By Edward Michael Francis (they/them) Marxists at the Movies www.cinemarchmedia.com Anti-Spoiler Warning: Spoiler warnings are like finding the fountain of youth in your swimming pool — eventually the aliens come back for it, and all you're left with is chlorine and regret... and dead grandparents. Cocoon has long been one of my favorite movies since I was a child. I wasn’t supposed to like it. It was “for adults"—a movie about old people, aging, and death. But I watched

By Edward Michael Francis (they/them/theirs) Marxists at the Movies cinemarchmedia.com Anti-Spoiler Warning: Remember fellow delinquents, spoiler warnings are like Bender… gross. Full plot details ahead. The One I Watched in a Dorm Room My first real viewing of The Breakfast Club happened later than it should have, given my generation and given where I grew up. I was raised in Gurnee, Illinois — a few miles north of the fictional Shermer High School that John Hughes invente

By Edward Michael Francis (they/them/theirs) www.cinemarchmedia.com CLICK HERE to stream the full podcast episode on Patreon. I grew up in suburban Chicago, a proud Nick at Nite Millennial. Every night around 9 p.m., my parents would take over the living room TV for the news—boring! So my sister Liz and I would sneak into their bedroom, flip on their little TV, and escape into a better world. A world where women ran newsrooms, cracked jokes, raised families, and stood up f

By Edward Michael Francis (they/them) Marxists at the Movies | TV Spotlight. www.cinemarchmedia.com Stay tuned for part 3 in this series in May only on PATREON : Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Streaming Era (2017-Present): Rebellion Repackaged CLICK HERE to stream the full podcast episode now. CLICK HERE to see our full research materials. ANTI-SPOILER WARNING: Spoiler warnings are like Mike Nelson… way too conservative for this lane. Full plot details ahead. TITLE

By Edward Michael Francis (they/them) Marxists at the Movies www.cinemarchmedia.com Listen to the full episode here: https://youtu.be/QnAgs2jl1y4?si=QM8UyiWUlrRk-MP_ Barbra Streisand entered my life the way so many formative artists did: through my parents.Like a lot of baby gays of a certain age, my cultural inheritance was not subtle. My parents were the tastemakers of the house, and Barbra was part of the canon. We didn’t just absorb her music casually — we lived with i

By Edward Michael Francis (they/them) Marxists at the Music - Full Episode Available now on patreon.com/cinemarchmedia Who is Paula Cole? Paula Cole’s career represents a calculated and courageous evolution toward artistic sovereignty in an industry that frequently sought to commodify female vocalists as mere "natural canaries". Her journey is defined by the strategic transition from a formally trained student to a self-produced powerhouse who dared to claim the title of "p

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Click here to listen to the full episode! By Edward Michael Francis (they/them) Marxists at the Music www.cinemarchmedia.com The Full Podcast episode can be found here. Who Were New Kids on the Block? New Kids on the Block were not a band in any traditional sense. They were infrastructure—five working-class white teenagers from Boston assembled in 1984 by producer Maurice Starr to perform a function. That function was straightforward: to replicate the commercial success of S