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We take another break from Mike White May to travel back to Netherrealm, Outworld, and everywhere in between (looking at your Orderrealm) with the sequel to 2021's COVID classic Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat II. With the first tournament in the books, the latest film shifts focus to Johnny Cage (played by Karl Urban) as he is thrown right into the mix of the latest struggle of wills between Raiden, Shang Tsung, and the ultimate baddie, Shao Kahn. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

We take a break from Mike White May to go to college, specifically Harvard Law circa 1970s with The Paper Chase. Starring future presidential look-a-like contest winner Timothy Bottoms, he plays a Midwestern first year law school student enrolled at Harvard Law who runs into one of the true titans of cinematic academia, Professor Kingsfield. Professor David Perlmutter and Mark Stachiw, Esq. join the show to talk law school horror stories, the reality of the film, and whether the ends justify the academic means.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

Mike White May continues with more Sean Connery yet this time with an edgy, more facial-hair forward demeanor in yet another Sidney Lumet joint The Offence. Starring Connery as Sergeant Johnson, a cop in the UK who's had one bad day too many, and takes it out on a suspected child molester with catastrophic results. Professor Spencer Parsons joins to talk Connery, noir, and influences on '90s crime films.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

Mike White May continues with yet another Connery/Lumet joint, this time being an adaptation of the Lawrence Sanders book of the same name. Connery plays the titular Anderson, a burglar who is being inadvertantly surveilled by the a whole host of letter agencies, who decides to rob the building of latest squeeze right after he gets out of prison.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

It's Mike White May here at the Kulturecast and we're talking Sean Connery all month long! We kick off the month with a look at one of the many pairings of Sidney Lumet and Connery with the 1965 film The Hill. Featuring an ensemble cast including Ozzie Davis, it focuses on a group of military prisoners being held in a North African "glass house" where men are broken just for fun. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

We begin our mini-look at Taylor Sheridan's cinematic works with one of his more Western-facing screenplays Hell or High Water. It's an interesting look at violence, poverty, and what one will do for their family in the face of both. Texas Tech's professor of media and communications Dr. David Perlmutter joins the show to talk all about West Texas, the cowboys and Indians of it all, so much more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

While it may not have won Best Picture or Best Actress at the most recent Academy Awards, Bugonia was not only one of the best films of the last year but also one of the most thought-provoking. Featuring Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, the film is a character study as well as being a musing on the state of the world and the way humans have left it. Professor of Media and Communications Dr. David Perlmutter joins the show to talk all about the wild film.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

Sometimes even we don't know why we do the things we do, but this time around, it's because we have to do our due diligence as film critics and take a bullet for you, the listener. Instead of watching Vice or W, we decided to subject ourselves to to Melania, a film that totally wasn't a bribe from Amazon to the Trump family. Because, if it was, that would essentially be light propaganda right?Right.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.

Big unga bunga energy abound on this episode of the Kulturecast, Chris is joined by Dr. David Perlmutter and Richard Hatem of Richard Hatem's Paranormal Bookshelf to talk all about Otzi the Iceman and a story told in a dead language all about him: Iceman (2017). If you're not a fan of dialogue and cavemen, this is the film for you.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-kulturecast--2883470/support.