As Depicted on Film

Finally, our Avengers Endgame review is here! Gil Kidron and Theo Gangi discuss how the Russo Brothers accomplished this incredible achievement of creating a gigantic superhero movie about an intergalactic war full of CGI - that feels like an emotionally personal movie. Tony Stark/Ironman, Captain America/Steve Rogers, Thor, the Hulk, Nebula - all had fulfilling arcs that left us wanting more. Hos...

Welcome to our first History in Movies podcast! Gil and Rutger break down three movies about the classical period, to learn more about Ancient Greece, about the time that the movies were made, and about how things look different today. For this podcast episode, we review the movies Troy, 300 and Alexander. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. To support the podcast, go to o...

We're launching our new podcast series of social justice on screen with Eliana Cohen, breaking down one of the best shows of all time, Breaking Bad, as a predictive cultural event that is about angry middle-aged white men who feel that the world has been taken away from them. When Walter White learns that he has cancer, he resorts to violence, which only grows as the story moves forward. Yet still...

Welcome to our first Marvelous podcast series! Novelist, writing professor and literature professor Theo Gangi joins Gil to break down Marvel movies from every direction, angle and point of view we want/can: mythology, psychology, personal, and comic. In this podcast, we look at the villain of Avengers Infinity War, Thanos, through the lens of Joseph Cambell's Hero's Journey, a widely used arc in...