CinemaPsych Podcast
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Episodes: 109
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Where psychology meets films. We dissect and analyze popular films and their psychological content.
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Episode 108: Sometimes You Just Need a Frontal Lobotomy — Shutter Island (2010)
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Jan 05, 2026 |
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Episode 107: Believing in Angels Really Does Enhance Sports Performance! Angels in the Outfield (1994) with Corinne Hobbs
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Dec 15, 2025 |
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Episode 106: No Mnemonics Detected but at Least We Have Jones — Johnny Mnemonic (1995) with Celeste Pilegard
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Episode 105: Defying Gravity is the Self-Actualization Anthem We All Needed — Wicked (2024) with Jill Swirsky
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Episode 104: The Family That Crimes Together Stays Together — The Godfather (1972) with Jon Mandracchia
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Episode 103: Finding Love, Family, & Metaphorical Food Through Psychodynamic Therapy — Antwone Fisher (2002) with Katherine Marshall Woods
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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Episode 102: Hitchcock, Freudian Theory, and the Perfect Murder — Strangers on a Train (1951) with Brooke Cannon
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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Episode 101: Basic Film Editing and Human Perception are a Match Made in Cinema Heaven! The Cinema Within (2024) with Chad Freidrichs
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Episode 100: The Past Six Years and Episodes of Shows and Psychology Squeezed into Three Hours — Worth It!
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Jul 21, 2025 |
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Episode 099: My Availability Heuristic Says It’s a Shark Attack! Jaws (1975) with Jordan Wagge
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Jul 03, 2025 |
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Episode 098: Rats Cooking in the Kitchen? Sure, I’ll Bite — Ratatouille (2007) with Shlomit Flaisher-Grinberg
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Jun 09, 2025 |
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Episode 097: Using My Ambition and Bottom-Up Processing for Birding! The Big Year (2011) with Marc Klippenstine
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May 22, 2025 |
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Episode 096: Glasgow Senses Falling Down, Falling Down — Perfect Sense (2011) with T.R. Brooks
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Episode 095: Lucy's Consolidation is Broken or She Gets Blackout Drunk Everyday! 50 First Dates (2004) with Melissa Maffeo
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Apr 07, 2025 |
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Episode 094: It Takes a Good Leader to Plan a Successful Heist — Ocean's 11 (2001) with Jason Spiegelman
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Episode 093: What Could Go Wrong on a Long Spaceflight—Slingshot (2024)
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Episode 092: Developmental Psychology... In Song Form! The Sound of Music (1965) with Jill Swirsky
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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Episode 091: Ah, Feeling Nostalgic... for Tornadoes? Twister (1996) and Twisters (2024) with Anthony Zoccolillo
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Jan 13, 2025 |
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Episode 090: Barton Men Don't Lie, Except When They Do! The Holdovers (2023) with Ed Hansen
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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Episode 089: You Haven't Listened to this Episode, You're Forgetful — Gaslight (1944) with Wind Goodfriend
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Nov 11, 2024 |
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Episode 088: I Wasn't Expecting to Be in This Movie! Inside Out 2 (2024)
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Episode 087: Flying Fighter Jets Requires Some Task Analysis — Top Gun: Maverick (2022) with Nic Baldwin
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Episode 086: It's Not Voyeurism if Your Windows Are Open! Rear Window (1954) with Jane Halonen
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Episode 085: Everyone Could Use a Little Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy — Good Will Hunting (1997) with Ed Hansen
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Aug 18, 2024 |
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Episode 084: How to Spot a True Narcissist in One Easy Step — Whiplash (2014) with Simon Rogoff
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Jul 29, 2024 |
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Episode 083: Behaviorism and Research Methods on Repeat? Sign Me Up! Groundhog Day (1993) with Jordan Wagge
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Jul 08, 2024 |
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Episode 082: Would You Take This Drug? Limitless (2011) with Christina Ragan
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Jun 17, 2024 |
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Episode 081: Prozium Has to Be a Play on Prozac, Right? Equilibrium (2002)
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May 28, 2024 |
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Episode 080: Does an Android's Dreams Define Them? Blade Runner (1982) with Chris Mazurek
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May 06, 2024 |
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Episode 079: No, There Isn't a Gay Blood Test — Boy Erased (2018) with Lee Golembiewski
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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Episode 078: Drugs are Bad, MMKay? Requiem for a Dream (2000) with Melissa Maffeo
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Episode 077: Metascience, Faith, and Confirmation Bias... in Space! Contact (1997) with Jacob Miranda
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Episode 076: The Technosocial Commentary isn't So Subtle — The Circle (2017)
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Feb 12, 2024 |
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Episode 075: Disability and Laughing, They Do Go Together — The Fundamentals of Caring (2016) with Crissa Draper
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Jan 22, 2024 |
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Episode 074: Virgil Picked Up His Hammer and Saw, and Hated it — At First Sight (1999) with KatieAnn Skogsberg
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Jan 01, 2024 |
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Episode 073: Self-Expansion Theory Across the Multiverse! Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022) with Mona Xu
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Episode 072: Gender Expression and The Patriarchy and Toys! Barbie (2023) with Molly Metz
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Nov 20, 2023 |
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Episode 071: Four Walls, Infinite Feels — Room (2015) with Chelsea Robertson
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Episode 070: Physics Avengers... Assemble! Oppenheimer (2023) with Sy Islam
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Episode 069: The Doc with Staged Wilderness and Cultural Missteps—Nanook of the North (1922) with Phil Duncan
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Episode 068: This Music Makes Me Feel... The Psychology of Star Wars (1977) Music with Jim Davies & Joe Kraemer
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Aug 28, 2023 |
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Episode 067: A Real Life Schizophrenia Experience — A Beautiful Mind (2001)
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Aug 07, 2023 |
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Episode 066: Tarantino Characters Flirting with Religion and Morality? Pulp Fiction (1994) with Jason Spiegelman
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Jul 17, 2023 |
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Episode 065: Milgram’s Conclusions on Obedience are Shocking! Experimenter (2015) with Sophie Halliday
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Episode 064: Sex, Drugs, and Psychoanalysis? A Dangerous Method (2011) with Sheila Thomas
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Episode 063: Intersectionality is a Real Concept, Y’all — The Color Purple (1985) with Wind Goodfriend
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May 15, 2023 |
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Episode 062: Listen! It’d Be a Lot Cooler If You Did — Dazed and Confused (1993) with Chris Miller
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Episode 061: McMurphy’s Stay at the State Hospital — One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Episode 060: Baseball is a Game of Statistics! Moneyball (2011) with Jessica Hartnett
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Episode 059: He Wasn’t Even Supposed to Be There Today! Clerks (1994) with Nic Baldwin
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Episode 058: Can I Persuade You To Stop Smoking? Thank You For Smoking (2005) with Ed Hansen
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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Episode 057: Conditioning Kids to Not Chop Down Trees — The Lorax (2012) with Kiersten Baughman
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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Episode 056: How Did Psychology Hurt Scott Calvin? The Santa Clause (1994)
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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Episode 055: Autism and a Better Life for Cattle — Temple Grandin (2010) with Sara Bagley
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Episode 054: Fatphobia and Misogyny in a Romantic Comedy? That Can’t Be! Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) with Jordan Wagge
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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Episode 053: False Memories AND a Trip to Mars? Sign Me Up! Total Recall (1990)
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Oct 17, 2022 |
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Episode 052: We Might Love David If He Wasn’t So Creepy — A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) with Jim Davies
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Sep 26, 2022 |
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Episode 051: Hans Landa is a Psych Case Study—Inglourious Basterds (2009) with Jason Spiegelman
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Sep 05, 2022 |
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Episode 050: Self-Discovery Right Before a Wedding is Ill-Advised — The Philadelphia Story (1940)
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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Episode 049: Birthdays Are Random, Folks — Born on the Fourth of July (1989) with Anthony Zoccolillo
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Jul 04, 2022 |
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Episode 048: Who Woulda Thunk Superheroes Would Make Decent Leaders? The Marvel Cinematic Universe with Sy Islam & Gordon Schmidt
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Jun 13, 2022 |
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Episode 047: I Wouldn’t Say I’ve Been Missing Work—Office Space (1999) with Ed Hansen
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May 23, 2022 |
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Episode 046: Let’s Talk About Sex... Research — Kinsey (2004) with Leslee Koritzke
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May 02, 2022 |
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Episode 045: A Juicy 90s Satire of Conversion Therapy—But I’m a Cheerleader (1999) with Molly Metz & Will Ryan
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Episode 044: Wait, Zimbardo Didn’t Do An Experiment? The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) with Keli Braitman and Jen Simonds
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Feb 28, 2022 |
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Episode 043: A Disney Version of a Discussion on Racial Prejudice—Remember the Titans (2000) with Wind Goodfriend
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Feb 07, 2022 |
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Episode 042: A Trans, Religious, Simulation Allegory, Oh My! The Matrix Film Franchise with Alex Swan
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Episode 041: If Freud is the Butt of the Jokes, What Does it Mean? What About Bob (1991) with Jordan Wagge
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Dec 06, 2021 |
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Episode 040: Wait, A Chimp Can Fly A Plane?! Project X (1987) with Karen Brakke
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Nov 15, 2021 |
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Episode 039: Do You Remember the Last Time We Talked About This Film? Memento (2000) with Alex Swan
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Oct 25, 2021 |
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Episode 038: Men Can Get Really Angry! 12 Angry Men (1957 & 1997) with Jordan Wagge & Jason Spiegelman
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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Episode 037: This Film is One Giant Racist and Sexist Fest! Crash (2004) with Karenna Malavanti
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Sep 13, 2021 |
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Episode 036: Wait, the Prison Was a Metaphor? The Shawshank Redemption (1994) with Justine Egan-Kunicki
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Aug 23, 2021 |
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Episode 035: Mental Health, Sexuality, and Suicide, Oh My! The Hours (2002) with Crystal Steltenpohl
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Episode 034: This is One Reality Show That Definitely Isn't Ethical—The Truman Show (1998) with Mehwish Safdar
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Jul 12, 2021 |
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Episode 033: With L-Dopa, You Too Can Do the Hokey Pokey (But Only if You're Rigid)—Awakenings (1990) with Sara Bagley
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Episode 032: How Stalking and Insurance Scams Drive a Person Insane—Unsane (2018) with Alex Swan
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May 31, 2021 |
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Episode 031: CinemaPsych at the Midwestern Psychological Association Conference 2021—What's Your Film Pedagogy?
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May 10, 2021 |
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Episode 030: I Can't Get Over the Stalker Behavior! 50 Shades of Grey (2015) with Kiersten Baughman
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Apr 19, 2021 |
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Episode 029: It's Just a Jump to the Right... of Acceptance? The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with Wind Goodfriend
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Mar 29, 2021 |
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Episode 028: It Really is Hard to Forget This Film—Still Alice (2014) with Shana Southard-Dobbs
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Mar 08, 2021 |
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Episode 027: Honey, Where's My Dinner? Pleasantville (1998) with Will Ryan
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Feb 15, 2021 |
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Episode 026: K-Mart Got Some Really Great Product Placement—Rain Man (1988) with Anthony Zoccolillo
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Jan 25, 2021 |
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Episode 025: I Think There's An Allegory In Here Somewhere—X-Men Franchise (2000-2019) with Michael Alexander
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Jan 04, 2021 |
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Episode 024: Don't Take a Job at a Lighthouse, You'll Go Mad! The Lighthouse (2019) with Alex Swan
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Dec 14, 2020 |
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Episode 023: All Work and No Play MakesJack a Narcissist—The Shining (1980) with Sully Coleman
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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Episode 022: Welp, it Looks Like I Broke the First Two Rules—Fight Club (1999) with Alex Swan
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Oct 26, 2020 |
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Episode 021: The Film Where the DID Psychologist Does Everything Wrong—Split (2016) with Lyra Stein
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Oct 12, 2020 |
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Episode 020: Please Don't Try to Erase This Podcast Episode from Your Memory--Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) with Jordan Wagge
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Sep 21, 2020 |
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Episode 019: Fly Fishing and Family Time Dynamics--Can Brad Pitt Be My Brother? A River Runs Through It (1992) with Jason Spiegelman
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Episode 018: The Stereotypes Slashed Me Harder Than the Actual Knives! Scream (1996) with Angela Bell
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Aug 10, 2020 |
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Episode 017: CinemaPsych is One Year Old! A Year in Review and a Look to the Future with Astrid Swan
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Jul 20, 2020 |
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Episode 016: Social Media Profiles and FBI Profiles are the Same, Right? Red Dragon (2002) with Marc Klippenstine
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Jun 29, 2020 |
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Episode 015: Self-Expansion Your Relationship with Your Computer! Her (2013) with Jeff Bowen
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Jun 08, 2020 |
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Episode 014: This is an Idea of a Podcast Episode--American Psycho (2000) with Alex Swan
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May 18, 2020 |
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Episode 013: Are We Supposed to Laugh At or With This Guy? Joker (2019) with Wind Goodfriend
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Apr 27, 2020 |
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Episode 012: Don't Worry, This Episode Isn't About Coronavirus... We Think? Contagion (2011) with Anthony Zoccolillo
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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Episode 011: I'm Going to Fast Forward to the Last Person's Testimony--Rashomon (1950)/Knives Out (2019) with Celeste Pilegard
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Mar 16, 2020 |
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Episode 010: I Need to Remember That Jingle Like I Need An HQ Crisis in My Head! Inside Out (2015) with Molly Metz
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Feb 24, 2020 |
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Episode 009: One Neuron, You're Alive; Two Make a Pair! Lucy (2013) Rage Watch with Christina Ragan
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Feb 03, 2020 |
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Episode 008: Don't Make Me Spray You With My Fox Repellent! Zootopia (2016) with Justine Egan-Kunicki
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Jan 13, 2020 |
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Episode 007: Despite All Her Rage, Ava is Still Just a Rat in a Cage! Ex Machina (2014) with Alex Swan
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Dec 22, 2019 |
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Episode 006: Belief in Santa--Placebo Effect? Elf (2003) with Wind Goodfriend
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Dec 02, 2019 |
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Episode 005: On Podcasts, We Wear Pink--Mean Girls (2004) with Olivia Aspiras
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Nov 11, 2019 |
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Episode 004: Don’t Mess Around in Cemeteries! Phantasm (1979) with Randy Stein
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Oct 21, 2019 |
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Episode 003: I Have Dreamed a Dream… Within a Dream? Inception (2010) with Jason Spiegelman
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Sep 30, 2019 |
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Episode 002: Is Being Stranded a Problem? Cast Away (2000) with Marc Klippenstine
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Sep 09, 2019 |
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Episode 001: Come Viddy, Me Little Droogies--A Clockwork Orange (1971) with Wind Goodfriend
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Aug 27, 2019 |
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Episode 000: An Introduction & a Memento (2000) for the Future
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Jul 27, 2019 |