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by Thomas Millary
Psy游戏副本 Cinema is a podcast about the film industry and its intimate connections to mass manipulation, conspiracy, and the occult. Hosts Thomas Millary and Brett Carollo explore film from a deep politics perspective, demonstrating how the artistry of cinema combines with psychological and technological knowledge to engineer culture in subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways— making each of us the subject of the greatest mind control experiment in history.
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- 2 days ago3h 30m
The Doors, with Dr. Hans Utter (Oliver Stone 7)
Musician and musicologist Dr. Hans Utter joins Brett to discuss Oliver Stone’s 1991 musical biopic The Doors, a “trip movie” that is the first full-on showcase of Stone’s signature frenetic-psychedelic style which helped define the media zeitgeist of the 1990s. During the production, we reveal, Stone and his companions conducted countless New Age rituals, peyote ceremonies, and magical workings, and they expressly designed the film itself to function as a neo-shamanic ritual, imbuing its audience with his “Nietzschean” brand of countercultural spirituality via the myth of Jim Morrison. Much of our analysis focuses on Stone’s surprisingly open embrace of “the dark side of the 60s,” including the infernal symbols and ceremonies of witchcraft and Satanism. We compare Stone’s portrayal of Morrison, as the embodiment of Dionysus, with the prefabricated archetype of the rock star as the incarnation of Lucifer/Satan. The conversation also revisits Dave McGowan’s Laurel Canyon thesis regarding the military and intelligence backgrounds of the Laurel Canyon scene that created the counterculture, since Stone directly references Morrison’s elite military background in the film, but in a way that misdirects the audience from “culture conspiracy.” Brett and Hans touch on the 27 Club, the cult of the artist, and many other related topics besides. A lengthy addendum from Thomas speaks to subjects including Morrison and Stone's disturbing shared Oedipus complex, how The Doors film exemplifies Timothy Leary's idea of reprogramming the brain via psychedelic chaos, and how the movie represents a sinister turning point in Stone's filmography, marked by the start of the enigmatic Richard Rutowski's influence upon Stone.CORRECTIONS: The reference to Meg Tilly is meant to be to Jennifer Tilly. The reference to Warhol's "Gallery" is meant to be to his FactoryHans's podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/1mlCW7CCQ2rfSavOImbkiA?si=9b5932d833e24398https://www.patreon.com/DrHansUtterhttps://x.com/Resonantstatehttps://hansutter.com/If you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the research anthology series that we edit, Cultural Engineering Studies. Volume #3 is out now and features Hans's groundbreaking essay on the role of FM radio in the counterculture psyop. Use code psyopcinema for a 25% discount on any order of CES - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyophttps://www.patreon.com/c/PsyopCinemahttps://psyopcinema.com/thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.combrett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
- Jun 12, 20262h 33m
The Firm, with Steven DeLay (Surveillance Cinema 3)
Steven Delay returns to our Surveillance Cinema series for a discussion of Sydney Pollack's 1993 legal thriller The Firm, starring Tom Cruise. We first spend some time on Pollack's background, including his established Mossad connections and the themes of his 1975 paranoid spy thriller Three Days of the Condor, which had significant CIA involvement in its production. The Firm turns out to be largely a misdirection op, depicting a white shoe law firm as running interference for the mafia (a favorite Hollywood scapegoat) rather than for the deep state. We also talk about themes of demoralization, subversion of traditional social values, and the movie's significant Masonic/occult symbolism.This conversation was recorded in April but personal circumstances took us away from the podcast for a couple months. https://twitter.com/StevenDeLay4https://stevendelay.com/If you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the research anthology series Cultural Engineering Studies. Volume #3 (on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) is out now! Volumes #1 and #2 feature Steven's essays on Chinatown. Use code psyopcinema for a discount - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyophttps://www.patreon.com/c/PsyopCinemahttps://psyopcinema.com/thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.combrett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
- Jun 5, 20262h 28m
Eddington, Bugonia, and Beau is Afraid, with Travis Mateer
After many requests Thomas is joined by Travis Mateer to cover Eddington, Ari Aster's 2025 neo-Western political satire and early-Covid period piece. We break down the film's portrayal of technology, social media, conspiracy theories, Covid, Wokeness, and data collection, situating its messaging within the context of the cultural transitions and inter-elite warfare of the last half decade. While many have called the film meta-political or omni-political, comments from Aster and a careful reading of Eddington reveal the clear ideological agenda of this very sophisticated psyop. To further understand Aster's worldview, we also explore Beau Is Afraid, his incredibly unpleasant 2023 epic surrealistic horror tragicomedy, which gives fascinating insights into some of the ethnic and religious roots of Hollywood's fixation on the archetype of the devouring mother. Finally, we discuss Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos' 2025 dark comedy thriller, which similarly to Eddington, is a film that pretends to take conspiratorial concerns seriously while bolstering the same old elite ideologies. Travis's blog - https://zoomchron.com/If you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the research anthology series Cultural Engineering Studies. Volume #3 (on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) is out now! Use code psyopcinema for a discount - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyophttps://psyopcinema.com/https://linktr.ee/psyopcinemathomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.combrett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
- Apr 29, 20262h 14m
Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone 6)
After his hyper-sus digression of Talk Radio (1988), we return to the thematic focus that defined this era of Olive Stone's career. He continues to explore the ghosts of the 1960s with Born on the Fourth of July, his 1989 anti-war drama starring Tom Cruise. We keep analyzing Stone's treatments of religion, sexuality, war, and masculinity, go over some sus production credits, and talk about how this film sets the stage for his even more extensive interaction with the counterculture psyop in 1991's The Doors.If you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the research anthology series Cultural Engineering Studies. Volume #3 (on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) is out now! Please also take advantage of limited time discounts on volumes #1 and #2, with an even bigger discount if you bundle all three volumes - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyophttps://psyopcinema.com/https://linktr.ee/psyopcinemathomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.combrett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
- Apr 17, 20264 min
Suddenly (Research Report 8, Preview)
A preview clip from Brett's recent deep dive into the 1954 film Suddenly, starring Frank Sinatra as a mob hitman hired to assassinate a US president. The full Patreon-exclusive episode is a supplement to both our Joker Cycle series and our recent episode on The Manchurian Candidate.Brett uncovers the source of the legend that Lee Harvey Oswald viewed the film a month before the JFK assassination, exposing how that legend has been deliberately amplified by intelligence assets and professional psyop’ers with a view toward bolstering the lone gunman theory. According to another legend, Sinatra had the film pulled out of circulation after the assassination—a carbon copy of a popular legend about The Manchurian Candidate. Brett explains how these legends have been used to apply a soft version of the “copycat” thesis to Oswald, as well as how the film’s portrayal of the psychopathic assassin instantiates an early form of the profile, popularized in later films like Taxi Driver. Media depictions of the profile, as explained here and throughout the Joker Cycle series, function not only to explain away assassinations and other deep states crimes but, via the dynamics of cybernetic feedback loops, to engineer the very psychopathological behaviors depicted.For the full episode -https://www.patreon.com/PsyopCinemaIf you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the research anthology series Cultural Engineering Studies. Volume #3 (on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) is out now! Please also take advantage of limited time discounts on volumes #1 and #2, with an even bigger discount if you bundle all three volumes - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyophttps://psyopcinema.com/https://linktr.ee/psyopcinemathomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.combrett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
- Mar 13, 20261h 58m
True Detective: Night Country, with Jamie Hanshaw Dyer
Returning to True Detective, Thomas is joined by Jamie Hanshaw Dyer to analyze the controversial fourth season, Night Country, which takes a much less subtle approach in its psy-op messaging than any previous season. They describe its occult feminist inversions of the first season and how Night Country promotes the dissolution of both familial and metaphysical order. Thomas also gives his updated thoughts on the positive and negative aspects of the series as a whole and speculates about the original intentions behind it. Use the code truedetective26 for a limited time 30% discount on the Decoding Culture Foundation website if you want to buy volumes #1 and #2 of the research anthology Cultural Engineering Studies (issue #3 available soon, on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) - https://decoding-culture.com/buy-print-issue-1/ https://decoding-culture.com/ces-issue-2/ Jamie's YouTube channel - https://www.youtube.com/@jamiehanshaw4378 Jamie and Jay's books - https://jaysanalysis.com/shop/ Spiral symbol on a mask at Ghislaine Maxwell's house - https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/cd7zu4/pedo_symbols_on_artwork_in_ghislaine_maxwells/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop https://psyopcinema.com/ thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
- Mar 10, 20262h 29m
Clint Eastwood and The Outlaw Josey Wales, with Jason McGinty
Brett and Thomas are joined by Jason McGinty, author of The Unsung Substack, for a discussion of both Clint Eastwood's 1976 film The Outlaw Josey Wales and Eastwood's broader persona. We talk about the movie's use of the Lost Cause narrative about the Civil War, with Jason providing his expertise on the historical backdrop of the film, the war between the Jayhawker and Bushwhacker guerilla factions in Kansas and Missouri. With references to many Eastwood films and other aspects of his life and career, we make the case that the rugged individualism of his action movies was largely a Trojan horse, a masculine guise used to subvert the social order and accelerate the dissolution of the family. https://jasonmcginty.substack.com/ Use the code psyopcinema for a limited time 30% discount on the Decoding Culture Foundation website if you want to buy issue's #1 and #2 of the research anthology Cultural Engineering Studies (issue #3 available soon, on Hollywood Neo-Gnosticism) - https://decoding-culture.com/buy-print-issue-1/ https://decoding-culture.com/ces-issue-2/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop https://psyopcinema.com/ thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
- Jan 26, 20263h 4m
Sneakers (Surveillance Cinema 2)
In the second installment of our Surveillance Cinema series, we are joined by citizen journalist Travis Mateer for a discussion of Sneakers, a 1992 comedy heist thriller, directed by Phil Alden Robinson and starring Robert Redford and Ben Kingsley. Among the most conspiratorially significant films of all time, Sneakers is an overt vehicle for globalist views on information warfare, filled with limited hangouts, misdirection, and predictive programming. We get into the sus background of the director, writers, and much of the cast, also analyzing related films, such as Blindfold (1966), WarGames (1983), and Volunteers (1985). Travis's blog - https://zoomchron.com/ If you enjoy Psyop Cinema, check out the Decoding Culture Foundation and Cultural Engineering Studies magazine - https://decoding-culture.com/print-copies/ - https://decoding-culture.com/publication/ - https://decoding-culture.com/ https://twitter.com/CinemaPsyop https://psyopcinema.com/ https://linktr.ee/psyopcinema thomas-psyopcinema@protonmail.com brett-psyopcinema@protonmail.com
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Psy游戏副本 Cinema is a podcast about the film industry and its intimate connections to mass manipulation, conspiracy, and the occult. Hosts Thomas Millary and Brett Carollo explore film from a deep politics perspective, demonstrating how the artistry of cinema combines with psychological and technological knowledge to engineer culture in subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) ways— making each of us the subject of the greatest mind control experiment in history.
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