Year 20, Episode 4

About this episode

The episode covers a wide range of topics including jazz, film analysis, horror, and comedy in just 74 minutes.

Original Release Date: Monday 1 June 2026 Description: Even we are impressed at the ground covered in only 74 minutes this week by your friends in podcasting! They start by going deep into the improvisational jazz of Sun Ra and dissecting comments Sonny Rollins made in a podcast about jazz being “ a music of freedom”. The Coen Brothers’ 1991 masterpiece Barton Fink gets revisited at 35 and is found to be better than ever. The film genre of neo-noir gets analyzed, and the all-too-overlooked Hickey & Boggs (directed by Robert Culp and co-starring Culp and Bill Cosby) gets championed as an outstanding exemplar of that genre. The death of certain kinds of horror tropes are foremost on Dean’s mind after seeing Scream 7, whereas Phil is intrigued by the new generation of horror exemplified by the current box office sensations Backrooms and Obsession . Then, Dean and Phil switch genres yet again, and examine cinematic comedy through two documentaries ( Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man! and Marty, Life is Short ), one all-time classic ( Some Like it Hot ) and two current releases in theaters ( I Love Boosters and The Sheep Detectives ).

People in this episode

Hosts: Dean, Phil

Topics covered

• improvisational jazz
• film analysis
• neo-noir
• horror tropes
• cinematic comedy
• documentaries

Keywords

• Sun Ra
• Sonny Rollins
• Barton Fink
• neo-noir
• horror tropes
• Mel Brooks
• Some Like it Hot

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Barton Fink, Hickey & Boggs, Scream 7, Backrooms, Obsession, Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!, Marty, Life is Short, Some Like it Hot, I Love Boosters, The Sheep Detectives

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