Anthropocinema

What even is a Geostorm anyway? Spoiler alert: we never find out. Listen to the crew discuss Geostorm, a film so terrible we mainly just focused on things like bad haircuts and if Secret Service agents are allowed to date. Funds raised from this episode will go to the Billion Oyster Project, whose mission is to restore oyster reefs to New York Harbor through public education initiatives. Read more about them at their website billionoysterproject.org. You can subscribe to Anthropocinema on Apple Podcasts,Breaker, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Overcast, PocketCasts,RadioPublic, Spotify, and Stitcher. If you want to vote for the next horror show we subject ourselves to, while supporting the work of an amazing nonprofit, be sure to become a patron today!

Sharknado! As the movie posters say, “ENOUGH SAID.” It’s literally a tornado full of sharks, what more do you want? In the second episode of Anthropocinema, the hosts discuss the perplexing brilliance of Sharknado even though the vast majority of the movie defies the laws of physics. Come for the sharks, stay for segments like “things that fall from the sky” that may or may not involve 800 pounds of feces from the Dave Matthews Band tour bus. It’s all educational, we promise.  Funds raised from this episode will go to 500 Women Scientists, a nonprofit dedicated to making science open, inclusive, and accessible. They're currently fundraising for a new initiative called the Fellowship for the Future to support the work of women of color leading in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). You can subscribe to Anthropocinema on Apple Podcasts, Breaker, Castbox, Google Podcasts, Overcast, PocketCasts, RadioPublic, Spotify, and Stitcher.

This month, we watched sharks inexplicably whirl around in a tornado of doom in Sharknado, the film described by the New York Daily News as "an hour and a half of your life that you'll never get back." And friends, we certainly won't. But it was all for a great cause! In January, we're sending your Patreon donations to 500 Women Scientists, a nonprofit dedicated to making science open, inclusive, and accessible. They're currently fundraising for a new initiative called the Fellowship for the Future to support the work of women of color leading in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). In this trailer, we chat with Dr. Susan Cheng, one of the women leading the Fellowship efforts about their work and what the future of science looks like for 500 Women Scientists. You can learn more about the fellowship and donate here. You can follow 500 Women Scientists on Twitter at @500womensci and Susan at @susanjcheng.  Our Sharknado episode drops next week so look out for it in your feed! In the meantime, you can become a patron of Anthropocinema at patreon.com/anthropocinema to vote for whatever cinematic horrors February has in store for us.

The Day After Tomorrow is…today. It’s the first episode of Anthropocinema and we are coming out of the gate with one of the most iconic climate change disaster movies of all time—so buckle up. From wolves attacking people in the newly frozen tundra of Manhattan to soccer ball-sized hail squashing people in the streets of Tokyo, this movie has everything—except a coherent plot. Listen to your Anthropocinema hosts discuss the scientific highlights (and/or lowlights) of this delightfully over the top look at what would happen to global climate if oceanic circulation in the Atlantic just…stopped. Funds raised for this episode will go to CienciaPR, a nonprofit transforming STEM education in Puerto Rico by developing a more culturally relevant curriculum. Learn more about their work and support their mission on https://www.cienciapr.org.

Welcome to the age of the Anthropocinema, a podcast for the end times. Every month, a group of scientists will be forced to subject themselves to a terrible movie of your choosing, brimming with science that is, at best, questionable. All you have to do is donate to vote on which movie you want to subject us to next. Be sure to subscribe on iTunes and Stitcher and become a patron to make your vote heard at patreon.com/anthropocinema