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CineNation
The CineNation Podcast analyzes the histories and tropes of film genres and why we love them.
Episodes
CineNation425 - Weapons (2025)
"This is a true story that happened in my town." For Episode 425, Thomas and Brandon wrap up their Witch Movies series with Zach Cregger's WEAPONS. Listen as…
CineNation424 - The Craft (1996)
"We are the weirdos, mister." For Episode 424, Brandon is joined again by Valerie Broussard to discuss the 1990s cult classic, THE CRAFT. Listen as they…
CineNation423 - Suspiria (1977)
"Susie, do you know anything about...witches?" For Episode 423, Brandon and Thomas continue CineNation's series on Witches. Listen as they discuss the story…
CineNation422 - The Witch (2015)
"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?" For Episode 422, Brandon is joined by returning guest and talented singer-songwriter Valerie Broussard to dive into…
CineNation421 - Hocus Pocus (1993)
"It's just a bunch of hocus pocus." For Episode 421, Thomas and Brandon kick off Halloween season and CineNation's Witch series with a millennial classic…
CineNation420 - Any Given Sunday (1999)
"On any given Sunday, you're gonna win, or you're gonna lose." For Episode 420, Brandon and Thomas finish off CineNation's main series on football movies with…
CineNation419 - Jerry Maguire (1996)
"Show me the money!" For Episode 419, Brandon is joined by Ryan Hurley to continue CineNation's Football series with JERRY MAGUIRE. While Tom Cruise is on the…
CineNation418 - Remember the Titans (2000)
"You make sure they remember, forever, the night they played the Titans!" For Episode 418, Brandon and Thomas continue their Football series with the…
CineNation417 - The Replacements (2000)
"Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever." For Episode 417, Thomas and Brandon enter September with their game faces on. It's time to talk some…
CineNation416 - Cape Fear (1991)
"If you hold on to the past, you die a little each day..." For Episode 416, Brandon and Thomas finish their main series on the Southern Gothic genre with…
CineNation415 - Deliverance (1972)
"Sometimes you have to lose yourself 'fore you can find anything." For Episode 415, Brandon is joined by William Mason to discuss the classic film DELIVERANCE…
CineNation414 - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
"I have always depended on the kindness of strangers." For Episode 414, Brandon and Thomas tackle the most important figure in the Southern Gothic genre, and…
CineNation413 - Stoker (2013)
"Sometimes you need to do something bad to stop you from doing something worse." For Episode 413, Thomas and Brandon start CineNation's Southern Gothic with an…
CineNation412 - National Treasure (2004)
"I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence." For Episode 412, Brandon and Paige finish out CineNation's Treasure Hunt series with the millennial classic…
CineNation411 - The Goonies (1985)
"Goonies never say die!" For Episode 411, Brandon and Thomas continue their series on Treasure Hunt movies with the 1980s classic, THE GOONIES. Listen as they…
CineNation410 - Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
"To wherever the wind may take us!" For Episode 410, Brandon is joined by returning guest Paige Klaniecki and new guest podcaster, the talented…
CineNation409 - Romancing the Stone (1984)
"You're gonna be all right, Joan Wilder. You always were." For Episode 409, Thomas and Brandon are back from their hiatus to talk Treasure Hunt Movies. They…
CineNation408 - Before Midnight (2013)
"This is real life. It's not perfect but it's real." For Episode 408, Brandon and Thomas complete their June series on the BEFORE trilogy! Listen as they…
CineNation407 - Before Sunset (2004)
"I guess when you're young, you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with." For Episode 407, Brandon and Thomas continue their trilogy…
CineNation406 - Before Sunrise (1995)
"But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?" For Episode 406, we're back with Trilogy Month! For this year's Trilogy Month, we're…
CineNation405 - Being John Malkovich (1999)
"Are you John Malkovich?" For Episode 405, Brandon and David close out CineNation's main series on Surreal movies with BEING JOHN MALKOVICH. Listen as they…
CineNation404 - The Holy Mountain (1973)
"You can change yourself into gold." For Episode 404, David and Brandon continue CineNation's series on Surreal movies with Alejandro Jodorowsky's THE HOLY…
CineNation403 - Sorry to Bother You (2018)
"Listen, I just really, really need a job." For Episode 403, Thomas and Brandon continue CineNation's Surreal series with Boots Riley's SORRY TO BOTHER YOU…
CineNation402 - Eraserhead (1977)
"In Heaven, everything is fine." For Episode 402, David and Brandon kick off CineNation's series on Surreal Movies with a quintessential film in the genre…
CineNation401 - Alien (1979)
"In space, no one can hear you scream." For Episode 401, Brandon and Thomas conclude CineNation's series on Alien movies with Ridley Scott's ALIEN. Listen as…
CineNation400 - E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
"E.T. phone home" For Episode 400, Brandon, Thomas, and David celebrate over a decade of CineNation with Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, as part…
CineNation399 - Arrival (2016)
"There are days that define your story beyond your life." For Episode 399, Brandon and David are joined by Paige Klaniecki to continue CineNatin's series on…
CineNation398 - Men in Black (1997)
"We live in secret, we exist in shadow." For Episode 398, Thomas and Brandon continue CineNation's series on Alien movies with the 1997 blockbuster MEN IN…
CineNation397 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
"I guess you've noticed something a little strange with Dad." For Episode 397, David and Brandon kick off CineNation's series on Alien movies with Steven…
CineNation396 - Bottoms (2023)
"Could the ugly, untalented gays please report to the principal's office?" For Episode 396, Thomas and Brandon close out CineNation's series on Teen Sex…
CineNation395 - American Pie (1999)
"It's not a space shuttle launch, it's sex." For Episode 395, Brandon, Thomas, and David continue their series on Sex Comedies with the quinessential 90s film…
CineNation394 - Risky Business (1983)
"Time of your life, huh, kid?" For Episode 394, Brandon and Thomas continue CineNation's series on Sex Comedies with RISKY BUSINESS. Listen as they discuss…
CineNation393 - Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
"Anyone can have sex." For Episode 393, David and Brandon start off CineNation's Sex Comedy series with one of the quintessential high school movies of the…
CineNation392 - Lost in Translation (2003)
"I just don't know what I'm supposed to be." For Episode 392, Thomas and Brandon conclude CineNation's main series on Brief Encounters with Sofia Coppola's…
CineNation391 - Brief Encounter (1945)
"This can't last. This misery can't last." For Episode 391, Brandon and Thomas are joined by the incredibly talented film editor and former CineNation regular…
CineNation390 - Past Lives (2023)
"It means there must have been something between them in their past lives." For Episode 390, Brandon and David continue CineNation's series on Brief Encounters…
CineNation389 - Roman Holiday (1953)
"I don't know how to say goodbye." For Episode 389, Thomas and Brandon return from their holiday hiatus to discuss Brief Encounter Romance genre. They are…
CineNationTHROWBACK: The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
"I've had a rough year, dad." We're continuing our tribute series by taking a look back at Episode 312 on Wes Anderson's THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS in honor of the…
CineNationTHROWBACK: Top Secret! (1984)
"It all sounds like some bad movie." We're taking it back to January 2022 as we continue our tribute series to the people we lost in 2025. In honor of the late…
CineNationTHROWBACK: When Harry Met Sally (1989)
"You realize of course that we could never be friends." We're taking it back to our 250th episode on WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. This month, as the CineNation team…
CineNation388 - A Christmas Story (1983)
"You'll shoot your eye out, kid." For Episode 388, Brandon and David finish off their Christmas Comedy series with one of the most popular Christmas films of…
CineNation387 - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
"I dedicate this house to the Griswold Family Christmas." For Episode 387, Thomas and Brandon continue CineNation's Christmas Comedy series with NATIONAL…
CineNation386 - The Holdovers (2023)
"You can't even dream a whole dream, can you?" For Episode 386, David and Brandon kick off December with THE HOLDOVERS as part of CineNation's series on…
CineNation385 - The Night of the Hunter (1955)
"It's a hard world for little things." For Episode 385, Brandon and David finish their series of Horror Noir with one of the greatest films of all time, THE…
CineNation384 - Se7en (1995)
"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." For Episode 384, Brandon and David continue their Noirvember series on Horror Noir with Se7en. Listen as…
CineNation383 - Cure (1997)
"All the things that used to be inside of me... now they are all outside." For Episode 383, David and Brandon continue CineNation's series on Horror Noir…
CineNation382 - Perfect Blue (1997)
"You're the ghost who needs to wake up." It's time to celebrate Noirvember! For Episode 382, Thomas and Brandon kick-off CineNation's series on Horror Noir…
CineNation381 - Hereditary (2018)
"I am your mother!" For Episode 381, David and Brandon finish off their Folk Horror series with Ari Aster's HEREDITARY. Listen as they discuss the film's…
CineNation380 - Kill List (2011)
"They are bad people. They should suffer." For Episode 380, Thomas and Brandon continue their discussion of Folk Horror movies by talking about Ben Wheatley…
CineNation379 - Sleepy Hollow (1999)
"It was a headless horseman!" For Episode 379, Brandon and David continue CineNation's series on Folk Horror with a mainstream version of the genre, SLEEPY…
CineNation378 - The Blair Witch Project (1999)
"There's no one here to help you!" For Episode 378, David and Brandon continue CineNation's series on the Folk Horror genre. Listen as the two discuss one of…
CineNation377 - The Wicker Man (1973)
"It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man." For Episode 377, Thomas and Brandon kick off their Folk Horror series with one of the most important…
CineNation376 - Her (2013)
"Sometimes I think I have felt everything I'm ever gonna feel." For Episode 376, Brandon and David are joined by Paige again to close out CineNation's series…
CineNation375 - Ex Machina (2015)
"You are dead center of the greatest scientific event in the history of man." For Episode 375, Brandon and David are joined by Paige Klaniecki to discuss Alex…
CineNation374 - The Martian (2015)
"I'm the first person to be alone on an entire planet." For Episode 374, Thomas and Brandon continue their hard sci-fi series with THE MARTIAN. Listen as they…
CineNation373 - Solaris (1972)
"You mean more to me than any scientific truth." For Episode 373, David and Brandon kick off their Hard Sci-Fi month with Andrei Tarkovsky's SOLARIS. Listen as…
CineNation372 - Grave of the Fireflies (1988)
"Why do fireflies have to die so soon?" For Episoe 372, Thomas and Brandon finish off their World War II series with GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. Listen as the two…
CineNation371 - The Zone of Interest (2023)
"The life we enjoy is very much worth the sacrifice." For Episode 371, David and Brandon continue CineNation's series on World War II movies with Jonathan…
CineNation370 - Saving Private Ryan (1998)
"Earn this...earn it." For Episode 370, Brandon and David cover the World War II movie everyone has been asking for this month. Directed by Steven Spielberg…
CineNation369 - The Thin Red Line (1998)
"This great evil, where's it come from?" For Episode 369, David and Brandon are following up CineNation's series on World War I with it's sequel. Listen as…