Todd Phillips' magnum opus 'Joker' has gotten the Spectacles crew talking. So much so that they took what was supposed to be a review 'minisode' called Monocle and instead released it as the usual feature-length audio essay that fans have come to expect. With everyone's favourite hack-journalist Alan Arndale mediating the conversation, they dissect the film as a political text in terms of contemporary masculinity, economic oppression and health inequality. They also provide their general thoughts on the "arthouse" film's narrative and structural flaws as well as its place in the superhero-saturated film scene.

Has the maker of 'Zach Galifianakis and Robert Downey Jr go on a road trip with a masturbating dog' truly made this century's seminal text?