When Vergil wrote the Aeneid, he was writing Imperial mythology to vindicate Rome as the new civilization chosen by the state-approved gods. When Spenser wrote The Faerie Queen, he was admittedly...

The technocratic, panopticon Eye of Big Brother watches you. By: Jay Dyer All the smart dummies, upper class and yuppies go along with and/or join the Outer Party thinking they’ll...

By: Jay Dyer Dune is an amazing novel: There is a reason it’s the best-selling science fiction series of all time.  Prescient for his time (1965), author Frank Herbert was able...

  By: Jay Dyer I have highlighted fake news recently, and in a fit of 80s mania, I decided to watch the Charlie Sheen/Michael Biehn Navy Seals because I had never seen...

By: Jay Dyer Vertigo is the best place to start a Hitchcock analysis.  While many themes repeat in his films, Vertigo is most memorable for its psychological depth and mystique. ...

The Dooms Chapel Horror director John Holt and producer Chris Bowers return to JaysAnalysis to discuss more details of the upcoming film.  We joke about directors and some of the funny...

By: Jay Dyer Now You See Me is, on one level, a silly, contrived film about a group of magicians invited to be part of a large-scale heist and con operation. ...

By: Jay Dyer J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek: Into Darkness differs quite a bit from the original reboot with a much deeper, esoteric geo-political plot.  While Star Trek was much better rated, and in ways...

Download a higher quality mp3 here. Right click, save as In this interview, I quiz the Collins brothers on their claim that the alien mythos is manufactured by the power...

By: Jay Working my way through the Spielberg canon, I couldn’t pass up an esoteric analysis of E.T.  While I think Close Encounters is loaded with esoteric and conspiratorial clues and...

By: Jay Dyer The study of conspiracy leads directly to the study of covert operations and intelligence agencies. As one reads about the plots and intrigues of secret societies, one...

By: Jay Dyer These 80s cult classics do well for analyses. Vitrually all the classics children of the 80s like myself grew up with were loaded with deeper, esoteric symbolism,...

By: Jay Dyer Hanna is an awesome film. As a story and entertainment, it is top notch. However, as the message goes I have some stuff to bitch about (as usual),...

By: Jay Dyer See Also: Batman: The Dark Knight Rises – Esoteric Analysis Batman Begins marks a substantive renewal for the popular franchise. Taking the story in a much more...

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By: Jay Dyer (2010) Much like Labyrinth, Jim Henson’s The Dark Crystal is one of those kid’s films all of us who grew up in the 80s seem to have...

By: Peter Parker In a world where queer theory and feminists readings dominate the realm of academia, the analytical method known as esoteric analysis is, sadly, restricted to the outer...

[Note: This originally appeared on my old blog a few years ago. The Guardian also wrote a similar piece around that time, however, not connecting it to 9/11 and planned...

As outlined in many places on my blog, such as this post, there are scores of such references in films prior to 9/11 that point to planned events and a...

The Apollonian/Dionysian Dialectical Dichotomy Contributing writer David Shankle gives yet another angle on Batman: Dark Knight  INDEPTH ESOTERIC ANALYSIS OF “BATMAN BEGINS” HERE   After revisiting Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight, viewing the...