We unpack "The Death of Stalin," Armando Iannucci's dark satire on the power struggle after a dictator's death, part of our Institutions Eating Themselves series.

We kick off our Institutions Eating Themselves series by digging into In the Loop, Armando Iannucci's razor-sharp satire of British and American political maneuvering.

We close out our Smoke and Mirrors series with Bulworth, digging into Warren Beatty's rapping-senator satire on race, wealth, and truth-telling in politics.

We continue our Smoke & Mirrors series with Wag the Dog, unpacking the machine that manufactures a war to save a president's re-election bid.

Bob Roberts (1992, USA/UK) is a satirical mockumentary from writer-director Tim Robbins, marking his feature directorial debut. Robbins stars as the

We unpack Sorry to Bother You, closing our Platformed Lives series with Boots Riley's overdubbed white voices, code-switching satire, and a wild turn into science fiction.

Lou Bloom doesn't stumble into the stringer world—he's always been exactly this person. Pete and Andy dig into Nightcrawler, Dan Gilroy's darkly funny American classic.

We kick off our new Platformed Lives series with The Truman Show, unpacking consent, hidden cameras, and a life lived entirely on camera for the world to see.

A cursed hand. A grieving teenager. A party trick that goes terribly, supernaturally wrong. Pete and Andy close out Horror Debuts with the Philippou brothers.

Bart loves guns. Laurie loves crime. Together they're inevitable—and doomed. Andy and Pete dig into Joseph H. Lewis's scorching 1950 film noir Gun Crazy.

Zhang Yimou's ink-wash wuxia epic Shadow features a secret double, bladed umbrellas, and one of the most visually committed films of his career.

Zhang Yimou trades his visual spectacle for raw naturalism—and Pete Wright and Andy Nelson dig into why that restraint is the whole argument.

Three films, fifty years, and one stubborn question: what do we keep asking of artificial intelligence, and what does it keep becoming anyway? Pete, Chelsea Stardust, and Tommy Metz III work through Demon Seed, Cam, and Companion — a triptych that runs from a 1977 forced-pregnancy nightmare to a 20…

We dig into Resurrection in our Ellen Burstyn series—healing without doctrine, faith without explanation, and a performance that carries everything.

Production designer Roger Fires—Nobody, Violent Night, Psycho Killer—joins Andy and Pete to talk about The Exorcist: the film that terrified him as a child and captivated him as an adult.

Mamet's directorial debut, House of Games, follows a psychiatrist who wrote the book on obsession—literally—into a world of professional con men. Pete and Andy discuss.

In our Thinking Machines series, we dig into "I Am Mother"—a post-apocalyptic sci-fi about an AI, a sealed bunker, and whether a machine that truly cares is the most dangerous kind.