The Conundrum Cluster Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com A definitive answer to the ultimate question: Is Nosferatu good? Previous episode: Ep57: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL! The definitive Halo: Reach retrospective (Paid) Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3:...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Halo: Reach (2010), the Halo franchise in general, and General Wrangel. Merry Christmas! Other Halo episode: Ep54: ELECTION DAY SPECIAL! The definitive Halo: Combat Evolved retrospective (Paid) Previous episode: Ep56: Terrible new Dune TV show targets Femgooners, unlocking secrets of wifejak and t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Dune: Prophecy (2024), the Dune universe, worldbuilding, and the war at home Merry Christmas! Past Dune episodes: Ep23: Dune 2 was unironically really bad and you’re actually stupid if you enjoyed it (Free) Ep25: Returning to the scene of the crime against cinema, the Dune 2 rewatch episode (Paid)...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Gladiator (2000), Gladiator 2 (2024), and why historical epics are so very very bad now. Past episode that connects heavily to this one: Ep27: The new Road House movie is an obscene act of cultural terrorism ( Paid ) Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Reddit...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com The long-awaited Halo: Combat Evolved (2001) episode. It’s still not too late to register and vote in most places. Go to www.swampthevoteusa.com to find out how to vote for Trump right now. If we show up, we will win. You can listen to this in line :) Previous episodes referenced in this: Ep7: Miller’s Crossi...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Smile (2022), Smile 2 (2024), Black Christmas (1974), and how to make a scarier scary movie. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your stupid Civ...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Trump biopic The Apprentice (2024) in theaters now. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your stupid Civil War 2 fantasy (Free) Ep4: "The Gloriou...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Dead Rising (2006) and Dead Rising: Deluxe Remaster (2024) Relevant prior episodes: Ep22: COMBAT DROP! Surprise Emergency Free Starship Troopers (1997) Sunday Show ( Free) Ep35: The differences between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 are a little too relevant to today's problems (Paid) Here are all the po...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Joker (2019), Joker: Folie à Deux (2024), and Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number. Previous episode: Ep49: New movie Megalopolis (2024) is a grand failure of Boomer Lib vision Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rog...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis (2024), in theaters today! Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your stupid Civil War 2 fantasy (Free) Ep4: "T...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com A primer for viewing Andrei Rublev (1966), a movie that helped me out a lot and that I think would help you as well. Full movie: Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on America’s Great Patriotic Epic and the post-woke movie phenomenon explored in the last episode. Previous episode: Ep46: Should people who enjoyed new movie Alien: Romulus (2024) be killed? Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Alien: Romulus (2024), Twisters (2024), and our post-woke nightmare. Previous episode on the Alien franchise Ep14: Emergency surprise free Christmas review of the Prometheus Engineer chronicles (2012) ( Free) Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of t...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Bladerunner 2049 (2017), the greatest movie of all time Very relevant episode: Ep36: Why exactly has Fallout: New Vegas stuck around for so long? (Paid) Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (F...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Kevin Costner’s disastrous/brilliant new mega-western TV/movie hybrid Horizon and the miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989). Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Review of The Bikeriders (2024) by Jeff Nichols with thoughts on everything that makes me mad online. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your stupid Civil...

In honor of July 4th, my review of Robert Middlekauf’s The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your stupid Civil War 2 fantasy (Free) Ep4: "The Glorious Cause" is the best book on the American R...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on The Road Warrior (1981), post-Apartheid South Africa, American collapse, fantasy, stunt work, silent movies, and the apocalypse. There has been too much violence. Too much pain. None here are without sin. But I have an honorable compromise. Just give me $5. Upgrade to a paid subscription right now...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior (1981), vigilantism in America, General Wrangel, and President Bukele. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, the Lost Age of Technology, and Martin Scorsese’s Silence (2016). Recent episodes: Ep38: ($0 free episode) Cyberpunk 2077 is the one game you need to play before the 2024 election (Free) Ep39: Should you watch Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga? (Paid) Here are all the podcas...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Thoughts on Furiosa (2024), the other Mad Max films, and downfall of the John Wick franchise. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your stupid Civil War 2 fa...

Thoughts on the Greatest Game of All Time. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Ep1: Redditors of the Reddit Moon (Paid) Ep2: Robocop: Rogue City review (Free) Ep3: "War to the Knife" takes a s**t on your stupid Civil War 2 fantasy (Free) Ep4: "The Glorious Cause" is the best book on the American Revolution (that I've found) (Free) Ep5: Your opinion on The Killer (...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Review of the movie A Perfect World (1993) with reflection on ‘90s optimism, the 1994 Crime Bill, Boomercons, Clint Eastwood, the Waco Siege, and Ruby Ridge. Here are all the podcast episodes available now (most are paywalled): Most recent: Ep36: Why exactly has Fallout: New Vegas stuck around for so long? (P...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Retrospective on Fallout: New Vegas (2010), our Great American Novel. Earlier Fallout episodes: Ep33: The new Fallout TV show is really, really, bad (Paid) Ep35: The differences between Fallout 3 and Fallout 4 are a little too relevant to today's problems (Paid) Here are all the podcast episodes available now...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.theconundrumcluster.com Extended discussion of why Fallout 3 is so good and how Fallout 4 managed to ruin the game’s formula by “improving” most aspects of it. Related episodes: Ep32: Canadians accidentally made a sci-fi movie about the Ukraine War in 1995 ( Paid ) Ep33: The new Fallout TV show is really, really, bad (Paid) Here are...