
Bugonia (2025) — "There's Andromedan code all over your Instagram. You're barely even hiding it."
It may not have won Best Picture or Best Actress at the most recent Academy Awards, but Bugonia was not only one of the best films of the last year, it was also one of the most thought-provoking. Yorgos Lanthimos' remake of Save the Green Planet! stars Jesse Plemons as a conspiracy-minded beekeeper who kidnaps Emma Stone's pharmaceutical CEO, convinced she's an alien. It's a character study and a musing on the state of the world and the way humans have left it.
Dr. David D. Perlmutter, professor of media and communication, joins Chris Stachiw, the Doctor of Podcasting, to talk Yorgos…
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