Episode 544: Russia is Like Down-Town Abbey
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle the return of Michael B. Jordan and Sylvester Stallone in “Creed II.”
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Episode 512: Man-on-Bambi Violence
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we look back at a classic: The 1999 animated film “The Iron Giant.”
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Episode 505: A Buddhist Excellence of Sex Spying
On the Podcast, we tackle the post-cold war thriller “Red Sparrow,” starring Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian spy.
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Is Civilization Still Relevant?
Have cultural and geopolitical changes rendered the Civilization series obsolete?
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Civ25: The Changing Stakes of Civilization
What does the evolution of the Civilization franchise over the past 25 years tell us about how world politics have changed during that time?
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Stranger Things and The Looming Specter of Nuclear Winter
The alternate universe in Netflix’s hit series gives us a chilling glimpse of another way the 1980s could have turned out.
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Episode 375: Because I Could Not Stop for Lunch, Lunch Kindly Stopped for Me
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle Guy Ritchie’s “The Man from U.N.C.L.E.”
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X-Men: Tinker, Xavier, Lensherr, Spy
X-Men: First Class is a story about two spies who happen to be mutants.
Episode 71: War on Cold
The Overthinkers tackle cold war pop culture in light of the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Cowboys, Communists, and Capitalists in Stoli’s Wild Wild East
What do cowboys, communists, and capitalists have in common (aside from the letter C)?
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