492 episodes

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

Exclusive subscriber-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview

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    • TV & Film
    • 4.8 • 132 Ratings

A podcast about political cinema and our crumbling world. Hosted by Will Sloan and Luke Savage.

Exclusive subscriber-only episodes: https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus/overview

    #511 - All the President's Hot Dogs

    #511 - All the President's Hot Dogs

    In 1939, King George VI visited President Roosevelt to gain his support in the coming war. Some years later, it happened. As the Bill Murray vehicle HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (2012) unconvincingly argues, the Special Relationship was sealed over a hot dog. We dig up a forgotten piece of failed Oscar bait just to bury it all over again.

    BONUS Hyde Park on Hudson talk on our Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/posts/101187856

    "The National Review Wants You to Work Till You Drop" by Luke Savage - https://jacobin.com/2024/03/national-review-32-hour-workweek-sanders

    • 49 min
    PREVIEW - #510 - 2017-core

    PREVIEW - #510 - 2017-core

    Our Superdelgate patron tier has tasked us with discussed the sitcom THE GOOD PLACE, and it leads us down a dark and scary path of remembering culture and politics in the early Trump era. PLUS: Checking in with Garfield Eats, and Luke sounds off on Masters of the Air.

    PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/510-2017-core-100993255

    • 4 min
    #509 - Kung Fu Bicycles

    #509 - Kung Fu Bicycles

    For decades, a cottage industry flourished in the subterranean depths of the American music industry: send a company your poem, and for a fee, they'll turn it into a song. Maybe the song will even be your entryway into the industry and the Billboard charts! But most assuredly it will not be. Was this industry exploitative? Did it produce art? What even is "art" anyway? We tackle all these questions and more as we discuss the documentary OFF THE CHARTS: THE SONG-POEM STORY (2003).

    Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/posts/100937391

    • 53 min
    PREVIEW - #508 - Spice World

    PREVIEW - #508 - Spice World

    An anti-imperial saga dreamed up by a Nixon-supporting conservative... a White Saviour narrative adapted to a time skeptical of White Saviours... folks, you could say that DUNE: PART TWO (2024) and its source material are a land of contradictions.

    PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/508-spice-world-100540196

    • 2 min
    #507 - Fresh Prince of Persia

    #507 - Fresh Prince of Persia

    In 1991, over 100 of the the most famous singers, movie stars, an athletes in America got together to record a song for the troops in the first Gulf War. We take a visit to the consent-manufacturing factory and discuss the "apolitical" James Woods-hosted TV special VOICES THAT CARE: STAND TALL, STAND PROUD (1991).

    Watch the special here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ1S_UNaWps&ab_channel=LeapingTrout

    Join us on Patreon for an extra episode every week - https://www.patreon.com/michaelandus

    • 45 min
    PREVIEW - #506 - Merchant Prince

    PREVIEW - #506 - Merchant Prince

    Remember. Every day here, you're selling. Every thing you do, every interaction you have, every breath you take needs to be in the service of selling. But it shouldn't look like that. We're not that kind of store. Our customers don't appreciate being sold to. You should feel proud to work here. We discuss THE STORE (1983), by the god of cinéma vérité, Frederick Wiseman.

    PATREON-EXCLUSIVE EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/506-merchant-100124429

    • 4 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
132 Ratings

132 Ratings

Sb….. ,

Best socialist movie podcast there is

Period

unentity ,

Consistently entertaining, intermittently educational

This podcast is a riot, excellent mix of stupid laffs + occasional conversations of real insight into how politics gets refracted through popular culture. The interplay between Will & Luke is genuinely sweet as they make each other laugh. A LOT.

UnionStn ,

The best politics podcast is about movies

Can’t recommend this podcast highly enough. Moral clarity *and* funny af? Pick a lane!
Thanks for the laughs and insights Luke and Will!

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