unconscious, the commodification of sex, Bohemian Grove, and so much more on this deep dive into the misunderstood Kubrick classic.

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Re-examining Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, a psychosexual melodrama and political thriller by Padraig L Henry

Introducing Sociology: A Review of Eyes Wide Shut by Tim Kreider

The Democratic National Convention is coming back to Chicago so we thought it was worth examining a primary source of the events of the 1968 DNC to see where we stand. Part fictional narrative, part documentary, all incredibly meta, Medium Cool looks at filmmaking and journalism as a medium and explores the ethics of the thing.

This is the first episode we've done without Rabbit's guiding hand and to keep us on track, but the conversation lends itself to the seemingly aimless filmmaking on display.

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