Nat, Cody, and Robert take time off from our beach reading to bring you a special bonus episode focusing on three films directed by Michael Crichton from the 1970s; Pursuit, Coma, and The Great Train Robbery. Crichton wrote the source material for two of the films and adapted the screenplay for another, so they clearly …
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Nat, Cody, and Robert confront evolutionary superiority in Saul Bass’s PHASE IV. After a strange astronomical event, several species of ants have apparently evolved in the Arizona desert and begin plotting together. Strange structures are built by the ants. Etymologist Ernest Hubbs (Nigel Davenport) and number theorist James Lesko (Michael Murphy), along with a local …
Robert, Nat, & Cody experience a pair of “cozy catastrophes” this episode with THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS (1962) and THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (1964). Both films are a very English look at the apocalypse at the height of the Cold War and forerunners of the zombie apocalypse genre which would be created just a …
Cody, Robert, and Nat take in and discuss the Wachowski’s Jupiter Ascending, a strange mix of Flash Gordon, Barbarella, and fairy tales, among other things. Time Tracks: Jupiter Ascending 0:00 to 46:56 Next Month’s Film & Outro 46:56 to End
LES SAIGNANTES brings Nat, Cody, and Robert back to the world of Afrofuturism and our first trip to African movies. Plus, we conclude our countdown of our 50 favorite films of all time. Time Tracks:LES SAIGNANTES: 0:00 to 34:34TOP 50 LISTS, 10 to 1: 34:34 to 2:35:29NEXT FILM : 2:35:29 to End
