Episodes

– To build up attendance at their games, the management of a struggling minor-league hockey team signs up the Hanson Brothers, three hard-charging players whose job is to demolish the opposition. – The gloves are off this week on Philosophy in Film as the gang faces off with George Roy Hill’s bruising classic, Slap Shot!… Read more: Episode 102: Slap Shot

This week on Philosophy in Film, the gang locks in on Paul Thomas Anderson’s sprawling, darkly funny, and relentlessly restless epic, One Battle After Another. Inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, the film follows Bob, a washed-up former revolutionary played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who’s forced back into a life he thought he’d escaped when his daughter… Read more: Episode 101: One Battle After Another

Ho ho ho! For our 100th episode, the gang celebrates Philosophy in Film’s centenary by stepping into the warm glow of a holiday classic with the original Miracle on 34th Street (1947). This timeless courtroom tale explores whether faith, goodwill, and a touch of magic still have a place in a modern, skeptical world. Craig… Read more: Episode 100: Miracle on 34th Street

This week, the gang steps into the explosive tension of A House of Dynamite, a modern pressure-cooker thriller where family secrets, fraying loyalties, and a single terrible night threaten to blow everything apart. Craig sounds the alarm and readies for attack with Producer’s Notes (9:16), while Alain scorches a few eyebrows with the Beauclair Synopsis… Read more: Episode 99: A House of Dynamite

Season 5 marches on as the gang steps into the halls of Eastside High for John G. Avildsen’s 1989 drama Lean On Me, where Principal Joe Clark takes on failing systems, fraying hope, and a school on the brink with nothing but a bullhorn, a baseball bat, and a stubborn belief in his students. Craig… Read more: Episode 98: Lean On Me