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Super in-depth analysis of movies (and occasionally TV, and video games). Hosted by veteran podcasters Alex & Sharon Shaw with different guests for round-table chats every week.
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Friday Apr 24, 2020
Friday Apr 24, 2020
[School of Everything Else 2020]
The long-running British sci-fi comedy series gets its first podcast with us. We picked the season that's easiest to get into and most immediately funny. If a lot of people like this one and especially if newcomers get into Red Dwarf (currently available on Netflix UK and Britbox) then we will record more shows.
A ragtag crew of losers on their way back to Earth cross paths with all manner of androids, genetic mutants and time travel phenomena. Aboard we have Dave Lister, maybe the last human slob alive, Arnold Rimmer, the holographic projection of his pedantic boss, a fussy mechanoid named Kryten and a preening evolved feline known only as The Cat. They are semi-guided by the super-genius A.I. Holly who may have gone a bit strange over three million years.
It is delightful how this show has held up over the decades, and if you're unfamiliar you're in for a treat.
Guests
Hollywoo Actress Maya Santandrea @Mayasantandrea
Derrick Ritchie @thenewdelboy
Kat Essman @Kat325
Friday Apr 17, 2020
Friday Apr 17, 2020
[School of Movies 2020]
The same year that Steven Spielberg was directing E.T. fifty miles down the road he was also producing this magnificent Californian domestic ghost story. Tobe Hooper, director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Lifeforce here helmed what ended up as by far my favourite of his films.
And there's many reasons why this one was so effective in 1982 and remains so today. Set aside the ghoulish fixation on whether or not this was a cursed set and journey with us into the intoxicating, otherworldly family drama that is Poltergeist, accompanied by the spine-tingling music of Jerry Goldsmith.
Guests
Chris Chipman of The Chipman Bros Tangent @The Chippa
Friday Apr 10, 2020
Friday Apr 10, 2020
[School of Movies 2020]
The Spielberg Season continues with this seminal classic about a gardener, abandoned and far from home, forced to throw his lot in with a group of strange aliens.
This is a means of Steve re-exploring the broken family of Close Encounters with a softer, child's perspective. And It's an intimate, playful, heart-aching tale that still absolutely stands up today.
It is absolutely worthy of a re-watch, especially now, when families are both locked in together and also separated and broken.
Guest
Chris Chipman of The Chipman Bros Tangent @The Chippa
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
[School of Movies 2020]
After 28 years of waiting and bad Terminator films they finally, FINALLY made a really good one... and nobody turned up. Unfortunately, if you comb YouTube the algorithm that prizes outrage over joy shunts to the top all of the angry boys who hated this box office failure.
But right here you will find a deep dive into why this is a brilliant legacy sequel to the first two. We will of course see more Terminator media again, most likely with yet another reboot, but for us and several of our guests, this is the conclusion to a Trilogy.
You don't have to see the film first, before listening. Far from spoiling it by talking about what happens I believe if we've done our jobs right we will actively enhance your viewing. This is a heavy episode, but there are heavy things going on in the world right now, and although we will be comforting you next week with the sweetness of E.T. we wanted to deliver a show that would tackle the storm.
Guests
Brenden Agnew of Cinapse @BLCAgnew
Jesse Ferguson of Recorded Tomorrow @TheDapperDM
From Sequentially Yours Kaoru Negisa @Moonpanther22
and Debbie Morse @bastet8300