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Still Watching the Skies: 2024 Summer Bonus Episode “90s Dark Comic Book Movies”

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Robert, Nat, and Cody take time off from our summer to bring you a special bonus episode focusing on four films reflecting Hollywood’s journey from BATMAN to THE MATRIX and current comic book movies via several independent comic books. It’s a podcast full of martial arts, tragic origins, night time settings, and tortured leads. Our […]

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 119 “A SCANNER DARKLY”

“This has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did.” – Phillip K. Dick Nat, Cody, and Robert take a trip, into a world of drugs, questions about identity, addiction, love, and surveillance via Richard Linklater and Phillip K. Dick in A SCANNER DARKLY. A lot of

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 118 “2010: The Year We Make Contact”

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Robert, Nat, and Cody journey to the moons of Jupiter to follow up on the mysteries of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and discover cooperation amidst the Cold War. Legacy sequels are very common these days. 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT may not be the first legacy sequel, heck PSYCHO II was released the year

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 117 “Things to Come”

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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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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 116 “Heartbeeps”

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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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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 115 “Invention for Destruction”

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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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