Pop Culture Case Study

Oct 31 2024 28 ep. 73 mins

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Dave takes on film from a psychological angle

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The Others and Social Isolation (Happy Halloween!)

Oct 31 2024 67 mins

Episode Notes It is Halloween! To celebrate join us as we talk Nicole Kidman, THE OTHERS, ghost stories, and our favorite Halloween/horror movies! Join me and Megan Loucks! Megan Intro: 0:01:09 Psychology: 0:08:36 The Others: 0:27:00 Follow the show on Twitter Follow the show on Instagram Follow Dave on Letterboxd Follow Megan on Twitter Find out more at https://pop-culture-case-st

Shutter Island and Delusional Disorder (Venom: The Last Dance)

Oct 24 2024 79 mins

Episode Notes WIth VENOM: THE LAST DANCE coming out, we decide to class up the joint. I introduce our guest, Jacob Throneberry, to an underappreciated Martin Scorsese movie, SHUTTER ISLAND! Even though Scorsese is "not for him" could this be the one that turns the tide? Listen to find out! Jacob Intro: 0:01:20 Psychology: 0:13:34 Shutter Island: 0:29:34 Follow the show on

Risky Business and Greed (Anora)

Oct 17 2024 57 mins

Episode Notes Another film festival darling, ANORA, comes out to more and more people today! Due to that, we take a look at sex work on film, featuring the Criterion Collection's own, RISKY BUSINESS1 Jaylan Salah and I talk sex work, film scores, Tom Cruise running, and sex on film! Jaylan Intro: 0:01:17 Psychology: 0::08:00 Risky Business: 0:22:43 Follow the show on Twitter Follow

Tick Tick...Boom and Resilience (Saturday Night)

Oct 10 2024 75 mins

Episode Notes SATURDAY NIGHT is finally coming out for us non film festival folks. Can it possibly live it to the grandeur and history of Saturday Night Live? Probably not, but it will be fun to see them try! What does live up to expectations is Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andrew Garfield taking on TICK TICK...BOOM! Join Me and Bryan Sudfield as we take you through the glory of Jonatha

Little Shop of Horrors and Freud's Psychic Apparatus (Joker: Folie A Deux)

Oct 03 2024 83 mins

Episode Notes Look, JOKER: FOLIE A DEUX may be petrified to call itself a musical, but here at Pop Culture Case Study, we are afraid of nothing! We take a look at Freud and LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. And this episode is chock full of music! We invite Alex to talk a nearly perfect movie, panic attacks on planes, comedic geniuses, and Rick Moranis being better than Russell Crowe! Alex I

The Year of Living Dangerously and Ambition (Lee)

Sep 26 2024 79 mins

Episode Notes LEE comes out this week to little fanfare. But hey, how bad can it be? Kate Winslet! Ummmm, well it's not great. But it did give us an opportunity to check a movie off of our watchlist! We invite on fantastic film writer, Will Bjarnar, to talk Peter Weir and his greatness. Join us as we talk THE YEAR OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY, award worthy performances, yellow face, and a

Catch Me If You Can and Observational Learning (Wolfs)

Sep 19 2024 73 mins

Episode Notes Ok, so WOLFS comes out this week, but probably not to a big screen near you. Sadly, this is where we are at. Clooney! Pitt! Watch it at home! To distract ourselves from this hell, we travel back to a time when big stars meant big screens. Dave and James Coddington talk CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, DiCaprio, and Hanks! Join us as we make the case that Spielberg is somehow unde

The Invitation and Peer Pressure (Speak No Evil)

Sep 12 2024 66 mins

Episode Notes Ok, finally we get to see SPEAK NO EVIL this week, a movie that has burrowed into the mind of anyone who has gone into a theater lately. And to do that, we bring Dara Cosby on to talk about another horrific dinner party, with THE INVITATION, directed by Karyn Kusama. We talk Tom Hardy adjacent actors, slow builds, and death cults. You know, normal stuff. So join us an

Top Gun: Maverick and Complicated Grief (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice)

Sep 05 2024 87 mins

Episode Notes We have finally reached peak nostalgia. Michael Keaton has agreed to put on more hideous makeup for BEETLEJUICE, BEETLEJUICE. Will it be any good? Does it matter? Who knows. But you know what is good? Having JD Duran of Insession Film here to geek out over fighter jets. Given the long length between movies in the aforementioned Burton movie, we are looking at TOP GUN:

Ex Machina and Consciousness (AfrAId)

Aug 29 2024 72 mins

Episode Notes Another massive release this week (jk) in AfrAId. Look, we love you John Cho, but please, someone get this perfect man a great script. This one is not looking great. BUT! Let's talk about a really good movie about AI. No, not AI, we are talking EX MACHINA. We invite Fiona Underhill to talk the movie, female pleasure, consciousness, and how hot Oscar Isaac is with that