Popcorn Drink Combo: Recent Episodes
Doug and Peter
Two lifelong friends with an eye for film discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly, with a science fiction bent.
Saturday Night Fever (1977), Directed by John Badham. You can tell by the way he walks.
They Live (1988), Directed by John Carpenter. Take Philip K. Dick style paranoia, fear of Reaganomics, and one infamously long fight scene -- Now stir.
Full Metal Jacket (1987), Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Disappear, scumbag! Sir, aye aye, sir!!
Vertigo (1958), Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. A Beautiful Remastered Print of the Psychological Thriller. And Sex, Obsession, and Anxiety.
Nightcrawler (2014), Directed by Dan Gilroy. Jake Gyllenhaal may be a psychopath -- but so are you, news-viewer.
Links:
Nightcrawler Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1uP_8VJkDQ
Network Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSGvqQHpjs
Lou and Nina
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5srYR6oGJ_k
Car chase scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVPocfP-qaI
Home invasion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oesEUFty2qU
Altered States (1980), Directed by Ken Russell. Australopithecus Dork-icus.
The Fly (1986), Directed by David Cronenberg. File Under: 80s SciFi Horror That Holds Up.
Doug's Best and Worst Films of 2018, with some honorable mentions and the films that let him down.
The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) Directed by Ben Lewin. A Boston Red Sox player in search of a Nazi scientist in World War II.
The Front Runner (2018) Directed by Jason Reitman. The Candidate done in 2018 style...set in 1988!
First Man (2018), Directed by Damien Chazelle. An intimate look at the inscrutable astronaut's Right Stuff'.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Directed by Amy Heckerling. Hey, Bud... Let's Party!!
Star Wars: Ep I - The Phantom Menace (1999), Directed by George Lucas. Hand me my Lightsaber -- It's the one that says 'Bad Motherf___er'.
It Follows (2014), Directed by David Robert Mitchell. By Comparison, I'd MUCH Rather Just Get 'The Herps'.
Ex Machina (2014), Directed by Alex Garland. Sexy Robots + Frankenstein + HAL9000 = Successful Sci-Fi.
Mindhunter (2017-), Netflix TV Series, Created by Joe Penhall. How to Learn to Catch a Serial Killer.
Matt Damon and Kristin Wiig star in Downsizing. Miniaturization and social commentary...
You Were Never Really Here (2017), Directed by Lynne Ramsay. It Ain't All Butterflies, Is It? (Doug solo in the Studio with a quick take on this action thriller.)
Chappaquiddick (2018), Directed by John Curran. Doug solo in the Studio, with a take on this controversial political drama.
Ready Player One (2018), Directed by Steven Spielberg. And to Think My Mother Didn't Want me to Play Atari!!
Red Sparrow (2018), Directed by Francis Lawrence. Doug solo in the Studio, with a quick take on this new thriller.
Conan the Barbarian (1982), Directed by John Milius. Arnie's Start -- It's Good and Deserving of More Attention.
The 15:17 to Paris (2018), Directed by Clint Eastwood. Bringing some America to the European rail system.
Starship Troopers (1997), Directed by Paul Verhoeven. C'mon, you apes! You want to live forever?!
Darkest Hour (2017), Directed by Joe Wright. We shall fight them... ALL OVER THIS PIECE!!
I, Tonya (2017), Directed by Craig Gillespie. Take that, you bitch! I mean you, reading that Tabloid!
The Last of the Mohicans (1992), Directed by Michael Mann. Is that a tomahawk in your pocket...?
Dances With Wolves: Special Edition (1990), Directed by Kevin Costner. It's the extra hour that does it.
Dunkirk (2017), Directed by Christopher Nolan.
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds..."
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) , Directed by Jonathan Demme.
_This Film is Endorsed by the International Fava Bean Council®._
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) , Directed by Nicholas Meyer.
_To boldly go... into retirement._
Her (2013) , Directed by Spike Jonze.
_Your multithreading is so sexy! And what a level I cache!_
Under the Skin (2013) , Directed by Jonathan Glazer.
_But even man-hating aliens have rights!_
Outland (1981) , Directed by Peter Hyams.
_"Sherriff, this town's only big enough for one of us... and the interplanetary shuttle."_
Ronin (1998) , Directed by John Frankenheimer.
_Action by Old Pros -- A/C, not "Heat"._
Heat (1995) , Directed by Michael Mann.
_It Keeps me Sharp...On the Edge ...Where I Gotta Be!!_
Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982), Directed by Nicholas Meyer.
_Khaaaaaaannnnnnn!!!!!!_
Cast Away (2000) , Directed by Robert Zemeckis.
_Robinson Crusoe, FedEx, a volleyball, and one terrifying plane crash._
Star Trek: Generations (1994) , Directed by David Carson.
_Mr. Data Finally Gets a Joke. And Capt. Kirk Dies Twice, Quietly._
The Aviator (2004) , Directed by Martin Scorsese.
_Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Save my Urine._
A Scanner Darkly (2006), Directed by Richard Linklater.
_The most "Philip K. Dick" of Philip K. Dick movies._
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Directed by Steven Spielberg.
_Dee-da-dum-do-dee._
3 Days of the Condor (1975) , Directed by Sydney Pollack.
_Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the CIA isn't trying to kill you._
The Black Hole (1979) , Directed by Gary Nelson.
_The big anachronism, or, are you sure this wasn't 1959?_
Wonder Woman (2017) , Directed by Patty Jenkins.
_A feminist icon subverts the male gaze, or Va Va Voom!_
The Knick (2014-15) , Directed by Steven Soderbergh.
_Like the Brady Bunch, but with IV cocaine, hemorrhage, and graft._
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) , Directed by Martin Scorsese.
_Pigs get fat; hogs take drugs and get laid a lot._
Blade Runner (1982) , Directed by Ridley Scott.
_Inspiration, style, and occupying lots of mental real estate._
Blade Runner (1982) , Directed by Ridley Scott.
_Hard-boiled replicants want more life, but it ain't easy._
District 9 (2009) , Directed by Neill Blomkamp.
_Can becoming an alien make one more human?_
The Matrix (1999) , Directed by The Wachowski Brothers.
_Neo and the red pill create a generation of Sci-Fi Fans._