First impressions: enjoyment and anger

On US derangement on screen.

The OG Bunga boys get togther for the annual end-of-year film episode. We discuss Ari Aster's Eddington, as well as a bit of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia: the three films that together marked 2025, and which deal with paranoia, conspiracy, disinformation and unmoored political activity.

• Is this hyperpolitics on screen?

• Do these films serve any critical purpose?

• Is Eddington a faithful depiction of the society of immediacy or is it guilty of immediacy itself?

• Are we all fkin r*****ed?

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Links:

• /520/ Conspiracy Culture & Paranoid Styles ft. Catherine Liu

• Hell in Ari Aster, Tara Heffernan & Felix McNamara, Corporate Total Art

• /458/ The Society of Pure Vibe ft. Anna Kornbluh (on 'immediacy')

• America’s Unraveling on Screen, Monica Marks, New Lines Magazine