Charlie Chaplin’s last film as the Little Tramp, Chaplin’s unique sort of worldwide fame, Paulette Goddard’s performance, the film as »
James Mangold, corruption and loopholes, genre mash-ups, woodgrain walls and pastel suits, Sylvester Stallone, Ray Liotta, and every single New »
Satirizing performance while performing, anger with culture, making fun of your audience without them noticing, and the hypocrisy of talking about »
Alex shares a collection of observations from four months spent obsessing over Survivor. »
Robert Altman, Rip Van Marlowe, Elliott Gould, voyeurism, height, cats, and the film’s use of music. Episode 347: The Long »
Mirrors, chessboards, duplicity, the upper class and lower class, shadows, and other aspects of Jean Renoir’s pre-WWII classic. Episode 346: »
Fritz Lang, the serial killer genre, post-WWI Germany, Peter Lorre, and mob mentality. Episode 345: M »
Confronting the myth of the difficult individual genius, Hitchcock, the metaphorical importance of breakfast, and pushing past objects to get a proper view »
Greta Gerwig’s impossibly precise screenplay, dreams, memory, Florence Pugh, creativity as commerce, and so much more. Episode 343 – Little »
