The Friendly Fan Club ventures gently into that good night to explore the astronomical questions of Christopher Nolan's Interstellar. Does it buckle under the weight of its own ambition to realistically capture mind-bending inter-dimensional concepts, or is it saved by its director's uncharacteristic sentimentality?
Also, we provide our own takes on the 'Slapgate' controversy from the 2022 Academy Awards (because of course we must).
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Show Notes:
Upbeat Updates:
‘Of Memes and Men: Finding – and Losing – the Humour in Will Smith’s Oscars Slap’
(by Lester Fabian Brathwaite)
https://ew.com/awards/oscars/will-smith-oscar-2022-slap-funny-or-not-essay/
Blacker Than Black Times Infinity Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaUXmdZSj3w
Jane Campion Wins Best Director
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg8e-3uaKqk
Ariana Debose Wins Best Supporting Actress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2PrsEMI0QA
Main Topic – Interstellar:
Dr Brand (Anne Hathaway) On Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7JMSWxQkk4
The Science of Interstellar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfGfZwQ_qaY
The Wormhole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EUgdj7lzI
The Water World
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6aIiijduXk
Dr Mann (Matt Damon)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv8fPISqh_k
Entering the Black Hole
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbsPgGpfKpU
The Tesseract
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cHZP3fXikU&t=4s
McConaughey’s Lincoln Car Commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QEAA94FjHc
Stewie & McConaughey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxJPQlPIzKI
Cooper's Messages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtPPZ1yM6g
Cooper Leaves Murph and Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GpmflmcGhU
The Prestige – Nikola Tesla (David Bowie) on Obsession and Ambition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqxzq6Sb4lw
The Fandom Zone:
Death Stranding
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-hyFSivSmw
Elden Ring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKXiKBnzpBQ