Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer (2024) | Transcript
Comedian Jimmy Carr tackles controversial issues such as gun control, religion, cancellation culture and consent.
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer (2024) | Transcript
Comedian Jimmy Carr tackles controversial issues such as gun control, religion, cancellation culture and consent.
Jimmy Carr: Natural Born Killer (2024) | Transcript
Comedian Jimmy Carr tackles controversial issues such as gun control, religion, cancellation culture and consent.
Palm Royale – S01E07 – Maxine Bags a Prince | Transcript
Douglas faces a looming threat. Robert navigates his increasingly serious relationship with the prince. Linda and Evelyn receive shocking news.
Star Trek Discovery – S05E04 – Face the Strange [Transcript]
On the way to the next clue, the U.S.S. Discovery is sabotaged by a mysterious weapon, leaving Captain Burnham, Rayner, and Stamets as the only crew members who can possibly save the ship in time.
X-Men ’97 – S01E06 – Lifedeath – Part 2 | Transcript
Storm is forced to face her worst fears in order to free herself.
Family Guy – S22E15 – Faith No More | Transcript
Brian’s romantic interest in someone inspires him to use Stewie’s time machine and their journey results in strange consequences.
Palm Royale – S01E06 – Maxine Takes a Step | Transcript
A valuable business opportunity and a crucial beach tournament collide, Maxine and Douglas must win over a visiting prince to secure their futures, leading to a whirlwind of humorous misadventures.
Shogun – S01E09 – Crimson Sky | Transcript
Mariko arrives in Osaka for the fight of her life. Blackthorne and Yabushige scramble to save their own heads as their options dwindle.
Why the Slogan “Two People, Two States” Is a Dangerous Fallacy
False reasoning on Israeli-Palestinian conflict claims “small actions for all” as fair, ignoring deep historical injustices.
The Sympathizer – S01E01 – Death Wish | Transcript
With the fall of Saigon imminent, the Captain juggles the communist party, the South Vietnamese army, his CIA handler and his conscience.
Movie Reviews
Nashville (1975) | Review by Pauline Kael
“Nashville” offers an elated cinematic adventure, mixing humor and music into a deep exploration of American culture, sans overwhelming the viewer.
Sand and Salvation. “Dune: Part Two” Rides the Worm of Spectacle
The humanist sci-fi maestro Denis Villeneuve turns his gaze to jihad, letting Timothée Chalamet ride the worms: a stellar sequel
Dune 2 Review: Spectacle Soars, Spark Sputters
Dune 2 review: Breathtaking visuals & action, but is spectacle enough? Explore Paul Atreides’ complex journey & Villeneuve’s masterful world-building, while questioning the film’s emotional depth.
Beyond Black and White: The Layered Satire of ‘American Fiction’
Cord Jefferson’s film, based on Percival Everett’s novel, critiques racial stereotypes in literature and media, blending family drama and satire.
Hearing the Silence: Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” and the Unseen Horrors of Auschwitz
Beyond the Wall: Witnessing Evil Through the Banality of Everyday Life in The Zone of Interest
Under the Spotlight: The Unearthly Charm of Jonathan Glazer’s “Under the Skin”
A journey through the hauntingly beautiful narrative of “Under the Skin”, where the confluence of alien enigma and the essence of humanity births a cult legend.
Eden Thrives Next to the Concentration Camp: All it Takes Is Looking Away
‘The Zone of Interest’ review: A riveting exploration of beauty juxtaposed with horror, where willful blindness paints a surreal landscape beside a camp’s shadows.
“The Zone of Interest” Review: The Calm After the Storm
A masterful adaptation of Amis’s ‘The Zone of Interest’ by Glazer, exploring the Holocaust’s representation with stark clarity and innovative cinema.
Movie Transcripts
American Dreamer (2022) | Transcript
Phil’s a dreamer. Most dreams don’t come true. Phil hates that. But that’s not going to stop Phil from dreaming.
Damsel (2024) | Transcript
A dutiful damsel agrees to marry a handsome prince, only to find the royal family has recruited her as a sacrifice to repay an ancient debt.
Perfect Days (2023) | Transcript
Hirayama cleans public toilets in Tokyo, lives his life in simplicity and daily tranquility. Some encounters also lead him to reflect on himself.
Ricky Stanicky (2024) | Transcript
When three childhood best friends pull a prank that goes wrong, they invent the imaginary Ricky Stanicky to get them out of trouble. Twenty years later, they still use the nonexistent Ricky as a handy alibi for their immature behavior.
Argylle (2024) | Transcript
A reclusive author who writes espionage novels about a secret agent and a global spy syndicate realizes the plot of the new book she’s writing starts to mirror real-world events, in real time.
Code 8: Part II (2024) | Transcript
Follows a girl fighting to get justice for her slain brother by corrupt police officers. She enlists the help of an ex-con and his former partner, they face a highly regarded and well protected police sergeant who doesn’t want to be.
Megamind vs. The Doom Syndicate (2024) | Transcript
Megamind’s former villain team, The Doom Syndicate, has returned. Our newly crowned blue hero must now keep up evil appearances until he can assemble his friends to stop his former evil teammates from launching Metro City to the Moon.
Spaceman (2024) | Transcript
Half a year into his solo mission on the edge of the solar system, an astronaut concerned with the state of his life back on Earth is helped by an ancient creature he discovers in the bowels of his ship.
TV Show Transcripts
Curb Your Enthusiasm – S12E10 – No Lessons Learned | Transcript
Larry returns to Atlanta, where he gets involved in Richard’s love life and reveals a secret about Cheryl.
Capital Punishment in the United States: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver | Transcript
John Oliver explores the complex and morally fraught issue of the death penalty in America, contrasting its harsh history with the Trump administration’s recent push to resume federal executions.
Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show | Transcript
Jon Stewart tackles the AI revolution and how its creators are promising a better future while building technology to make human workers obsolete.
Grey’s Anatomy – S20E04 – Baby Can I Hold You | Transcript
Dr. Arizona Robbins returns to Grey Sloan for a particularly complicated case; the interns are interrogated about their past mistakes; Teddy is eager to return to work after her health scare.
Young Sheldon – S07E06 – Baptists, Catholics and an Attempted Drowning | Transcript
Georgie and Mandy’s wedding plans pit Mary against Mandy’s mum, with baby CeeCee caught in the middle.
Invincible – S02E08 – I Thought You Were Stronger | Transcript
An old enemy threatens everything Mark holds dear.
Resident Alien – S03E08 – Homecoming | Transcript
Harry and Asta team up with an unlikely ally to try to save the Earth
X-Men ’97 – S01E04 – Motendo / Lifedeath – Part 1 | Transcript
On her birthday, a nostalgic Jubilee is forced to relive the X-Men’s greatest adventures when an entertainment system transports her into a 16-bit video game.
Stand-up Transcripts
Kevin James: Irregardless (2024) | Transcript
Kevin James’ 2024 stand-up comedy special ‘Irregardless’ offers a humorous look at aging, technology, parenting, and marriage
Pete Davidson: Turbo Fonzarelli (2024) | Transcript
Pete Davidson’s stand-up special ‘Turbo Fonzarelli’ blends self-deprecation and honesty, tackling adulthood, fame, and personal challenges with humor
David Nihill: Cultural Appreciation (2023) | Transcript
Irish comedian David Nihill humorously explores identity, immigration, and Irish-Latino parallels, blending personal anecdotes with history
Matt Rife: Matthew Steven Rife | Transcript
Matthew Rife’s special blends edgy humor with personal stories, touching on relationships, identity, and societal norms, ending with a tribute to his late grandfather
Shane Gillis: Live in Austin | Transcript
Shane Gillis’ stand-up in Austin mixes edgy humor with personal stories, covering family, politics, and societal absurdities in a raw, controversial style
Lewis Black: Tragically, I Need You (2023) | Transcript
Lewis Black discusses pandemic life, vaccine skepticism, and the importance of human connection, humorously stating he needs his audience despite not always liking them
Stavros Halkias: Live at the Lodge Room (2022) | Transcript
Stavros Halkias humorously explores pandemic life, millennial struggles, dating woes, and immigrant family dynamics in his candid “Live at the Lodge Room” special
George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead (2024) | Transcript
“George Carlin: I’m Glad I’m Dead” is a stand-up comedy “special” released in 2024 and supposedly features the AI-generated voice and comedic style of the late George Carlin, who passed away in 2008
Stand up Comedy Transcripts
Interviews
A Trip to Don Quixoteland: Conversations with Orson Welles
I think about each of my films when I am preparing for them. I do an enormous sketch when starting. What is marvelous about the cinema, what makes it superior to the theatre, is that it has many elements that may conquer us but may also enrich us, oiler us a life impossible anywhere else.
INTERVIEW WITH DAVID LYNCH, DIRECTOR OF “DUNE”
The filmmaker who tamed “The Elephant Man” undertakes the grandest vision of them all—the realization on the screen of the epic universe created by Frank Herbert.
INTERVIEW WITH PAULINE KAEL (MODERN MATURITY)
Pauline Kael has brought the same fierce passion, independence, and incisiveness to her movie reviews since she took on Charlie Chaplin’s Limelight in 1952. When her first book, I Lost It at the Movies (1965), and her 1968 appointment as a movie critic for The New Yorker brought her national prominence, some people raised eyebrows, others glasses, to her revolutionary style.
“I STILL LOVE GOING TO MOVIES”- AN INTERVIEW WITH PAULINE KAEL (1999)
Pauline Kael is a singular voice in the history of American film criticism. Cineaste interviewed Kael in the summer of 1999, discussing her critical career and early influences, her philosophy of criticism, great American films of the Seventies, her thoughts about retirement, and her provocative views on some recent American movies.
INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW WEIL (1986)
The following interview was originally conducted by Jack Loeffler for a radio series entitled Southwest Sound Collage, distributed to public radio stations around the United States beginning in 1986.
Bertrand Russell: Playboy Interview (1963)
If the long and stormy life of Bertrand Arthur Russell can be said to possess any unifying thread, it is an enduring attitude of passionate skepticism, a lifelong refusal to accept any truth as immutable, any law as infallible or any faith as sacred.
MARK ZUCKERBERG & YUVAL NOAH HARARI IN CONVERSATION [FULL TRANSCRIPT]
Mark Zuckerberg hosts Yuval Noah Harari for a conversation about some big challenges as part of the Facebook CEO’s 2019 series of public discussions about the future of technology in society. The overarching question they debate is: what are we going to do about the systemic problems of the current technological revolution?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV: THE MAN WHO SCANDALIZED THE WORLD
One of the more diverting aspects of Lolita, the most controversial best seller of the century, has been the considerable speculative curiosity about the private life and personality of Vladimir Nabokov, the virtually unknown university professor who now, at the age of sixty-one, finds himself world famous as the author of this nettlesome novel.
Books
African Dreaming: Alice Walker’s The Color Purple | by Richard Grenier
Richard Grenier reviews Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” probing historical inaccuracies, political views, and the controversial depiction of Africa
Slavery was the gold of Rome
Luciano Canfora’s new book shows how war was used by ancient societies to secure resources.
Dune’s Environmental Allegory: Frank Herbert’s Eco-Conscious Epic
“Dune” serves as a compelling allegory for environmental challenges, with Arrakis mirroring Earth’s struggle with resource exploitation and ecological balance.
The Fall of the House of Usher: An Allegory of the Artist
Hoffman defines what he believes are Poe’s themes in “The Fall of the House of Usher,” including incest, murder, and madness. He concludes that the tale is an allegory about the artist and his creation.
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