91: I'm Looking Through You
Is our genetic makeup our destiny, or is there someway we can overcome the code on which our bodies and minds are based? This is the question asked by this week's film, 1997's Gattaca, written and dir...
21 Loka 202556min
90: We Are Your Overlords
We're finally covering the Norse vision of the apocalypse, Ragnarök. We go over the Norse pantheon of gods, Odin, Thor, Loki, all your favorites, and then we get into some of the events that presage t...
14 Loka 202558min
89: Life is a Highway
We're finally tackling 1981's Mad Max 2 or The Road Warrior. One of the most influential post-apocalyptic films of the last fifty years, it is also considered to be one of the greatest action movies o...
7 Loka 202551min
88: What's in Your Head?
This week we have bowed to pressure and are at last covering a 2013 National Geographic documentary called "How to Survive the End of the World: Zombie Earth." This is the first entry in a six part se...
30 Syys 202545min
87: No One Can Hear You Scream
At long last we are covering Ridley Scott's 1979 masterpiece Alien. We go over how the film is really about, surprise, capitalism, and how the ultimate aim of capitalism is to discover the perfect war...
23 Syys 202551min
86: How Can I Bring You to the Sea of Madness
This week we are talking about 2022's Triangle of Sadness. Directed by Ruben Östlund, the movie looks at class divisions in three stages, zooming out from the troubles in an individual romantic relati...
16 Syys 202549min
85: On that Day the Dead Shall Wake Thee
We've gone back to a total classic of the apocalypse genre, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, to mark our return from our "brief sojourn" in the realms of the afterlife. We get into all sorts of stuff about...
9 Syys 202554min
84: A Brief History of the Afterlife Five The Vedic Religion
In the final installment (for now) of our afterlife miniseries, we are considering the ancient Vedic Religion, the ancestor of modern Hinduism which arose in northwestern India in the second millenniu...
2 Syys 202548min
