Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss progress, peace, security, and war with 1936’s THINGS TO COME. THINGS TO COME was conceived of as an adaptation of H.G. Wells’s The Shape of Things to Come and as a reaction to METROPOLIS. H.G. Wells adapted his own book to the screen, albeit the final form is apparently quite […]
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Nat, Cody, and Robert take a look back at the film that basically ended Andy Kaufman’s film career before it could launch with 1981’s HEARTBEEPS. And for some reason, the film apparently affected the first 25 minutes of recording, so apologies folks for the subpar audio. HEARTBEEPS was ostensibly Universal’s way of testing the waters
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Robert, Nat, and Cody are pleased to have on Michael Lyons of Dis-Order: Every Disney Film and From Pencils to Pixels: The Animation Celebration Podcast to discuss the animation / live action mix Invention for Destruction a.k.a. The Fabulous World of Jules Verne on this episode. Invention for Destruction is the creation of the Czech
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Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss Stuart Gordon’s followup to Re-Animator, FROM BEYOND and also H.P. Lovecraft’s original story on this episode. Lovecraft wrote his tale of breaking down the barriers of perception and perceiving all that might live in the space between atoms, and how that added perception might drive someone insane, in November 1920.
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Nat, Cody, and Robert discuss John Sayles’s independent success, THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET and round out the episode with a discussion of 2023 in Film. John Sayles had something of two careers in the early 1980s. He bounced between paying the rent with better than they had any right to be scripts for the
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Robert, Nat, and Cody take a look at two of the earliest science fiction movies, A TRIP TO THE MOON and A TRIP TO MARS. 1902’s A TRIP TO THE MOON is one of Georges Méliès, and cinema’s, first attempts at a narrative and has delighted audiences for over 100 years. Yet, A TRIP TO
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