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On this week’s episode, we’re joined by special guest BRIAN BOARINI for a discussion about Steven Soderbergh’s undervalued and under-discussed 2000 masterpiece, TRAFFIC, on the occasion of the film’s 20th anniversary. Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

Greetings, WLM faithful! We return to you now, after an extended, fall hiatus, with a State-of-the-Cinematic-Union-style discussion pod, followed by a thorough review of David Fincher’s decades-in-the-making, pseudo-historical biopic Mank. We’re excited to be back, have a backlog of hot takes, and promise to never stay away so long again. If you’re playing the WLM drinking game, today’s buzzword is EVOCATIVE! Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

It’s time to talk temporality, team. (Maybe someday we’ll get to talk TENET…) We’re referring to this episode as “The Fear of the Clock”. - INCEPTION (2010) - INTERSTELLAR (2014) - DUNKIRK (2017) Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

“Eureka! I’ve found it!” Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

Welcome to the inaugural episode of our new podcast series “The Quintessentials”! Here we will be identifying and excavating a sub canon of important films that, for whatever reason, have been lost to time or overshadowed by their more popular or successful counterparts in a a chosen filmmaker’s oeuvre. These are the b-sides, the rarities, the deep dive picks… And while they’re almost never the most well known or celebrated selections in a body of work, they might just be–covertly–the filmmaker’s most instructive, stylistically-defining, and quintessential artistic statements. For our first episode we figured we’d start with a layup- William Friedkin’s genre-defying 1977 masterpiece SORCERER. Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

Here at the halfway point of our Christopher Nolan series–with Gotham City in our rearview–we’re flashing back to the beginning of the auteur’s cinematic journey. We’ll scrutinize his dexterity with the daylight noir, his interest in self-victimizing sleuths, and his fascination with prestidigitation. We’re referring to this episode as “Confidence and Misdirection”. - FOLLOWING (1998) - MEMENTO (2000) - INSOMNIA (2002) - THE PRESTIGE (2006) Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

“Y'all take it easy now. This isn't Dallas, it's Nashville! They can't do this to us here in Nashville!” Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

You know them, you’ve seen them, and you certainly have opinions about them. Join us as we revisit three of the most successful, influential, and subversively political films of the 21st century- courtesy of a man who insisted that he had absolutely no political agenda in mind when he made them. We’ll [attempt to] get to the bottom of this thematic paradox… We’re referring to this episode as “The Struggle for the Soul of a City”. - BATMAN BEGINS (2005) - THE DARK KNIGHT (2008) - THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012) Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

If you’re looking for a deep-dive academic analysis of a particularly popular filmmaker who is currently getting a lot of press as he fights the good fight to make sure his latest 200 million dollar science fiction epic makes it to IMAX screens in less than 2 months… then have we got a podcast for you! Matt hosts the rare “solo pod” and inaugurates our newest Oeuvre series with a narratology lecture about Nolan’s unique and groundbreaking approach to temporal structure. Only the most inquisitive Nolanites need apply… Oscar returns next week for an affectionate but critical breakdown of “The Dark Knight Trilogy” with an eye toward singling out what that film franchise is principally concerned with, from a thematic standpoint. We're “TENET-ively” optimistic that we’ll be back in movie theaters to see Nolan’s latest in July so that we can podcast about anything and everything it means for Nolan’s Oeuvre. View the complete version of Matt’s Nolan video essay HERE Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

“Calling all nations. This is Rufus T. Firefly coming to you through the courtesy of the enemy. We're in a mess folks, we're in a mess. Rush to Freedonia! Three men and one woman are trapped in a building! Send help at once! If you can't send help, send two more women!” Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS

We’re wrapping up our series on the career of one, John McTiernan, with a bang. Even if you haven’t seen or don’t care about the man’s relatively inauspicious, forgotten, “late period” films, consider joining us for an episode in which we reckon with some unexpected revelations and speculate about the potential for McT’s third act… We’re referring to this third age as the “Spiral into Self-Inflicted Exile”. -THE 13TH WARRIOR (1999) -ROLLERBALL (2002) -BASIC (2003) (special thanks to Mr. Beau Marks — a true gentleman and longtime friend and collaborator of John McTiernan — for consulting on this series) Email: [email protected] Donate: Thanks! Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / Spotify / Stitcher / Overcast / RSS