96 episodes

We talk about movies like no one else talks about movies.

Award-wanting host Christian Hagen, along with co-hosts David Gutsche and Matthew Bahn (and guests!), examine popular films, prompted by several randomly-generated critical contexts. We answer questions like: What is the true meaning of Christmas in The Matrix? What does Kung Fu Panda say about Marxist economics? Is Eighth Grade secretly Die Hard? We can guarantee we‘ll say something about no one has ever said about these movies before!

Our theme song is “Gun Tonic” from The Bad Man. You can find more of their music here: www.thebadmanusa.com. And you should, because they’re awesome.

Contextual Deviants Contextual Deviants

    • TV & Film
    • 5.0 • 3 Ratings

We talk about movies like no one else talks about movies.

Award-wanting host Christian Hagen, along with co-hosts David Gutsche and Matthew Bahn (and guests!), examine popular films, prompted by several randomly-generated critical contexts. We answer questions like: What is the true meaning of Christmas in The Matrix? What does Kung Fu Panda say about Marxist economics? Is Eighth Grade secretly Die Hard? We can guarantee we‘ll say something about no one has ever said about these movies before!

Our theme song is “Gun Tonic” from The Bad Man. You can find more of their music here: www.thebadmanusa.com. And you should, because they’re awesome.

    82 - Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

    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

    • 1 hr 4 min
    81 - Puss In Boots: The Last Wish

    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!

    • 1 hr 14 min
    80 - The One

    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!

    • 1 hr 4 min
    79 - Prey

    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
    78 - RRR

    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!

    • 1 hr 8 min
    77 - The Quick and The Dead

    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!

    • 1 hr 6 min

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