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Weird Scenes 1/11/19: Week 56 - Superhero cinema pt. 1: DC

We've talked superhero television (and the serials before them) in an earlier show, now buckle in as we take on the long running, seemingly inexhaustible run of superhero cinema, from its fits and starts of the 1970s-early 80's Superman series and 1989-present Batman series through the Fox Studios licenses and DC revival of the 1990s to the ever more interconnected Marvel Studios universe of today!

In our first show, we take on the earliest days, once again paying visits to those seminal Superman and Batman runs through darker times to follow before digging in to modern day DC properties, all the way to the much feted Wonder Woman!

Join us for the first part of our exploration (and occasional evisceration) of superhero cinema, as we take on the films of DC, only here on Weird Scenes!

Week 56 - Superhero cinema from the 90's to today pt. 1: DC

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Weird Scenes 1/24/19: Week 57 - Superhero cinema pt. 2 : early Marvel

We've talked superhero television (and the serials before them) in an earlier show, now buckle in as we take on the long running, seemingly inexhaustible run of superhero cinema, from its (mostly televised) fits and starts of the 1970s through the Fox Studios licenses of the early millenium to the ever more interconnected Marvel Studios universe of today! In our second show, we take on the earliest Marvel properties based films, from the Corman pictures (both released and not) and the Blade series through the Fox Spider Man, X-Men, Daredevil, Ghost Rider and Fantastic Four films...there's a whole lot of proving ground to cover before the Marvel Cinematic Universe finally takes center stage! Join us for the midpoint of our trilogy of exploration (and occasional evisceration) of superhero cinema, as we take on the early Marvel superhero films, only here on Weird Scenes! Week 57 - Superhero cinema from the 90's to today pt. 2 : early Marvel  https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)

Weird Scenes 9/27/18 - Week 55 - This podcast will self destruct in 5 seconds

The show that launched not only a sequel a decade and a half on, but an equally popular movie series two full decades thereafter, the tropes and score of Mission Impossible have been used, referenced and celebrated throughout popular culture well past any similar series' shelf life. Despite avoidance of actual characterization or backstory, this unique spy cum heist series went on to be nominated for and win any number of awards throughout its run (6-10 Emmy nominations a year for the Landau/Bain era and 1-3 Golden Globe ones for 5 seasons)...no mean feat, for a low to middling budgeted, mainly set-bound mid-60's television series! With a rotating cast centered on a few central figures (themselves often rotating in and out of the series over the course of its lengthy run), the series was later followed by not only a surprisingly good late 80's revival series (with a nearly all-Australian cast and setting, and despite its partial "direct remake" of previous series scripts) featuring return appearances from several veterans of its 1966-73 forbear,  but further by two of its leads' entree into the pensive hard SF of Gerry and Silvia Anderson's UK based Space 1999, which married the format of Star Trek with the aesthetic of Stanley Kubrick's 2001 before imploding following a major, controversial overhaul in season 2 that saw most of its core characters, themes and tropes overturned, betraying nearly everything that made the first season so fascinatingly special... Join us as we discuss the long and winding fuse that ties these three series together, as we talk the good, the bad and the ugly of both series of Mission Impossible and Space 1999! Week 55 - This podcast will self destruct in 5 seconds - Mission Impossible and Space 1999 https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)

Weird Scenes 9/13/18 - Week 54: Eddie Romero and the horror of the Philippines

If you’re going to discuss Sam Sherman and American International Pictures, Roger Corman and Hemisphere Pictures, there’s simply no way you can avoid bringing up the cult cinema of the Phillipines.  While other directors like Cirio S. Santiago would carry the nation’s coproductions into a plethora of increasingly pointless lookalike Vietnam war pictures throughout the 80’s, what will immediately spring to mind for most film aficionados are the weird, almost 50’s style rubber monster pictures that kicked off the genre: The Blood Island Trilogy.   Preceded by the moodily incestuous family dramas cum Hammer style horrors of frequent co-director Gerardo De Leon (Terror is a Man, Blood of the Vampires, The Blood Drinkers), Romero would continue on to both high points like the surprisingly metaphysical Beast of the Yellow Night and lows like The Twilight People and Savage Sisters before making way for even more entertaining Fillipino productions to take center stage, like the quirky Donald Pleasance vehicle Night Creature, the Corman blaxploitation crossover Night of the Cobra Woman, the crazed action/spy efforts Wonder Women, They Call Her Cleopatra Wong and For Your Height Only and the dark occultism of the Tom Selleck Daughters of Satan and the unbelievable Killing of Satan. So join us as we discuss Eddie Romero, Gerardo de Leon and the horror and cult cinema of the Phillippines, only here on Weird Scenes! Week 54: Eddie Romero, Gerardo de Leon and the horror of the Philippines https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)

Weird Scenes 8/30/18: Week 53 - Joe Don Baker: Walk softly and carry a big stick

Only in the 70's could a beefy, drawling television character actor change gears and morph into not only an action hero, but even some measure of sex symbol to an audience bedazzled by an aging, Vegas Elvis and the good humored down home charm of Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson... After nearly a decade toiling away in bit parts on series from Honey West and Gunsmoke to the Mod Squad to Mission Impossible, Texan good ol' boy Joe Don Baker brought a likeably rootsy appeal to his roles, from the corn pone Death Wishisms of breakthrough hit Walking Tall to roles with kung fu specialist Robert Clouse (Golden Needles), as hard boiled, vaguely noiresque detectives (Mitchell, Speedtrap), in outright horror films (The Pack) and as crusty authority figures (To Kill a Cop, Power), sometimes even in comedies (Fletch, Joysticks, Leonard Part 6)! Eventually landing a recurring role in both the Dalton and Brosnan runs of the James Bond franchise, he'd spend later years filling in for Carroll O' Connor on In The Heat of the Night and working artsy critical faves like Cape Fear and Reality Bites, even dropping in for a spot in the late 90's comedy smash Mars Attacks! Remembered more these days for being sent up mercilessly in no less than two memorable episodes of MST3K, join us as we delve deep into the Deep South, braving those crawdads, polk salad, chitlins and greens for some tasty down home cinema, to talk the films of the inimitable Joe Don Baker, only here on Weird Scenes! Week 53: Walk softly and carry a big stick - the films of Joe Don Baker https://weirdscenes1.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/WeirdScenes1 https://twitter.com/WeirdScenes1 (@weirdscenes1)