Nat, Cody, and Robert take a trip to the sun and perhaps touch the face of God with Danny Boyle’s SUNSHINE. Following up on the success of 28 DAYS LATER, with the low budget MILLIONS in between, Alex Garland and Danny Boyle reteamed for a much more ambitious science fiction film in SUNSHINE. This one […]
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Robert, Nat, and Cody take time off from our summer to bring you a special bonus episode. 50 years ago, JAWS swam into theaters and changed Hollywood. With that in mind, what better time to look at the ups and downs of the film and franchise that stated the summer movie season. Just to make
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Nat, Cody, and Robert take a deep dive into James Cameron’s THE ABYSS. Riding high off the success of THE TERMINATOR and ALIENS, James Cameron took two of his main interests, undersea exploration and science fiction, and combined them in THE ABYSS. By all accounts a grueling shoot, THE ABYSS emerged in the Summer of
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Robert, Nat, and Cody accept an offer we can’t refuse in 1951’s THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL debuted near the dawn of the Cold War and 50s science fiction films. And while not setting the box office on fire, but still making money, it became a favorite of
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Cody, Robert, and Nat go mainstream this month with 1979’s MOONRAKER, the first – and so far only – James Bond film we’ve covered on the podcast. MOONRAKER came out on the heels of Star Wars, and the last third of the movie definitely throws its jaws into the sci-fi ring, but it doesn’t stop there: MOONRAKER borrows
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Nat, Cody, and Robert take a post-apocalyptic road trip with 1990’s CIRCUITRY MAN. CIRCUITRY MAN is practically from another era of filmmaking. An era where B-movies would have high concepts and get regular theatrical releases, even if the budget wasn’t necessarily there to fulfill their vision. That era largely went away, outside the Midnight Madness
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