Welcome to Socrates at the Cinema, where every episode we look at one great idea through one great film, by having great conversations about the films and questions that define our lives.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWelcome to Socrates at the Cinema, where every episode we look at one great idea through one great film, by having great conversations about the films and questions that define our lives.
Socrates at the Cinema is hosted by Socrates. The show has published 15 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Ep. 16 - It Follows (2014)" (26 October 2026, 47 minutes), "Ep. 15 - Blade Runner 2049 (2017)" (19 October 2026, 51 minutes), and "Ep. 14 - The Godfather (1972)" (12 October 2026, 52 minutes).
Socrates at the Cinema publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 49 minutes across 15 episodes.
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Socrates hosts Socrates at the Cinema, a society podcast with 15 episodes published.
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In It Follows, death walks toward you at a steady pace and never stops. So does knowing it's coming make you live better, or just ruin you? Trent and Jackson take on David Robert Mitchell's It Follows (2014) and the...
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Does K have a soul? Blade Runner 2049 tests him three ways: being born, having memories of his own, and dying for someone else. Two of them fail. Trent and Austin take on Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (2017) and...
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Is there any real difference between a government and a mafia? The Godfather opens with a mortician asking Don Corleone for the justice the courts refused him. Trent Leach and Bill Isley start there and spend the hour...
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A cold rationalist detective meets a small-town priest in Rian Johnson's Wake Up Dead Man , and the murder mystery turns into an argument about what religion actually is — a tool, a comfort, or something true. Trent and...
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Saving Private Ryan (1998) isn't really about the beaches of Normandy — it's about whether the eight men sent to save one soldier are practicing duty, or just following an order wearing its uniform. Hosts Trent Leach...
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Project Hail Mary hands one man the survival of eight billion people, and he says no. He runs for the door. Trent and Austin take up the 2026 film through a single great idea: courage. They start with Aristotle's mean...
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Captain Jack Aubrey says everything he does, he does out of duty. His own ship's doctor isn't buying it. In this episode of Socrates at the Cinema, Trent and Bill use Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World...
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Eduardo Saverin wrote Mark Zuckerberg a check for a thousand dollars when Facebook was still nothing. He ended up with 0.03 percent of it and a lawsuit. Trent and Nathaniel take David Fincher's The Social Network (2010)...
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Ash calls conscience a burden. Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) kills almost everyone who has one. So why does Ripley survive? Trent Leach and Jackson Swain examine Alien through the Great Idea of Man, with Descartes on...
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<p>Interstellar hides a philosopher's question inside a sci-fi blockbuster: is love just an evolutionary survival mechanism, or is it a genuine form of perception that reaches truths reason can't? Trent and Austin put...
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Interstellar hides a philosopher's question inside a sci-fi blockbuster: is love just an evolutionary survival mechanism, or is it a genuine form of perception that reaches truths reason can't? Trent and Austin put the...
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<p>What if Toy Story is secretly a philosophy lecture on identity — and Pixar just disguised it with plastic toys and a Randy Newman song?</p><p></p><p>In this episode, we look at the concept of Same and Other to argue...
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What if Toy Story is secretly a philosophy lecture on identity — and Pixar just disguised it with plastic toys and a Randy Newman song? In this episode, we look at the concept of Same and Other to argue that Woody and...
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Can you outsmart fate? No Country for Old Men (2007), the Coen brothers' bleak modern Western, says no — and this week Trent and Bill dig into why. Llewelyn Moss bets he's clever enough to outrun the consequences of...
Socrates at the Cinema
<p>Can you outsmart fate? No Country for Old Men (2007), the Coen brothers' bleak modern Western, says no — and this week Trent and Bill dig into why. Llewelyn Moss bets he's clever enough to outrun the consequences of...
Socrates at the Cinema
The Truman Show gave us Jim Carrey's most dramatic role and a question that's only gotten sharper with time: if your whole reality was built for you, would you even know how to doubt it? This episode traces Truman's...
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<p>The Truman Show gave us Jim Carrey's most dramatic role and a question that's only gotten sharper with time: if your whole reality was built for you, would you even know how to doubt it? This episode traces Truman's...
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Gladiator gives us two men chasing the same thing, honor, and only one of them ever finds it. In this episode of Socrates at the Cinema, we use Ridley Scott's 2000 epic to dig into the difference between honor as...
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Is Batman the hero of The Dark Knight, or does the Joker actually win the argument? We dig into Locke, Machiavelli, and Plato's noble lie to figure out whether Gotham's peace is built on justice or just a very...
Socrates at the Cinema
<p>Is Batman the hero of The Dark Knight, or does the Joker actually win the argument? We dig into Locke, Machiavelli, and Plato's noble lie to figure out whether Gotham's peace is built on justice or just a very...
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