Materialism mesmerizes us, as it does Loki, because it’s a way to place ourselves at the center of our own little universe composed of people and products that exist to serve us.

This week on the podcast: two movies about the cost of making art. Jafar Panahi’s latest film No Bears and Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz.

Professor Jessica Hooten Wilson is joined by Claude Atcho and Austin Carty to introduce new listeners to the show at the start of Season 2.

In a moment when easy consumerism reigns, jarring and difficult shows like BoJack Horseman are exactly what we need.

Kevin and Sarah pair their Watchlist review of Akira Kurosawa’s Ikiru with their review of its 2022 remake Living, starring Bill Nighy

While many of women’s problems are age-old, what’s changed is the promise of a new solution: the promise of escaping womanhood by adopting a new identity.

Here’s what everyone was reading at Christ and Pop Culture in 2022.

Insisting that players sacrifice their bodies for our mere entertainment should not sit well with us.

After Yang offers a refreshing, compassionate perspective on how technology might make our world more human instead of less.

Sarah and Kevin have watched as many movie as they could and assembled their list of the Best Films of 2022 for your consideration!

Without tradition to protect us, our bodies become subject to the dynamics of the market.

Few of us moderns know the origins of Dickens’ contagious Christmas Spirit, the joyful and perhaps mythic spring from which he created A Christmas Carol.

Here are some of the biggest headlines and most overlooked stories in sports from 2022’s fourth quarter.

A consumerist mindset evaluates entertainment only from the standpoint of how it will affect us, without giving any thought to how the entertainers are affected.

The categories of male/female and man/woman are simply too ancient and fundamental to be tampered with without consequences.

In 1982, the era hadn’t decided to be known as the decade of greed yet. There was still a choice open to the culture: to better the world by giving and supporting others, or to greedily make oneself rich.