Still Watching the Skies

Still Watching the Skies: Episode 144 “Minority Report”

Our precogs have seen that you would stop here and listen to our podcast. It would be a precrime not to listen. You have no free will as you listen to Cody, Robert, and Nat discuss Steven Spielberg’s take on Philip K. Dick in 2002’S MINORITY REPORT. In the wake of 9/11 and the Patriot […]

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 143 “The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)”

This month, Nat, Cody, and Robert journey to a world of the white god in the jungle who’s engaged in cruel experiments that push the conception of humanity with 1996’s THE ISLAND OF DOCTOR MOREAU. We also journey to the edge of sanity that was a doomed voyage for Richard Stanley’s tenure as a director

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 142 “V and V: The Final Battle”

This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat are joined by Kurt Halfyard of ScreenAnarchy to fight a fascist takeover as we discuss the 1980s’ mini-series V and V: The Final Battle. V was an NBC mini-series which first aired on May 1, 1983 and May 2, 1983. It was a success and was followed up by

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 141 “Johnny Mnemonic”

This month, Cody, Robert, and Nat jack into the futuristic world of 2021 and the cyberpunk ideas of William Gibson with 1995’s JOHNNY MNEMONIC. JOHNNY MNEMONIC, directed by Robert Longo and written by William Gibson, seems to have all the elements of a genre defining hit. In this case, the genre would be cyberpunk. In

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 140 “UFOria”

This month, Nat, Cody, and Robert journey to rural America to talk about belief and UFOs in 1981’s/1985’s UFOria. John Binder’s UFOria seemed like it had the ingredients to be a modest hit. And maybe it would have been one if released in 1981 or 1982 with its combination of ordinary people struggling with relationships,

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Still Watching the Skies: Episode 139 “Mysterious Island (1961)”

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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