TFT 91 – Surrogates / Paul Newman
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‘The Terminal Man’ – The Greatest 70′s Sci-Fi Thriller You’ve Never Seen
Like these frame-grabs from ‘The Shining’? Scary, huh, when Jack tries to break-in to the bathroom and kill Wendy. Oh wait a minute – these shots aren’t from The Shining – they’re from that near forgotten Mike Hodges classic 1974 sci-fi thriller ‘The Terminal Man’!
Beautiful Visualisation of Time Travel in Films and TV
Via Charlotte Cook - Sweetly beautiful visualisation of Time Travel in Films and TV – I especially like the paradoxes where the various time travelers bump into each other!: Timelines – Time Travel in Popular Film and TV
The Film Talk – Part 80 – My Year with Stanley Kubrick – An Interview with Dan Richter
This Episode: The bone throwing man-ape of 2001, Dan Richter, is interviewed on what it was like working with Stanley Kubrick, the meaning of 2001 and the counter-culture experiences of the ’60s. Get TFT delivered weekly via iTunes Subscribe to our podcast Subscribe to our blog Follow us on Twitter
A Race Waiting to be Born
‘In an infinite and eternal universe, the point is, anything is possible’ – Stanley Kubrick ’2001: A Space Odyssey’ is one of those films that leaves me wondering if there’s any point. To watching, I mean. Well, to watching other films, really; because ’2001′ is such a rich cinematic and theological experience you can’t imagine [...]
The Film Talk – Part 76 – Moon
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Are Bad Films of Any Value?
‘Terminator Salvation’: an unrecognised masterpiece full of signs/symbols that points towards a new way for cinema? No, I don’t think so. ‘Salvation’ is a film we both roundly denounced on the podcast, (Gareth arguably less so), but the vehemence with which ‘kbm’ puts forwards his comments in this post: Three Questions about ‘Terminator Salvation’ at [...]
The Film Talk – Part 68 – Terminator Salvation
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Three Questions about 'Terminator Salvation'
Now that I’ve seen ‘Terminator Salvation’, some queries occur to me: If I were a cyborg, why would I donate my heart to someone who has dedicated his life to killing my friends? If I owned the rights to one of the most interesting mainstream dramatic movie ideas of the past three decades, what could [...]
Not Everyone Loves the New 'Star Trek' Movie
As discussed in the podcast, Gareth and I are huge fans of the new ‘Star Trek’: The Film Talk – Part 65 – Star Trek Yet not everyone out there enjoyed it/found it worthy – in fact there are some folks who despise the pic. I selected the two below as examples because they both [...]
'The Terminator' and Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies
Via Metafilter comes this wonderful guide: Temporal Anomalies in Time Travel Movies What’s so great about the blog linked to above is that none of it actually matters. It is of no consequence if a time travel movie has temporal anomalies, i.e. plot holes, that would rip apart the fabric of the paradoxes holding time-space [...]
Three Terminator Haikus
A Depressing Haiku about ‘Terminator: Salvation’ The age of machines Has already begun, right? Skynet’s in your house. An Amusing Haiku about ‘Terminator: Salvation’ McG is the name Of the Director. Makes him Sound like an android. A Serious Haiku about ‘Terminator: Salvation’ Robots kill people. People kill back. But don’t ask Why we like [...]
Terminator Salvation
I must admit, the new ‘Terminator’ film looks dreadful. Still, I’d like to review it for this week’s show, (mainly because my old house – precariously perched by the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge in New Mexico seems to feature in the movie prominently!) but Gareth and I are both, of course, out of town for [...]
Star Trek Lens Flare Action
On this week’s podcast: The Film Talk – Part 65 – Star Trek Gareth and I talked in-depth about many aspects of the new Trek pic – with a special focus on how the picture fits into the new Obama Administration re: the villian from the last Bush blockbuster becoming the first hero of an [...]
Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus
Via Metafilter comes the above. It is what it is. It seems pure to me – there’s no hidden agenda – no pretense – it is. Simply. Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus. Isn’t there a kind of beauty in that? – – – For the curious – more information about Asylum, the company behind ‘Mega [...]
'Star Trek' Haiku
Now Spock cries. Kirk flirts. Time loops create new options. Movie’s pretty good. It really is, actually. JJ Abrams knows how to keep an audience’s attention, the black hole/time warp device is a stroke of genius, allowing the story to start from scratch while also making space for old Spock to make a return visit, [...]
The Film Talk – Part 65 – Star Trek
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Spielberg's 'War of the Worlds' – September 11th and the War in Iraq
Boy, ‘War of the Worlds’ is a good movie. I thought I appreciated it when it came out in 2005, but was struck watching it again last night by just how well it interweaves into a single experience the two monumental U.S. horrors of the first decade of the 21st century: * people are going [...]
Looking Forward to the New Star Trek Movie? A Podcast Preview
This week’s podcast will feature our in-depth analysis of the new ‘Star Trek’ picture as well time spent each discussing our favorite film from the series. Mine is, of course, the deeply underrated ‘Star Trek V: The Final Frontier’ which I think is by far the best pic in the ‘franchise’. I don’t know which [...]
The Film Talk – Part 55 – Knowing / Duplicity
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'Star Trek' Live on Stage
As discussed in these comments TFT rarely critiques television shows. I would make an exception though for the original ‘Star Trek’ series – if only as an excuse to publicise the wonderful video above, (via Metafilter). What a delight – would loved to have been there!
'Watchmen' Re-visited
Regular listeners will already know that my genial co-host and I didn’t much care for ‘Watchmen’. Jett, as a long term fan of costumed avengers felt it missed the point, to say the least; I wasn’t sure. I saw it again the other night in the hope that my thoughts might clarify themselves. So, for [...]
Why Not Re-Hab Films Like We Do Houses?
The area of East Nashville I live in is in turnaround. Decrepit old houses are being done up. Young couples are moving in. Which got to me to thinking. There’s plenty of crappy movies out there. Movies that, for whatever reason, poor script, ineffectual acting, befuddled direction, are just not worth watching. But there’s a [...]
