No Gods, No Monsters

Episode 67: Gamera: Super Monster (1980) + Three Better Gamera Movies (2023)

After a brief discussion of Gamera: Super Monster we each pitch our ideas for new Gamera films. There’s neoliberal greenscapes, bigfoots (big feet?), adrenochrome-eating space aliens, and… Gamera! We hope you enjoy this unique No Gods episode!

Episode 66: Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991)

We discuss Riki-Oh, a kung fu movie set in a dystopian future where all government services—including the prison that’s the film’s centerpiece—are capitalist franchises. There’s a lot of gore, a lot of shirtless buff guys, and a lot to talk about. 

Episode 65: King Kong (1976)

With a budget almost as big as its ape, did this reboot pull off the magic of the original? Listen in as we discuss this as well as the psychosexual anxieties, critique of capital, reactionary racism, and environmentalism in the film.

Episode 64: Barbarian (2022)

Spoilers! We extra recommend you watch this movie before you listen.

Content warning: discussions of sexual assault.

We attempt to unpeel the layers of this tight and witty horror flick, which plasters together themes of internalized patriarchy, gentrification, Freudian subjectivity, seeing through the lens of capital, and how a legacy like Reagan’s lives on after he dies.

We forgot to rate the film during recording, so here are our ratings:

RATINGS CONTAIN SPOILERS 

Barto: 5 out of 5 hairy bottles of milk

Rabbit: a tape measure pulled as far as it’ll go, that moment before it snaps back

Charlie: Rome

Episode 63: Tickets to the Showa Retrospective Featuring Jet Jaguar

We discuss the Showa Era Godzilla and Godzilla-adjacent movies! If you like our episodes that cover those films, and want to hear us nerd out even more and rank them all, then this is the episode for you!

Here are some groups fighting for trans people in Missouri:

https://linktr.ee/promomissouri

https://www.stlmetrotrans.org

https://centerproject.org

If you know of other groups you think we should support, send us an email at nogodspod@gmail.com

Episode 62: Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975)

We discuss the last Godzilla film of the Shōwa Era. Is it a return to the golden age of the early ‘60s entries, or a dud? Does Honda’s humanism have a place in the ‘70s cinema landscape? Does Mechagodzilla still work as a symbol of the modernization and outside forces affecting to Japan? 

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Episode 61: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

We talk conspiracy and paranoia, submission and resistance, cops and psychiatrists, and how conformity to the patriarchy, the mental health system and the state make it really hard to tell if you’re an alien.

New music from Barto:

https://armed-jouissance.bandcamp.com/album/stopcopcity

All profits go to the Atlanta Solidarity Fund. You can donate directly to them:

https://atlsolidarity.org

Episode 60: The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)

The final entry in our Cloverfield series (for now!). Some say there’s a message about civilization and technology hidden somewhere beneath the messy narrative and obvious reshoots. Can we find it!?

Episode 59: 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

Our Cloverfield series continues! We talk preppers, fucked up men, the use of space to tell a story, and how the power dynamics in the bunker parallel those of capital, fundamentalist communities, and the state.

Episode 58: Cloverfield (2008)

The first in our three-episode series on the Cloverfield films. In this episode we talk about the first true post-9/11 American kaiju flick—how the movie was influenced not only by the events and coverage of that day, but by the wars and terror-fueled media landscape that followed.