It’s Society by Necessity in the face of prison, frontier violence, and alien creatures.

Butch and Sundance couldn’t run forever. Neither could the people of Days of Heaven or Separate Tables.

Murderers most foul wins the fair lady’s heart in Badlands and Shadow of a Doubt.

Stereotypes of the South abound, obviously. Tim and Matt look at three movies that double-down on some perceptions and subvert others in honest representations of the South.

Rants impending! Forrest Gump’s employment of history leads to discussion of (good) historicism in Meek’s Cutoff and Zodiac.

All the President’s Men is about some famous journalists. The journalists in Reds and Broadcast News are less famous but just as illustrative of the constant challenges of Journalism.

Everyone loves confronting their own disposability and the ways in which they service large, malicious systems!

The Apartment shows Christmas going on no matter how blue or ignored someone may be. Tim introduces 3 Godfathers and Three Days of the Condor as other Blue Christmas movies.

After the requisite Carol Channing doing Spartacus impressions, Tim and Matt discuss a few famously eccentric and distinctive directors working Out of Type in the aforementioned Spartacus by Kubrick, John Carpenter’s Starman, and David Lynch’s The Straight Story.

Sunrise prompts this week’s topic of couples taken to the brink, the Journey to Tilsit, in Dodsworth and Before Midnight.

There’s a special relationship between ship and captain. Or ship and James Cameron in the case of Titanic. Join us to hear Tim unveil the symbiosis of ships and their inhabitants in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Master and Commander.

We work hard to not mock the category and, instead, look to the generational pain presented in Easy Rider, Shampoo, and Modern Romance to see where it all went wrong for Boomers. One generation cannot escape our mockery, though. Listen in to find out which.

After giggling about Marx Bros one-liners, Tim and Matt discuss the heft of a well-placed Musical Interlude via Short Cuts and Anatomy of a Murder.

Whether you’re in Vietnam, a 19th century land war, or space, a good Classical Needledrop can really enhance and recontextualize proceedings. We look at some particularly weighty Needledrops here.

Listen to find out what (well-meaning) white savior Henry Fonda, quipster Tevye, and artiste Remy have in common…Persuasion!

After we pine a bit for good screwball, Tim talks Patrician Romances and the many contours of relationships across Bringing Up Baby, Heaven Can Wait, and Craig’s Wife.

Do you remember first seeing the twist in The Sixth Sense? Join us as we discuss its wide-ranging impact and then consider various portions of Pennsylvania as place and the emotional nuance the state can lend.