Join Conrad, Shwin and special guests Rebecca Goldstein, Simon Schiller and Dylan Visvikis as they break down their favorite films of the year. We laughed! We cried! We blew up a pipeline.

Please note that while we try to avoid specific spoilers, if you want to go into these films completely fresh, you may want to wait to listen to this pod or to avoid the specific segment on the film in question.

Below is a list of of the films we discussed with handy timestamps so that you may skip around:

May December 00:03:54

Beau is Afraid 00:12:09 

Killers of the Flower Moon 00:18:55 

Priscilla 00:30:08

Wonka 00:36:38

Oppenheimer 00:46:52 

Poor Things 00:58:02 

How to Blow Up a Pipeline 01:04:35 

Zone of Interest 01:12:07 

Satlburn 01:28:43 

Honorable Mentions 01:35:50 
(Past Lives, Shortcomings, Theater Camp, Bottoms, Sanctuary, The Holdovers, Monster, Juwan, Landscape with Invisible Hand, Missing, I Have To Do This)

Other Things We Liked This Year 01:42:29 
(Succession, The Last of Us, Jury Duty, I'm a Virgo, The Bear, Game Theory with Sam Vecenie, Troye Sivan's "One of Your Girls," Spider-Man 2 (the video game), The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen)

...OR HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE POD!

Today, we make this pod short and sweet, as we talk Stanley Kubrick's nuclear panic satire, DR. STRANGELOVE!

Topics include: 1) What is the corollary today for fear of nuclear war in 1965; 2) Are we more  afraid of atom bombs or bodily fluid theft; 3) did we want Peter Sellers to play a fourth role? (Of course we did).

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THEY TRAINED THEM TO PODCAST FOR THEIR PLEASURE...  BUT THEY TRAINED THEM A LITTLE TOO WELL!! // HOW DID THEY EVER MAKE A PODCAST OF LOLITA?

In this episode, we continue our analysis of Kubrick's career with the "Least Kubrick" of Kubrick's films: Kirk Douglas' SPARTACUS and Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA! 

Topics include: SPARTACUS' tangled web of inconsistent subtext; the historical significance of SPARTACUS in breaking Hollywood's communist blacklist; an unexpected analysis of Brad Pitt's legacy; if there was  a good reason (besides $$$) to make a movie of LOLITA; alternate  Humbert Humbert casting ideas (including Marlon Brando and Matthew McConaughey), and a Hitchcock movie ranking.

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