Sci-Fi July continues with Ishiro Honda's Latitude Zero (1969). Written by Ted Sherdeman and based on his and his wife Anne’s NBC radio serial of the same name, the film stars Joseph Cotten as a Captain Nemo-like commander of a submarine on it's way to... Latitude Zero, an underwater Utopia populated by scientists from the world over. Their enemy, Malic (Cesar Romero), will stop at nothing to destroy them, even if it means making a manticore with pieces of his crew.
Walter Chaw and Carol Borden join Mike to discuss this under-seen kaiju classic and its fascinating origin.
Special Guests: Bob Furmanek, Anders Runestad Guest Co-Hosts: Katharine Coldiron, Tim Luz
Katharine Coldiron (Junk Film) and Tim Luz (CinemaSpection) join Mike to discuss Phil Tucker's sci-fi classic Robot Monster (1953), a cold war film in which a gorilla with a porthole on his head tries to eliminate the last few hu-mans that remain on Earth after unleashing an army of dinosaurs to wipe out everyone else.
Mike talks with Bob Furmanek President and Founder of the 3-D Film Archive before chatting with Anders Runestad about his book, I Cannot, Yet I Must: The True Story of the Best Bad Monster Movie of All Time Robot Monster.
On this special cross-over episode with Chris Stachiw's Kulturecast, we're discussing the new Netflix film, Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024). The TLDL; is that Mike, Chris, and Father Malone really enjoyed its mix of Murphy's comic chops and a few throwbacks to the older films.
We continue Sci-Fi July with a look at the Yugoslavian/Czechosolvakian co-production Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy (1981). Directed by Dušan Vukotić and co-written by Projection Booth favorite Miloš Macourek, the film stars Žarko Potočnjak as Robert, a writer who manifests some of his own characters to hilarious results.
The Japan Cuts Festival of New Japanese Film, North America’s largest Japanese film festival, presents two weeks of contemporary premieres, including new films from Kei Chika-ura, Takeshi Kitano, Gakuryu Ishii, Shunji Iwai, Sho Miyake and Shinya Tsukamoto. Mike talks with Peter Tatara (Director of Film, Japan Society) and Alexander Fee (Film Programmer, Japan Society) about the Japan Cuts Film Festival, which runs July 10 - 21, 2024.
Samm Deighan and Axel Kohagen join Mike to kick off a month of science fiction fun with the one film that is the least sci-fi of the bunch, The Unknown Man of Shandigor. Released in 1967 the film is a rare feature film from Swiss filmmaker Jean-Louis Roy.
The film is something of a spy movie which stars the singular Daniel Emilfork as Professor Herbert von Krantz, a scientist who has crafted a device called the Annulator which can reverse a nuclear explosion. He, his assistant Yvan, and daughter Sylvain are the targets of several spy rings -- The Russians, The Americans, The French maybe, and the Man with the Platinum Ring all want The Annulator or to destroy it.
Special Guest: Beverly Gray Guest Co-Hosts: Keith Gordon, Katharine Coldiron
We wrap up the first of a few Request Months with one from Brian Tessitore, The Graduate. The 1967Mike Nichols film stars Dustin Hoffman as Benjamin Braddock, the titular graduate. He's adrift after college and falls into an affair with Mrs. Robinson (Anne Bancroft), a family friend.
We continue our Patreon request month with one requested by Peter Rogers, Orson Welles's The Trial. Released in 1962, the film stars Anthony Perkins as K in this adaptation of Franz Kafka's nightmare in bureaucracy.
Playwright David MacGregor and writer Mike Faloon join Mike to discuss this beautiful, baroque interpretation of Kafka's work as well as 1962 Norwegian television film and the 1993 version starring Kyle MacLaughlin.
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