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Daniel and I chat about Digger, the recent Tom Cruise vehicle that saw out Warner Bros. career as a film studio with a spectacular flop and a swarm of hostile reviews. Daniel liked it a lot more than I did, but we agree that it's a very interesting film, and it prompted a (I think) complex and fasci

Daniel and I discuss the Daily Wire's newest release, an amateurish trainwreck of genocidal bigotry (as one would expect). Our patrons get this before everyone else.

Daniel and I take a look at a truly wretched film. Not just venomous racist filth but bizarrely incompetent. Even so, between giggling at the sheer ludicrous awfulness of it, we do find some interesting wrinkles that most other commentators have missed... CONTENT WARNINGS Episode Notes: Molly's Weir

Once again, paying patrons get a couple of days advance access to the new mainline IDSG. Episode Notes Associated Press, "Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants" https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law- center-criminal-investigation-d

The new mainline IDSG will be available to patrons of myself and/or Daniel for a few days in advance of publication. It's a new thing we're trying out, probably for non-topical episodes only. The episode will be published on the main public feed, as usual, very soon. We will never charge for any mor

Hi. An idea of mine: let the patrons hear the (almost entirely) raw, unedited, untreated audio from an IDSG recording session. No music, no levelling, (almost) no cuts; no post-production at all. Just pure behind-the-scenes realness - aside from some very minor privacy snipping. I know I'm intereste

Daniel and I continue our new theme (movies about Popes) with an unexpected consideration of 1968's MGM release The Shoes of the Fisherman, a now largely forgotten and self-consciously prestigious Cold War / Papacy drama. Anthony Quinn plays a saintly Russian dissident who stumbles bass-ackwards ont

For this bonus episode, we are honoured and delighted to be joined by our friend, our homie, our bro, our cru-member, classy actorly thespian Elliot Chapman (familiar to my listeners from Not the Same Log, Hannibal Digested, and various other collaborations with me) to discuss Don Siegel's grimy, fa

Our 'movies about presidents' series continues (probably for four more years) with a much better movie this time. 1993's Wolfgang Peterson joint In the Line of Fire, featuring Clint Eastwood again (are we... doing a Clint Eastwood season now?) as jaded old Secret Service agent Frank Horrigan, vetera

Our series on 'movies about presidents' continues with a fun discussion of this 1997 'thriller', written by legendary Hollywood screenwriter William Goldman based on the debut novel of David Baldacci, starring/produced/directed by noted chair-interviewer Clint Eastwood, and boasting a splendid cast

Another in our series of election year chats about movies about presidents. By patron request, Daniel and I watched and discussed 1999's neo-screwball teensploitation 70s-nostalgiafest Dick, in which two teenage girls - Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams - accidentally find themselves befriending R

Daniel and I sit down across from each other in brown leather armchairs and ruthlessly interrogate each other about our many crimes. We also continue our election year series on movies about (or at least mentioning) US Presidents by talking over the deeply mid 2008 Ron Howard movie Frost/Nixon, an a

Continuing our election-year series of episodes looking at movies about Presidents, Daniel and I chat about 1996's biggest movie, alien-invasion effects-spectacular Independence Day, a sprawling SF comedy about incalculable mass murder and the genocide of humanity. Bill Pullman looks decent, Will Sm

In a very enjoyable episode, Daniel and I continue our series on movies about the US President, with a chat about Ivan Reitman's Capraesque 1993 political-romantic-comedy-drama Dave, starring Kevin Kline as a lovable goofball Presidential lookalike who ends up actually pretending to be the President

We begin our celebration of America's months-long presidential election with the first in a projected series on movies about the US President. In this edition, we look at 1997's Air Force One, in which President Harrison Ford wages a one-man, definitely not Die Hard-esque in any way campaign of non-

Daniel and I discuss Christopher Nolan's 2023 biopic Oppenheimer. You see nothing of what the bomb did in the movie so I thought I'd make it the image for this post. Shaun's video on the use of the atomic bomb: https://youtu.be/RCRTgtpC-Go?si=GVXVLcNLsiUSslSG My own essay Fatherlands, which seems re

Featuring a discussion of our hiatus, our return, our separate but similar journeys to IDSG, the last few years in general, the basis of the fascist movement, some appreciation of work by others including YouTubers Hbomberguy and Dan Olsen, ideas for the show going forward, and some Cantwell News...

We're back, both of us, with a bonus episode to carefully dip our toes back in the brackish, fetid waters of IDSG. In this episode we talk about In Cold Blood - Truman Capote's book, the 1967 film, the two movies about Capote writing the book, and some other stuff, including alternate theories of th

We're back. Daniel and I reconvene for a chat about the coronation of Prince Charles (I know what I mean - listen to the episode) and the defenestration of Tucker Carlson. We also talk a little bit about our recent hiatus, and our imminent return to regular production of episodes. Enjoy!

Daniel and I had an impromptu chat one night, accidentally recorded it, and decided that - a few edits later - it would stand up as a bonus episode. I hope you enjoy it. If you do, Daniel and I might do more bonus episodes without a set topic, just us shooting the breeze.

Daniel and I cast our eyes over 1985's Real Genius, a wacky teen college-antics sex comedy about, um, defeating the military industrial complex? Have I got that right? Beloved of Daniel since childhood, this is the first time I'm seeing it. So. Interesting.

Our quest to talk about every naff blokey movie from the 80s and 90s continues with this classic bit of homoerotic copaganda murder porn starring Danny Glover and a Nazi.

Yes.

Daniel chats with Eric from ESG Hound about Elon Musk. @ESGhound ESG Hound | Substack

In case you hadn't heard, an old lady died and her unpleasant elderly son became her. Or something? Anyway, we puzzle it out in this bonus episode, in which we also cover the end of WW2, The Kennedys, Edward VIII being a Nazi, British neoimperialism, jokes about tampons, why Prince Phillip was a zom

Daniel and I talk about Vonnegut's classic absurdist satire of war and American civilisation (but I repeat myself) and the disappointing movie version.

So, the IDSG Bonus is now basically a 90s movie podcast. And no movie is more 90s than this.

In a rush. Title self-explanatory. Enjoy.

You're darn tootin'.

Here, at long last (blame me) is your February bonus IDSG. This episode is on Art Spiegelman's Maus as a text. Enjoy.

I think the title is self-explanatory? L.A. Confidential (film) - Wikipedia

How else to end 2021 but with a discussion of David Fincher's 1995 movie Seven? You saw this coming a mile off, right? God, we're so predictable. Beware content and spoilers from the first. Thanks so much for sticking with us through this weird and unwonderful year. Seven (1995 film) - Wikipedia

Here's a bonus IDSG for you all. Daniel & I talk about Rob Reiner's 1992 film of Aaron Sorkin's A Few Good Men.

This time, we have a general chat taking in the recent antics of Tim Pool, Jimmy Dore, Bret & Heather, etc, before concentrating on the Rittenhouse case, and the trial as it enters its final phase. EXTRA Content Warnings for discussion of violence and abuse. Shaun on BBC transphobic article https://

Daniel and I reward (is that the right word?) your patience with an extra bonus episode for October in addition to your official October bonus episode and the first October bonus episode which was actually the September bonus epi... okay, never mind. Another bonus episode is the point. To thank you

Daniel and I embark on a chat about Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman movie The Dark Knight. You know, it's the one with Heath Ledger as the Joker. In a development that is depressingly less surprising than I wish it were, it turns out we have so much to say about this silly movie that this episode mo

Daniel and I admit to being what we are and spend two hours talking about... well, around Iron Man, birth of the MCU. Our conversation ranges freely over everything from murderous imperialism to comparing Spider-Man movies. Links: I chat with George Daniel Lea and Kit Power about the Nolan Batmanmov

As solemnly promised, here is your second bonus episode of August, to make up for not getting one in July. A general chat in which Daniel and myself react to some news, and Daniel tells me about his visit to a museum while on his holidays. More interesting than it sounds, hopefully. Content warnings

Sorry sorry sorry patrons. Been crazy busy. Here is the July bonus episode you were promised. Daniel and I discusss 2009's In The Loop. You'll get an August bonus ep too, we promise! EDIT: Initial upload was corrupted, missing last 15 minutes. Now fixed and re-upped. Again... sorry!

Daniel and I are joined by our old crony James Murphy to chat about a book we all love, Grant Naylor's Red Dwarf: Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers. James' Twitter: @JimCrop1916 https://twitter.com/JimCrop1916 James' Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/jimslater/posts James podcast (with Kevin Burns),

Once again, you our lovely backers get exclusive access to a new bonus episode of IDSG on 2004's Downfall about Hitler's last days (it's the source of the YouTube 'Hitler gets angry' meme). Content Warnings Show Notes: Downfall at Wikipedia Traudl Junge at Wikipedia Hitler Downfall Parody Memes Ian

This time, Daniel and I tackle Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds from 2009.

This month's backer-only bonus episode is about Bob Roberts (1992), a satirical mockumentary written, directed by, and starring Tim Robbins; also starring Alan Rickman, Ray Wise, Giancarlo Esposito, Harry Lennix, Lynne Thigpen, Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Fred Ward, Bob Balaban, John Cusack, Gore

In the second of our new bonus episodes, exclusively available to backers for the forseeable future, Daniel and I discuss The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotton, Alida Valli, and Orson Welles. Thanks so much for helping us make IDSG. Enjoy the

In the first of our new bonus episodes, exclusively available to backers for the forseeable future, Daniel and I discuss Peter Watkins' 1971 movie Punishment Park. Thanks so much for helping us make IDSG. Enjoy the show.