The Overthinkers tackle Shana Mlawski’s Hammer of Witches and subversive genre fiction.
Episode 251: Christopher Columbus’s Zodiac Pontoon Boat
History on Overthinking It
Episode 231: They Did Go Hungry Again
The Overthinkers tackle Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln, starring Daniel Day Lewis.
Episode 120: Magical Realist Jackass-scape
The Overthinkers Tackle the 20th anniversary of IMDb, Jackass 3D, high-culture fart jokes, and mortification of the flesh.
A People’s History of the NYPD: Howard Zinn, The Other Guys and the Cinema of the Unsung
Episode 23: Heaven is Other People
Sheely and Wrather discuss The Sid and Maxxie/Anwar episodes of Skins, focusing on false autonomy, post-Soviet Russia, realist and transnational views of the international system, and child brides.
The Age of Iron: What Iron Man 2 is Really About
America’s Sacrifice: How the USA Saved Popular Culture by Avoiding the Metric System
Episode 81: The Arsenio Hall Show
The Overthinkers tackle the Golden Globes, the late night debacle (big winner: Arsenio), and the misattribution of agency.
The In-Crank-rial Revolution
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in a three-picture deal with points off the domestic gross
How to “Successfully” Assassinate a Dictator
A comparison of “Valkyrie” to a film about the “successful” assassination of Korean President Park Chung-Hee, “The President’s Last Bang.”