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Look, either you know what this is or you won't believe us. In 2017, Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon made a murder mystery show that was an app on your phone. You used your phone to decide which scenes to watch next to find out who killed Sharon Stone. This is real. Then they re-edited it as a miniseries for HBO, and now you can't watch the app version literally anywhere. The whole thing is nuts, and thank G-d we have our friend Comrade Yui to help us navigate through it (app joke). Join us for a typically wide-ranging conversation about interactivity, the artist as fascist (complimentary?), video game theory, and biodigital jazz, man. Hey more like Steven Flappybird! Because he deleted the app! Well, someone did.
Further Reading:
Extra Lives by Tom Bissell
Cain's Jawbone by Torquemada
"Interactive Cinema: The Ambiguous Ethics of Media Participation" by Marina Hassapoulou - https://filmquarterly.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Hassapopoulou_Interactive_Introduction-1.pdf
"Mosaic: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Review of Steven Soderbergh's Mystery" by Matt Brennan - https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/mosaic/mosaic-hbo-steven-soderbergh-review
Further Viewing/Playing:
MOSAIC trailer/app demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km_u51OE3VA
KINOAUTOMAT (Činčera, 1967)
OUT 1 (Rivette, 1971)
ZORK (Anderson, Blank, Daniels, and Lebling, 1977)
DRAGON'S LAIR (Bluth, 1983)
CLUE (Lynn, 1985)
MASS EFFECT 2 (Hudson, 2010)
BLACK MIRROR: BANDERSNATCH (Slade, 2018) 
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You voted, we watched! For our third Listener Choice episode, we jumped in the saddle to talk OPEN RANGE, Kevin Costner's 2003 Lauran Paine adaptation that he seemed to think would be his UNFORGIVEN. We disagree! To the many Costnerds among you, we apologize in advance - but this thing ain't UNFORGIVEN, let me tell ya. We talk free grazing, mythmaking, saving dogs, and the wonderful Robert Duvall and Michael Jeter.
Avatar: The Last Annettebender. Is that anything? Let us know.
As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.
Produced by Jake Serwin & Ian Rhine. Edited by Ryan Torgeson.

The Winds of Winter is still a distant dream for incarcerated fantasy fans, but our episode on Soderbergh's 2017 NASCAR caper LOGAN LUCKY is coming to you on schedule. We brought back our friend, and rebel among San Diego film critics, Glenn Heath Jr. to discuss how Ocean's 7-Eleven combines Soderbergh's impatience with conventional film production, his visions of an incongruous South, and his preternatural flair for heist movies. It might be a live-action cartoon or it might be serious American Regionalism. We lay it all out for you in what Sebastian Stan has called "the dirtiest air of all."
Further Reading:
"Will Soderbergh's Strategy of Bypassing the Studio System...,"  by Ryan Faughnder
Prison Life Unlocked by Phillip Vance Smith Jr. 
"Former Coal Towns Get Money from Clean-Energy Factories," by Hiroko Tabuchi 
"How an Ex-Coal Mining Town is Turning to Ecotourism," by Emily Cataneo
"For Black NASCAR Fans, Change Would Mean Feeling at Ease," by Andrew Keh
Further Viewing:
RAISING ARIZONA (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1987)
BOTTLE ROCKET (Wes Anderson, 1996)
TALLADEGA NIGHTS: THE BALLAD OF RICKY BOBBY (Adam McKay, 2006)
BERNIE (Richard Linklater, 2011)
Follow Glenn Heath Jr.:
His Twitter
Digital Gym Cinema
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Pacific Arts Movement
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As promised, we decided to dig in on last year's Best Picture winner and one of the most-discussed Political Films to come out of Hollywood in a long time: Paul Thomas Anderson's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER. And of course we roped in our buddy Ryan Torgeson, formerly of the Altmania podcast, who has maybe more context for this film than anyone we know. We talk about whether the film has a coherent politics and what that might be, the film's depiction of Black women, the "discourse" that most pissed us off, being the child of radical parents, and of course how many beers we've had (and their relative size). Really great conversation, check it out!
follow Ryan: https://x.com/molecularlioneI
"Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another" by Angelica Jade Bastién - https://www.vulture.com/article/black-actresses-are-carrying-one-battle-after-another.html
Mother Country Radicals podcast - https://crooked.com/podcast-series/mother-country-radicals/
As always, thank you to Jetski for our theme music and Jeremy Allison for our artwork.

Scrub in, folks - we're headed back to the operating theater for the second and final season of The Knick! Doctors Thack and Edwards and the gang are up to even more bleak shenanigans this time, and we're talking about it all. It's a bonafide Pod Casty cornucopia of context as we chat medical hypnotism, eugenics, Black Nationalism, sideshows, addiction treatment, urban revival churches, condoms, New York City corruption, and a bunch of other stuff. Plus, Kimi's really one on this time.
Further Reading:
Soderbergh interview on AI by Brent Lang
Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance by Melinda Cooper
Melodrama and Modernity: Early Sensational Cinema and Its Contexts by Ben Singer
The Showman and the Slave: Race, Death, and Memory in Barnum's America by Benjamin Reiss
André Holland interview by Rodrigo Perez
"The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey" by Paul Prescod
"The Shadow of Booker T. Washington" by Jervis Anderson
"A Short History of the Condom" by Hallie Lieberman
"The Wedding Night" by Ida Craddock
Further Viewing:
THE MOSQUITO COAST (Weir, 1986)
MAD MEN (various, 2007)
J. EDGAR (Eastwood, 2011)
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