Movies

Movies discussed on the Very Bad Wizards podcast.

The Wizard of Oz

Movie

Episode 300: If We Only Had A Brain

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Movie

Episode 295: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Oldboy

Movie

Episode 286: Laugh and the World Laughs With You

Burning

Movie

Episode 279: The Greenhouses We Burned Along the Way (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 2)

Burning

Movie

Episode 278: Schrödinger's Everything (Lee Chang-dong's "Burning" Pt. 1)

Spirited Away

Movie

Episode 273: Ah. Ah. (Miyazaki's "Spirited Away")

No Country for Old Men

Movie

Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")

2001

Movie

Episode 261: Death of the Author

The Irishman

Movie

Episode 261: Death of the Author

Tár

Movie

Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)

Stalker

Movie

Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild

Singing in the Rain

Movie

Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down

2001: A Space Odyssey

Movie

Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper

2001: A Space Odyssey

Movie

Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)

The Little Mermaid

Movie

Episode 245: Pragmatically Speaking

Eyes Wide Shut

Movie

Episode 241: Very Bad Orgies (Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut")

A Glitch in the Matrix

Movie

Episode 237: Glitches Ain't Shit

Crash

Movie

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Straw Dogs

Movie

Episode 231: Ideal Critics (Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste")

Melancholia

Movie

Episode 230: Be Happy (Lars von Trier's "Melancholia")

Primer

Movie

Episode 226: Unraveling Time Traveling (with Barry Lam and Christina Hoff Sommers)

Persona

Movie

Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

The Closer

Movie

Episode 223: The Hopeless Dream of Being (Bergman's "Persona")

Caché

Movie

Episode 218: ...But You Can't Hide (Michael Haneke's "Caché")

Ikiru

Movie

Episode 211: To Live and Die in Kurosawa's "Ikiru"

Room 237

Movie

Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray

The Shining

Movie

Episode 207: Sometimes a Paper Tray is Just a Paper Tray

I’m Thinking of Ending Things

Movie

Episode 197: The Long Slow Death That Is Life

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Bill & Ted Face the Music

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Friday

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Fantastic Planet

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

The Return of the Pink Panther

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Step Brothers

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

This Is the End

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

2001: A Space Odyssey

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Inherent Vice

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Playtime

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Spirited Away

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Dazed and Confused

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Jackie Brown

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

Tin Men

Movie

Episode 194: God Has No Mother (with Chris Matheson)

The Third Man

Movie

Episode 187: More Zither

A Serious Man

Movie

Episode 183: Accept the Mystery (with Paul Bloom)

High Life

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Midsommar

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Joker

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Under the Silver Lake

Movie

Episode 181: The Fraudulence Paradox (David Foster Wallace's "Good Old Neon")

Rashomon

Movie

Episode 180: Chekhov's Schrödinger's Dagger (Kurosawa's "Rashomon")

Joker

Movie

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

Falling Down

Movie

Episode 174: More Chiang for Your Buck ("Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" Pt. 2)

The Big Lebowski

Movie

Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Pulp Fiction

Movie

Episode 168: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 2)

Pulp Fiction

Movie

Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)

The Big Lebowski

Movie

Episode 167: The Big Lebowski vs Pulp Fiction (Pt. 1)

Vertigo

Movie

Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot

Relax

Movie

Episode 155: Alfred Hitchcock's Money Shot

A Clockwork Orange

Movie

Episode 151: Viddy Well, My Listeners (Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange")

Sorry to Bother You

Movie

Episode 145: Lost in Borges' Garden

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Movie

Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

The Science of Sleep

Movie

Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

Be Kind Rewind

Movie

Episode 138: Memory, Pain, and Relationships (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)

The Usual Suspects

Movie

Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity

The Lobster

Movie

Episode 129: Dystopias

Gattaca

Movie

Episode 129: Dystopias

Children of Men

Movie

Episode 129: Dystopias

The Trial

Movie

Episode 129: Dystopias

Snowpiercer

Movie

Episode 129: Dystopias

Idiocracy

Movie

Episode 129: Dystopias

A Clockwork Orange

Movie

Episode 129: Dystopias

Finding Vivian Maier

Movie

Episode 128: Fragmented Values and Sex Panics (with Christina Hoff Sommers)

Mulholland Drive

Movie

Episode 121: The Beauty of Illusion - David Lynch's "Mulholland Drive"

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

High Plains Drifter

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Tombstone

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

The Limey

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Carlito's Way

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Blue Ruin

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance

Movie

Episode 114: Great Vengeance and Furious Anger (Top 5 Movies About Revenge)

Arrival

Movie

Episode 111: Our Language Doesn't Have a Word For This Title (with Yoel Inbar)

Arrival

Movie

Episode 110: Stepsisters and Neck Braces (with Yoel Inbar)

Ex Machina

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

The Revenant

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Nightcrawler

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Never Let Me Go

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

The Cabin in the Woods

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Tangerine

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Sullivan's Travels

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

The Silence of the Lambs

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Being John Malkovich

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Under the Skin

Movie

Episode 104: Smelling Salts for Morality: Our Top 3 Movies About Empathy (with Paul Bloom)

Infernal Affairs

Movie

Episode 101: Having Desert and Eating It Too

Passenger 57

Movie

Episode 100: It's a Celebration

Memento

Movie

Episode 96: Memory and Meaning in "Memento" (with Paul Bloom)

Force Majeure

Movie

Episode 93: Avalanches, Blame, and Cowardice (With Yoel Inbar)

Shame

Movie

Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)

Babies

Movie

Episode 89: Shame on You (with Jennifer Jacquet)

The Big Lebowski

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Shaun of the Dead

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

The Man with Two Brains

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

All of Me

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Stranger than Fiction

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Being There

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Defending Your Life

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Lost in America

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Modern Times

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Seven Psychopaths

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

In Bruges

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Barton Fink

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Sullivan's Travels

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Purple Rose of Cairo

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Office Space

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Dr. Strangelove

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Brazil

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

Trading Places

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

The Princess Bride

Movie

Episode 85: A Zoo with Only One Animal (with Paul Bloom)

The Bad News Bears

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Drive

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Frank

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Hustle and Flow

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Jackie Brown

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Miracle of Morgan's Creek

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Pulp Fiction

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Sullivan's Travels

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Spellbound

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Slapshot

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

What We Do in the Shadows

Movie

Episode 84: Lifting the Veil

Goodfellas

Movie

Episode 67: Funny How?