Michael and Us

Before he was the President's attorney, he was America's Mayor. Made not long after 9/11 briefly turned Giuliani into on... Read more

In our Halloween spooktacular, we look back at the Reagan/Bush era via the Bush/Cheney era via DONNIE DARKO (2001).

Terry Gilliam sought to update George Orwell for the 1980s with his career-defining film BRAZIL (1985), but his future d... Read more

Two years before 9/11, and nine years before the financial collapse, AMERICAN BEAUTY gazed upon the End of History and s... Read more

After the upheaval of 1968, Jean-Luc Godard said goodbye to commercial cinema to create a new kind of radical Marxist fi... Read more

Every hero has a journey. Every journey has an end. As if anticipating the FINAL EPISODE of this podcast, Michael Moore ... Read more

Released shortly before the 2004 election, GOING UPRIVER: THE LONG WAR OF JOHN KERRY was both a rebuttal to the Swift Bo... Read more

You know it. You love. You hate it. You love to hate it, and vice versa. It's THE WEST WING, the show that helped set th... Read more

In his 2013 documentary THE UNKNOWN KNOWN, legendary filmmaker Errol Morris tried to do to Donald Rumsfeld what he did t... Read more

Between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the War on Terror, James Bond went on a mission to find... relevance. We wa... Read more

With Biden's victory all but confirmed, we discuss the aftermath of the U.S. presidential election: the narratives being... Read more

An environmental catastrophe has hit Springfield! This week we're joined by Henry Gilbert and Bob Mackey of the TALKING ... Read more

Luke and Will welcome back conspiracy expert Alex Ross to discuss the Citizen Kane of 9/11 Truther documentaries, and wh... Read more

In 1968, right-wing William F. Buckley and left-wing Gore Vidal feuded for 10 nights on TV. The 2015 documentary BEST OF... Read more

What is "good" conservative art? And does it even matter when the result is a movie that turned Chris Kyle into a right-... Read more

Past guest Alex Ross returns to the podcast to discuss the "1984" of the Bush era, V FOR VENDETTA. Plus: our heroes anal... Read more

After departing Vice Media, but before becoming an alt-right superstar, ageing provocateur Gavin McInnes tried his hand ... Read more

In the early 2000s, Rick Mercer -- Canada's own Jon Stewart -- travelled to the United States to ask them about Canada. ... Read more

Every generation gets the Archie Bunker it deserves, folks. The recent cancellation of Tim Allen's right-wing sitcom LAS... Read more

Before he became a conservative warrior, John Rambo was just a mixed-up vet. We're joined by Jacobin deputy editor Micah... Read more