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This week Conor and Luke talk Wild Card, the new Jason Statham movie – a remake of Heat starring Burt Reynolds. Blade Runner comes up again for Table Time, and yes, Bud Yorkin comes under fire. Never retreat, never surrender.
Interstellar opens on an Earth that’s struggling to sustain itself. Frequent blights on crops and seemingly never-ending dust-storms force humanity to eke out an existence as career farmers. One such farmer, Cooper (McConaughey), a former engineer (and NASA test-pilot) is called up for a dangerous mission beyond our solar system to seek out out a new home for the human race.
(A heads-up: There’s some discussion of the later moments of Interstellar in this review, if you wanna go in fresh save it for later.)
It’s a minicast, you know, a minicast! Join Luke as he reviews an adaptation of a video game and an adaptation of a novel. One of them has Aaron Paul in it, the other one is set in Scotland. They both have cars in ’em.
The Horror season takes a week off as Conor and Luke engage in some extended table time action. Join Bizarro Luke and Conor as they discuss the bad (and excellent) aspects of The Muppets, the mafioso-out-of-water Lilyhammer and Disney’s latest science-fantasy blockbuster John Carter.
Read and watch along at home and prepare for next episode’s Jekyll and Hyde spectacular.
Cheerfully Inaccurate
Of course Andrew Stanton directed Wall-E and Finding Nemo. Luke was confused with all the commotion. O!
This week mysteries abound on the Movie Express podcast. We investigate a murder most foul in the Joan Crawford starring Mildred Pierce and tackle questions of Alien life and human frailty in Alien, the first of our new Horror Season. Table time sees a prolonged look at some our favourite Woody Allen films and some confused idioms.
This week Conor and Luke grappled with the question:
What is more romantic, a couple of nights on the road with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, or five snowbound months being seduced by the Overlook Hotel?(In order to really examine these questions, they watched The Shining and It Happened One Night. Later they talked about The Critic, Dr Katz and Dune)
Beware of Kung Fu Treachery this week, because we’re going into the world of Blaxploitation via Black Dynamite. For the Science Fiction Season we’ll be looking at, and re-evaluating The Fifth Element. Table Time discusses Red Dead Redemption and Rec 2. Question Time has our first live (recorded) listener question!
Time Stamps
(00:00) Intro, Black Dynamite
(19:40) Science Fiction Season: The Fifth Element
(36:00) Table Time: Red Dead Redemption and Rec 2
(54:31) Question Time
Cheerfully Inaccurate
Our accuracy is above reproach.
Stuff We Mentioned This Week:
Superfly, Shaft, Black Belt Jones, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, Blood and Bone, Solaris, Equilibrium, Black Samurai, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, The Wild Bunch, McCabe And Mrs Miller, The Dark Knight, Spawn, Rec, An American Werewolf In London, Batman (Tim Burton Version).
Fly with us this week in the arms of The Rocketeer, our Science Fiction Season movie. Even before that, watch dudes get kicked in the face via Kung Fu Hustle, and for table time journey with us to Bright Falls where we’ll watch the excellent prequel story to Alan Wake. Question time focuses mainly on the conclusion of our controversial Sidecar competition.
Time Stamps
(00:00) Intro, Kung Fu Hustle
(20:24) Science Fiction Season: The Rocketeer
(36:15) Table Time: Bright Falls, Check It Out with Steve Brule and Archer revisited.
(49:42) Question Time – The Sidecar Competition
Cheerfully Inaccurate
No dice. 100% accuracy.
Stuff We Mentioned This Week:
Only Angels Have Wings, Shaolin Soccer, Drunken Master, Twin Peaks, Tim And Eric, The Matrix Reloaded, Merantau, Ong Bak.
This week begins our Science Fiction season and to celebrate it we feature THX 1138 and for the Science Fiction segment, we do X-The Man With X-Ray Eyes. Table Time looks at Remedy’s Alan Wake, and Daniel Monzon’s Cell 211. Question time looks at some filmic peeves, and an important question from Conor to the world in general.
Time Stamps
(00:00) Intro, THX 1138
(22:37) Science Fiction Season: X-The Man With X-Ray Eyes
(37:44) Table Time: Alan Wake and Daniel Monzon’s Cell 211.
(51:15) Question Time
Cheerfully Inaccurate
The Attica prison riot movie rattling around Conor’s dusty mind was Against The Wall, a 1994 TV movie starring Kyle MacLachlan and Samuel L Jackson.
Stuff We Mentioned This Week:
I Am Legend, Jekyll And Hyde, HP Lovecraft, Star Wars, Merantau, Ong-Bak, Parallax View, Merantau, Parallax View, Police Story, Twin Peaks, The Hammer, The Conversation