Living in the End Times with Amos and Ex

A&E on the second (and best) season of HBO's True Detective: gnosticism, impotence, neoliberalism, and the evaporation of the nobelman.

A&E discuss the first season of writer Nic Pizzolatto's television series True Detective, exploring its connections to Graham Greene, the Gospel of Mark, Nietzsche, Epstein, Huey Long, and more.

A&E furrow our brows in a discussion of Jordan Peele's 2017 film Get Out.

A & E dig into the 2003 Disney vehicle Holes , which takes on a different connotation in the wake of headlines referencing the Zorro Ranch in New Mexico.

A&E explore the kinks and confusions of Paul Thomas Anderson's VERY WELL MADE "One Battle After Another" (2025), wondering where Thomas Pynchon is when you need him.

A&E chat not only Sydney Pollack's 1975 film Three Days of the Condor , but Robert Redford's spymaster sequel Sneakers (1992). We also crush on how smokin hot Redford was in 1975 and muse on cyberpunk.

A&E chat David Cronenberg's 1999 film eXistenZ and Cute Accelerationism by Amy Ireland and Maya B. Kronic.

A&E reconsider Martin Scorsese's 1976 film Taxi Driver (written by Paul Schrader), seeing it as a prescient commentary on MKULTRA and simulation.

A&E discuss David Cronenberg's 1983 masterpiece Videodrome. 

A&E chat Andrew Bujalski's lo-fi 2013 film Computer Chess as a way into thinking about consciousness, replicants, desiring machines, and the impossibility that a better human-machine interface has not already been developed. Plus Silkworm. 

A&E chat Hideaki Anno's 1997 film The End of Evangelion in an effort to think through apocalypses of all sorts, including those both genetic and spiritual.

A&E talk William Gibson, AI, and writing the world in which we want to live.

Discussion of Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 cult film Drive .

Jacking in to director Jose Padilha's 2014 remake of Robocop to talk cyberpunk, trans, AI and agency in 2025.

Both appreciating and ultimately dismissing James Mangold's latest addition to the Bob Dylan filmography, A Complete Unknown.

On the genius of Paul Thomas Anderson's translation (2014) of Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice (2009) in the current moment (2025).

Thinking about consciousness and art via the late great David Lynch's final feature film Inland Empire (2006).

A&E consider Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999) as the ritual incantation it was obviously meant to be.

Exploring the failures of psychoanalysis, Marxism, and especially late capitalism in Luca Guadagnino's 2018 remake of Dario Argento's 1977 film Suspiria.

A&E on the American election and its overlay with David Cronenberg’s 2012 adaptation of Don DeLillo’s 2003 novel Cosmopolis.

Today's moving picture, in all senses of the term, is David Robert Mitchell's 2018 stoner noir film "Under the Silver Lake," which A&E agree, is like a fine wine: better with each passing year.

A&E discuss Jane Schoenbrun's 2024 film "I Saw the TV Glow" exploring, among other topics, media's shaping of our adolescence and adulthood.

A&E chat Alex Cox's brilliant/incendiary/prescient low budget classic Repo Man (1984) in an effort to get a better handle on 2024.