Contextual Deviants

Contextual Deviants

We talk about movies like no one else talks about movies. Through a series of randomly-selected critical contexts, we tackle questions like: What is the True Meaning of Christmas in The Matrix? Is Eighth Grade secretly Die Hard? Is Kung Fu Panda Marxist? And much more

  1. 06/21/2023

    82 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    Roll for initiative, it's time for Contextual Deviants! This ep, we're covering 2023's action-adventure hit Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, with special returning guest Kady Jaspersen! Highlights include: Jarnathan, Horns Up Horde, the Red Scare, enemies-to-lovers, a wet goof, and much more! You can check out Kady's contribution to the Geistron fanzine Out Of Pocket here: https://ko-fi.com/s/75ac4e1ed6

    1h 4m

  2. 05/03/2023

    81 - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

    It's not metaphorical, rhetorical, poetical, or theoretical. It's Contextual Deviants. Straight up. This ep, we're joined by special guest Kady Jaspersen to talk about 2022's Academy Award-nominated animated film, Puss In Boots: The Last Wish. It starts with a howl, and ends with us howling! For real, though, this is one of our silliest episodes, and it was a delight recording it. Highlights include: Standing energy, a Scorpio bleh rising, ShrekCU, what about second Pippin?, The Algo, searching for Shrek smut, Gatopath Traveler, John DDD Dreamworks, and much more!

    1h 15m

  3. 03/15/2023

    80 - The One

    Everything Everywhere All At Once broke new ground at the Oscars, but it wasn't the first sci-fi martial arts multiverse movie to hit American cinemas. To prove it, we watched 2001's edgy Jet Li action flick The One! A movie that everyone definitely remembers with all the fondness and reverence it deserves. Highlights include: Not THAT Don't, Satan's Stingy Dick Colony, The Suckeradumdum, Dextering it, Papa Roach's Last Resort, exact-Jet-Li, The One, The Two, and The Three, and much more!

    1h 4m

  4. 08/10/2022

    79 - Prey

    Your podcast hunt is over! Join us as we catch Prey, the groundbreaking 2022 prequel to Predator starring Amber Midthunder. Also, to be clear, the dog's name is Sarii. We're Sarii not Sarii to tell you that. Highlights include: Predator's Got Mail, quicksand's back, remembering the creature, Sophie's Choice Deal or No Deal, the prophecy of Dick Cheney, King Wicket, Kill Prey Eat, high LOTR reference emissions, and more!

    1 hr

  5. 07/13/2022

    78 - RRR

    Ba-da-dum, ba-da-dum-dum-DUM-DUM, it's Contextual Deviants! We watched the Indian action epic that's burning down the internet, RRR, and just had to do an episode about it. It's wild. Spoilers: It's wild. Highlights include: Sheamommydom, the best thing since sliced butt, wet wet flags, a brand new context, RRRby's, Lil' Bheem, and much more!

    1h 8m

  6. 05/18/2022

    77 - The Quick and The Dead

    DRAW! In honor of director Sam Raimi's latest film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we're taking a trip back to 1995 and covering his previous work, and our first western(!), The Quick and The Dead. Come for a stellar cast featuring Gene Hackman, Sharon Stone, Russell Crowe, and a young Leonardo DiCaprio, stay for the old man in the bar with a top hat who's missing most of his teeth and laughing! Highlights include: AGAB, they didn't explicitly say a lot of things, farmer's hands, are you leg?, real "first-time D&D character" energy, and much more!

    1h 7m

  7. 04/27/2022

    76 - Porco Rosso

    Fire up your seaplanes! Contextual Deviants is talking about an anime for the first time, and we've chosen the strange Studio Ghibli classic Porco Rosso! A movie that preaches the always-relevant point: It's better to be a pig than a fascist. Highlights Include: Lie Daddy, John McPlane, he flies a red plane, Sit and Spin, reinventing the squeal, David's favorite movie Pearl Harbor, and much more!

    1h 8m

  8. 03/23/2022

    75 - The Lego Batman Movie

    The Batman is back! And so are we! To celebrate the latest dark and intense and dark and dark new Bat-flick, we wanted to take a look back at the much lighter 2017 entry in the Bat-legacy, The Lego Batman Movie!   Highlights Include: Our origin story, too many Os, "Nobody wants to work anymore (as Catwoman)," penguin kisser, female tennis stars, Notice Anyone, Batpai, a double Shawshank situation, and much more!

    1h 8m
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We talk about movies like no one else talks about movies. Through a series of randomly-selected critical contexts, we tackle questions like: What is the True Meaning of Christmas in The Matrix? Is Eighth Grade secretly Die Hard? Is Kung Fu Panda Marxist? And much more

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  • Creator
    Contextual Deviants
  • Years Active
    2017 - 2023
  • Episodes
    96
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Copyright Christian Hagen 2017-2023 All rights reserved.
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