Episode 784: He Wants to Die in Antiquity
On the Overthinking It Podcast, we tackle “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” Harrison Ford’s last outing as the character.
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Shia Labeouf on Overthinking It
Episode 289: The Dark Carnival of our Civil Rights
The Overthinkers tackle the FBI’s designation of juggalos as a gang and Shia Laboeuf’s deisgnation of plagarism as art.
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The End of a Permian Affair: Evolutionary History in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Was the Cambrian explosion an economic bubble?
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Can Optimus Prime Transform into Vishnu? Hindu Narratives in Transformers
What should we do to get better acquainted with the nearly one billion Hindus? Guest Overthinker André Callot tells us: We should watch Transformers.
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Why Strong Female Characters Are Bad for Women
Megan Fox in Transformers is NOT a strong female character.
I’m not done complaining yet
So we have no reason to believe Mutt Williams has any globe-trotting experience whatsoever. He’s a motorcycle repair-guy/greaser. When he sees a scorpion in the cemetery, he reacts with an “I’m a city mouse” look of horror. Anyway, 45 minutes later, … Continued
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Some further complaints about Indy IV (most likely the first in a series)
[Though it was originally written before we recorded the Indiana Jones podcast, and though these positions of the author were more or less covered in that discussion, we are presenting here Matthew Belinkie’s original musings on Indy 4. They are, … Continued
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