Critical but casual approaches to current, past, and future video games six times a week. In addition, guests will periodically share their own aesthetic and personal experiences with games in conversation! Subscribe to our Patreon at www.patreon.com/hegelbon if you'd like to hear special patron-only bonus episodes!
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A podcast about the films of the 1990s, their politics, and how they inform today's film landscape. Exploring the output of a seemingly bottomless decade. America's first and only movie podcast.
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Weekly podcast about critical analysis of music, the music community, and the industry, from a leftist perspective.
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Utopian Horizons is a podcast about utopia. Each episode covers a different utopia, dystopia, utopian thinker, or utopian movement, asking what they can tell us about ourselves, our society, and our future.
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The party is nearing its end, the food has been consumed, and now it's time to pour yourself a rich, spicy, herbaceous(?) after-dinner drink to aid in the digestion of all your elsewhere and elsewhile 2025 year-end content... It's the Hit Factory 2025 Digestif: A rundown of some of our favorite un-discussed films of the past year as well as some br…
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Episode 307: Da Games of Da Month...Of Da Year (With Jacob from Workers Lit!)
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We welcome Jacob of Workers' Lit on to talk about the best games we've played in 2025! A fantastic run of beautiful work released in this year and others as well brought to you by two handsome, intelligent, aesthetic gurus...what could be better? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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DENZEMBER 2 VOL. V - The Siege feat. Séamus Malekafzali
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Denzember concludes as Journalist and host of the Turbulence podcast Séamus Malekafzali returns to the show to discuss Edward Zwick's 1998 geopolitical thriller The Siege, a film about a Muslim terrorist cell wreaking havoc on New York City, the resultant fear it stokes, and the vidictive results of martial law being enforced in an American city. L…
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DENZEMBER 2 VOL. IV - He Got Game feat. Robert Daniels *TEASER*
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Get access to this entire episode, the entire Denzember catalog, and all of our premium episodes by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Roger Ebert Associate Editor Robert Daniels returns to the show to once again discuss the work of Denzel Washington and Spike Lee, this time unpacking his brilliant 1998 sports drama He Got Game. The f…
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Episode 306 - Sekiromantasy With Aysha of Workers Lit!
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We welcome the wonderful Aysha from Workers' Lit and All My Maidens podcasts to talk Sekiro, lore, beauty, intention, and much much more! Find out why this game is probably the Souls game I most remember and Aysha most cherishes! Links to both Dia Lacina articles referenced in today's episode are: here and here. Follow Aysha at ayshaufarah.bsky.soc…
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DENZEMBER 2 VOL. III - Much Ado About Nothing feat. Bobbi Miller
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Denzember continues with Culture Kitsch host Bobbi Miller joining us to discuss Kenneth Branagh's 1993 Shakespeare adaptation Much Ado About Nothing. Following his successful Henry V adaptation, Branagh returned to Shakespeare for a much airier, light-hearted affair, fashioning the classic play into an immensely pleasurable studio romantic comedy w…
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DENZEMBER 2 VOL. II - Ricochet feat. Bilge Ebiri *TEASER*
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Get access to this entire episode, the entire Denzember catalog, and all of our premium episodes by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Denzember 2 continues with the return of Vulture Film Critic Bilge Ebiri and a spirited discussion of Russel Mulcahy's 1991 thriller Ricochet, a film of lean premise that takes its story to absolutely …
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DENZEMBER 2 VOL. I - Mo' Better Blues feat. Minnie Zondi
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It's the most wonderful time of the year! Denzember 2 kicks off with a conversation about Spike Lee and Denzel Washington's first collaboration, 1990's Mo' Better Blues, a film about jazz, art-making, and the pursuit of greatness at the expense of personal relationships. The terrific Minnie Zondi is our guest! We discuss the film's tepid reception …
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Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Better late than never, we're back with a conversation about Paul Thomas Anderson's recent critical and box office sensation One Battle After Another. PTA loosely adapts (and updates) Thomas Pynchon's 1990 n…
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Episode 305 - GGNoReRead Presents: House of Leaves and What Remains of Edith Finch
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Liv and Trev reconvene to put two totems of their respective forms in conversation with one another: Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves and Giant Sparrow's What Remains of Edith Finch; two works with many commonalities outside of the core premise of "what if a house was fucked up" (sorry I don't know how to do the blue text thing on here). Learn…
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Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Writer and critic David Hering joins us from Liverpool to discuss the final film from the ingenious Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut. Originally conceived in the 1970s as a follow-up to Kubrick's landmark 200…
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Benny's Video feat. Heather Landsman
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Filmmaker Heather Landsman joins to discuss Michael Haneke's Benny's Video alongside a conversation about her latest film, the archival documentary The Best of Me, which chronicles Björk stalker Ricardo López through unvarnished, segments of his 1996 video diaries, created as a means of sharing his ideological convictions and his plan to mail the p…
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Episode 304 - The Secret World of Alex Haus (feat. @hausofdecline)
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This week we have Alex Haus from Haus of Decline talking about just about everything under the sun, but also video games, art, music, queer artistry, the golden age of webcomics, Sluggy Freelance and more more more. She was a fantastic guest and y ou should go check out her patreon at patreon.com/hausofdecline ! Learn more about your ad choices. Vi…
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It's Halloween, so we decided to do a "scary" one! Podcaster, author, and emissary from the City of Brotherly Love Trevor Strunk joins to discuss Robert Rodriguez's 1998 Breakfast-Club-Meets-Body-Snatchers riff The Faculty. Boasting a memorable cast of young up-and-comers and a script written by Scream-scribe Kevin Williamson, the film is both play…
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Episode 303 - Cameron Kunzelman and the Chamber of Banter
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We finally get our stuff together and welcome Cameron Kunzelman of The World is Born From Zero, and Ranged Touch, and games journalism, and the upcoming Everything is Permitted to the show! We kind of have a lot of fun with this one, and I'm hoping you all have as much fun as us -- stick around to the end to hear some more about Cameron's new book …
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The fine, upstanding gentlemen of Pod Casty for Me, Jake Serwin and Ian Rhine, return to discuss Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life, which follows a group of recently deceased people entering a state of limbo where counselors (also deceased) help them locate their most important memory and then go about the work of turning that memory into a film that …
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Episode 302 -- Halloween at the Drive-In FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY'S (2023)
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Liv and I link up to talk about the biggest cinematic event in the 8-13 set in Five Nights At Freddy's! For the first time ever, we expect horrible work and get...perfectly fine work? Enjoy watching our brains twist around this one and how much Henson puppets can make the difference! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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Carlito's Way feat. Travis Woods *TEASER*
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Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. Film writer and author of the upcoming book De Palma Does Hollywood Travis Woods joins us to discuss the exemplary filmmaker and his 1993 crime masterpiece Carlito's Way, starring Al Pacino as the titular Ca…
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Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. On the occasion of Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film One Battle After Anotherin theaters, we look back at the director's ambitious, unwieldy, and under-loved 1999 feature Magnolia starring a massive ensembl…
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Episode 301 - Indie Game Review, GREAT GOD GROVE
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Liv and I are back covering some of our favorite things in the world: indie video games! The creators of Smile for Me are back with a new one in Great God Grove and Liv and I cover it happily here. How's it compare? How's it play? What do we think? You must listen...to find out! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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We inaugurate the late Japanese master Shinji Sōmai with a discussion of his beautiful, melancholy coming-of-age drama Moving. The film follows the young Ren as she navigates her parents' recent separation, balancing loyalties to both her mother and father, dealing with gossiping classmates, and making attempts to reconcile the marriage. With a cha…
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Episode 300 - Will Jobst Plasmodics it All
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We welcome the wonderful Will Jobst to the podcast to discuss their new TTRPG framework and homage PLASMODICS. And we talk game design, play, DMing, and so so much more. This is a classic folks, dig in please!! Will's work can be found at https://willjobst.itch.io/! Buy Plasmodics, it's amazing. Art by Zach Hazard! Learn more about your ad choices.…
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Saving Private Ryan feat. Brendan Hodges
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Film writer and critic Brendan Hodges joins to discuss Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, a self-proclaimed love letter to the filmmaker's WWII veteran father and all the fighting men of the Second World War. Visceral, upsetting, and deeply conflicted, the film formally disavows many of Spielberg's more populist tendencies as director and crea…
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Get access to this entire episode as well as all of our premium episodes and bonus content by becoming a Hit Factory Patron for just $5/month. CW: Discussions of cinematic sexual assault and violence. Film Critic Lex Briscuso joins us to discuss Satoshi Kon's masterful animated psychological thriller Perfect Blue. The film follows Mima, a former J-…
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Episode 299 - Santo, Mechs, Saints!
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We welcome Santo (Santo.bsky.social), of Cosmo Champs, CybeRRRevolution, and more! They talk with us about games writing, writing about imperialism, the importance of mechs and magical boys, and even more! If you love queer mech stories, Saint Seiya, or both, this one’s for you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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