“Are you a ladies’ man, Bob?” After a long unplanned hiatus, the Arts Union Science podcast returns with a look into the 2003 “historical” epic: The Last Samurai. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and our returning first author (Sean W. Phippen) as they tackle the complexities of a well-crafted film built upon a shaky, problematic foundation. Along the way, they’ll pour on the praise for Ken Watanabe’s performance, outline the necessary components of a good Big Battle Scene, and accidentally remember that The Rise of Skywalker was a thing. If you’d like to leave a review of our findings, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Volume 6, releasing every two weeks (or so) on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more. “I will miss our conversations.”

“You British don’t have a monopoly on snobbery, you know.” The Arts Union Science podcast returns for Volume 6, thrown backwards through time and space into your pod-catcher of choice. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and this week’s first author (David W. Brown) as they tackle the densest Nolan picture to grace the silver screen: Tenet. Along the way, they’ll re-kindle the on-going blood feud between LG and Toshiba users, ruminate on the logistics of reversed temporal entropy and how that impacts the laws of thermodynamics, and appreciate the “good jaw acting” done by Robert Pattinson (or as his friends know him “Bobby P”). If you’d like to leave a review of our findings, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Volume 6, releasing every two weeks on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more. “Well, not a monopoly. More of a controlling interest.”

“How do you define ‘unwarranted’?” In science, graduate students perform research in order to gather enough data to publish research articles. However, in the background they are also trying to – you know – graduate so they can someday get a job that pays rent and such. That means writing a thesis: a multi-hundred paged tome that chronicles the student’s human journey from neophyte to specialist in a specific field. Here at the Arts Union Science journal, we have been performing a similar task in the background and, today, we begin to unveil it to the world. This is the first chapter of our Arts Union Science Thesis on the original Star Trek films. Join our Thesis Supervisor and resident Star Trek “expert” (Tyler D. R. Vance) and the primary researcher for this endeavour who’s never seen so much as an episode of Star Trek (Daniel Schep) as they go through Star Trek: The Motion Picture. While discussing this sizeable bag stuffed with contents of mixed quality, they’ll also find time to ask questions (that need answering) regarding the place Solaris has in the hard vs. soft sci-fi continuum, the omnipresence of diopter shots on the bridge of the Enterprise, and the logistics of Scotty’s route efficiency while piloting shuttle pods. If you’d like to leave a review of our first Star Trek Thesis chapter, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Thesis, releasing intermittently on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more. “THIS is how I define ‘unwarranted’!”

After much ado about things that vary between nothing and something, we are now at the end of our Grant Panel that seeks to award the Oscar Best Picture Nominees in the same way that some would award quality science. Join our co-hosts Aditi Ramesh and Tyler D. R. Vance as they reveal the winners of the three grants available. Along the way, they'll also recap the . . . eventful Oscar's ceremony, offer up some additional reading for 2021 films that didn't make the cut for a nomination, and get played out during their thank you speeches. If you’d like to leave a review of our findings, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. You can also find our small-but-mighty community on Facebook. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science, releasing every two weeks on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more. 

Aaaaand we're back to finish off our first annual Grant Panel. This week, co-chairs Tyler D. R. Vance and Aditi Ramesh discuss the five best picture nominees that they didn't get around to last time, which includes Licorice Pizza, Nightmare Alley, Belfast, CODA, and Drive My Car(e). Along the way, they'll contend with age gaps between romantic leads, Tyler's indefensible hang ups with del Toro, the perfect pairing of black-and-white cinema and old people's faces, the comparisons between CODA and Green Book, and the majesty that is Drive My Car.  If you'd like to respond to our co-chairs ramblings, you can email us at [email protected]. You can also find us on Facebook. Episodes of the Arts Union Science podcast release biweekly (usually) on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, and more. Our theme music comes from youtubber bklanny.  

Welcome one and all to the first annual Arts Union Science Grant Panel! This week, co-hosts Tyler D. R. Vance and Aditi Ramesh review five of the best picture nominees to decide if they are ELIGIBLE to receive both an Oscar and - more importantly - one of our prestigious AUS Grants. The movies reviewed this week include Don't Look Up, Dune, West Side Story, King Richard, and The Power of the Dog.  This week is a SPOILER-FREE episode. If you’d like to leave a review of our findings, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. You can also find our small community on Facebook. Our theme music comes from bklanny, Youtube musician extraordinaire. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Volume 5, releasing every two weeks on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more.

Welcome to the first annual Arts Union Science Grant Panel, where we attempt to doll out grants to our selections from the 10 best-picture nominees.  A grant panel in an actual scientific setting is made up of trained and trusted scientists who are required to judge the applications of their peers for funds. They are allowed to award a certain number of grants, and therefore must be stringent on the quality of science they have received. The goal of the first ever Arts Union Science Grant Panel is to survey the ten films nominated for Best Picture in the 94th Academy Awards and award them for greatness in cinematic achievement. Interested in how we plan to do this? Well then check out the Introduction episode, where your co-chairs Tyler D. R. Vance and Aditi Ramesh will walk you through the (relatively) simple set up they have concocted. Join us as we dedicated the next two episodes of the podcast to discussing the best-picture nominees. Which films will be given grants to keep doing good work? Which will be left in the lurch? Only time will tell . . . 

“Do not mock the Godsh!” The Arts Union Science podcast returns for the third episode of our Grant Renewal Volume. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and this week’s returning very-qualified personnel (Emily L. Vance) as they sail across the sea with 1000 hot takes on “Troy” – the 2004 epic by Wolfgang Petersen – in tow. Along the way, they’ll exorcise some Trojan horse-like quotes from their noggins, prattle on about the beauty of Troy’s music and action sequences when combined, and throw shade at a literary masterpiece that has been around for thousands of years. If you’d like to leave a review of our findings, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. You can also find our small community on Facebook. Our theme music comes from bklanny, Youtube musician extraordinaire. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Volume 5, releasing every two weeks on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more. “Do you know what’s there, waiting beyond that beach? Immortality. Take it, it’s yours!” *twist the sword*

“I have apologized so many times.” “Not quite enough times. Very close though. I’ll let you know.” The “second” episode of the “fifth” volume of the Arts Union Science “podcast” has descended from on high to do battle with deviant opinions on a controversial MCU entry. Join your corresponding author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and this week’s returning very-qualified personnel (Sean W. Phippen) as they take a look at Marvels Eternals, a blockbuster superhero film directed by Academy Award Winner Chloe Zhao. Along the way, they’ll workshop a new rating system for MCU directors, fail to decide on which characters could have been cut for the sake of clarity, and pour gas on Sean’s continuing one-sided crusade against Martin Scorsese (P.S. not really, we love Marty). If you’d like to leave a review of our findings, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. You can also find our small community on Facebook. Our theme music comes from bklanny, Youtube musician extraordinaire. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Volume 5, releasing every two weeks on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more. “I don’t wear a cape.”

“Master Chief, would you mind telling me what you’re doing on that ship?” And we’re back, with the second part of our first episode of our fifth volume of our film podcast *deep breath* Arts Union Science. Join your Corresponding Author (Tyler D. R. Vance) and the triumphantly returning First Author (Brett L. Kinrade) as the two continue their discussion of Halo Reach, a prequel for the beloved video game franchise. This time around, they aim to get get less existential and more practical with the question: “Could Halo be turned into an interesting movie and, if so, is Halo Reach the story make this happen with?” Along the way, they’ll look at the use of documentary-esque cinematics in video games, question the effectiveness of the MCU as the tentpole for “good” characters, and take a host of shots (some cheap but most spot on) at Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. If you’d like to leave a review of our findings, feel free to email us at [email protected]. You can tell us if you accept our findings, accept them with revisions, or outright reject them. Join us for more episodes of the Arts Union Science Volume 5, releasing every two weeks on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast, and more. Our podcast’s music comes from BK Lanny. Check out more of his stuff on his Youtube channel of the same name. “Sir, finishing this fight.”