Episode 598: We Managed to Answer Three Questions
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we answer questions from listeners.
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Episode 538: The Dead Author of Your Own Fiction
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we talk the famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Darmok,” less than one month after its twenty-seventh anniversary. (Just go with it.)
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Episode 282: Panatlanticism
On the TFT Podcast, we listen to and discuss Wyclef Jean’s 1997 solo debut, “The Carnival.”
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Episode 439: Arrival Both Goes Big and Goes Home
On the Overthinking It Podcast we tackle Arrival, the mindbending sci-fi mystery film starring Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner.
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“Movies” vs. “Films” in Oscar Speeches, 2005-2014
Is it useful or constructive to have a shorthand way of distinguishing between popular cinema versus arthouse cinema?
She, Her, Hers
Who is Spike Jonze’s “Her” really about?
When Your PC isn’t PC
Video games, “political correctness,” and hegemonic discourse.
“The Avengers” vs. “The Revengers”
Why aren’t they called “The Revengers”?
Words are Wind: Repetition of Language in A Dance With Dragons
An author doesn’t repeat a phrase thirteen times unless he wants you to notice it.
TJ Maxx Flunks Old School
Saying things incorrectly in a way people don’t generally say them isn’t being linguistically progressive, it’s just being ignorant.