Psyop Cinema

Stay Tuned (Research Report 7)

In his latest Research Report for MKOFTEN level subscribers, Brett closely analyzes the 1992 high concept comedy Stay Tuned, starring John Ritter. One of the ultimate Revelation of the Method movies, Stay Tuned offers a stunningly candid depiction of the Satanic forces behind the then-thriving cable and satellite TV industry�...

Occult Origins (Oliver Stone 1)

 The first episode in an extended series about Oliver Stone. Despite Stone being known for political films that deal with recent American history, his first two directorial efforts are surprisingly strange horror movies. Our discussion of Seizure and The Hand takes us directly into analysis of Hollywood occult ideology a...

Psyop Mario World (Part 1)

In the first Psyop Cinema exploration of the video game industry, Thomas gives MKOften subscribers an analysis of the iconic Mario franchise. He gets into Masonic symbolism, mushroom imagery, and stellar magic, breaking down the games' mythology as well as Nintendo's policies concerning religion. He discusses the significance...

The Password Is Fidelio: The Final Secrets of Stanley Kubrick

Sean McCann returns to Psyop Cinema to unveil the Fidelio Experiment—which, we are quite confident, is not only the state-of-the-art in occult Kubrick studies but the key to unlocking the final secrets of the cinematic master. Sean first takes us through his long investigative journey, including his previous milestone, “T...

A Hidden Life, with Steven DeLay (Malick 9)

The concluding episode of our series with Steven DeLay on the films of Terrence Malick. Thomas gives a speculative explanation for why Voyage of Time (2016) was so unwatchably bad. We have an extended discussion about the beautiful depiction of Christian martyrdom in Malick's 2019 film A Hidden Life, which portrays the life o...

Donnie Darko, with Luemas

Joined by Luemas from Chant It Down Radio, we analyze the cult classic Donnie Darko. This 2001 film directed by Richard Kelly includes the involvement of plenty of sus Hollywood figures, including major Monarch actress Drew Barrymore. We talk about time travel mind control, sexual revolution propaganda, and the movie's countl...

Ukraine as Cultural Engineering Laboratory (on William Ramsey Investigates)

Thomas goes on William Ramsey Investigates to discuss his essay "A Digital State: Ukraine as Cultural Engineering Laboratory," written for issue #1 of Cultural Engineering Studies magazine. Thomas describes the dozens of music videos filmed in the last couple decades in Kiev by highly sus Western artists, which frequently fea...

NASA and Hollywood (on William Ramsey Investigates)

Brett goes on William Ramsey Investigates to discuss his essay "NASA and Hollywood: A DCF Research Report, Part 1," written for issue #1 of Cultural Engineering Studies magazine. As Director of Research Operations for the Decoding Culture Foundation, Brett has looked deeply into NASA's collaborations with Hollywood, through F...

Brett's Notes for The Killer

The Killer (2023)

Background

Based on a graphic novel by French writer Alexis Nolent, whose second IMDb credit is for a video game, XIII (2003), the synopsis of which reads:

A man is rescued by a lifeguard on Brighton Beach. He has suffered a h...

The Killer (Fincher 8)

In a new installment of their series on David Fincher, Thomas and Brett cover The Killer, Fincher's 2023 hitman thriller starring Michael Fassbender. They discuss Fincher's continued preoccupation with psychopathy and the dark self archetype, the film's hints concerning deep state conspiracies and the Thelemic religion of Hol...

In-depth Intro to Oliver Stone

For MKOften subscribers, an extended prelude from Brett to our upcoming Oliver Stone series. Brett runs through his entire filmography (including many of his writer and producer credits) and gives a very personal overview of Stone's life and work. In the second half, he reviews Stone’s 2020 autobiography, Chasing the Light,...

True Detective Season 2, with Jasun Horsley and Steven DeLay

Thomas and Steven continue their analysis of True Detective, this time joined by Jasun Horsley for a conversation about season two. Finding the season significantly underrated, they talk about its mixed reception and contrast its approach to that of season one. Resuming discussion of Pizzolatto's treatment of masculinity, fam...

Episodes You May Have Missed (Monarch 9, Albertini Tapes, and others)

A listener informed me of several mainfeed episodes that didn't make it here on to Patreon. Since we want to have all our content collected here for subscribers, here are download link to each of those episodes. Especially recommended if you hadn't yet heard them are Brett's Monarch 9 episode, Liquid Dreams, as well as Brett'...

Spy Kids

For MKOFTEN listeners, Thomas analyzes the 2001 Robert Rodriguez film Spy Kids. Although sometimes pleasantly funny and imaginative, a lot of subversive themes lurk beneath the superficially pro-family messaging of the movie, and certain components of the film are straightforwardly creepy. Thomas talks about the uneasy allian...

Cultural Engineering Studies Magazine

We encourage all listeners of our podcast to check the free digital release of our new project, Cultural Engineering Studies magazine, the official publication of the Decoding Culture Foundation - https://decoding-culture.co...

Song to Song, with Steven DeLay (Malick 8)

Thomas and Steven conclude their analysis of Malick's Weightless trilogy, looking at his 2017 film Song to Song. With this movie, Malick solidifies the Weightless trilogy's status as authentically Christian (specifically, Kierkegaardian) cinema. Using the setting of the Austin music scene, it delivers a positive message conce...

Civil War (2024) and The Second Civil War (1997), with William Ramsey and Sean McCann

We are joined by both William Ramsey and Sean McCann for a discussion that follows up on the analysis we did with them earlier this year on Leave the World Behind. Unpacking the surprisingly dull recent Alex Garland film Civil War, we also spend time talking about the much more lively film The Second Civil War, a 1997 made fo...

True Detective Season 1, with Steven DeLay

Thomas and Steven discuss the first season of True Detective, analyzing its iconic depiction of occult conspiracy. They talk about the series' treatment of religion and philosophical pessimism, its approach to masculinity, and the thematic ambiguities of the show's conclusion. While expressing appreciation that this masterpie...

Knight of Cups, with Steven DeLay (Malick 7)

Continuing their examination of the Weightless trilogy, Thomas and Steven explore Knight of Cups, Malick's 2015 film that dreamily depicts a screenwriter's search for meaning, as he wanders through the maze of Hollywood life. Analyzing the film's gnostic and tarot reference points, they again seek to discern whether Malick is...

The Fury, Scanners, and Firestarter (on Jay's Analysis)

We joined our friend Jay Dyer on his show for a discussion about three films that deal with trauma-based mind control designed to cultivate psychical powers, particularly in children. Breaking down De Palma's The Fury, Cronenberg's Scanners, and Mark L. Lester's Firestarter, we talk about theta programming, the real history o...

Jasun Horsley on the Technology of Evil

Jasun Horsley joins us for a conversation about his book Big Mother: The Technological Body of Evil, which analyzes the Satanic techniques that converge upon the human body in the modern world. Topics of discussion include how the Wachowskis' red pill turned blue, the significance of the COVID-19 pandemic, Teilhard de Chardin...

To the Wonder, with Steven DeLay (Malick 6)

Thomas and Steven continue the Terrence Malick series, introducing a discussion of the Weightless Trilogy, which begins with To the Wonder (2012) and constitutes some of the most fully realized Christian cinema ever produced. We talk about Malick's Kierkegaardian inspiration and analyze the film's depiction of romance, family...

Doppelganger and Timebomb (Monarch 14)

A one-time intelligence analyst for Israeli special forces, Avi Nesher wrote and directed a pair of full-blown Monarch films in the early 1990s. The first, Timebomb (1991), is an overt MKUltra film, and it features an explicit depiction of the trauma-induced creation of a Delta super assassin alter. Doppelganger (1993), yet a...

First Reformed

As a sequel to our Taxi Driver episode, we analyze Paul Schrader's 2017 film First Reformed, an explicit work of religious engineering. We examine how the film's sophisticated propaganda depicts the dying remnants of American Protestantism being absorbed into the globalist religion of the future, complete with worship of the ...

Oppenheimer (Nolan 5)

A return to our series on Christopher Nolan, discussing how Oppenheimer makes explicit the globalist politics implied by the sci-fi transhumanism of some of his previous films. We analyze how the movie treats standard Nolan themes, such as the master manipulator and the  death of the soul (often symbolized by the de...

Brett's Taxi Driver Notes

Taxi Driver (1976)[1]

Summary (for intro)

Taxi Driver is the first cinematic entry in the Joker Cycle, which is one particularly sinister instantiation/use of the cybernetic feedback loop between fiction/fantasy/entertainment/Hollywood and real life, an application of sai...

Taxi Driver

In a discussion that much of our longrunning Joker analysis has built  to, we do a deep dive into Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). We  explain the foundational place of Scorsese's film in the feedback loop  between media and spectacular crime that we call the Joker Cycle.  Looking at other relevant fi...

The Bourne Identity, Supremacy, and Ultimatum (on Chant It Down)

Thomas joins Luemas on Chant It Down Radio, discussing the first three  films in the Jason Bourne franchise. Starring the deeply sus Matt Damon,  limited hangouts and revelation of the method abound in these movies.  Discussing how Hollywood's political messaging has shifted over the last  couple decades, ...

Flight of the Navigator

Brett covers the 1986 Disney sci-fi movie Flight of the Navigator, about a 12-year-old boy who becomes psychically bonded with the alien AI/spaceship (voiced by Pee-wee Herman) that abducts him and transports him into the future. Uncovering the film’s thinly veiled p-e-d-o subtext, Brett reveals the entire plot as a coded d...

Leave the World Behind (on William Ramsey Investigates)

We and Sean McCann joined William Ramsey for a discussion about the recent Obama-produced apocalyptic thriller Leave the World Behind.  Directed by Sam Esmail, the movie is filled to the brim with globalist  propaganda concerning social collapse, 'disinformation,' and the need to  trust the technocratic elite a...