Cinematic Oblivion

Nick and Harry Nordlinger

Brothers and life-long cinephiles Nick and Harry Nordlinger explore the full spectrum of film history, with an eye for the esoteric, the strange and the sublime.

  1. Oct 29

    October Boys VII: Urban Harvest

    Movie theater etiquette may be improving and you can help! The movie theaters are back baby, and better than ever. Also, you could create the next horror icon; Dracula, Backrooms, (insert your new horror archetype here.) Also, some other Halloween movies worth checking out. I don't have time to write anymore I have to grade papers! See you in the corn maze :)

  2. 10/25/2025

    Curse of the October Boys

    A more wholesome year then most, adjusting to fatherhood/unclehood and the trappings of a toddler's Halloween while also inviting more wild 80s horror comedies into the discourse like Wacko (1982) and Full Moon High (1981). Harry wants to remind everyone to, like him, watch the entire filmography of Jose Ramon Larraz, if you can find it, and Nick wants to talk about the bookends of the screen life genre which also happen to be the bookends of Gen Z representation in media. Pack it up and move over for Gen Alpha! But seriously, let's all have some good Bay Area fun, see you at Ghost Fest, stay off your phone, go carve a pumpkin for God's sakes, lighten up you amateurs, pick a goddamn costume already.  Love ya!

  3. 10/30/2024

    The October Boys V: no edits, no escape

    Where is that sinister, beautiful, liminal hospital of which I endlessly dream? Where can I get a can of frozen apple juice concentrate in this day and age? When will I stop getting election texts? Why won't the police stop ruining horror movies? And why did everyone in the early 2000s think they'd reached the peak of what CGI effects had to offer? Happy Halloween! I refuse to edit this one out of bitterness and haste.

  4. 10/30/2023

    Revenge of The October Boys

    Strange cutout anime, brooding resentment about the 00's, discourse on disturbing horror, nostalgia for the Universal classics, major creative output from our circle, welcome back to our cacophonous carnival of Halloween horrors, we've missed you.

  5. 10/31/2022

    October Boys III: Season of the Witch

    Taste the fruits of Autumn Burn away the dead crops

  6. 10/27/2021

    Return of the October Boys

    Once a year, once a year, now it's here, now it's here.

  7. 10/28/2020

    The October Boys

    Our last episode ever. Putting the final nail in the coffin on the original concept of Cinematic Oblivion. Happy Halloween, it's the season of change and death after all. Keep watching the screens.

  8. 04/30/2020

    grab bag: Quarantine 2020

    It's been a while. We discuss what's kept us entertained and sane in Shelter-In-Place including the gory, gutsy guerrilla action film Deadbeat at Dawn (1988) Guy Maddin's odes to his city and ours in My Winnipeg (2007) and The Green Fog (2017), Harry's pickaxe striking a mother lode of untapped 80's horror sleepers, Nick teaching Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962) to his AP English class, and our ever-returning to the town of Twin Peaks. Also we share our "to watch" quarantine lists. Enjoy, stay safe, wash your hands, we love you. Balboa Forever.

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Brothers and life-long cinephiles Nick and Harry Nordlinger explore the full spectrum of film history, with an eye for the esoteric, the strange and the sublime.

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  • Creator
    Nick and Harry Nordlinger
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2026
  • Episodes
    48
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Show Website
    Cinematic Oblivion

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