About this podcast
Psyop 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.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 136 episodes
- Disclosure Day, with the Collins Brothers · 3 h 33 minWe are joined by Paul and Phillip Collins for a deep dive into Steven Spielberg's psy-op flop Disclosure Day. The Collins brothers have documented and analyzed the long-running…
- The Doors, with Dr. Hans Utter (Oliver Stone 7) · 3 h 30 minMusician 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…
- The Firm, with Dr. Steven DeLay (Surveillance Cinema 3) · 2 h 33 minSteven 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…
- Eddington, Bugonia, and Beau is Afraid, with Travis Mateer · 2 h 28 minAfter many requests for this analysis, Thomas is joined by Travis Mateer to cover Eddington, Ari Aster's 2025 neo-Western political satire and early-Covid period piece. We break…
- Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone 6) · 2 h 14 minAfter 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…
- Suddenly (Research Report 8, Preview) · 4 minA 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…
- True Detective: Night Country, with Jamie Hanshaw Dyer · 1 h 58 minReturning 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…
- Clint Eastwood and The Outlaw Josey Wales, with Jason McGinty · 2 h 29 minBrett 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…
- Sneakers, with Travis Mateer (Surveillance Cinema 2) · 3 h 4 minIn 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…
- Legend (Preview) · 8 minA couple preview clips from our recent Patreon-exclusive in-depth analysis of Ridley Scott's 1985 film Legend. The full-length discussion continues our research into 1980s…
- Talk Radio (Oliver Stone 5) · 2 h 58 minContinuing our Oliver Stone series, we analyze the psy-ops within his 1988 film Talk Radio. Starring and co-written by Eric Bogossian, this film is strangely out of place in this…
- The Manchurian Candidate, with William Ramsey · 2 h 0 minBrett and Thomas have William Ramsey on to discuss The Manchurian Candidate, one of the most iconic cinematic depictions of mind control. We analyze the movie's abundant…
- Wall Street (Oliver Stone 4) · 2 h 23 minWith Wall Street (1987), Oliver Stone continues both his search for the figure of the "good father" and his consideration of the legacy of 1960s idealism, this time through a…
- True Detective Season 3, with Dr. Steven DeLay · 2 h 52 minThomas and Steven return to True Detective, analyzing season 3, where the series goes full psyop. Despite the positive and ambiguous qualities of the first two seasons, this one…
- Labyrinth (Monarch 15), Preview · 7 minA section analyzing David Bowie, from the 15th installment of Brett's Patreon-exclusive series on Monarch films. Full description of the episode below, along with our Patreon…
- Platoon (Oliver Stone 3) · 1 h 52 minContinuing our Oliver Stone series, we turn to Platoon (1986), the film that established Stone as a superstar director and inaugurated the most celebrated phase of his career…
- NASA and Hollywood, Part 2 (on William Ramsey Investigates) · 1 h 0 minIn his latest appearance on William Ramsey Investigates, Brett discusses Part 2 of his Hollywood-NASA research report, which appeared this June in the second issue of Cultural…
- Drive, with Dr. Steven DeLay · 1 h 47 minSteven DeLay joins Thomas for a conversation about the 2011 film Drive, directed by Nicolas Winding Refn and starring Ryan Gosling. Analyzing the subversive and psyop-heavy…
- The Writer With No Hands, with Matthew Alford (on William Ramsey Investigates) · 1 h 2 minBrett recently made an appearance on William Ramsey Investigates with top Hollywood-DC researcher and writer Matthew Alford to discuss the murder of deep state-connected…
- Fantasy Mind Control, with Monarch Survivor Carrie Olaje · 2 h 45 minA discussion with Carrie Olaje, a survivor of ritual abuse and trauma-based mind control. Carrie provides names, dates, and locations, as she describes how she was primed from a…
