Special Guest: Jonathan Owen Guest Co-Hosts: Noel Thingvall, Jim Donahue
We continue Czechtember 2020 with a look at Jindrich Polak's Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea (1977). Based on a story from Josef Nesvadba and co-written by Milos Macourek, the film stars Petr Kostka as both Jan and Karel Bures, twin brothers, one of who has helped invent a rocket that allows people to travel through time.
A group plans to rent out a rocket just for them and, rather than going back to do a little sport hunting in the time of the dinosaurs like Ray Bradbury’s A Sound of Thunder, they want to go back to 1944 and speak to one Adolf Hitler...
Special Guests: Mark Goldblatt, Terry Black Guest Co-Hosts: Heather Drain, Noel Thingvall
We’re wrapping up Shocktober 2019 with an episode on Mark Goldblatt’s 1988 film Dead Heat. The film stars Treat Williams as Roger Mortis who, along with his partner Doug Bigelow (Joe Piscopo) investigate a perplexing case that throws them into the world of the supernatural.
Heather Drain and Noel Thingvall join Mike to discuss this horror/comedy/cop drama. Writer Terry Black and director Mark Goldblatt discuss the making of this unusual film.
Special Guests: Peter Suschitzky Guest Co-Hosts: Samm Deighan, Noel Thingvall
Released in 1983, Krull was directed by Peter Yates and written by Stanford Sherman. The film stars Ken Marshall as Colwyn, a somewhat brash young warrior who is betrothed to Lysette Anthony as Lyssa. The two are to form an alliance between two kingdoms -- to unite their armies in hopes of defeating The Beast and his Slayers, ruthless extra terrestrials bent on taking over their world. But when their wedding is crashed, Lyssa is taken and Corwyn has to lead a rag tag group to rescue her.
Noel Thingvall and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss the storied production of Krull as well as other fantasy films of the early '80s including The BeastMaster, Dragonslayer, Willow, Legend and more.
This episode features the second half of our interview with cinematographer Peter Sushitzky.
Based loosely on the writings of Jack London and Leon Ray Livingston, Robert Aldrich's Emperor of the North Pole1973 tells the story of two hobos in the American Northwest during the Great Depression -- A Number One (Lee Marvin) and Cigaret (Keith Carradine). The two have a very uneasy relationship with one another and a completely antagonistic relationship with Shack (Ernest Borgnine), a railwayman who doesn’t want any freeloaders on his train.
Special Guest: Jonathan Owen
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