Our fourth and final episode in our series on the history and politics of the blockbuster film.

On this episode we focus on the Transformers franchise, 300, The Passion of the Christ and the Fast Franchise.

We also touch on The Matrix, Hunger Games, The Sixth Sense, The Blair Witch Project, Gladiator, Spielberg & Tom Cruise, toxic fan reactions to Star Wars: The Last Jedi.

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Our third in a series on the history and politics of the Hollywood Blockbuster. We're in the 1990's for this episode and we discuss Ghost, the return of Star Wars, Disney animation, Will Smith (aka Mr. July 4th), Kevin Costner and James Cameron.

We also discuss: Twister, Independence Day, True Lies, Men in Black, 90's conspiracy theories and the continued trend of studio consolidation.

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Our second in a series on the history and politics of the Hollywood Blockbuster. We're in the 1980's for this episode and we discuss the Vietnam War trend via Good Morning, Vietnam, Platoon & Full Metal Jacket. We then deconstruct the Rambo franchise for the conspiracy theory nonsense that it really is.

We also discuss: Top Gun, Flashdance, Stir Crazy, Tootsie, Beverly Hills Cop, Three Men and a Baby, Big and the continued trend of studio consolidation.

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We kick off a series on the history and politics of the Hollywood Blockbuster with a conversation about its origins in the 1970's (and a few films that were earlier). We discuss Jaws and Star Wars, but mostly it's a lot of Superman talk.

We also touch on: The Sound of Music, James Bond films, The Godfather, The Poseidon Adventure, The Exorcist, Rocky, Smokey and the Bandit, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Saturday Night Fever.

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On this episode we take a look at Chloé Zhao's Nomadland (2020) and also the oddly negative reviews from some Leftist film critics as well as Armond White.

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We're celebrating May Day all month long by looking at various portrayals of workers on film. On this episode Aaron has chosen Barbershop (2002) and Isaac has chosen The Molly Maguires (1970).

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We're celebrating May Day all month long by looking at various portrayals of workers on film. On this episode Isaac has chosen How Green Was My Valley (1941) and Aaron has chosen Empire Records (1995).

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We're celebrating May Day all month long by looking at various portrayals of workers on film. On this episode Aaron has chosen Car Wash (1976) and Isaac has chosen Salt of the Earth (1954).

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We're celebrating May Day with a triple feature of very different films about factory workers. Bill Duke's The Killing Floor (1984), Ron Howard's Gung Ho (1986) and the collectively made Finally Got the News... (1970).

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It's Double Feature time! Isaac has paired up two 1980's Class War horror films for this episode: John Carpenter's They Live (1988) & Brian Yuzna's Society (1989).

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