CinePhils Episode 30- The Aliens Franchise - XenoPhils

CinePhils Episode 30- The Aliens Franchise - XenoPhils

Existential themes in the Aliens films, questions of humanity, isolation, the Other, AIs and their natures, playing God, and meeting our gods. Special guest segment with Dr. Kim Baltzer-Jaray on gender in the Alien films

CinePhils, Take 29: Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange, “goodness is something to be chosen”

Viddying ultraviolence, free will, and behaviorism in the dystopian neoliberal state. And Beethoven, of course.

Cinephile, Take 28: Kubrick’s The Shining, or “Danny’s not here, Mrs. Torrance”

Madness, obsession, terrible cases of writer’s block, and other things philosophers go through.

CinePhils, Take 27: Wes Anderson’s Grand Budapest Hotel and The Life Aquatic, or “Viewmaster”

Actually it is take 27, we’ve been away for too long. Nostalgia, simplicity, yearning, and a bit of humanity is the cure for cynicism. Also, well constructed cinematic, symmetrical camera work and such.

CinePhils, Take 26: Paul T. Anderson’s Punch Drunk Love, or “that’s that, mattress man!”

Rob and David hold forth on lyrical images, Sandler seriously acting, virtues of love in the spectrum, non-musical musicals, pudding and air miles, and having a love in your life that makes one stronger than anything you can imagine.