One of the topics that first inspired us to start this podcast, Resource Frontiers. Back in 2016, when Hell or High Water was released, Isaac and I were still working at our beloved art house theatre and our discussion of the film kept coming back to its multi-layered resource frontier setting. Settler colonial zones and the effects on indigenous populations were regular topics of conversations and, of course, Wages of Fear (1953) kept coming up too.

Since it took us so long to finally cover this topic, we have a newer film in the mix. Neptune Frost (2021) rounds out our coverage on this episode. Between these three films we've got a stone cold French classic, a neo-western heist film and a sci-fi Afrofuturism visual feast...in other words, an Isaac triple feature special. 

Here is the paper by Jason W. Moore that Isaac referenced.

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On this Double Feature episode, we take a look at films about strikes. As the WGA and SAG continue to strike, we thought it would be a good time to examine how Hollywood has protrayed strikes throughout the years.

We discuss; Norma Rae (1979), The Pajama Game (1957), Sorry to Bother You (2018), Harlan County, USA (1976), The Organizer (1963) and Chi-Raq (2015) and then put together a double feature (actually two) recommendation. 

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While Isaac is immersed in his Arabic language summer camp, we're rebraodcasting our very first episode. 

In 2027, after 18 years of global human infertility and depression, the world is on the brink of collapse and humanity faces extinction. The United Kingdom, one of the few nations with a functioning government (Stiff upper lip chap!), is deluged by asylum seekers fleeing radiation and plague. In response, the UK has become a police state as the British Army rounds up and executes immigrants.

In 2006, Alfonso Cuarón gave the world the film Children of Men.  A brilliant adaptation of P.D. James less than brilliant novel of the same name.  

In this episode we get into the psychology of the long take, Maoist Urban Guerrillas, Nationalism, Xenophobia, graffiti as political world building, the role of children in society, power dynamics within activist organizations and Neoliberal verses Fascist governments.  Children of Men has it all!

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This July 4th, celebrate with a true Leftist film that will have you on the edge of you seat with suspense, a pulsing score and politics that will have you debating the need for a diversity of tactics when fighitng the evils of capitalism. We're discussing the film Daniel Goldhaber's How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022).

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This year we celebrated May Day (a little late) by watching a Latvian worker-revenge-horror-film. Aik Karapetian's The Man in the Orage Jacket (2014).

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Isaac finally make Aaron sit down and enjoy some DTV action, focusing on the John Hyams' last two entries in the Universal Soldier franchise. Regeneration (2010) and Day of Reckoning (2012).

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On this Double Feature episode, we take a look at two of the greats from the best era for cinematic action - 1980's Hong Kong. On this episode we discuss the art of action and (oftentimes) convoluted politics of In the Line of Duty 4 (1989) & Righting Wrongs (1986). 

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We conclude our 2023 series on independent African American auteurs that made landmark films with Claudine (1974). 

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Sources:

White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights by Justin Gomer

Daniel Amir Jackson article on Claudine

We continue our 2023 series on independent African American auteurs that made landmark films with Jamaa Fanaka's Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975). 

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We kick off our 2023 series on independent African American auteurs that made landmark films with podcast favorite Ivan Dixon's The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973). 

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