# Media Funhouse Articles and video links relating to topics covered on Media Funhouse, the long-running weekly cable program, which Time magazine called “the most eclectic and useful movie show on TV.” Page: Feed: --- ## [Terrorism as a Bourgeois Hobby: Fassbinder’s ‘The Third Generation’](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/terrorism-as-a-bourgeois-hobby-fassbinders) _2026-08-18 · Ed Grant_ A 1979 film has much to say about current-day oligarchs and their need for ‘enemies of the state.’ ## [When Is a Warrior Not a Warrior?](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/when-is-a-warrior-not-a-warrior) _2026-08-05 · Ed Grant_ The Samurai and the Prisoner is a period mystery and a meditation on pacifism. ## [Reflections on a dumb answer](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/reflections-on-a-dumb-answer) _2026-07-27 · Ed Grant_ I can't stop worrying and love AI ## [Altman Nailed ‘America 250’ Back in the Bicentennial Summer](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/altman-nailed-america-250-back-in) _2026-07-06 · Ed Grant_ His brilliant box-office failure 'Buffalo Bill and the Indians' spells out how American history (and show business) worked the Big Lie. ## [“Lost” film found: the Nixonian nightmare 'Richard'](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/lost-film-found-nixonian-nightmare) _2026-06-16 · Ed Grant_ A messy comedy that at its weirdest has Nixon doubling for “Little Alex” in A Clockwork Orange. ## [He wasn’t a comedian. He was Lenny Bruce.](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/he-wasnt-a-comedian-he-was-lenny) _2026-05-28 · Ed Grant_ A new off-Broadway play depicts the standup legend's 1964 NYC obscenity trial. ## [“Utopia is very expensive”: Deceased Artiste Alexander Kluge](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/utopia-is-very-expensive-deceased) _2026-05-07 · Ed Grant_ Clips from my interview with the polymath filmmaker (and a sample short-short story). ## [In honor of Jerry Lewis's centennial...](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/in-honor-of-jerry-lewiss-centennial) _2026-03-20 · Ed Grant_ Three vintage Funhouse episodes posted to the Funhouse blog! ## [How I Was "Bootlegged"](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/how-i-was-bootlegged) _2026-03-06 · Ed Grant_ Or, why public access does not equal public domain ## [Browse ThreatCrush Modules (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1G5QSZTrzewr) _2026-03-06 · **Sponsored**_ Install community-built security modules to extend real-time threat intelligence and monitoring ## [From the City to the Countryside: The Cinema of Yannick Bellon (Part 2 of two)](https://mediafunhouse.substack.com/p/from-the-city-to-the-countryside) _2026-02-20 · Ed Grant_ Bellon covered different territory as her work in fiction films continued into the Eighties and early Nineties.