BREAKING THE MENTACULUS NEWS: Mark has reclaimed his seat on the hosts' throne. We're back with more of the same this week. Our guests have left and Mark is here to right their wrongs. Tune in this week for more Twin Peaks, takes on auteur theory, and squashing the podcast beef.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Soren⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Mark⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Cover Art by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yasmine Alm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Intro Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Adam Bertolo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Edited by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ali Kuran⁠⁠⁠⁠

THE MENTACULUS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL! We have good news and bad news for you... Bad news first: Mark is NOT here today. GOOD NEWS: We have an upgrade. CINSSU Programmer in Chief Burak Batu Tunçel is our FIRST EVER guest and is here to brighten up your Mark-free day. Wait, there's more, because producer Ali has been freed from background noise status and now has his own mic. Tune in to this very special episode hear about our Halloween picks, a disagreeable Yorgos Lanthimos debate, Cemetery Man, AND SO MUCH MORE.

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Batu

Ali

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Cover Art by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Yasmine Alm⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Intro Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Adam Bertolo⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

We're back for more of The Mentaculus. Tune in this week to hear us try and figure out where everything went wrong with the world as we dive into post-war America. And of course, more about Twin Peaks, auteurs on TV, and as usual, The New England Patriots.

Episode 6 will release next Friday instead of Wednesday (Halloween!) - We will see you then.

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⁠⁠⁠⁠Mark⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Cover Art by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Yasmine Alm⁠⁠⁠⁠

Intro Music by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Adam Bertolo⁠⁠⁠⁠

Edited by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Ali Kuran⁠⁠⁠

Episode 4 of The Mentaculus is here! Tune in this week to hear us talk about The Smashing Machine & The Rock, the trajectory of modern Hollywood filmmaking, Mark's life advice, and of course, more about The New England Patriots. This one gets weird...

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Cover Art by ⁠⁠⁠Yasmine Alm⁠⁠⁠

Intro Music by ⁠⁠⁠Adam Bertolo⁠⁠⁠

Edited by ⁠⁠⁠Ali Kuran⁠⁠⁠

Timestamps:

(0:00) - The Smashing Machine & Wrestlers in Cinema

(11:29) - The Event Film & The Middle Class Filmmaker

(13:37) - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You & Motherhood in Film

(23:45) - Weekend Recap

(41:00) - Wholesome Sports Celebrities

(48:30) - Weekly USA Check In

(50:45) - Life Lessons w/ Mark

(59:41) - FFF Recap & What's Coming Up

For Episode 3 of The Mentaculus comes our wildest episode yet. What do we talk about without the crutch of TIFF and One Battle After Another to lean back on? Anything and everything you can think of. Tune in for *deep breath* - Old, M. Night Shyamalan, shooting schedules, Soren's new movie, Twin Peaks: The Return, David Lynch, Once Upon a Time in America, The Revue, donuts, Geese, post-punk, Bob Dylan, Louis CK, Hailey Welch, Chad Powers, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Apple Music Top 100, Pitchfork, Kendrick Lamar, Blackrock, OpenAI, Nvidia, Big Pharma, Mormonism, Mark's homemade mayonnaise, Hailee Seinfeld, Italian Neorealism, the descent of American society, NFL & the Patriots, the FFF October slate AND MORE!

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Cover Art by ⁠⁠Yasmine Alm⁠⁠

Intro Music by ⁠⁠Adam Bertolo⁠⁠

Edited by ⁠⁠Ali Kuran⁠⁠

This week, Soren and Mark review their recent Paul Thomas Anderson retrospective, share their first impressions of One Battle After Another, and discuss what Soren got up to the previous night.

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Timestamps:

(0:00) - Intro

(5:45) - Boogie Nights

(10:28) - Magnolia

(14:16) - Punch Drunk Love

(21:33) - There Will Be Blood

(22:54) - There Will Be Blood (Spoiler Section)

(30:42) - There Will Be Blood (Spoiler Free)

(32:11) - The Master

(37:20) - Inherent Vice

(41:12) - Phantom Thread

(44:00) - Phantom Thread (Spoiler Section)

(47:39) - Licorice Pizza

(49:41) - Licorice Pizza (Spoiler Section)

(55:49) - Rankings

(57:22) - One Battle After Another

(61:04) - One Battle After Another (Minor Spoiler)

(63:00) - One Battle After Another (Spoiler Free)

(64:04) - One Battle After Another (Minor Spoiler 2)

(65:19) - One Battle After Another (Spoiler Free)

(69:05) - One Battle After Another (Spoiler Section)

(70:38) - One Battle After Another (Spoiler Free)

Soren and Mark introduce themselves, go over their time at TIFF, and prepare for One Battle After Another.

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Cover Art by Yasmine Alm

Intro Music by Adam Bertolo

Edited by Ali Kuran