Episode 104: Predator (1987)

Barto and Charlie take stock of George A Romero's exploration of the vampire mythos. They talk capitalism and the rust belt, antipsychiatry, the commune Barto lived on, and discuss the reproductive organs of vampires. We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Bluesky @nogodspod.bsky.social

Continuing our Alien and Predator series deep dive, we bore into Paul W. S. Anderson's ode to ancient astronauts and Lovecraft. We argue about whether AvP is pro or anti-hubris, talk Predator fascism, and search for the sex and gender the Xenomorph usually carries with it. We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Bluesky @nogodspod.bsky.social  

They're calling it the most psychoanalytic film ever made! Barto and Charlie talk mirrors and duality, the gaze and how films teach us to desire, Hitchcock's fear of cops, and that there is a lot more of Psycho in American Psycho then we might have realized. To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus content, sign up for our Patreon. Just $1 a month gets you everything we do. patreon.com/nogodspod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at [email protected]

It's tokusatsu time with long time listener, first time caller, Newfie. We're exploring Hideaki Anno's fourth addition to his "Shin" series and his take on the prolific Japanese superhero. We tackle cults, covid conspiracies, contradiction, motorcycle accidents, and the contents of Charlie's dreams. Follow Newfie on Bluesky: @newfie.bsky.social Listen to his film podcast: Contempt For The Audience We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Bluesky @nogodspod.bsky.social

We are making our way through the Alien and Predator franchises and are so thoroughly in the late 90s. Yellow tints, lots of leather, and it's gay! We dissect ideas of power, queerness, the psyche, and basketball. We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at [email protected]

It's long hallway time! Along with the film's troubled production, we discuss what Fincher's nihilistic entry to the series has to say about queerness, the AIDS epidemic, pregnancy and the nuclear family, Christianity and the possibility of redemption, the confluence of the prison with the mental hospital and the factory, as well as Foucault and Deleuze and the transition from a disciplinary to a control society. We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at [email protected]

We are the Predators, and we're hunting for meaning beyond "wow that's racist" in the critically panned sequel, Predator 2 (1990). We speculate who the Predator is an analog for, how the director's background may have influenced the uh.... portrayal of certain characters, and we also suggest that the writers - Jim and John Thomas - maybe knew about the CIA's involvement in the distribution of crack in L.A. We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at [email protected]

We're talking Kierkegaard, the nature of the self, the gulf between the genders (that Shinji can't see), and Charlie uncovers a hidden plot by Ikari to make his son into a man. To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus content, sign up for our Patreon. Just $1 a month gets you everything we do. patreon.com/nogodspod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at [email protected]

Charlie and Barto are left to their own devices and, as a consequence, there's no one to stop them from getting drawn into Scarlett Johansson's deep, dark void. While they're swimming in the inky darkness, they sing songs, discuss Das Ding, the violence of becoming a subject, and whether aliens have cars on their home world. We have bonus episodes, behind the scenes notes, and post-recording wrap ups for just $1 a month on Patreon.  Patreon.com/NoGodsPod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at [email protected]

Wow this show is really ramping up. We talk Holy Ghosts, our relationship with religion, prophecy, how the Rabbit that lives in your mind is just as real as the Rabbit who has to go to work and, of course, Oedipus is back. To listen to the full episode as well as lots of other bonus content, sign up for our Patreon. Just $1 a month gets you everything we do. patreon.com/nogodspod Follow us on Twitter and Bluesky @nogodspod Email us at [email protected]