Journalist and author Matt Hongoltz-Hetling returns to the show to discuss his new book If It Sounds Like a Quack…A Journey to the Fringes of American Medicine. We discuss the history and rise to prominence of fringe medicines, how alternative medicine shifted from being the provenance of the left-wing to the right...
2023-06-30 01:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse look at two from French director Jean Pierre Melville: 1970’s Le cercle rouge and 1969’s Army of Shadows. Both “crime” films of sorts, Le cercle rouge is a classic of the heist film genre, while Army of Shadows reframes the WWII-era French resistance as a kind of cr...
2023-06-28 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
The boys look at the Wagner Group failed(?) coup(??) of Russia(???) over the weekend(????). Then, some more on the submarine disaster, RFK Jr. and the people who believe current events as a factor of time’s linear progression are, in general, a “psyop”.
TORONTO: tickets still available to our show there Thursday, ...
2023-06-27 04:43:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We complete our seven-year cycle of covering the DC Cinematic Universe with a review of The Flash: a gross mishmash of CGI dreck, digital necromancy, multiversal genocide, and actual criminal performances that serves as a fitting cap to the franchise and, why not, Cinema in general. Grab your popcorn, throw your baby in the m...
2023-06-23 03:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Grey Wolves,
We are pleased to announce a 2-stop mini-tour of Canada this August! Come out and see us at:
Toronto, Ontario, Thur. August 17
Danforth Music Hall
Will and Hesse examine two films by director Nicolas Roeg: Eureka (1983) and Insignificance (1985). Eureka stars Gene Hackman as a prospector who strikes an ungodly amount of gold, and explores themes of physical and sexual desire. Insignificance features an imagined conversation between Al...
2023-06-21 11:00:07 +0000 UTC View PostWe take some dirty talk tips from Rudy Giuliani’s emails; Consider our lost Submariners; Discuss RFK Jr.’s campaign requiring us to do homework; and imagine Ron DeSantis as one of Jesus’ disciples.
NEW SHOW DATES! We will be in Canada this August:
Thursday, August 17 - Toronto - Danforth Music Hall
Sat...
2023-06-21 03:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Trump did everything right, and they indicted him. We look at Trump’s swole legal team, we gain one challenger and lose another in the GOP primaries, look at some cool trends in the consumer electronics market, and hear a nice story about some fun-loving Rhode Islanders’ trip to Philadelphia.
2023-06-16 03:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Will and Hesse discuss two classics featuring leading man Burt Lancaster: 1957’s Sweet Smell of Success (d. Alexander Mackendrick) and 1963’s The Leopard (d. Luchino Visconti). In Sweet Smell, Lancaster plays the coldly evil, all-powerful gossip columnist J.J. Hunsucker, and in The Leopard 2023-06-14 11:00:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we’re joined by journalist Ben Terris, who’s been sort of shadow-programming the show recently with his pieces on Sean McElwee, Diane Feinstein’s staff, Tommy Tuberville’s advisors and questions about Tim Scott’s virginity. We discuss Trump’s federal indictment over the “boxes hoax,” and the growin...
2023-06-13 04:48:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Felix tells us about his new sword. Then, we take a look at new UFO news, which somehow becomes a discussion of which members of the Nazi high command were the biggest pervs and pussies. Then following that theme, we have some new candidates entering the GOP primaries. Finally, discussing some recent revelations around one of...
2023-06-09 03:12:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are joined by Blowback’s Brendan James to discuss two films by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 1997’s Cure and 2002’s Bright Future. Not quite what people might expect when they imagine “modern J-Horror,” Kurosawa’s films nonetheless feature supernatural ghosts and killers that reflect anxieti...
2023-06-07 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Today we’re joined by Professor Corey Robin, author of "The Reactionary Mind" and "The Enigma of Clarence Thomas," for a conversation all about one of the most powerful reactionaries in the world: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. We discuss the origins and contours of his conservative ideology, and how they reflect th...
2023-06-06 03:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The boys talk: the cool new Trump scam bilking MAGA grandparents all across America, bad kids and the sodas they drink, the gourmand advising Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville on national security, and review the latest from MAGA rapper Fogiato Blow.
2023-06-02 01:29:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are joined by journalist and author John Semley to discuss two films featuring Clint in hardcore 80’s cop-vigilante mode: 1983’s Sudden Impact and 1984’s Tightrope. Both directed or partially directed by Clint, while maybe not his best, are certainly a lot of fun and very revealing of ...
2023-05-31 11:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We take a look at Barack Obama’s new Netflix series “Working: What We Do All Day,” in which the former president examines the various trials, indignities and inequities of American work life and avoids asking: did I do that?
2023-05-31 03:34:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Today, we’ve got full spectrum coverage of Ron DeSantis’ Twitter Space campaign launch debacle. Plus, a little on the depressing HBO/Max turnover, and more Silicon Valley blood boys.
2023-05-26 01:06:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's our lineup for the second half of Movie Mindset season 1. Hope everyone following along is enjoying the lineup Will & Hesse have curated. For future installments we might add some info about where the films are available f...
2023-05-24 12:45:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Will & Hesse are joined by Episode 1’s Andrew Hudson to discuss Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971) and Nashville (1975). One an unconventional & drearily romantic western, one a sprawling conversational epic following 24 characters across 5 days leading up to the bicentennial in Nash...
2023-05-24 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Debt ceiling showdown, losers of the Republican primaries, Pete Buttigieg’s Mind Cathedral, yes, yes, but we must focus on what’s really important: The Orcas are now in open revolt, and we need to strategize support for our cetacean brothers and sisters.
LAST DAY to buy this round of merch from us, get it while it...
2023-05-23 17:45:34 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by video game designer Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Fallout: New Vegas) to talk the wide world of gaming. We discuss Josh’s new game, Pentiment, a murder mystery set in 16th century Germany, then get into labor in the games industry, developments and limitations in video game art and style, trends in game...
2023-05-19 15:34:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re joined by eldritch expert and Movie Mindset musical composer Dan Boeckner to discuss the three canonical Hollywood Body Snatchers films: 1956’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers directed by Don Siegel, 1978’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers directed by Philip Kaufman and 1993’s Body Snatchers 2023-05-17 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s Ted Lasso, folks! Yes, after many years of consternation around this show in the Discourse, many requests for review (and Will watching a bunch of that Good Doctor show and reporting back it was actually pretty ok), we decided to take a look at this footballing Yank and his relentless positivity. So, here’s our revie...
2023-05-16 02:18:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Dianne Feinstein makes her triumphant return to the Senate; Campaign Trump returns to the TV for some time in the Truth Cube; You WILL NOT acknowledge Biden’s age; Will gives us his review of the Good Doctor show everyone’s been posting about.
New merch, including Hell on Earth designs and re-stocked Zapata Oil hats...
2023-05-12 01:56:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Blake Masters (NOT THAT ONE, Blake is the creator of Showtime’s Brotherhood, and writer for Rubicon, Law & Order: LA, and Falling Water among many other shows) joins us to discuss the ongoing WGA writers’ strike. Will and Blake touch on the transforming landscape of Television, fair compensa...
2023-05-11 18:00:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hesse and Will review two essential classics from director Billy Wilder: 1944’s Double Indemnity and 1950’s Sunset Blvd. Two films narrated by their dead protagonists from beyond the grave, each exploring Wilder’s cynical and dark views of the American character, and our obsessions with fame, success, ...
2023-05-10 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We cover some breaking 17th century news and look at the race car driving heir to the House of Habsburg, as well as the coronation of King Charles III, for a little modern-day Hell on Earth. Then, keeping with the theme of gratuitous puff-pieces in the Times, we look at “Liz” Holmes attempt to rebrand herself as a gee-shu...
2023-05-09 02:58:11 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss the WGA writers’ strike and the state of streaming entertainment. Then, we try to unravel the ongoing spree of vigilante and “defensive” killings across America, from the killing of Jordan Neely in the NYC subways, to the number of recent shootings of people who just rang the wrong doorbell. Finally, a look a...
2023-05-05 02:20:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Will and Hesse take a look at two films featuring actor Mickey Rourke, both released in 1987: Alan Parker’s Angel Heart and Barbet Schroeder’s Barfly. Both films show off Rourke at the height of his leading-man potential: one as a very beautiful man who is really very evil, and one as a very ugly man with a kind of heart ...
2023-05-03 11:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
We plan out what builds we’re going with using items from King Charles’ upcoming coronation. Then, we compare and contrast visions of masculinity within the Republican party using the models presented by Donald Trump and Josh Hawley, and start forecasting what the Trump v. Biden match-up might look like. Plus, we’ve got...
2023-05-02 02:15:42 +0000 UTC View Post
