Oh no Scott Calvin (maybe) killed Santa Claus and now through the power of legally binding contracts he has to become the Big Man himself! Will the power of belief triumph over police and psychiatry? Who will be crowned champion of the elves-only cocoa-making competition? Who are those puppets hanging out in Santa&#39;s room? All this and more!!

<description>&lt;p&gt;Oh no Scott Calvin (maybe) killed Santa Claus and now through the power of legally binding contracts he has to become the Big Man himself! Will the power of belief triumph over police and psychiatry? Who will be crowned champion of the elves-only cocoa-making competition? Who are those puppets hanging out in Santa&amp;#39;s room? All this and more!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>

155. The Santa Clause (w/ Emily St. James)

Join us and <a href="https://www.brianna-ashby.com/" rel="nofollow">Brianna Ashby</a> (<a href="https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/" rel="nofollow">Bright Wall / Dark Room</a>) to discuss 2001&#39;s AMELIE! We discuss loneliness, color theory, mediated interactions, breaking through stasis, and whether this is a post-COVID movie made before COVID!

<description>&lt;p&gt;Join us and &lt;a href="https://www.brianna-ashby.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Brianna Ashby&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://www.brightwalldarkroom.com/" rel="nofollow"&gt;Bright Wall / Dark Room&lt;/a&gt;) to discuss 2001&amp;#39;s AMELIE! We discuss loneliness, color theory, mediated interactions, breaking through stasis, and whether this is a post-COVID movie made before COVID! &lt;/p&gt;</description>

154. Amelie (w/ Brianna Ashby)

We are joined by Sam Liao (Philosophy, University of Puget Sound) to discuss our first animated film on the show: Isao Takahata&#39;s Grave of the Fireflies! We discuss childhood, innocence, war, societal collapse, and much more!

<description>&lt;p&gt;We are joined by Sam Liao (Philosophy, University of Puget Sound) to discuss our first animated film on the show: Isao Takahata&amp;#39;s Grave of the Fireflies! We discuss childhood, innocence, war, societal collapse, and much more! &lt;/p&gt;</description>

153. Grave of the Fireflies (w/ Sam Liao)

We sit down with Rachel Fraser (MIT, Philosophy) to discuss Bong Joon Ho&#39;s Academy Award winning movie PARASITE! What do Freud, Jane Eyre, and Marx have to do with a movie about three families in South Korea? Psychoanalysis, transgression, class consciousness, ideology, ghosts, Hitchcock, and lots more!

<description>&lt;p&gt;We sit down with Rachel Fraser (MIT, Philosophy) to discuss Bong Joon Ho&amp;#39;s Academy Award winning movie PARASITE! What do Freud, Jane Eyre, and Marx have to do with a movie about three families in South Korea? Psychoanalysis, transgression, class consciousness, ideology, ghosts, Hitchcock, and lots more!&lt;/p&gt;</description>

152. Parasite (w/ Rachel Fraser)

Continuing spooky season, we sit down with Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) to discuss found footage horror and the now-classic entry into the genre, REC! We discuss why this isn&#39;t &#34;found footage&#34;(!) although it is diegetic camera horror, and how the film uses the limited perspective to shape our identification with its characters. Don&#39;t go in the attic!!

<description>&lt;p&gt;Continuing spooky season, we sit down with Pete Turner (Oxford Brookes University) to discuss found footage horror and the now-classic entry into the genre, REC! We discuss why this isn&amp;#39;t &amp;#34;found footage&amp;#34;(!) although it is diegetic camera horror, and how the film uses the limited perspective to shape our identification with its characters. Don&amp;#39;t go in the attic!!&lt;/p&gt;</description>

151. Rec (w/ Pete Turner)

A movie podcast inspired by a Werner Herzog quote, “We have to articulate ourselves, otherwise we would be cows in the field.” Hosted by Justin Khoo (professor of philosophy at MIT) and Laura Khoo (art historian turned fundraiser).

Cows in the field

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