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Engelsk
USA
109 episoder
siden 22. juni 2021
episodic
eksplicit indhold

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Sony’s Spider-Man Universe tried to build a connected franchise around Spider-Man villains and supporting characters... without Spider-Man. In this episode of Second Cut, we revisit Madame Web and Kraven the Hunter to ask why Sony’s spin-offs never became a functioning cinematic universe and why ma…

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Pedro Almodóvar can move from drug-taking nuns and a pet tiger to surgical body horror and an aging filmmaker confronting his past without losing his unmistakable voice. Jacob, Sam, and Kieran trace that voice across Dark Habits, The Skin I Live In, and Pain and Glory. They explore Almodóvar’s eme…
Sam Neill became a movie icon as Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park, but his career stretched across New Zealand and Australian cinema, Hollywood spectacle, psychological horror, comedy, and character drama. In this episode of Second Cut, we remember Neill through two of his most revealing performance…
Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey turns Homer’s homecoming epic into a test of what war does to the hero who survives it. In this solo episode, Jacob reviews the film with full spoilers, discussing its IMAX cinematography and formats, historical accuracy, production design, Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway,…
Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy reshaped superhero movies through realism, moral seriousness, practical spectacle, and a post-9/11 vision of Gotham. In this episode of Second Cut, we revisit Batman Begins, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises to ask what Nolan’s grounded approach accomplis…
Greek mythology has always been adaptation: Homer reworked older stories, Euripides reframed the fall of Troy through the women left behind, and Hollywood keeps turning gods, monsters, heroes, and wars into new cinematic myths. In this episode of Second Cut, we look at Greek mythology movies throug…
Hitchcock is a perfect director for queer-coding conversations because his movies already live in the space between what is visible and what is hidden. His thrillers are full of secrets, doubles, coded behavior, dangerous intimacy, social performance, and people trying to keep private desires from …
Classic Hollywood cinema wasn’t empty of queer stories. Under the Hays Code, filmmakers just had to make audiences work for the subtext. In this episode of Second Cut, Jacob, Sam, and Kieran look at queer coding in classic Hollywood through Dracula’s Daughter (1936), The Uninvited (1944), and Tea a…
Adventure cinema has often made empire look romantic: faraway lands, lost treasure, noble explorers, dangerous “savages,” and white men discovering themselves in places they intend to control. In this episode of Second Cut, we look at imperial romance and colonial nostalgia through The Drum, King …
Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi is more terrifying than its reputation for wonder suggests.In this episode of Second Cut, we look at Close Encounters of the Third Kind, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, and War of the Worlds to trace Spielberg’s darker science-fiction mode: UFO obsession, family breakdown, a…
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