Nat, Cody, and Robert are joined by Angela Fabbrini to look at various takes on vampires that fall outside the European tradition including BLACULA, MYSTICS IN BALI, and MR. VAMPIRE. First up is 1972’s BLACULA. BLACULA brings a blaxploitation spin to the vampire myth with African prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) being turned into a vampire […]
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Greetings starfighter! Join Robert, Nat, and Cody, with special guest Jim Laczkowski as we defend the frontier against Xur and the Kodan Armada by watching THE LAST STARFIGHTER and reminiscing about 1984. THE LAST STARFIGHTER opened July 13, 1984, in a summer packed with hits and wasn’t able to compete. But, it developed a cult
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Cody, Robert, and Nat take time off from our beach reading to bring you a special bonus episode focusing on three films reflecting the European take on pulp fiction including DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER, JUDEX, and DANGER: DIABOLIK. It’s a podcast full of women in catsuits, master criminals at least two steps ahead of the
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Cody, Robert, and Nat quest for meaning and reasons in viewing 1983’s KRULL. KRULL opened July 29, 1983, just over 2 months after RETURN OF THE JEDI, and clearly had some hopes of being the next STAR WARS. Those hopes were dashed as KRULL earned only $16.9 million at the box office compared to an
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Nat, Cody, and Robert are reporting to HR to talk about 1994’s DISCLOSURE, based on a Michael Crichton novel, and what makes a science fiction film. Erotic thrillers and Michael Crichton blockbusters were both big in the 1990s. DISCLOSURE is where the two intersect on a Venn diagram. And, as expected, it was dynamite at
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Nat, Cody, and Robert are joined by Andy DiGenova to talk about 1995’s WATERWORLD and what goes into making the WATERWORLD attraction for Universal Studio’s park in Beijing. 1995 was abuzz with WATERWORLD, particularly with how much the film cost. Perhaps that unfairly influenced the critical and public perception for a film that would be
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