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One Night Only and Two Better RomComs #195
Down with Love (2003) · Sep 1, 2026
One Night Only and Two Better RomComs #195
Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011) · Sep 1, 2026
One Night Only and Two Better RomComs #195
One Night Only (2024) · Sep 1, 2026
Denis Villeneuve's French Canadian Films | Before the Dunes (Part 1) #194
Polytechnique (2009) · Aug 28, 2026
Denis Villeneuve's French Canadian Films | Before the Dunes (Part 1) #194
Incendies (2010) · Aug 28, 2026
David Lynch's The Straight Story | The Strange Story (Part 6) #192
The Straight Story (1999) · Aug 11, 2026
Spider-Man: Brand New Day But Same Old Spidey (Affectionate, Mostly!) #191
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) · Aug 4, 2026
A (Dis)Honorable 2026 for Bollywood So Far? | Assi | Main Vaapas Aaunga | O'Romeo, Tu Yaa Main, Ikkis & many more! #190
Main Vaapas Aaunga (2026) · Jul 28, 2026
English Language Queer Cinema of Trash, Class & Classy Trash | Pink Flamingos | Benediction | Bound #187
Pink Flamingos (1976) · Jul 1, 2026
European Queer Cinema of Lack and Excess | The Meetings of Anna | Querelle | Stranger by the Lake #186
Querelle (1982) · Jun 24, 2026
European Queer Cinema of Lack and Excess | The Meetings of Anna | Querelle | Stranger by the Lake #186
The Meetings of Anna (1978) · Jun 24, 2026
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 3) - Disclosure Day & (Naïve) Optimism #185
Disclosure Day (2026) · Jun 16, 2026
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 2) - Minority Report, War of the Worlds, & Ready Player One | Countdown to Disclosure Day #184
War of the Worlds (2005) · Jun 9, 2026
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 2) - Minority Report, War of the Worlds, & Ready Player One | Countdown to Disclosure Day #184
Minority Report (2002) · Jun 9, 2026
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 2) - Minority Report, War of the Worlds, & Ready Player One | Countdown to Disclosure Day #184
Ready Player One (2018) · Jun 9, 2026
Asian Queer Cinema of Alienation | Happy Together | The River | Tropical Malady #183
Happy Together (1997) · Jun 1, 2026
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu — How Can A Cynical Cash Grab be this Cute? #182
The Mandalorian and Grogu (2026) · May 27, 2026
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 1) - Close Encounters with E.T & A.I | Countdown to Disclosure Day #181
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) · May 21, 2026
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 1) - Close Encounters with E.T & A.I | Countdown to Disclosure Day #181
A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) · May 21, 2026
Sci-Fi Spielberg (Pt. 1) - Close Encounters with E.T & A.I | Countdown to Disclosure Day #181
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) · May 21, 2026
The Devil Wears Prada 2 - A Legacy Sequel That's Actually Good?! #179
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) · May 4, 2026
One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
Magnolia (1999) · Nov 16, 2025
One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
Punch-Drunk Love (2002) · Nov 16, 2025
One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
The Master (2012) · Nov 16, 2025
One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
Phantom Thread (2017) · Nov 16, 2025
One Paul Thomas Anderson Film Afer Another | Magnolia, Punch-Drunk Love, The Master, Phantom Thread & Licorice Pizza #169
Licorice Pizza (2021) · Nov 16, 2025
Bittersweet Bond: Timothy Dalton days #167
The Living Daylights (1987) · Oct 28, 2025
Bittersweet Bond: Timothy Dalton days #167
Licence to Kill (1989) · Oct 28, 2025
David Lynch's Lost Highway | The Strange Story (Part 5) #166
Lost Highway (1997) · Oct 21, 2025
WORST of 2025 (SO FAR) | Badass Ravi Kumar & 5 more! #162
Badass Ravi Kumar (2025) · Sep 17, 2025
Taiwanese New Wave & The Value of Slow Cinema | Taipei Story | Vive L'Amour | Millennium Mambo #161
Vive L'Amour (1995) · Sep 2, 2025
Taiwanese New Wave & The Value of Slow Cinema | Taipei Story | Vive L'Amour | Millennium Mambo #161
Taipei Story (1985) · Sep 2, 2025
Ari Aster's Eddington - THE Neo-Classical Western FOR this Decade #160
Eddington (2025) · Aug 25, 2025
Coolie (2025) - Who is at fault? | Also, Exorcism of War 2 #159
Coolie (2025) · Aug 21, 2025
David Lynch's Wild At Heart | The Strange Story (Part 4) #158
Wild at Heart (1990) · Aug 18, 2025
28 Years Later - A Molotov Cocktail of Formal Experimentation and Narrative Subversion #157
28 Years Later (2025) · Aug 6, 2025
Materialists, Past Lives & The Celine Song Debate #155
Past Lives (2023) · Jun 28, 2025
David Lynch's Blue Velvet | The Strange Story (Part 3) #154
Blue Velvet (1986) · Jun 15, 2025
Mission Impossible IV, 5 & VI: or, How we Learnt to Start Worrying for Mr. Scientology (via Benji & Ilsa) #152
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) · May 29, 2025
Mission Impossible I, 2 & III: or, How We Learnt to Stop Worrying & Love Mr. Scientology #151
Mission: Impossible (1996) · May 19, 2025
David Lynch's The Elephant Man | The Strange Story (Part 2) #150
The Elephant Man (1980) · Apr 30, 2025
Bollywood's Artless Trash vs. Artful Trash | Nadaaniyan | Badass Ravikumar | Loveyapa #148
Nadaaniyan (2025) · Mar 15, 2025
Luca Guadagnino's Queer & Call Me By Your Name | The Burden of (Queer) Representation #145
Call Me by Your Name (2017) · Feb 25, 2025
The Most Disappointing Films of 2024 | Disclaimer, Emilia Pérez, Agra & 3 more! #140
Emilia Pérez (2024) · Jan 1, 2025
Stanley Kubrick's The Shining - The Horrors of Everything (including Book-to-Screen Adaptation) #136
The Shining (1980) · Nov 1, 2024
Hammer Horror Films 101 | Dracula (1958) | Rasputin - The Mad Monk (1966) #135
Dracula (1958) · Oct 29, 2024
Stanley Kubrick's Ultra-Violent & Erotic Odysseys | Lolita | A Clockwork Orange | Eyes Wide Shut #131
A Clockwork Orange (1971) · Aug 27, 2024
Stanley Kubrick's Historical Odysseys | Barry Lyndon | Spartacus #129
Barry Lyndon (1975) · Jul 15, 2024
Stanley Kubrick's (Anti)War Odysseys | Fear and Desire | Paths of Glory | Dr. Strangelove | Full Metal Jacket #128
Paths of Glory (1957) · Jul 7, 2024
Queer Coding, Reading and Camp Sensibility in Bollywood | Karan Johar | Farah Khan #127
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) · Jun 30, 2024
Queer Desire and its Arrhythmic Rhythm in Claire Denis' Beau Travail #126
Beau Travail (2000) · Jun 21, 2024
Queer Representation in Bollywood | Geeli Pucchi | Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga | Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui #125
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (2019) · Jun 14, 2024
Queer Representation in Bollywood | Geeli Pucchi | Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga | Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui #125
Geeli Pucchi (2021) · Jun 14, 2024
Civil War (2024) - Useless or Useful Provocation? #124
Civil War (2024) · Jun 5, 2024
In the Mood for Hate (Or Humanism) | R.M.N. (2022) & The Old Oak (2023) #123
R.M.N. (2022) · May 20, 2024
Malayalam Movie Round-Up P2: Aavesham & Premalu #122
Aavesham (2024) · May 13, 2024
Malayalam Movie Round-Up P2: Aavesham & Premalu #122
Premalu (2024) · May 13, 2024
Masaki Kobayashi's Anti-Samurai Trilogy | Harakiri | Kwaidan | Samurai Rebellion #121
Harakiri (1962) · Apr 24, 2024
Masaki Kobayashi's Anti-Samurai Trilogy | Harakiri | Kwaidan | Samurai Rebellion #121
Kwaidan (1965) · Apr 24, 2024
The Imtiaz-Rahman Trilogy | Rockstar | Highway | Tamasha #120
Rockstar (2011) · Apr 19, 2024
Michael Haneke - The Austere Austrian Auteur | Code Unknown (2000) | Caché (2005) | The White Ribbon (2009) #118
Code Unknown (2000) · Apr 2, 2024
Murder Mystery Mubarak | The Last of Sheila (1973) | Gosford Park (2001) #116
The Last of Sheila (1973) · Mar 17, 2024
Dune Part Two - An Epic of Scale and Substance #115
Dune: Part Two (2024) · Mar 7, 2024
The Classical, The Revisionist, and The Spaghetti Western | Stagecoach, Winchester '73, & Once Upon a Time in the West #114
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) · Feb 11, 2024
The Classical, The Revisionist, and The Spaghetti Western | Stagecoach, Winchester '73, & Once Upon a Time in the West #114
Stagecoach (1939) · Feb 11, 2024
The Classical, The Revisionist, and The Spaghetti Western | Stagecoach, Winchester '73, & Once Upon a Time in the West #114
Winchester '73 (1950) · Feb 11, 2024
Best Indian Films of 2023 | Hostel Hudugaru Bekagiddare, Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam, Sapta Sagardaache Ello, Jigarthanda DoubleX & many more! #112
Hostel Hudugaru Bekagiddare (2023) · Jan 14, 2024
Cinema of Rajkumar Hirani #111
Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003) · Jan 8, 2024
Cinema of Rajkumar Hirani #111
3 Idiots (2009) · Jan 8, 2024
Cinema of Rajkumar Hirani #111
Lage Raho Munna Bhai (2006) · Jan 8, 2024
Cinema of Rajkumar Hirani #111
PK (2014) · Jan 8, 2024
The Great, Good, and Garbage Men of Bollywood in 2023 | Animal 🤬| Sam Bahadur 🥱| 12th Fail 🥲 #110
Animal (2023) · Dec 13, 2023
The Serial Killer Obsession | Se7en | Zodiac | Red Rooms #108
Se7en (1995) · Nov 22, 2023
The Serial Killer Obsession | Se7en | Zodiac | Red Rooms #108
Zodiac (2007) · Nov 22, 2023
Mumbai Film Festival - MAMI | Part 4 | Ghaath | Indi(r)a's Emergency | Priscilla #107
Ghaath (2000) · Nov 21, 2023
Mumbai Film Festival - MAMI | Part 4 | Ghaath | Indi(r)a's Emergency | Priscilla #107
Indi(r)a's Emergency (2023) · Nov 21, 2023
Mumbai Film Festival - MAMI | Part 3 | Joram | Rajat Kapoor | Fallen Leaves #105
Fallen Leaves (2023) · Nov 12, 2023
Mumbai Film Festival - MAMI | Part 3 | Joram | Rajat Kapoor | Fallen Leaves #105
Joram (2023) · Nov 12, 2023
Mumbai Film Festival-MAMI | Part 2 | Kennedy | Maestro | Stolen #104
Maestro (2023) · Nov 6, 2023
Mumbai Film Festival-MAMI | Part 2 | Kennedy | Maestro | Stolen #104
Kennedy (2023) · Nov 6, 2023
Leo - A History of Violence on Steroids? #101
Leo (2023) · Oct 20, 2023
Khufiya — VB Puppeteers a Shayarana Spy #099
Khufiya (2023) · Oct 6, 2023
Wes Anderson's Dahl Houses & Asteroid City #098
Asteroid City (2023) · Oct 3, 2023
Jawan - The Angry (Old) Man in a New, Massy Bottle | Review w/ Curioser Adithiyan #096
Jawan (2023) · Sep 10, 2023
The Friedkin Connection #094
The French Connection (1971) · Aug 25, 2023
The Friedkin Connection #094
Bug (2007) · Aug 25, 2023
The Friedkin Connection #094
Sorcerer (1977) · Aug 25, 2023
The Friedkin Connection #094
Killer Joe (2012) · Aug 25, 2023
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani - KJo's Return to Form? But When Was He Ever Gone? #092
Rocky Aur Rani Kii Prem Kahaani (2023) · Aug 9, 2023
Nolan At War | Dunkirk & Oppenheimer | Nolan Retrospective PART 4 #091
Dunkirk (2017) · Jul 31, 2023
Nolan At War | Dunkirk & Oppenheimer | Nolan Retrospective PART 4 #091
Oppenheimer (2023) · Jul 31, 2023
Nolan's Magic Tricks | The Prestige, Inception, Interstellar, Tenet (briefly) | Nolan Retrospective PART 3 #090
The Prestige (2006) · Jul 28, 2023
Nolan's Knight Trilogy | Batman Begins, The Dark Knight & The Dark Knight Rises | Nolan Retrospective PART 2 #089
The Dark Knight (2008) · Jul 14, 2023
Nolan's Knight Trilogy | Batman Begins, The Dark Knight & The Dark Knight Rises | Nolan Retrospective PART 2 #089
Batman Begins (2005) · Jul 14, 2023
Nolan's Knight Trilogy | Batman Begins, The Dark Knight & The Dark Knight Rises | Nolan Retrospective PART 2 #089
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) · Jul 14, 2023
Nolan Noir | Following, Memento & Insomnia | Nolan Retrospective PART 1 #088
Memento (2000) · Jul 8, 2023
Nolan Noir | Following, Memento & Insomnia | Nolan Retrospective PART 1 #088
Insomnia (2002) · Jul 8, 2023
Nolan Noir | Following, Memento & Insomnia | Nolan Retrospective PART 1 #088
Following (1999) · Jul 8, 2023
Slow Cinema 101 w/ Matthew Cody Lang | The Turin Horse, The Headless Woman & Passing Summer #086
The Headless Woman (2008) · Jun 28, 2023
Slow Cinema 101 w/ Matthew Cody Lang | The Turin Horse, The Headless Woman & Passing Summer #086
The Turin Horse (2011) · Jun 28, 2023
Mainstream Political Cinema in Bollywood 2023 | Bheed, Faraaz, & Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat #083
Faraaz (2023) · May 31, 2023
Mainstream Political Cinema in Bollywood 2023 | Bheed, Faraaz, & Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat #083
Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat (2023) · May 31, 2023
Mainstream Political Cinema in Bollywood 2023 | Bheed, Faraaz, & Almost Pyaar with DJ Mohabbat #083
Bheed (2023) · May 31, 2023
The "God's Lonely Man" Cinema of Paul Schrader w/ Gordon Glasgow Goodman #081
First Reformed (2018) · May 19, 2023
John Wick: Chapter 4 - The Best Action Film since Mad Max Fury Road? #079
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) · Apr 3, 2023
Classic Film Noir - The Most Mutable Film Style | M, Double Indemnity, Stray Dog #078
M (1931) · Mar 21, 2023
Classic Film Noir - The Most Mutable Film Style | M, Double Indemnity, Stray Dog #078
Double Indemnity (1944) · Mar 21, 2023
Classic Film Noir - The Most Mutable Film Style | M, Double Indemnity, Stray Dog #078
Stray Dog (1949) · Mar 21, 2023
The Fabelmans - Steven Spielberg's Thorny Love Letter to Art and Family #075
The Fabelmans (2022) · Feb 20, 2023
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio & Alejandro González Iñárittu's Bardo - The Sublime and the Surreal (or Shit) #070
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) · Jan 3, 2023
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio & Alejandro González Iñárittu's Bardo - The Sublime and the Surreal (or Shit) #070
BARDO, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) · Jan 3, 2023
In Inisherin & Bruges #069
In Bruges (2008) · Dec 14, 2022
In Inisherin & Bruges #069
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) · Dec 14, 2022
Monica O My Darling and Qala - Style as Substance? | Upcoming Netflix Releases #068
Monica, O My Darling (2022) · Dec 10, 2022
Park Chan-Wook's Decision To Leave - A Digital Noir for the Ages #067
Decision to Leave (2022) · Nov 14, 2022
Ruben Östlund's Triangle Of Sadness - Sophisticated Slapstick or Sluggish Satire? | Brief Q & A #066
Triangle of Sadness (2022) · Nov 4, 2022
Andrew Dominik's Blonde - "Biopic" as (Exhausting & Obvious) Surrealist Horror #065
Blonde (2022) · Sep 30, 2022
Brahmastra: Part 1 - Shiva - 😭 😡 🤬 #062
Brahmāstra Part One: Shiva (2022) · Sep 16, 2022
Anurag Kashyap's Dobaaraa: Better than Oriol Paulo's Mirage? | Bollywood Cinema Today, Boycotting, IMDb, & KWK #060
Mirage (2018) · Aug 29, 2022
Anurag Kashyap's Dobaaraa: Better than Oriol Paulo's Mirage? | Bollywood Cinema Today, Boycotting, IMDb, & KWK #060
Dobaaraa (2022) · Aug 29, 2022
"Eat the Rich" Narratives w/ Film.Trance | Parasite | Knives Out & Us #059
Eat the Rich (1987) · Aug 24, 2022
The Female Gaze w/ Ahendrila Goswami | Piku | The Namesake #057
The Namesake (2006) · Aug 10, 2022
The Female Gaze w/ Ahendrila Goswami | Piku | The Namesake #057
Piku (2015) · Aug 10, 2022
"Elevated" Horror Films Discussion | Men Explained | Crimes of the Future Explained #054
Men (2022) · Jul 14, 2022
"Elevated" Horror Films Discussion | Men Explained | Crimes of the Future Explained #054
Crimes of the Future (2022) · Jul 14, 2022
Anubhav Sinha's aNEk - Why didn't it work? | Assamese Cinema - Bhaskar Hazarika & Rima Das #053
Anek (2022) · Jul 7, 2022
India via. The Outsider's Gaze | Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi & The White Tiger #052
Slumdog Millionaire (2008) · Jun 27, 2022
India via. The Outsider's Gaze | Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi & The White Tiger #052
Life of Pi (2012) · Jun 27, 2022
India via. The Outsider's Gaze | Slumdog Millionaire, Life of Pi & The White Tiger #052
The White Tiger (2021) · Jun 27, 2022
Discussing Badhaai Do | Jalsa | Sharmaji Namkeen #051
Jalsa (2022) · May 10, 2022
The Batman - A Detective Story? #045
The Batman (2022) · Mar 7, 2022
Approaching Indian Cinema from the Outside w/ Film Critic Mike McCahill | A Brief Discussion on "Annette" and "Memoria" #044
Annette (2021) · Feb 26, 2022
Approaching Indian Cinema from the Outside w/ Film Critic Mike McCahill | A Brief Discussion on "Annette" and "Memoria" #044
Memoria (2022) · Feb 26, 2022
Gehraiyaan - Productively Complicated or Messily Plotted? #042
Gehraiyaan (2022) · Feb 15, 2022
The Films that Changed Our Lives w/ Cinetasticc & Simp For Cinema #041
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) · Feb 8, 2022
Another Q & A that went on for too long...| Obscure Film Recommendations| The Marginalization of Art Cinema| Part 1 w/ The Bong Cinephile #038
Titane (2021) · Jan 9, 2022
Last Night in Soho - (W)Righteous Horror #033
Last Night in Soho (2021) · Nov 23, 2021
Edgar Wright - Joyous Cinephilia #032
Shaun of the Dead (2004) · Nov 18, 2021
In Theatres Now - Eternals #031
Eternals (2021) · Nov 11, 2021
Sardar Udham — Biopic turned inside out? #026
Sardar Udham (2021) · Oct 16, 2021
In Theatres Now - No Time To Die #024
No Time to Die (2021) · Oct 3, 2021
In Theatres Now - Old (& Free Guy briefly) #023
Old (2021) · Sep 21, 2021
Shershaah - To critique or not to critique? #019
Shershaah (2021) · Aug 24, 2021
Malik - What We Liked and Disliked #015
Malik (2021) · Jul 15, 2021
(Not So) Quick Thoughts - Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar #009
Sandeep Aur Pinky Faraar (2021) · Jun 10, 2021