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I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things: Hit Man // Furiosa

I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things: Hit Man // Furiosa

Where do we go, we who wander this film podcast wasteland, in search of our better episodes? Spoiling Things has a new home on Step Printed, and Stephen and Vaughn reopen everyone's favorite bar and grill at the peak of the Citadel to talk about every fortress of

The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed: Modern Romance

The Feeling That the Time For Doing Something Has Passed: Modern Romance

It’s an easy feeling to have. Whether it’s one that permeates your entire being or one that just occasionally drifts through the mind, it’s an undeniable experience. That some part of life is just already gone. Opportunity missed. Maybe life is just sort of unremarkable. Dreary days

Throw Down: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Throw Down: The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Nearly two decades after the conclusion of the original Matrix trilogy, after initially expressing an explicit intent to leave the story where it ended, Lana Wachowski returned to her world of cyberpunk and philosophy as a way to process grief and to protect her IP from corporate bastardization. The result

MoviePass, MovieCrash: Late Stage Infinite Growth

MoviePass, MovieCrash: Late Stage Infinite Growth

In August 2017, when MoviePass lowered its prices to $9.95 a month, it was the greatest thing to happen to the moviegoing experience in a long time. For most people who were starting to get priced out of going to the theater regularly, it was a no brainer. Being

Throw Down: The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Throw Down: The Matrix Revolutions (2003)

Picking up mere moments from where The Matrix Reloaded left off, the sweeping conclusion to the Matrix trilogy weaves a now expansive mythology into its towering climax. Unexpected and dizzying in its complex narrative developments and operatic action sequences that fulfill the destiny of Neo, the triumph of love over

Throw Down: The Animatrix (2003)

Throw Down: The Animatrix (2003)

While in Japan promoting The Matrix, the Wachowskis met many of the legendary animators whose work had influenced their cyberpunk masterpiece, and began a journey to collaborate with them on a series of animated shorts that would expand the universe of The Matrix. The Animatrix, released in 2003 between The

Chime: It Tolls For Thee

Chime: It Tolls For Thee

It’s a dull hum. A distant ringing. Like a wistful, lingering doorbell, fuzzy and familiar. A sound you’ve heard a thousand times, a beacon of modern existence, these sonic signatures that begin to sand down the folds of the mind. The thrum of the train, the clattering of