This month, Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by Jim Laczkowski as we review the boyhood adventure that is Joe Dante’s EXPLORERS. EXPLORERS was Joe Dante’s follow up to GREMLINS. Although he didn’t originate the project, by all accounts he was excited to do it. And he cast two kid actors that would leave an
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It’s time once again for our annual summer special, and this year we have The Wrong Stuff. In 1983, Philip Kaufman assembled Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris, Dennis Quaid, Fred Ward and others to portray the men with THE RIGHT STUFF. But what happened when Hollywood tried to turn some of those guys into
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Our precogs have seen that you would stop here and listen to our podcast. It would be a precrime not to listen. You have no free will as you listen to Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss Steven Spielberg’s take on Philip K. Dick in 2002’S MINORITY REPORT. In the wake of 9/11 and the Patriot
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This month, Nat, Cody, and Robert journey to a world of the white god in the jungle who’s engaged in cruel experiments that push the conception of humanity with 1996’s THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU. We also journey to the edge of sanity that was a doomed voyage for Richard Stanley’s tenure as a director
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This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat are joined by Kurt Halfyard of ScreenAnarchy to fight a fascist takeover as we discuss the 1980s’ mini-series V and V: The Final Battle. V was an NBC mini-series which first aired on May 1, 1983 and May 2, 1983. It was a success and was followed up by
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This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat jack into the futuristic world of 2021 and the cyberpunk ideas of William Gibson with 1995’s JOHNNY MNEMONIC. JOHNNY MNEMONIC, directed by Robert Longo and written by William Gibson, seems to have all the elements of a genre defining hit. In this case, the genre would be cyberpunk. In
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