Robin and Carolina embrace the surreal with Eraserhead, the film featuring possibly the creepiest baby in cinematic history.Politics include: honestly, not very many - but the baby really is very scary. And there's a lot about Christian ...

Carolina and Robin talk about Spirited Away, Japan's most successful film of all time, and likely one of the best films about life in a ghost bathhouse.Politics include: how said bathhouse is maybe a metaphor for oppression, but also a r...

Robin and Carolina discuss the Wizard of Oz, the most-watched film of all time, and likely the children's film with the most religious, LGBTQ+ and feminist theories around it.Politics include: how Dorothy is the ultimate feminist, queer ...

Carolina and Robin are back in your ears for a bonus episode to mark the best real-life sleepover that is the Papal Conclave.Politics include: faith and politics being quite icky together, how the West Wing really did dictate political a...

Carolina and Robin take you through one of the worst calamities in history and the people behind it in domestic-drama-turned-holocaust-film The Zone of Interest (2023).Politics include: literal Nazis, how there was no God in the house of...

Robin and Carolina discuss the best samurai film of all time, Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954). The bandits are mean, our heroes are heroic, and the farmers are just trying to survive.Politics include: how Jaws and Star Wars blatant...

Carolina and Robin discuss two of Wallace & Gromit's fabulous films: The Wrong Trousers (1993) and Vengeance Most Fowl (2024), two films that confirm that dogs really are better than human beings.Politics include: a murderous penguin...

Carolina and Robin discuss The Shining, the terrifying (but always beautiful) tale of a family falling apart in a remote Colorado hotel in the 1970s.Politics include: the hotel owner who looks like a young Trump, the grim reality of the ...

Carolina and Robin discuss Cleo from 5 to 7, an outrageously French film about a young woman who may or may not be terminally ill in 1950s Paris. While she waits for her diagnosis, she discovers who she is and her place in the world, politics a...

Carolina and Robin discuss The Substance, a very modern classic about a Hollywood actress who will do anything to be young and beautiful again.Politics include: the late-stage capitalism of beauty standards, how not having an inner life...

Carolina and Robin go from discussing the pre-modern world (see our previous episode on Barry Lyndon) to deciphering the futuristic messaging of 1927's Metropolis.Politics include: why authoritarianism may not actually be that great, th...

In 2025's first episode, Carolina and Robin discuss the film that best depicts the pre-modern world, Barry Lyndon.Politics include: how a conman acquires wealth and status, the utter boredom of aristocratic women, and how to understand ...

Happy holidays! Carolina and Robin discuss the historical drama The Lion in Winter, a film that takes place during Christmas, but with more backstabbing than giftgiving. Politics include: the nature of power, legacy and the politic...

Carolina and Robin talk about the heart-warming, surreal post-war romcom A Matter of Life and Death. Politics include: the bureaucracy of the afterlife, capital E Empire, women riding bikes during the war, and David Niven's Conservative...

Carolina and Robin talk about brilliantly clever parody of nineties suburbia, The Truman Show.Politics include: the fantastical dystopia of Hollywood (sorry Hollywood), the individualist American dream and Foucault's nightmarish panopti...

Carolina and Robin sit down to discuss Pixar's Ratatouille (2007), in which a country rat turns out to be a Michelin-star-worthy chef. Politics include: the politics of a kitchen, the politics of Parisian real estate, the politics ...

Hello! It's our very first episode! Today Carolina and Robin talk about FW Murnau's thoroughly nasty vampire horror from 1922.Politics include: the sheer horror of Count Orlok killing his way through Eastern Europe, the plague and early...