Cody, Robert, and Nat dive into early 1990s exploitation cinema with Albert Pyun’s NEMESIS. It’s fairly safe to say that everyone was a little confused about who is who, what do they want, and why do they want it in NEMESIS. But, you’ve probably seen BLADE RUNNER, ROBOCOP, and THE TERMINATOR and can probably figure […]
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Nat, Cody, and Robert delve into one of Italy’s early entries into the science fiction genre with CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER. CALTIKI, THE IMMORTAL MONSTER is a precursor to Mario Bava’s directorial career as he was an uncredited co-director of this and head of cinematography and special effects. As kind of a ripoff of THE
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Robert, Nat, and Cody journey back to the very first superhero feature film, SUPERMAN AND THE MOLE MEN. We also have a lot of fun in our outro segment discussing the Video Archives podcast, and directors’ Wikipedia pictures. For better or worse, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster’s Superman essentially created the superhero genre and defined
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How has it taken 102 episodes for Cody, Robert, and Nat to get around to David Cronenberg? Regardless, there’s no time like the present to ponder eXistenZ. David Cronenberg may have drifted away from science fiction and horror to an extent over the years, but is place in the genre is more than
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Nat, Cody, and Robert return to the world of Afrofuturism with NEPTUNE FROST from Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman. If that’s not enough, a long discussion on 2022 in film follows. Afrofuturism has always been linked to music. So, it’s fitting that NEPTUNE FROST is a flat out science fiction musical about neocolonialsim
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Robert, Nat, and Cody celebrate episode 100 with a look at two high profile adaptations of H.G. Wells’s 1898 novel THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. First up is the Byron Haskell directed 1953 version THE WAR OF THE WORLDS and we complete the set with Steven Spielberg’s WAR OF THE WORLDS from 2005. 1953’s
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