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Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 14: Furiosa: A Mad Max SagaLate-style masterpiece? Lore-encumbered dud? Or something in between? Snot Priest (Cole) and Piss Smelter (Bryan) shift into gear to discuss Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and whether the great George Miller still has it in him to make it epic.
2024-07-071h 30
So We SpeakCole’s Best Books of SummerSummer is here and it’s time for some book recommendations! In this episode, Cole talks about the books he’s reading and recommending. From devotional books to enjoyable summer reads, there’s something here for everyone to enjoy. Next week, don’t miss Terry’s favorites for the summer.
Books in this episode:
The Pastor in Prayer - Charles Spurgeon (Banner of Truth)
Prayers on the Psalms - Introduced by David Calhoun (Part of Banner of Truth’s Pocket Puritans Series)
Reformed Systematic Theology - Joel Beeke and Paul Smalley ...
2024-06-2649 minWatching the End of the WorldEpisode 13: No Blade of GrassTook a while, but we finally covered a movie about a guy with an eyepatch. Bear with us as we rank the best live births in film, severely misinterpret a Rolls Royce joke, and manage to only make ONE covid-19 comparison. All this and more(?), in Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass!
2024-06-041h 28Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 12: PulseWelcome back to WTEOTW, now without all the red tape. This month, we plug into Pulse, the great Kiyoshi Kurosawa's prescient, terrifying examination of love and loneliness in the digital age.
2024-05-021h 21Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 11: In the Mouth of MadnessPeer behind the veil into a world not unlike our own, where fiction subsumes reality, fandom precipitates violence, and John Carpenter directs a monster movie within an inch of its life. It's In the Mouth of Madness, adapted from Sutter Cane's novel of the same name, starring John Trent, Linda Styles, and Jackson Harglow.
2024-04-011h 17Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 10: The Running Man, with Patrick H. WillemsYour favorite show is back - and so is this podcast! In what we're noncommittally declaring our "season 2 premiere", we pick the brain of YouTube wunderkind and longtime pal Patrick Willems (@patrickhwillems) on all things 80s, up to and including Paul Michael Glaser's The Running Man. Don't change the channel!
2024-03-011h 51Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 9: DelicatessenCarve out some time, because this one's meaty; let's hope we didn't butcher it. It's time to dig into Delicatessen (1991), un film français de Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Marc Caro.
2023-06-231h 28Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 8: Southland TalesHold on for dear life as we go all in on Richard Kelly's densely-layered political panorama Southland Tales, one of the boldest, messiest, most polarizing passion projects of the aughts. This is, as always, the way the world ends.
2023-05-131h 59Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 7: Rollerball (1975) with StephenWith friends like these, who needs penalties? This week, with the aid of Batting Around cohost/accredited beefcake expert Stephen (@TangoGolfKilo), we cast an analytical eye at Norman Jewison's 1975 dystopian sports drama Rollerball. Yes, we figure out what Rollerball Twitter would be like; no, it is not good.
2023-03-241h 38Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 6: Miracle MileAfter an unplanned and probably undeserved break, we're back to discuss in great detail the ecological particularities of Los Angeles "roof rats," prominently featured (alongside impending nuclear holocaust) in Steve De Jarnatt's real-time romp Miracle Mile (1988).
2023-03-101h 53Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 5: Angel's EggAll roads lead to anime. Bryan listens patiently as Cole foams at the mouth for two straight hours about Angel's Egg, Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's dreamlike, desolate interpretation of a world abandoned by God.
2023-02-031h 54Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 4: Silent RunningSilent Running doesn't shy away from the big questions. Is Joan Baez cool? Can effective environmentalist agitprop be produced under the aegis of Dow Chemical? What if a guy you basically agreed with was still really annoying? Run wild in the sun with us as we pick apart visual effects wiz Douglas Trumbull's directorial debut, a flower-power space opera as technically impressive as it is tonally confounding.
2023-01-201h 19Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 3: ZardozWelcome to the Vortex, year 2293. This week, it's all about Zardoz, visionary filmmaker John Boorman's oft-underrated treatise on life, death, sex, aging, violence, love, eugenics, sex again, family, religion, artificial intelligence, class warfare, human spirit, British hubris, and sex.
2023-01-061h 46
Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 2: Soylent GreenSoylent Green... is podcast. Join us for a raucous discussion about ham and cheese hot pockets, Charlton Heston's fetid little neckerchief, and, with luck, the 1973 cult eco-terror hit Soylent Green. DISCLAIMER: Opinions expressed herein are our own and do not reflect those of our employer (the Soylent Corporation).
2022-12-231h 30
Watching the End of the WorldEpisode 1: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)Bryan and Cole introduce themselves, establish some ground rules that they'll probably break, and kick off the podcast (or "pod," if you will) with a discussion of Philip Kaufman's 1978 thriller Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
2022-12-091h 55
Uppercut ReadsUppercut Reads: How Moon Defines the 'Anit-RPG'Uppercut Reads: How Moon Defines the 'Anti-RPG'
Written by Cole Kronman, Ready by Ty Galiz-Rowe
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2021-05-1816 min