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|Magical Mystery Media 39| HOLY HELL: Inside the Rise & Fall of the Buddhafield Cult

February 9, 2018

This is another one of those, “cautionary tales”, about how cult leaders use time-tested techniques to manipulate and coerce vulnerable and impressionable minds, not only to enrich themselves and gain power over others, but to fulfill some deep-seeded, narcissistic need, to be revered as a god. And all at the expense of their blindly devoted.

|Magical Mystery Media 38| The Method, Metaphysics, and Manifestation: Jim Carrey Channels Andy Kaufman

January 6, 2018

JIM & ANDY is the extraordinary story of the meeting of the minds, both literally and figuratively, of two comedic geniuses who have pushed the boundaries of their art.

|Magical Mystery Media 37| Cryptids, Kooks, & Conspiracies: DISCOVERING BIGFOOT

December 31, 2017

Like some cryptozoological version of Grizzly Man, which chronicles Timothy Treadwell’s exploits with grizzly bears in Alaska, Standing ventures out into the Canadian wilderness, often alone, in search of Sasquatch.

|Magical Mystery Media 35| Exclusive Interview with Francis Richard Conolly, New “Everything is a Rich Man’s Trick” Funding Campaign

August 3, 2017

In this, our first exclusive interview for Magical Mystery Radio, we talk to Mr. Conolly about his plans for a Part 2 and, specifically, the difficulty he’s having in raising funds for the new film. Are the intelligence agencies colluding with tech companies to hamper his fundraising efforts? What is it that they don’t want you to know?

|Magical Mystery Media 34| CURSE OF THE MAN WHO SEES UFOS

March 15, 2017

Or… if you’ve seen the trailer, you might be thinking, shouldn’t it be called Curse Of The Man Who CURSES and POOPS When He Sees UFOs?

|Magical Mystery Media 32| We ARE the Center of the Universe? THE PRINCIPLE

February 17, 2017

Forget everything you thought you knew about cosmology. This film posits that our world actually IS the center of the universe, and that everything…

|Magical Mystery Media 31| CONTACT? The Strange Case of Eduard “Billy” Meier

February 10, 2017

Do they really fly? That’s the question UFO researchers have been trying to definitively answer for years with regards to the Billy Meier contactee case. And, though several photos associated with the case have been later proven to be fraudulent, the final answer as to whether or not this indicates the WHOLE CASE is a hoax, has yet to be fully answered.

|Magical Mystery Media 30| CROPSEY

January 26, 2017

What if the bogeyman turns out to be real? That’s the premise of 2009 documentary CROPSEY, written and directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The filmmakers explore the origins of the urban legend they heard about as children, only to discover that there may, in fact, be some truth behind the tale.

And the truth, as they say, is… terrifying.

|Magical Mystery Media 29| HOSTAGE TO THE DEVIL

January 20, 2017

Hostage to the Devil chronicles Malachi Martin’s life in America as an exile priest. Disillusioned with the reforms of the Second Vatican Council, he broke from the Jesuit order and moved to New York City. There, he embarked on a second career as a writer and exorcist.

This film presents a portrait of a complex man who struggled with his own demons as he battled the dark forces afflicting others.

|Magical Mystery Media 28| HYPERNORMALISATION

January 4, 2017

Hypernormalisation is a nearly three-hour epic that leaps from subject to subject in a circuitous journey toward revelation. The film paints a vivid portrait of corporate control and increasing social insularity as it tries to make sense of our modern world’s pervasive anxiety and uncertainty.

In filmmaker Adam Curtis’s world, we are minds in the matrix, doomed to feed the machine with our bodies and souls.

|Magical Mystery Media 27| You ARE Being Watched: CITIZENFOUR

December 12, 2016

In 2013, Edward Snowden reached out to filmmaker Laura Poitras because of her history of uncompromising documentary filmmaking. He knew she had long been a target of government surveillance and was confident she would not be easily intimidated.

Citizenfour (Snowden’s handle in his secret correspondences with Poitras) places us in a Hong Kong hotel room with Poitras and journalist Glenn Greenwald as the young whistleblower shares knowledge and evidence of illegal mass surveillance by the National Security Agency (NSA).

|Magical Mystery Media 26| Crop Circles! A FIELD FULL OF SECRETS

December 5, 2016

“Two friends step into a crop circle. One emerges unaffected. The other decides to build a UFO with the help of an eccentric transsexual inventor.”

If that’s not the greatest pitch ever we don’t know what is.

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