Cinema Studious

This week on Cinema Studious we revisit The Big Chill and read it as a subtly prescient political satire, one that, along with Socko, poses the question, "Why do you rich fucking white people insist on seeing every sociopolitical conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization?" Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Follow us on Instag...

Cinema Studious is back and talking about the plot and production of A Time to Kill . We talk with Randy Jackson, an extra in the film, who is now incarcerated and whose crime that led to incarceration began with his participation in the film.  Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Follow us on Instagram:@CinemaStudious Email us at: cinemastudiou...

This week Interstellar gets its groove back as we discuss its blatant coloniality and techno-optimism. Is this movie a bold reinvigoration of human ingenuity or one big colonial cumshot? Find out this week on Cinema Studious. (It’s the second one.)  Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Follow us on Instagram:@CinemaStudious Email us at: cinemast...

Travel with us to the Amish paradise of Peter Weir's Witness , a subtly self-aware cultural kamikaze of a film that we dare to suggest is not very much like Austin Powers. Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Follow us on Instagram:@CinemaStudious Email us at: cinemastudious@gmail.com Original music by Sam Underland: sam.underland@icloud.com Sources...

Join us for spaghetti and some "normal conversation! weather conversation!" about John Cassavetes' unconsciously ecologically fraught A Woman Under the Influence (1974). Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Follow us on Instagram:@CinemaStudious Email us at: cinemastudious@gmail.com Original music by Sam Underland: sam.underland@icloud.com Sources fo...

In the first installment of our DCOMmentary series, we discuss a cult classic feminist fable and its surprisingly sophisticated critique of repressive rationality. Join us as we dig into one of the hallowed movies that weaned us:  Halloweentown . Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Follow us on Instagram:@CinemaStudious Email us at: cinemastudi...

Hide your cats, hide your dogs. Cinema Studious is following JD Vance’s advice and creating stories. This one’s about a sycophancy-pants politician who likes to take advantage of miners. Join us as we discuss Vance’s moronic memoir and Ron Howard’s middle-minded movie of it. Where, we ask, can authenticity be found in contemporary politics? Our answer: up your butt and around the corner. Featuring...

Uber Eats but for art, says Kornbluh. Art as a blacked-out zoom call, we say—all content, no form. Join us wolves as we cry to the Kornbluh moon about the style of too-late capitalism called Immediacy . Featuring discussion of Wes Anderson, Bo Burnham, Baby Reindeer , and reconsiderations of The Truman Show and The Shawshank Redemption. Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Unde...

Pull up a chair, those pants, and yourself by your bootstraps and strap in as we victimize the victim-blaming, cacophonous, Reagan-rally clusterfuck that is Lean on Me . Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Subscribe on Patreon . Follow us on Instagram:@CinemaStudious Email us at: cinemastudious@gmail.com Original music by Sam Underland: sam.underlan...

Join us as we discuss the latent MAGA heart of The Equalizer , the According to Jim /James Bond crossover that is Nobody , and the John Wick-y Wild Wild Wests of the "return of the repressed badass." Cinema Studious is written, recorded, and hosted by Will Underland and Jency Wilson. Subscribe on Patreon . Follow us on Instagram:@CinemaStudious Email us at: cinemastudious@gmail.com Original music...