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All Units is an anatomy of the thriller. Every two weeks Sean McTiernan creates a double bill in the hopes of exploring and understanding another aspect of thriller cinema.

Every other week, Calling All Units will answer questions from listeners, the host and, if necessary, the authorities.

If you keep a running list of movies you want to watch, prepare for it to get much, much longer.

SFULTRA #14 - I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

Sep 28, 2023

"Being empty, not being a complete, separate being, having no self to groove on and needing to be constantly in female company, he sees nothing at all wrong in intruding himself on any woman's thoughts, even a total stranger's, anywhere at any time, but rather feels indignant and insulted when put down for doing so, as...

SFULTRA #13 - Memoirs Found in a Bathtub - Stanisław Lem

Sep 16, 2023

There’s something they aren’t telling us. Something we don’t know about. There’s
more to it. There’s always more to it. This is what history consists of. It’s the sum
total of all the things they aren’t telling us.
–David Ferrie in Don DeLillo’s Libra (1988)

Murder House Sold #5 - The larger the prisoner’s pain, the larger the torturer’s world.

Sep 6, 2023

I'm happy to welcome Astrid Rose on this fifth episode of Murder House Sold, a Perfect Taste Forever miniseries about True Crime. We talk about Gordon Burn's Happy Like Murderers, a book about Fred and Rose West.

Annoyingly, Astrid is an amazing writer of both horror fiction and criticism. She is also the co-host...

SFULTRA #12 - The Employees - Olga Ravn

Sep 1, 2023

"Art is creation in response to lack. Quite different from a stand-in for the archetype, which must be there, somewhere, the art object is a kind of fetish, a replacement for some real thing that is missing." - Mike Kelley