PSYOP CINEMA

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• Ep.97- The Firm, with Steven DeLay (Surveillance Cinema 3)
  Steven Delay returns to our Surveillance Cinema series for a discussion of Sydney Pollack’s 1993 legal thriller The Firm, starring Tom Cruise. We first spend some time on Pollack’s background, including his established Mossad connections and the themes of his 1975 paranoid spy thriller Three Days of the Condor, which had significant CIA involvement in… Read more: Ep.97- The Firm, with Steven DeLay (Surveillance Cinema 3)
• Ep.96 – Eddington, Bugonia, and Beau is Afraid, with Travis Mateer
  After many requests for this analysis, Thomas is joined by Travis Mateer to cover Eddington, Ari Aster’s 2025 neo-Western political satire and early-Covid period piece. We break down the film’s portrayal of technology, social media, conspiracy theories, Covid, Wokeness, and data collection, situating its messaging within the context of the cultural transitions and inter-elite warfare… Read more: Ep.96 – Eddington, Bugonia, and Beau is Afraid, with Travis Mateer
• 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)

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