This month, Robert and Nat go it without an under the weather Cody. To make up for that absence, we are joined by Hunter Fagan of Dis-Order and Grim Grinning Hosts to talk Jules Verne and Ray Harryhausen in 1961’s MYSTERIOUS ISLAND. There was a Jules Verne boom in cinemas in the 1950s and 1960s […]
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This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat are joined by Miloš Tomin to explore Cold War fears and the end of the world in Stanley Kramer’s ON THE BEACH. ON THE BEACH was Stanley Kramer’s big statement on the prospect of nuclear annihilation and our ability to stop it before it happens. Linus Pauling said “It may
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This month, Nat, Cody, and Robert explore comedy in the Soviet world with 1986’s KIN-DZA-DZA!. KIN-DZA-DZA! is a 1986 science fiction / comedy directed by Georgiy Daneliya. Two Soviet men find themselves transported across the galaxy to a dystopian planet of mind-readers. And it happens to be one of the strangest films that’s ever been
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This month, Robert, Nat, and Cody delve into Peter Cushing at his most cold and evil in 1969’s FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED. FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED was the fourth of five Frankenstein films directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing. And it may just be the best. It’s certainly the nastiest. Frankenstein certainly earns
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Robert, Nat, and Cody are joined by returning guest Jim Laczkowski of Directors Club and Angela Fabbrini as we throw our eleventh annual Secret Santa party. Who gave what to whom is the mystery of the episode as we take turns discussing five movies especially chosen for their recipients by their secret Santas in our
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This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss the perils of adaptation without a clear vision with 2005’s AEON FLUX. On paper AEON FLUX looks like it had a chance. Charlize Theron had recently won an Oscar for MONSTER. Frances McDormand was at the height of her popularity. Johnny Lee Miller had made a bit of
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