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  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Ep. 94 – True Detective: Night Country, with Jamie Hanshaw Dyer

    Returning 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…

  • Ep.93 – Clint Eastwood and The Outlaw Josey Wales, with Jason McGinty

    Brett and Thomas are joined by Jason McGinty, author of The Unsung Substack, for a discussion of both Clint Eastwood’s 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales and Eastwood’s broader persona. We talk about the movie’s use of the Lost Cause narrative about the Civil War, with Jason providing his expertise on the historical backdrop of…

  • Ep.92 – Sneakers (Surveillance Cinema 2)

    In the second installment of our Surveillance Cinema series, we are joined by citizen journalist Travis Mateer for a discussion of Sneakers, a 1992 comedy heist thriller, directed by Phil Alden Robinson and starring Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley. Among the most conspiratorially significant films of all time, Sneakers is an overt vehicle for globalist…

  • Ep.91 – Talk Radio (Oliver Stone 5)

    Continuing our Oliver Stone series, we analyze the psy-ops within his 1988 film Talk Radio. Starring and co-written by Eric Bogossian, this film is strangely out of place in this era of Stone’s filmography, and we discuss why Stone was led to direct such an unusually impersonal film. Based in large part on the career…

  • Ep. 90 – The Manchurian Candidate, with William Ramsey

    Brett and Thomas have William Ramsey on to discuss The Manchurian Candidate, one of the most iconic cinematic depictions of mind control. We analyze the movie’s abundant revelation of the method and misdirection. Other topics of discussion include the deep political context behind this film and similar movies and the strangeness surrounding the JFK assassination…

  • Ep. 89 – Wall Street (Oliver Stone 4)

    With Wall Street (1987), Oliver Stone continues both his search for the figure of the “good father” and his consideration of the legacy of 1960s idealism, this time through a critique of 1980s economic greed. We discuss those themes and how the movie is largely a limited hangout, with Gordon Gekko functioning as a fall…

  • Ep.88 – True Detective Season 3, with Steven DeLay

    Thomas and Steven return to True Detective, analyzing season 3, where the series goes full psyop. Despite the positive and ambiguous qualities of the first two seasons, this one is filled with MK-culture tropes, featuring a narrative that blends mind control subtext with anti-conspiratorial misdirection and audience disorientation. They also discuss the philosophical statement concerning…

  • Labyrinth (Monarch 15), Preview

    A section analyzing David Bowie, from the 15th installment of Brett’s Patreon-exclusive series on Monarch films. Full description of the episode below, along with our Patreon link, if you’re interested in the full episode.  In this 15th installment in the Monarch series, Brett delves into the Jim Henson-directed children’s film Labyrinth (1986)—a film so saturated…

  • Ep.87 – Platoon (Oliver Stone 3)

    Continuing our Oliver Stone series, we turn to Platoon (1986), the film that established Stone as a superstar director and inaugurated the most celebrated phase of his career, revolving around the ghosts of the 1960s. Brett discusses the reception of Platoon in terms of the cultural politics of New Hollywood and of the Reagan era,…

  • NASA and Hollywood, Part 2 (on William Ramsey Investigates)

    In his latest appearance on William Ramsey Investigates, Brett discusses Part 2 of his Hollywood-NASA research report, which appeared this June in the second issue of Cultural Engineering Studies. After giving an overview of his groundbreaking research on the topic, Brett supports his conclusion that NASA’s partnership with the entertainment industry has always been a…