Episodes
Friday May 25, 2018
Deadpool 2
Friday May 25, 2018
Friday May 25, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say this is going to be the best thing you ever hear about Deadpool 2. I don't want to over-hype it, judge for yourself.
There's a lot of mixed feelings as we weigh up the strengths and weaknesses of this sequel.
If you've not heard them yet, we have done shows on all the previous X-Men movies, which can be found on the School of Movies Archive, an entirely separate feed on which we curate our back catalogue.
http://schoolofmoviesarchive.podbean.com/category/x-men/
Guests:
Jason "Chewie" Slate of The Mana Pool
Brenden Agnew of Cinapse
Ciaran Dachtler
Jesse Ferguson
Friday May 18, 2018
The Neverending Story
Friday May 18, 2018
Friday May 18, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
We journey back to the small-scale fantasy boom of the 80s with this German-filmed adaptation of the book Die Unendliche Geschichte by Michael Ende. This is a commissioned show by Joel Robinson.
It's the simple tale of a newly motherless boy named Bastion who steals a magic book from a shop and reads it in his school attic. As the adventure he's engrossing himself in plays out it becomes apparent that something decidedly meta is going on.
It's an endlessly charming and sweet-natured film with memorable moments, crafted sets, earnest performances, haunting music and an unsettling darkness lurking beneath the twee exterior.
If you experience some kind of existential crisis while listening to this one we are available to talk to about it. We certainly went to unexpected places on our own journey.
Next week: Deadpool 2
Friday May 11, 2018
Fright Night
Friday May 11, 2018
Friday May 11, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
We were commissioned to cover the original 1985 version but decided to incorporate the 2011 remake as well.
A teenage boy named Charley Brewster is perturbed to find that the gentleman who just moved in next door is a vampire... named Jerry. But of course nobody will believe him. Charley's mother, his awkward friend Ed and his girlfriend Amy are all placed in danger, and he seeks out guidance in how to dispatch this denizen of darkness from local celebrity Peter Vincent.
How both films go about this varies quite a lot, with one being an affectionate, gory homage to the vampire flicks of yesteryear, fading from popularity, and the other being a nerve-shredding take on the evolving concept of protecting one's territory.
Our hypothesis is that because both films take different approaches to the same story they end up complimenting rather than repeating one another, and thus form a rare instance of balanced old and new.
Guests:
Kaoru Negisa and
Debbie Morse of Sequentially Yours
Friday May 04, 2018
Avengers: Infinity War
Friday May 04, 2018
Friday May 04, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
"We come to it at last, the great battle of our time."
This show recording ran surprisingly long as we went off on wild tangents discussing where Marvel might go from here. Those are contained in a separate 80 minute podcast called Beyond Infinity which will be on the Patreon.
What you have here is a super-focused 70 minute discussion about the film, with heavy reflections on what it means and elements that stood out. You see, I divided it into two and oh my god, I'm Thanos!
Guests
Brenden Agnew of Cinapse
Lorin Grieve
Theo Leigh
The New Century Multiverse podcast can be found here: http://newcenturyshow.podbean.com/