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Ready Player One is one of those movies that's fun and pretty on the surface but leads to some interesting - and even some troubling - ideas about nostalgia and what sort of future we're walking into. My special guest, Aaron Thorpe, joins me fo
The original Top Gun is very much a movie of its time, in its presentation...and also its politics. Let's just say I was surprised at how much I disliked Tom Cruise, especially given how modern Cruise movies try so hard to make him extremely li
I'm joined today by Elena Ortiz and Sungmanitu of The Red Nation and Red Media to talk about Taylor Sheridan's universe of Western genre movies and TV and the many problems with his writing of indigenous issues, characters, and themes. Plus, th
I sit down with Pearson Bolt from Coffee with Comrades to discuss the absolute trip of a show that is Squid Game (2021) and how capitalism can absorb even the most scathing anti-capitalist messages to its own benefit. Spoilers beware!Follow me
Karl Marx already predicted NFTs, but did you know he also predicted how Ryan Gosling would play the character of a forever alone android in Blade Runner 2049? Bio-engineered robots are workers too, you know!Sources: 1) Economic and Philosophic
This episode contains full spoilers for The Northman (2022)! Listener beware!The Nordic Mythology Podcast with Mathias Nordvig and Daniel FarrandDr. Nordvig's academic workMidgardsblot Metal Festival 2022hyldyr.comFollow me on social media!Twit
In the wake of the horrific shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Ben Shapiro's tone-deaf school shooter movie deserves a very close look at how it aims to do nothing except appeal to the fantasies of the right-wing gun-toting audience it's clearly market
Surprise! The Marvel comic book franchise most closely associated with the military-industrial complex doesn't handle the depiction of anarchy and anarchist characters very well. I was totally expecting Disney Plus and the MCU to handle these i
Hello Kitty meets The Office meets Corporate. Who knew an anime about an adorable red panda would be such a scathing political indictment of the dehumanizing structure of the modern day capitalist workplace?Follow me on social media!Twitter: @T
We're finishing out strong here - The Division is perhaps the most problematic of all the Tom Clancy games we've looked at thus far...and that's saying something. We all love a good fascist government agency with no oversight and extra-legal au
We're almost done with Clancy! Surprisingly, World War 3 and a flight sim turned out to be some of the least problematic stuff we've looked at so far, so that's saying something. An episode that's short and sweet, just the way I like it. Enjoy
Guns and explosions give way to sneaky-sneak spy shenanigans in this Tom Clancy franchise. But does the quieter tone mean a more carefully written story? Signs point to "no."Torture is bad, okay, kids?Sources: 1) Monastery Divides Georgia and A
Based bugs.Sources:1) Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts2) Fear of Losing Health Insurance Keeps 1 in 6 in Their Jobs Music:Time of Your Life - A Bug's Life OST
Being an operator isn't quite operator as fuck, it turns out. The Ghost Recon games have a whole host of problems when it comes to promoting U.S. hegemony and intervention.Sources: 1) Shooters: How Video Games Fund Arms Manufacturers 2) U.S. Ar
When Tom Clancy had built enough of a name for himself to where he felt he could start slapping that name onto video games, he started what would eventually becoming a multi-million dollar video game franchise that continues to this day, even a
On our first guest episode we brought on Garrison Davis (@hungrybowtie on Twitter) to discuss the latest movie about our favorite dark knight: The Batman! Spoilers beware!(also, don't worry, this isn't gonna turn into a Batman-only podcast)
Ever wonder why Bruce Wayne doesn't just use his immense wealth (and not his fists) to fix the problems that keep plaguing Gotham? Well, that might actually turn out to be a bad thing, given the track record of billionaires trying to fix social
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered what it’s like living among the stars? Have you dreamt about exploring the far reaches of outer space? Do you like diving into sci-fi movies or TV shows just to live vicariously through the
In this premiere episode of Overcritical, we're taking a look at the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops (2010). What could possibly go wrong with setting your gamer-bro shoot-em-up in the Vietnam War? (Spoilers: a lot can go wrong)Sources: 1. G
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