Madness and Movies Podcast
1) #27 - Stepford Wives (1975): The health benefits of Robot Replacement Therapy (RRT)
Stepford Wife (n): a married woman who submits to her husband's will and is preoccupied by domestic concerns and her own personal appearance. That's fairly insidious, and I think we have all come to r...Show More
#27 - Stepford Wives (1975): The health benefits of Robot Replacement Therapy (RRT)
47:35 | Oct 23rd, 2019
2) #27 - The Golden Compass: A Lesson on Delinquency
What happens when we try to separate a person from their identity, from the very traits that make them unique? Golden Compass explores this question when it is revealed that the government, inspired b...Show More
3) #26 - Spiderman Into the Spiderverse
Are superhero movies dead? You know, the kind where a handsome white man saves the city and gets the girl? Ok, maybe those movies aren't dead, but not for lack of trying. Spiderverse makes a point of ...Show More
4) #25 - Game of Thrones Finale Primer
Start with a simple question: what would have happened if Robb Stark had dragons? Game of Thrones is finally coming to a close. We don't know what's coming next any more than you do, but we wanted to ...Show More
5) #24 - Troll 2: A Mad Pride Fairy Tale
If you have ever wondered what it must be like to hear voices, to see things nobody else can see, then this is the movie for you. Because this time, the guy with the voices was right.  Shownotes: Su...Show More
6) #23 - Game of Thrones Season 8 Opener: We're All Just Trying to Survive Here, Man
What does Game of Thrones say about madness and disability? In the Game of Thrones universe, almost no one is fully bad or good, mad or sane - everyone is just trying to survive and navigate the circu...Show More
#23 - Game of Thrones Season 8 Opener: We're All Just Trying to Survive Here, Man
23:32 | Apr 15th, 2019
7) #22 - The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy: Madness in Mundanity
Some say psychosis magnifies your worst fears. If you feel monitored and intruded upon, your brain might plant the idea that the FBI is around every corner. If you, like Arthur Dent, are lost in a maz...Show More
8) #21 - Your Name: Is This Podcast a Dream, Too?
Have you ever woken up from a dream and not been able to figure out if you are still dreaming or not? That feeling of questioning whether you exist in the same reality as everyone else, or whether any...Show More
9) #20 - Virgin Suicides - Death by Male Gaze (Feat. Gabriella Garaffa)
If you can’t guess from the title, this is a sad movie where the protagonists die. But who do we blame when somebody dies by suicide? The parents? The community? The siblings? And what does the blame ...Show More
10) #19 - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: Your Baggage, Your Self
Eternal Sunshine is a sci-fi that’s not really a sci-fi because it’s set in 2004 and it’s pointedly about you, me, and everyone that interacts with the medical world. No, it’s bigger than that. It’s a...Show More