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We return for PART 2 of our annual endeavor to award good movies the way others award good science! Join your co-hosts Tyler D. R. Vance and Jennie S. Orton as they break down the last five of the ten films up for best picture this year. The films include: One Battle After Another Marty Supreme The Secret Agent Hamnet Train Dreams If you'd like to let us know your thoughts on the Oscar nominee...

We're back for our annual endeavor to award good movies the way others award good science! Join your co-hosts Tyler D. R. Vance and Jennie S. Orton as they break down five of the ten films up for best picture this year. The films include: Sinners F1 Sentimental Value Frankenstein Bugonia If you'd like to let us know your thoughts on the Oscar nominees this year, feel free to email us at ar...

And right on the heels of our last episode, Tyler D. R. Vance and Jennie S. Orton return to conclude their discussion on the 10 films nominated for best picture. This episode, they discuss: Anora Emilia Perez I'm Still Here The Brutalist Dune: Part 2 Afterward, they make their recommendation to the Oscars concerning which nominee is deserving of grant funding for additional projects.

We're back for this years look at the Oscar Best Picture Nominees. Join your co-hosts Tyler D. R. Vance and Jennie S. Orton as they break down five of the ten films up for best picture this year. The films include: The Substance Wicked Nickel Boys Conclave A Complete Unknown Join us for the next episode as they intrepid duo finishes off the other five nominees and then makes their recommendati...

"SAAAANTA! OH MY GOOOOD!" The Future Me Archive returns for a special Christmas episode. Join Future Tyler and Future Steven as they take a look at some Christmas movies that they should have seen by now but really just haven't. You can join the throngs of people shouting down Steven's ridiculous takes on Will Ferrell's "Elf". Then, you can join the movement of people pushing for "Black Christmas...

"I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse." Welcome to the fourth unsealing of the Future Me Archive! Join Future Tyler and Future Steven as they trundle on through the movies they've always meant to watch but never got a chance to, until now. In this episode, the odd pair take on one of the best films of all time (according to the dude bros of the world), "The God...

"Now I am become death - the destroyer of worlds." As promised, the fall out of our AUS Grant Panel is reaching its second phase, as we continue discussing the 10 films that are up for both an Academy Award for Best Picture and an AUS Grant. Join your co-hosts Tyler D. R. Vance and Jennie S. Orton as they dissect the last 5 of the 10 films, focusing on the quality of their filmmaking, th...

"Oh my God! You've never seen 'The Godfather'? This movie is a rich blend of genius and a triumph that Robert Evans..." We have returned! After a few months hiatus to attend to the little larval human that I recently became custodian to, the Arts Union Science podcast has returned to once again tackle the ten films up for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. And wouldn't y...

"I'm vengeance!" Welcome back to particularly dark episode of the Arts Union Science Volume 8. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and - back by popular demand - this week's first author (Sean W. Phippen) as they travel back to Gotham to look at the cape crusader's most recent outing: The Batman. Along the way, they'll stop to smell the warm tones, wonder who "won the scene", and ra...

"I'm scared." Welcome to the third unsealing of the Future Me Archive! Join Future Tyler and Future Steven as they continue their journey through the movies they've always meant to watch but never got a chance to, until now. In this episode, the terrible twins take on a Stanley Kubrick classic that was NOT made in the '90s, "2001: A Space Odyssey" (#2 on Steven'...

“Oh Greatest of Kings, indulge me in this friendly Christmas game.”  Perhaps it is fitting that we begin the long awaited first episode in Volume 8 with The Green Knight – a tale of repeated failure in the face of unrealistic expectations (many of them self imposed). Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and a returning first author / Viking-hater (David Brown) as the two take a look...

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" Welcome to the second unsealing of the Future Me Archive! Join Future Tyler and Future Steven as they continue their journey through the movies they've always meant to watch but never got a chance to, until now. In this episode, the pair take on the strange duo of the Coen Brothers' Oscar-Winning NOT Spaghe...

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“My suit … My tailor … Goodbye.” Hello and welcome to the final episode in this year’s AUS Grant Panel! Join your co-hosts Tyler D. R. Vance and Jennie S. Orton as they discuss the most fabulous night in Hollywood, AKA the 95th Academy Awards. Along the way they’ll discuss the lack of love for Banshees of Inisherin, the blasphemy of slighting Babylon’s score, and the Cinderella story that is Every...

The Oscar's are fast approaching and there's only one thing on everybody's mind: I wonder when the folks at Arts Union Science are going to get their poop in a group and finish reviewing them movies. Well wait no longer, for the Arts Union Science Grant Panel has reassembled to award the best in cinema with one of our coveted AUS Grants. In this episode, panel co-chairs Tyler D. R Vance and Jennie...

The Oscar’s are fast approaching and there’s only one thing on everybody’s mind: I wonder which movies are going to win the Arts Union Science Grants this year. That’s right! The Arts Union Science Grant Panel has reassembled to award the best in cinema with one of our coveted AUS Grants. In this episode, panel co-chairs Tyler D. R. Vance and Jennie S. Orton gather to discuss the first five of the...

"We have such sights to show you!" ~ Hellraiser The Arts Union Science podcast has a new offspring! Welcome to the first episode of the Future Me Archives, a series in which your usual corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) is joined by Steven Harvey to systematically watch the movies that they kept putting off to a future date. For their inaugural voyage, the hapless pair take on an odd double...

“Aye. And if my grandmother had a wheel, she’d be a wagon.” After some months of other nonsense, the human journey continues with Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Join your thesis supervisor (Tyler D. R. Vance) and our resilient thesis student (Daniel G. Schep) as the two of them weather the lukewarm waters of the third entry in Stark Trek’s film franchise. Along the way they’ll salute the Ent...

The Arts Union Science podcast finishes off Volume 5 with its first ever conference. Buckle up for three presentations on movies from MUBI, the curated streaming service that is sweeping the nation. With each presentation a new speaker will highlight a particular film that can be found on MUBI. These include Kathleen Xu’s presentation on The Act of Killing (a documentary about the horrifying ways...

“Michael was a private person and Diane was definitely not a private person.” The Arts Union Science podcast returns in artificial Super8 for its penultimate episode of Volume 7. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and this week’s first author (Nicole V. Stawikowski) as they talk “Stories We Tell”, the 2012 personal documentary by Canadian filmmaker Sarah Polley. Along the way, they...

“And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, ‘Come and see’.” Behold the newest episode of the Arts Union Science podcast. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) as well as returning first author and burgeoning Star Trek expert (Daniel G. Schep) as they discuss something very different than Star Trek: the Soviet-era war film “Come and See”. Along...

“I’m so scared.” Volume 7 of the Arts Union Science podcast continues with a look into a film that is definitely a “Spooky”: The Blair Witch Project. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and returning first author (Jennie S. Orton) as they chaotically lurch their way through the lo-fi classic that launched the found footage horror craze. Along the way, they’ll touch on the viral mark...

“You will die! Like the others before you, one by one, we will take you.” Emerging victorious from a dismal forest near you, it’s a new volume of the Arts Union Science podcast. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and this week’s first author (Steven Harvey) as they tackle the often imitated but rarely exceeded low-fi horror flick: The Evil Dead. Along the way, they’ll delve deep in...

"KHAAAAAAAAN" . . . I mean, I had to do it. Welcome back to another chapter in the expanding Arts Union Science Thesis on the six original Star Trek movies. Return to the subject of Trek with your thesis supervisor (Tyler D. R. Vance) and the world's most game doctoral candidate (Daniel Schep) as they discuss Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Along the way, they'll praise the titular Khan for his h...

“It's human nature to lie. Most of the time we can't even be honest with ourselves.” The Arts Union Science Podcast returns with the final episode of Volume 6. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and this week’s first author (Phil Linden) as they attempt to unravel the truth within the lies of Rashomon, the Akira Kurosawa film from 1950. Along the way, they’ll gush about the beautif...