#671 - The Discreet Charm of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie
Set in a world of young people and old money, Whit Stillman's METROPOLITAN (1990) offers an affectionate but melancholic view of the elite. We sort through the layers of ambiguity in this charming ode to the "Urban Haute Bourgeoisie." PLUS: A spectre is haunting the world - the spectre of Jeffrey Epstein.
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"Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Israel" by Branko Marcetic - https://jacobin.com/2025/11/trump-epstein-israel-intelligence-blackmail
"The Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years: Metropolitan" by Mark Henrie - https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/3-best-conservative-movies-last-25-years-mark-henrie/
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PREVIEW - #670 - Space Oddity
A few years after Stanley Kubrick envisioned humankind ascending to a new plane with the dawn of space exploration, John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon's proudly low-budget DARK STAR (1974) imagined a working-class space odyssey. In space, no one can hear you feel exploited.
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#669 - Just a Slob Like One of Us
At the turn of the millennium, one New Jersey-based auteur nailed his 130 minutes' worth of theses on the Catholic Church's door. We discuss Kevin Smith's DOGMA (1999) - the much-maligned director's biggest swing for the fences. PLUS: Is there a revolt within the Conservative Party of Canada?
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TORONTO: See Will introduce Steven Seagal's On Deadly Ground at the Fox Theatre on Wednesday, November 19 - https://www.foxtheatre.ca/movies/important-cinema-club-on-deadly-ground/
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PREVIEW - #668 - At Long Last, the EDtv Episode
Long remembered as "The movie that isn't The Truman Show," Ron Howard EDtv (1999) imagined a world where an average guy became a 24/7 TV superstar. We examine how the ways in which this relic of the '90s did and did not anticipate reality TV, social media, and the current-day self-surveillance state.
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#667 - A War Room with a View
Just as Zohran Mamdani's New York mayoral campaign has written a new playbook for Democratic Party politics... we look back at the old playbook. We investigate THE RETURN OF THE WAR ROOM (2008), D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus's sequel to their 1993 documentary classic.
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Jack Califano's shots of CPAC - https://x.com/LukewSavage/status/1986174741481234616
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