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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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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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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