Watching the End of the World

Jul 06 2024 14 ep. 98 mins 1

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A podcast covering apocalyptic scenarios more comforting than our own, one movie at a time. Hosted by Bryan Reid and Cole Kronman.

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Episode 14: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Jul 06 2024 90 mins

Late-style masterpiece? Lore-encumbered dud? Or something in between? Snot Priest (Cole) and Piss Smelter (Bryan) shift into gear to discuss Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, and whether the great George Miller still has it in him to make it epic.

Episode 13: No Blade of Grass

Jun 03 2024 88 mins

Took a while, but we finally covered a movie about a guy with an eyepatch. Bear with us as we rank the best live births in film, severely misinterpret a Rolls Royce joke, and manage to only make ONE covid-19 comparison. All this and more(?), in Cornel Wilde's No Blade of Grass!

Episode 12: Pulse

May 01 2024 81 mins

Welcome back to WTEOTW, now without all the red tape. This month, we plug into Pulse, the great Kiyoshi Kurosawa's prescient, terrifying examination of love and loneliness in the digital age.

Episode 11: In the Mouth of Madness

Apr 01 2024 77 mins

Peer behind the veil into a world not unlike our own, where fiction subsumes reality, fandom precipitates violence, and John Carpenter directs a monster movie within an inch of its life. It's In the Mouth of Madness, adapted from Sutter Cane's novel of the same name, starring John Trent, Linda Styles, and Jackson Harglow.

Episode 10: The Running Man, with Patrick H. Willems

Mar 01 2024 111 mins

Your favorite show is back - and so is this podcast! In what we're noncommittally declaring our "season 2 premiere", we pick the brain of YouTube wunderkind and longtime pal Patrick Willems (@patrickhwillems) on all things 80s, up to and including Paul Michael Glaser's The Running Man. Don't change the channel!

Episode 9: Delicatessen

Jun 23 2023 88 mins

Carve out some time, because this one's meaty; let's hope we didn't butcher it. It's time to dig into Delicatessen (1991), un film français de Jean-Pierre Jeunet et Marc Caro.

Episode 8: Southland Tales

May 12 2023 119 mins

Hold on for dear life as we go all in on Richard Kelly's densely-layered political panorama Southland Tales, one of the boldest, messiest, most polarizing passion projects of the aughts. This is, as always, the way the world ends.

Episode 7: Rollerball (1975) with Stephen

Mar 24 2023 98 mins

With friends like these, who needs penalties? This week, with the aid of Batting Around cohost/accredited beefcake expert Stephen (@TangoGolfKilo), we cast an analytical eye at Norman Jewison's 1975 dystopian sports drama Rollerball. Yes, we figure out what Rollerball Twitter would be like; no, it is not good.

Episode 6: Miracle Mile

Mar 10 2023 113 mins

After an unplanned and probably undeserved break, we're back to discuss in great detail the ecological particularities of Los Angeles "roof rats," prominently featured (alongside impending nuclear holocaust) in Steve De Jarnatt's real-time romp Miracle Mile (1988).

Episode 5: Angel's Egg

Feb 03 2023 114 mins

All roads lead to anime. Bryan listens patiently as Cole foams at the mouth for two straight hours about Angel's Egg, Mamoru Oshii and Yoshitaka Amano's dreamlike, desolate interpretation of a world abandoned by God.