Latest Episodes
- Ep.95 – Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone 6)After his hyper-sus digression of Talk Radio (1988), we return to the thematic focus that defined this era of Olive Stone’s career. He continues to explore the ghosts of the 1960s with Born on the Fourth of July, his 1989 anti-war drama starring Tom Cruise. We keep analyzing Stone’s treatments of religion, sexuality, war, and… Read more: Ep.95 – Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone 6)
- Suddenly (Research Report 8, Preview)A preview clip from Brett’s recent deep dive into the 1954 film Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra as a mob hitman hired to assassinate a US president. The full Patreon-exclusive episode is a supplement to both our Joker Cycle series and our recent episode on The Manchurian Candidate. Brett uncovers the source of the legend that Lee… Read more: Suddenly (Research Report 8, Preview)
- Ep. 94 – True Detective: Night Country, with Jamie Hanshaw DyerReturning to True Detective, Thomas is joined by Jamie Hanshaw Dyer to analyze the controversial fourth season, Night Country, which takes a much less subtle approach in its psy-op messaging than any previous season. They describe its occult feminist inversions of the first season and how Night Country promotes the dissolution of both familial and… Read more: Ep. 94 – True Detective: Night Country, with Jamie Hanshaw Dyer
Episode Archive
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Ep. 86 – Drive, with Steven DeLay
Steven DeLay joins Thomas for a conversation about the 2011 film Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling. Analyzing the subversive and psyop-heavy intentions behind the movie, they conclude that Drive retains some profoundly redemptive qualities despite those designs. Topics of discussion include Refn’s outspoken allegiance to the cult of the divine…
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The Writer With No Hands, with Matthew Alford (on William Ramsey Investigates)
Brett recently made an appearance on William Ramsey Investigates with top Hollywood-DC researcher and writer Matthew Alford to discuss the murder of deep state-connected Hollywood screenwriter Gary DeVore. Brett interviewed Alford about his 2016 book on the DeVore case—The Writer with No Hands—for the latest issue of Cultural Engineering Studies. The discussion on the show…
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Ep.85 – Fantasy Mind Control, with Monarch Survivor Carrie Olaje
A discussion with Carrie Olaje, a survivor of ritual abuse and trauma-based mind control. Carrie provides names, dates, and locations, as she describes how she was primed from a young age for Monarch slavery, with a former Sergeant Major of the US Army as her handler. She and Brett talk about the nature and history…
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Ep.84 – Enemy of the State, with Steven DeLay (Surveillance Cinema 1)
Brett, Thomas, and Steven have a comprehensive discussion of the 1998 Tony Scott film Enemy of the State, a movie with an underrated amount of conspiratorial significance. Scott is among the all-time best examples of intimate Hollywood/DC collaborations, and the film is the paradigmatic instance of predictive programming, for both 9/11 and the rise of…
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Ep. 83 – Joker: Folie à Deux
Our long-awaited analysis of Joker: Folie à Deux, a film so sadistic that even mainstream critics noted its contempt for its audience. In one of the ultimate exercises in Hollywood hypocrisy, the movie seeks to reinforce the psy-op of the 2019 film while simultaneously morally condemning the audience for falling for that psy-op. We analyze…
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Ep. 82 – Angel Heart, with Sean McCann and Hans Utter
Brett and Thomas are joined by Sean McCann and Dr. Hans Utter for a deep dive into Angel Heart, a mystery horror movie released in 1987, directed by Alan Parker and starring Mickey Rourke and Robert De Niro. Set in New Orleans in 1955, the film is a Faustian tale about the disappearance of a…
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Ep.80 – Occult Origins (Oliver Stone 1)
The first episode in an extended series about Oliver Stone. Despite Stone being known for political films that deal with recent American history, his first two directorial efforts are surprisingly strange horror movies. Our discussion of Seizure and The Hand takes us directly into analysis of Hollywood occult ideology about the power of the imagination.…
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Ep. 79 – The Password Is Fidelio: The Final Secrets of Stanley Kubrick
Sean McCann returns to Psyop Cinema to unveil the Fidelio Experiment—which, we are quite confident, is not only the state-of-the-art in occult Kubrick studies but the key to unlocking the final secrets of the cinematic master. Sean first takes us through his long investigative journey, including his previous milestone, “The Butterfly Net,” and explains how…
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Ep. 78 – A Hidden Life, with Steven DeLay (Malick 9)
The concluding episode of our series with Steven DeLay on the films of Terrence Malick. Thomas gives a speculative explanation for why Voyage of Time (2016) was so unwatchably bad. We have an extended discussion about the beautiful depiction of Christian martyrdom in Malick’s 2019 film A Hidden Life, which portrays the life of Franz…
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Ukraine as Cultural Engineering Laboratory (on William Ramsey Investigates)
Thomas goes on William Ramsey Investigates to discuss his essay “A Digital State: Ukraine as Cultural Engineering Laboratory,” written for issue #1 of Cultural Engineering Studies magazine. Thomas describes the dozens of music videos filmed in the last couple decades in Kiev by highly sus Western artists, which frequently feature occult and trauma-based mind control…