Episodes
Friday Apr 27, 2018
Saga
Friday Apr 27, 2018
Friday Apr 27, 2018
[School of Everything Else 2018]
A currently ongoing comic series written by Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man) and Fiona Staples (North 40/Mystery Society).
The remit of this commission was not to just talk about the first book and hold off of spoilers for the later instalments (since that's what a lot of people do) so we have to delve into the first eight volumes.
This makes it kind of tricky to know how much to listen to for newcomers to the series. My suggestion would be to stick with us for a while, and then if it sounds appealing buy and read the first book, then get the others if that sticks with you.
If it doesn't immediately grab you, listen until it does.
I'm rather proud of the custom soundtrack to this one. It's the music I would put in a potential movie series.
Next week: Avengers - Infinity War!
Guests:
Kaoru Negisa and
Debbie Morse of Sequentially Yours
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Godzilla
Friday Apr 20, 2018
Friday Apr 20, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
This is a trilogy of tellings of the same enormous tale.
First the 1954 black and white Japanese original, Gojira, which was a deliberate allegory for something deadly serious. Then (skipping over about 21 very silly Toho films which pitted the big lizard against an array of iconic kaiju) we have the 1998 Roland Emmerich attempt to bring Godzilla to America.
And finally on the 60th anniversary of that first film, Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Monsters) delivered the beginnings of a monster-based cinematic universe with Godzilla playing a metaphor for both natural and nuclear disaster.
We were only commissioned to do the first one, but decided that the best show would be a comparative of these three, and we recruited a Godzilla expert to help us delve deeper.
Guest:
Neil Taylor of TheKiddDogg
Friday Apr 13, 2018
The Babadook
Friday Apr 13, 2018
Friday Apr 13, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
In recent weeks CinemaSins turned their brand of completely misunderstanding the very nature of the medium upon this wonderful, dark little psychological horror from Australia.
Here, for everyone in the world, by way of antidote, is a deep dive into what's really going on in this story of ghosts and violence. It gets super heavy, but will hopefully open it up for everyone who has seen the film (which we suggest you do first).
Guest:
Hollywoo Actress Maya Santandrea
Friday Apr 06, 2018
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
Friday Apr 06, 2018
Friday Apr 06, 2018
[School of Movies 2018]
This one achieved notoriety as a so-bad-it's-great cult classic. However, while it's certainly applicable as nanar, this confused mess of a survival horror actually stands more as a reverse yardstick of how NOT to make a film.
Join us as we hurtle through bird-infested motels, beaches, woodlands and gas stations on one of the worst journeys a person could be forced to take. Coat-hangers at the ready, along with a small, and inexhaustible arsenal.
Say goodbye to coherence, human performances or any possible hope of the ambient sound matching between shots. And by god, get used to the music because it is going to get stuck, horribly inside your head.
Guests:
Kaoru Negisa and
Debbie Morse of Sequentially Yours