EL Conde (2023) and The Wolf House (2018)|The Horror of Pinochet's Legacy
For this episode, we did a double-feature of horror(ish) movies dealing with the Chile in the shadow of Pinochet's coup. First up: Pablo Larrain's 2023 horror-comedy El Conde, which sees Pinochet, as an undead vampire, wrestling with his own legacy. And then we watched The Wolf House by directors...
The Mother and The Bear - Director Johnny Ma
After 26-year-old Sumi suffers an accident on the streets of wintry Winnipeg, her overbearing mother Sara (Kim Ho-jung) flies in from Seoul to be by her now comatose daughter's side. Desperate to ensure Sumi will have someone to look after her in the future, Sara embarks on a mission to catfish a...
"No god but God" Twentieth Anniversary
Reza Aslan’s No god but God, a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, just celebrated its 20th anniversary. With the book, Dr. Aslan attempted to explain Islam, in all its beauty and complexity, just 4 years after 9/11. On this episode we will explore the American religious landscape at that...
The Roses (Jay Roach, 2025).
Hello there and a very happy 2026 to you all. Today we're taking a look back at the films we saw and the converstations we had in 2025, as well as taking a look forward to what we have in store for 2026. We'll be talking about the films we loved, as well as well as speculating on what the summer ...
77. El Conde (2023) with Tony Black
[8x7] We're back for Pablo Larrain's alternate history of Chilean dictator (and vampire?) General Pinochet; a black comedy horror film that mixes real-world politics with the supernatural. It's El Conde. Does anyone care for a liquidised heart? Making another return to Vampire Videos to explore t...
Borgen on Greenland (#6)
Mark and Cory talk about Scandi Ballot Box dramas for the first time. They discuss the Borgen episode in which there are revelations about how Greenland is being used for CIA rendition programmes. They talk about whether photogenic politicians giving inspirational speeches is all that’s needed to...
No (#7)
Cory and Mark talk about the political film that's probably most likely to be accidentally bought on Amazon: Pablo Larrain's No. It's about a referendum, and one with several parallels with the Brexit vote. Mark fact checks Cory on a number of occasions, they discuss how successful campaigns alwa...
Episode 237: A Nation Wrestles with God
This week, religion scholars Reza Aslan and Ilan Stavans sit down with Emily D. Crews to discuss their new anthology, A Nation Wrestles with God: American Prophets, Philosophers, and Firebrands, a historic collection of the radicals and freethinkers that sparked a country's journey through divini...
FIRF #13 - El Conde
The thirteenth installment of Fresh Immigrants, Rotten Fascists takes us to Chile, where infamous dictator Augusto Pinochet is revealed to be a vampire. Just another off-kilter biopic from Pablo Larrain, the man who brought us Jackie, Spencer, and now… EL CONDE.Thank you for checking this new pro...
