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Swinging sixties spy spoof The President’s Analyst (1967) blends psychotherapy, hippy culture and the surveillance state with a manic James Coburn as the titular character. We plunge deep into The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) and struggle to explain it but it might not really want to be explained. Indie guerrilla punk director Alex Cox creates a gem of forgotten American history in Walker (1987), a story of American intervention in Nicaragua across the centuries. Survive Style 5+ (2004) hits for Dee but misses for Joe with its surreal tapestry of disparate stories. Also: Robert Evans tells us The Kid Stays In The Picture. It's not paranoia when they’re really after you. Dee would like to read the first 5 issues of Buckaroo Banzai (they don’t exist). Would you give a child an assault rifle? History is written by the winners. Joe psychoanalyses Trump. Goth giraffes. Joe finds his Tetsuo, the Iron Man in Survive Style 5+. What is your function in life? Joe can’t surreal.