The following lists some of the insightful and interesting video analyses for entertainment media I’ve seen on YouTube. If a link is dead, try searching for the title.

Film

Specific Film Analysis

• Why Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, by Rhino Stew (14:47)
• There Will Be Blood: Vocal Control in Movies, by Now You See It (14:25)
• Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood | Tarantino at his Most Meta, by The Discarded Image (12:45)
• Criminally Underrated Movies episode 1 – Star Trek The Motion Picture, by Collative Learning (21:52)
• Interstellar is about The Death of Film, by neo (11:44)
• Interstellar: When Spectacle Eclipses Story, by Nerdwriter1 (8:07)
• Transcending Time | Interstellar’s Hidden Meaning Behind Love and Time, by Like Stories of Old (17:27)
• Monty Python & the Holy Grail – Medieval idiocy in modern times, by Collative Learning (7:37)
• ‘Dunkirk’ Analyzed by a Therapist, by Shrink Tank (4:50)
• Dunkirk – The Art Of Fear, by The Closer Look (15:25)

General Film Analysis

• Hard Worldbuilding vs. Soft Worldbuilding | A Study of Studio Ghibli, by  Hello Future Me (17:56)
• You Know It’s a Darren Aronofsky Movie IF…, by The Take (12:49)
• Intertextuality: Hollywood’s New Currency, by Nerdwriter1 (6:09)
• The Epidemic of Passable Movies, by Nerdwriter1 (6:59)
• Why Martin Scorsese is Right About Marvel Movies, by Thomas Flight (10:20)

Television

• Nothing Ever Ends: The Philosophy of Watchmen (HBO) – Wisecrack Edition (27:00)
• The Loving Trap [Spoof of Adam Curtis’ Documentary Style], by  Ben Woodhams (2:57)
• Silicon Valley Title Sequence Breakdown, by  Reflex Cinema (7:37)
• On Max Headroom: The Most Misunderstood Joke on TV, by Space Feather (38:00)
• How To Dystopia when 2019 already sucks: Years And Years | Why You Should Watch, by Skip Intro (9:29)
• Utopia – The Best Show You’ve Never Seen, by Rec Dougs (25:21)
• Utopia: Reinventing Onscreen Violence, by What’s So Great About That? (7:04)
• 10 Ways Black Mirror Is Already Coming True, by Alltime10s (10:03)
• Star Trek Writer on Black Mirror USS Callister, by Mr. Sci-Fi (14:18)
• humans tv show postmodern analysis, by Ellie Zambakides (1:14)
• Stranger Things And Intertextuality (A Response To The Nerdwriter), by Just Write (9:24)
• Netflix’s Stranger Things: A Theory On Nostalgia – Wisecrack Edition, by Wisecrack (10:50)
• The Music of Stranger Things Explained! by NerdSync (18:02)
• References to 70-80s movies in Stranger Things, by Ulysse Thevenon (4:39)
• Stranger Things and the Danger of Nostalgia, by Pop Culture Detective (24:35)
• Kojak: 50 Seconds of TV Music to analyse, by etymophony (9:51)
• The Adorkable Misogyny of The Big Bang Theory, by Pop Culture Detective (21:10)

Video Games

• Mythic Patterns in Mario Games Pt 1: The Arcade Origins, by  Jonathan Pageau (18:33)
• The Themes of Metal Gear Solid 2 Part 1: Lies and Legends, by LogosSteve (26:38)
• The Themes of Metal Gear Solid 2 Part 2: Irreality and Purpose, by LogosSteve (25:33)
• The Most Profound Moment in Gaming: MGS2 AI Conversation Analysis Part 1 of 2, by LogosSteve (10:51)
• Critical Close-up: Metal Gear Solid 2, by Super Bunnyhop (35:41)
• Did Metal Gear Solid 2 predict the future? by Bulbasaur.Propaganda (7:51)
• Selection for Societal Sanity [MGS2], by Max Derrat (12:11)

Music

• A Musical History Of Death: ‘Exit Music’ by Tom Allen, by CBC Music (6:06)

Politics

• The Donald: How Trump Turned Presidential Politics into Pro Wrestling, by Armando Gallardo (6:10)
• How Donald Trump Answers A Question, by Nerdwriter1 (6:54)

Philosophy

• How To Keep Calm During An Argument – Joe Rogan Method, by Therealizedman (10:20)

Culture

• Parasitic Storytelling, by  Jonathan Pageau (13:48)
• Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia, by Cuck Philosophy (11:11)
• Stranger Things, Vaporwave and Nostalgia Culture, by Thomas Flight (9:23)

Unsorted

• Remakes Are Awesome – The Critical Drinker (10m)
• How Wikipedia Got Ex Machina (2014) Wrong – Shaun (19m)
• The Hidden Meaning of Everything Everywhere All at Once | Video Essay – Accented Cinema (12m)
• The Importance of RRR | Video Essay – Accented Cinema (13m)
  Why We’re Obsessed With Celebrities’ Bookcases During Quarantine – The New York Times (4m)
• Why Are Videogames Slowing Down? – My Little Thought Tree (7m)
• Visual Trauma of Enter the Void, by Spikima Movies, 11m
• Why You Still Remember Invader Zim So Well, by Nerdstalgic, 11m
• Operation Mass Appeal | Bush and Clinton WMD Lie Exposed, by CounterSpin, 8m
• GTA: The American Satire, by The Rogformer Show, 8m
• Sinclair’s script for stations [editor unknown], 2m
• Piers Morgan joins ‘Tucker Carlson Today’ for first interview since ‘cancelation’, 8m
• Hell or Nothing – spiritual desperation in Hellraiser, by Rob Ager, 57m
• 18-Minute Analysis By Christopher Nolan On Story & Construction Of Memento, 18m
• Megaman – Retro Analysis, by AesirAesthetics, 24m
• Joe vs the Volcano: An Unalysis, by TheDavoo, 9m
• The Witch: ‘Layers of Storytelling’ – Analysis and Explanation, by Rant and Bollox, 22m
• 8 Games That Predicted The Future & Got it Right, by ZacCoxTV, 10m
• Punch-Drunk Love | The Use of Colors and Light Analyzed & Explained, by Ryan Martian, 8m
• Punch-Drunk Love | Why Barry Egan is Superman? by Must See Films, 12m
• Dark Forebodings (Clip from Adam Curtis Documentary HyperNormalisation), 3m
• Daily Wire Montage: the Walls Are Closing In [editor unknown], 1m
• Is Science a Liar? A Philosopher Reacts to It’s Always Sunny, by Wisecrack, 20m
• Newscasters Agree: The Easter Bunny’s Springless Steps, by Conan O’Brian 2m
• Making of Orphan Black’s Special Effects in Season 2, by BBC America, 3m
• How Orphan Black Creates Convincing Clones, by Wired, 5m
• Orphan Black Clones on Clones: Comic-Con Exclusive Making Of, by BBC America
• Criminally Underrated Movies episode 4 – Red Dawn (1984), by Rob Ager, 1hr 57m
• Greatest screen heroes – Sgt Elias in Platoon: The Biblical Soldier, by Rob Ager, 17m
• Symbolism in The Babadook | The Gender Monster and Abuse, by Jonathan Pageau, 11m
• Understanding Kanye West on Joe rogan, by Jonathan Pageau, 18m
• Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem Analysis – Fear and the Fourth Wall, by PostMesmeric, 13m
• Hereditary: How Your Family Ruined You, by WiseCrack, 18m
• Movie Titles in Movies, by honsco, 2m
• Movie Titles in Movies: Part Deux, by honsco, 3m
• Inception Music Comparison, by  Cameron Whitehouse, 1m
• Why All Movies From 1999 Are The Same, by Now You See It (8:25)
• Larry Elder Reacts to Popular Anti White Commercials – Larry Elder (12m)
• Therapist reacts to Paddington | heartfelt filmmaking – My Little Thought Tree (23m)
• Paddington – An Immigrant’s Tale – Matt Draper (11m)
• Weathering With You Is More Than It Seems – Bonsai Pop (22m)
• Why Video Games aren’t FUN Anymore – Dark (23m)
• How Music Forces Perspective – Inside the Score (9m)
• Is John Williams a Thief? – Inside the Score (11m)
• How Liberty Dies: The Politics of Star Wars – Arken the Amerikan (79m)
• Who is She-Hulk Talking To? Fourth Wall and Deadpool Explained – ScreenCrush (15m)
• What Happened to Westworld?⎪A Video Essay – Dream Dimension Productions (12m)
• Diversityland – Paul Joseph Watson (9m)
• Westworld Needs To Stop – The Critical Drinker (17m)
• X-Men’s Legacy of Fighting For Equal Rights – ScreenCrush (9m)
• Star Wars: Musical Onomatopoeia – Inside the Score (4m)
• Why The Matrix Soundtrack is AMAZING – Inside the Score (9m)
• Stranger Things Decoded: Hidden Dungeons & Dragons References– OSSA Movies (10m)
• Stranger Things 4: Still Just Nostalgia? – Wisecrack (18m)
• Satoshi Kon – Editing Space & Time – Every Frame a Painting (8m)
• The Sound of Dune with Director Denis Villeneuve and Sound Team – Featurette – SoundWorks Collection (29m)
• Nightcrawler Incriminates Its Viewers – Thomas Flight (5m)
• Shocking News – People Like Good Characters – The Critical Drinker (12m)
• Squid Game – Believe The Hype – The Critical Drinker (9m)
• Watchmen Episode 1 – It’s Garbage – The Critical Drinker (12m)
• How NOT To Critique Movies – The Critical Drinker (12m)
• Explaining Dune’s Imagery: We Are Only So Great As Our Symbols | An In-depth Analysis – Empire of the Mind (22m)
• Multiverses, Nihilism, and How it Feels to be Alive Right Now  – Like Stories of Old (29m)
  Heathers: A Scathing Look At Teenage Life (Retrospective/Video Essay) – EliDPerry2000 (20m)
  Tokyo Godfather- Christmas/Religions/Japan | Video Essay – Accented Cinema (12m)
  Heathers style analysis – Campbell2000 (11m)
• The Matrix Resurrections Should Never Have Been Made – The Critical Drinker (10m)
• Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence – The Descent Into Madness | Storyteller’s Notebook – TravenTalks (13m)
• Understanding Tokyo Godfathers (2003) | Character Analysis – Film is just Moving Pictures (9m)
• Heathers: A Relevant Classic – grampaglasses (12m)
• Heathers Analysis: Themes and Social Commentary – AmazzonKane (4m)
• Heathers: High School is a Black Comedy – The Take (15m)
• doors In Film | A Mash-Up – MUST SEE FILMS (14m)
• Blade Runner 2049 – The iPhone of Movie Sequels – The Critical Drinker (15m)
• Blade Runner 2049 — The Greatest Sequel Ever Made – A Matter of Film (7m)
• Dune (2021) Aesthetic Analysis – Decoding art, design & style references – Aesthety (27m)
• 1408: The Philosophical Depths That Horror Can Reach – Real Delusional Pictures (30m)
• Social Engineering in TV Commercials – Paul Joseph Watson (14m)
• Defeminizing Female Characters – The Critical Drinker (6m)
• The Mosquito Coast Analysis: Part 1 – The New World – Robert Wilson (22m)
• The Mosquito Coast — Why Is This Movie Underrated? – Learning about Movies (10m)
• How Trailer Music Tricks You – Sideways (16m)
• The Double-Edged Nature of Video Game Music – Sideways (8m)
  The Sound of the Spider-Verse – Sideways (13m)
• Live Die Repeat — How to Master Concept | Film Perfection – Filmento (18)
• 1917 | Beginning & Ending Analysis – Cineflect (13m)
• Live. Die. Escalate: Raising the Stakes in Edge of Tomorrow – Rossatron (7m)
• 1917’s In Camera Editing – Thomas Flight (9m)
• realism in End Of Watch – MacCosham Films (11m)
• Finding Beauty in Hell | What 1917 Is Really About (Film Analysis) – Life Is A Story (8m)
• 1917 Explained: How and Why They Did One Shot – The Take (15m)
• The Assassination of Jesse James | Deconstructing Disillusionment (Video Essay) – The Grubb Cut (17m)
• Why “Literally Me” Characters Are So Important – The Kino Corner (16m)
• American Myths – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Renegade Cut (12m)
• The Assassination of Jesse James – Deconstructing The Western – Jack’s Movie Reviews (8m)
• Why Avatar has the Most Ironic Soundtrack of All Time – Sideways (24m)
• Forgotten Films: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford – Review and Analysis – Jams & Tea (15m)
• TikTok Is Making Mental Illness Trendy – Matt Walsh (14m)
• What Dunkirk Teaches Us About War – A Matter of Film (8m)
• The Joker’s Musical Madness – Sideways (19m)
• Joker Played a HUGE Joke on YOU and Everyone Else – Eman’s Movie Reviews (24m)
• Decoding the Music of The Matrix – Sideways (24m)
• The Truth About Depression – Paul Joseph Watson (7m)
• Joker – My In-depth Analysis of a Masterpiece – Left Foot Media (64m)
• Suffering Through ‘Unconscious Bias’ Training… – Matt Walsh (14m)
• Kate Is The Real Villain Of Sicario – Shane Bertram (5m)
• Sicario: The Mirage of a Moral World – Digging Deeper (8m)
• Stranger Things: What went WRONG? – The Critical Drinker (20m)
• What Happened To Our Villains? – The Critical Drinker (15m)
• Why Modern Movies Suck – They’re Destroying Our Heroes – The Critical Drinker (12m)
• Why Modern Movies Suck – The Soft Reboot – The Critical Drinker (11m)
• Why Modern Movies Suck – They Teach Us Awful Lessons – The Critical Drinker (11m)
• The Clever Loop of The Father – Spikima Movies (13m)
• The Father | How Florian Zeller manipulates us | video essay – Take Two (12m)
• Why Modern Movies Suck – They’re Written By Children – The Critical Drinker (15m)
• Prisoners | Prepare for the Worst – MUST SEE FILMS (32m)
• I SUPPORT THE CURRENT THING! – Paul Joseph Watson (11m)
• Over 70 Black Male Entertainers That Said “Yes” To The Dress And Made It To The Top In Hollywood! – Strictly Facts (19m)
• Bitchy Resting Face – Broken People (3m)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home: Deeper Meaning and Hidden Symbolism EXPLAINED – What;’s the Point? – ScreenCrush (12m)
• The Matrix vs. Dark City. [M] – Clara Darko (2m)
• The Matrix Resurrections Pitch Meeting – Screen Rant (7m)
• Matrix 4 is NOT What You Think!! | Resurrections – Matrix Explained (10m)
• Matrix Resurrections Is Trolling Itself – Wisecrack (12m)
• Enemy | How Denis Villeneuve creates visual meaning | video essay – Take Two (16m)
• Why Modern Movies Suck – CGI Overload – The Critical Drinker (10m)
• This Is a Generic Brand Video, by Dissolve – Dissolve (3m)
• Faith Salie on speaking with ‘vocal fry’ – BBC NEWS (2m)
• How To Talk Like Valley Girl – Daytona Lindstrom (2m)
• 9/11 Premonition in Sega computer game from 1994 – agentandy007 (4m)
• The Most Annoying Speech Patterns (3 Little Pigs Example) – Debbie Grattan (5m)
• Mark Wahlberg is C O N F U S E D [M] – stitchvids (3m)
• 8 Things The Beatles Pioneered – David Bennett Piano (17m)
• Midsommar: Initiation into the Ancient Religion of the Future – Truthstream Media (72m)
• The Witch: Believing in Evil – Allerix Films (9m)
• Thanos Deserved to Win | Video Essay – Full Fat Videos (16m)
• Film Theory: Thanos Was RIGHT!! (Avengers Infinity War) – The Film Theorists (16m)
• Thanos Was Wrong – Eugenics and Overpopulation – Renegade Cut (22m)
• Empathy Through Film | The Master Video Essay – Maxwell Couture (12m)
• Another Look at The Master, feat. Adam Nayman – TIFF Originals (7m)
• 7 Songs That ‘Rip Off’ Other Tunes – David Bennett Piano (17m)
• Beyond Censorship: Destroying Free Thought Online – Truthstream Media (50m)
• 6 Ed Sheeran Songs That ‘Rip Off’ Other Artists – David Bennett Piano (11m)
• The Missing Key to Understanding Christopher Nolan – Like Stories of Old (22m)
• Twin Peaks Actually Explained: Responding to the Critics – Twin Perfect (29m)
• Why Jacob’s Ladder Nearly Broke Me – FilmComicsExplained (12m)
• Twin Peaks Actually Explained: EVEN MORE Evidence – Twin Perfect (79m)
• Twin Peaks: The Return – A Critique of Nostalgia – The Take (11m)
• Will Smith’s Slap at Oscar’s was Staged with Proof (Slow Video Analysis) – What If Theories (6m)
• Twin Peaks ACTUALLY EXPLAINED (No, Really) – Twin Perfect (276m) [that’s right, 4.5 hours!]
• The Philosophy of Joe Rogan – Wisecrack (23m)
• Why You’re Wrong About Glass (Video Essay) – iamthatroby (10m)
• Glass ENDING EXPLAINED + Unbreakable & Split Connections – Flicks And The City (12m)
• The Hidden Meaning in Trainspotting – Earthling Cinema – Wisecrack (5m)
• T2 Trainspotting, The Sequel Nobody Expected – Fandor (7m)
• Laura Palmer’s Theme Analysis – Modern Music Education (13m)
• Were the Dedication Credits for Rambo 3 Changed? – AngelDust (10m)
• 39 Cents – Saturday Night Live (3m)
• Media Propaganda | Shop, buy, OBEY, from the desk or the couch – CounterSpin (3m)
• Media Propaganda | You scream ice cream – CounterSpin (4m)
• La La Land – Renegade Cut (19m)
• La La Land Easter Eggs, Inspirations & Homages Explained – The Take (8m)
• High-Rise – Renegade Cut (11m)
• Exploring the Orphan Black Theme! – Saher Galt (3m)
• The Smartest “Dumb Movie” Ever Made [Demolition Man]- Foundation for Economic Education (18m)
•  James Bond Funniest title sequence innuendos – film analysis – Collative Learning (6m)
• The Double Life of Veronique :: The Art of Visual Poetry | REVIEW – Charles Kincaid (9m)
• Netflix’s Maniac: 16 Best Easter Eggs, References, Callbacks And Clues You Missed – GameSpot Universe (8m)
• Children of Men: Don’t Ignore The Background – Nerdwriter1 (8m)
• Cobra Kai: The Art of Being Washed Up – Wisecrack (14m)
• Avengers: Endgame Themes Explained – Why It’s About Time – The Take (19m)
• The Captain America Trilogy is Deceivingly Beautiful | Video Essay – Implicitly Pretentious (15m)
• Everything is a Remix: The Force Awakens – Kirby Ferguson (11m)
• The Unexplored Depths of Spider-Man 3 – Facing the Dragon of Grandiosity – Like Stories of Old (21m)
• Everything Is A Remix: Kill Bill – Kirby Ferguson (6m)
• Everything Is a Remix: The Matrix – Kirby Ferguson (7m)
• Annihilation Analysis – Harry’s Moving Media (12m)
• Annihilation — The Art of Self-Destruction – Lessons from the Screenplay (11m)
• The Psychology of Annihilation (Story Explained) – Storytellers (10m)
• Annihilation and Decoding Metaphor – Folding Ideas (20m)
• Hellbound (Netflix) Analysis: The Truth About Religion – GiovanniDeluxxe (4m)
• How The Irishman Builds On Goodfellas – Thomas Flight (10m)
• How Radiohead Wrote the Perfect Bond Theme – Listening In (10m)
• Into the Wild -Film Analysis – Heidi Carroll (6m)
• Being John Malkovich and the Office Movies of 1999 – Eyebrow Cinema (25m)
• Bruce Lee is fighting games – Polygon (21m)
• Bruce Lee | Philosophy IN ACTION (Part 2): The Game of Death – The 37th Chamber (39m)
• Bruce Lee | Philosophy IN ACTION (Part 1): The Way of the Dragon – The 37th Chamber (20m)
• 10 Video Game Songs That Sound Oddly Familiar – Uncanny X (9m)
• Megaman • Retro Analysis. – AesirAesthetics (24m)
• Josie and the Pussycats: A Misunderstood Satire – Second Chance (30m)
• The Leftovers | Creating Purgatory – CineFrames (10m)
• 10 Ways Street Fighter 2 Was Changed Outside Japan – Censored Gaming (9m)
• Audio Experts Break Down The Most Common Tech Sounds – WIRED (9m)
• Modern Video Game Sounds Explained by Experts (1998-2017) | Part 2 – WIRED (12m)
• Classic Video Game Sounds Explained by Experts (1972-1998) | Part 1 – WIRED (12m)
• The Genius of Synecdoche, New York (Part 5) – YourMovieSucksDOTorg (23m)
• The Genius of Synecdoche, New York (Part 4) – YourMovieSucksDOTorg (21m)
• The Genius of Synecdoche, New York (Part 3) – YourMovieSucksDOTorg (21m)
• The Genius of Synecdoche, New York (Part 2) – YourMovieSucksDOTorg (23m)
• The Genius of Synecdoche, New York (Part 1) – YourMovieSucksDOTorg (21m)
• Interpreting Synecdoche, New York (Part 1) – David Chen (14m)
• Interpreting Synecdoche, New York (Part 2) – David Chen (11m)
• Rehabilitation for Vice Bloggers – Ryan Long (3m)
• Optical illusion sets in The Shining (film analysis) – Collative Learning (13m)
• Spot the movie subliminals – The Matrix (street walk scene) – Collative Learning (4m)
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail – The anti-movie movie (film analysis) – Collative Learning (40m)
• The Horror of Midsommar Explained – FilmComicsExplained (14m)
• Why this creepy melody is in so many movies – Vox (6m)