Special Guests: Whitley Strieber, Michael Thomas Guest Co-Hosts: Christine Makepeace, Kat Ellinger
We conclude #Shocktober2022 with a look at Tony Scott's The Hunger (1983). Based on the book by Whitley Strieber, the film stars Catherine Deneuve as Miriam, a being that’s lived thousands of years. When we meet her, her companion John (David Bowie) has been with her for a few hundred years and suddenly starts to age. There’s maybe one person in the world that might be able to help. Dr. Sarah Roberts (Susan Sarandon). She won’t save John but she’ll definitely spend a little time with Miriam…
Christine Makepeace and Kat Ellinger join Mike to discuss the film. Interviews include author Whitley Strieber and screenwriter Michael Thomas.
Guest Co-Hosts: Christine Makepeace, Ben Buckingham
Released in 1999, The Wachowski Siblings's The Matrix stars Keanu Reeves as Thomas “Neo” Anderson, a cubicle jockey who is looking for meaning in his life by way of the notorious hacker Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne). Neo gets more than he bargained for when he learns that the world in which we live is a computer-generated construct, the titular Matrix.
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Dahlia Schweitzer,
Chris O'Neill,
Oliver Robins,
Mark Victor,
Gary Sherman,
Gil Kenan Guest Co-Hosts: Christine Makepeace, Vincenzo Natali
We kick off Shocktober 2020 with a look at Tobe Hooper's 1982 film Poltergeist. It's the story of a suburban family beset by supernatural forces.
Brew up a pot of tea and pull up those knickers! Christine and Emily are heading to London to tackle 1998's Sliding Doors. Joining the ladies of The Feminine Critique is the one and only Mike White, host of the one and only The Projection Booth podcast.
Dangerously posh British accents will happen. Also, head to Goop because, you know, it’s Goop. Cheerio!
Special Guest: Alexandre Philippe Guest Co-Host: Christine Makepeace
Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) stars Janet Leigh as Marion Crane, an unmarried woman who’s in love with Sam Loomis (John Gavin), a man under the debt of his deceased father and living ex-wife. In a move of desperation, she sees an opportunity to change her circumstances and takes it in the form of 40,000 dollars.
Christine Makepeace (The Feminine Critique) joins Mike to discuss Psycho and its legacy, sequels, Turkish remake and more. Alexandre Philippe, the director of 78/52, talks about his fascinating documentary which takes apart the famous Psycho shower scene.
Music:
"Herrmann: Psycho (A Narrative For Orchestra)" - London Philharmonic Orchestra & Bernard Herrmann
"Norman" - Sue Thompson
"Psycho" - Eddie Noack
Special Guest: Mei Fong Guest Co-Hosts: Keith Gordon, Christine Makepeace
While we often talk about a few movies on every episode -- one main film and some supporting works, sequels, and so on -- we're spotlighting two movies on this episode: Michael Campus's Z.P.G. (1972) and Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men (2006).
Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) stars Oliver Reed as Russ McNeil and and Geraldine Chaplan as his wife Carol. The film is set the near future where global resources have been strained and the environment has paid the price for the blight of human beings which have polluted the air so much that they live under a shroud of smog. "They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum where they charge people a dollar and a half just to see 'em." The film was inspired by Paul Ehrlich's 1968 clarion call, The Population Bomb which warned of overpopulation.
Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men is a very loose adaptation of P.D. James's 1992 novel. The film stars Clive Owen as Theo Faron who's biding his time on planet earth as the population is dying -- or killing itself off. No babies have been born in over 18 years which has exacerbated social strife, leading to terrorism, mass suicide, and refugee crises.
Music:
Sycamore Trees - Little Jimmy Scott
Twin Peaks Fire Walk With Me - Fantomas
Escape from the Black Lodge - Video Game Soundtrack
Fire Walk with Me - Big Fok
ChunkyJunky - Pilchard
I'll Be There in Twin Peaks - Colatron
Moving Through the Pink Room - Angelo Badalamenti
That Gum You Like Is Back In Style - Camper Van Beethoven
Twin Hearts - Colatron
Special Guests: Whitley Strieber, Michael Thomas
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