Episode 26: Moonlight (2016)
Explore the origins of Liberty City, the history of racism in the lighting and color correction of film, how to achieve intimacy through cinematograph...
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Twice a month, your hosts, Bonnie and Lauren, watch a movie, do some homework, and create Check Your Threading, a podcast that serves up history, psychology, and perspective on that film. IG: checkyourthreading / Twitter: checkthreading
Episode 25: Funny Games (1997)
Stuck in your house? This week we talk about the movie that redefined “home invasion”! Plus, social contract theory, the importance (and cruelty) of b...
Episode 24: Straw Dogs (1971)
In this smorgasbord of toxic masculinity, we explore the pattern of violence in rural towns, the history of Vietnam campus protests, Sam Peckinpah’s r...
Episode 23: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
The retro flavor of nuclear apocalypse films, the history of the OPEC oil crisis, how George Miller builds his own mythology - and borrows from the my...
Episode 22: All the President's Men (1976)
Let’s talk about the importance of investigative journalism, the edge-of-your-seat anxiety that this film creates, Woodward and Bernstein as heroes, a...
Episode 21: Vice (2018)
We review the history of two of our most outlandish Vice Presidents (other than Dick, obviously), the tonal ambiguity of Vice as a film, the value of ...
Episode 20: Ocean’s Eleven (2001)
We lay out the best real-life Las Vegas heists, debate whether or not heist movies are their own genre, and explore why Ocean’s Eleven still works alm...
Episode 19: Jurassic Park (1993)
Learn about the “Jurassic Park generation” of paleontologists, how the film affected the scientific community, some amazing fan theories and, the, uh,...
Episode 18: The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
What makes an epic truly EPIC? Why were the 80s so intense for evangelical Christians? What’s up with Jungian psychology? Why was The Last Temptation ...
Episode 17: Maleficent (2014)
In a stunning rape-revenge twist on a Disney classic, we look at Maleficent’s origins in the Sleeping Beauty myth, breaking the cycle of abuse, the im...