5 Star Tossers
Playful academic podcast that looks at movies and other cultural objects through the lens of 5 groovy themes: Pervs 'R Us, Beast & Sovereign, Il vaut mieux Lyotard que jamais, Marx Grudge, and What Would Jesus Do?
5 Star Tossers
Latest Episodes
Men Suck
The Tossers try to atone for the grave sin of dialecticizing the poles of gender without definitively dunking on men. Well, should we atone? Who are the men that suck? Is this all gender's fault? Is there something redeemable in men? What about...
Bugonia, Dogville: Divine Retribution of the Kidnapped Woman
At what point do you deserve to die for taking advantage of someone else's hospitality? At what point do you deserve to die for not giving enough hospitality?Are you, the needy guest, complicit in your own execution?Ar...
A Night at the BAFTAs
We discuss the uproar and confusion that ensued when John Davidson, who suffers from Coprolalia (the form of Tourettes that induces vulgar language and gestures), said the N-word at the Baftas. Why did the BBC not bleep the N-word w...