Films & Filth

By Matthew, Mark, Luke, and sometimes a JohnTV & Film Film Reviews

Films & Filth episodes

January 05, 2021 The Highlander (w/ Jonathan Melville)
Full disclosure - this film is not our geek niche, though we give full and due respect to that niche (at least until the sequel). In fact - this turned out to be Matt's first viewing of the film.
So, to balance the scales, we've got a guest, Jonathan Meville, who has fully immersed himself in the making of this cult classic. He recently published a fantastic book, "A Kind of Magic: The Making of the Original HIghlander," on that very topic and you should hit up this US Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Kind-Magic-Making-Original-Highlander/dp/1913538052/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=melville+kind+of+magic&qid=1609577883&sr=8-1
Or this UK one: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kind-Magic-Making-Original-Highlander/dp/1913538052/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=kind+of+magic+melville&qid=1609577988&sr=8-1
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Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter: https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And for more of the music you're hearing here, you heard Matt's sounds at the end of this link: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/underground-sound
1 hr 4 min
December 31, 2020 Le voyage dans la lune
"How about the space trip?" Space trip will be realized in the near future. As Apollo landed before for 30 years or more in the moon. you may do the mystical experience. We will offer a wonderful reception then. "Have a good trip!" (transcribed from a Japanese mall travel agency many a year ago)
Please do like, subscribe, and rate on all the things like Facebook, Twitter, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Wherever you happen to be hearing us, really.
Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter: https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And for more of the music you're hearing here, you heard Matt's sounds at the end of this link: https://damagedtape.bandcamp.com/album/conflagration-of-nibiru
27 min
December 29, 2020 Starship Troopers (w/ Tom Secker)
Ending our monster month with a whole lot of them damn bugs. Gotta kill them all!! That or get into all the socio-facist implications of this under the radar satire, which is far more fun to do in podcast form.
To get all this rolling on the right track, we have today's guest, Tom Secker. Tom is a British journalist who has written for Atlantic Today, The Independent, Newsweek, The Mirror, and the list goes on. His focus is a objective look at the military-industrial complex's influence on cinema and he co-wrote a fantastic book called "National Security Cinema," which focuses on that very thing. Get into his work at his Spy Culture website: https://www.spyculture.com/
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Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter: https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And for more of the music you're hearing here, you heard Matt's sounds at the end of this link: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/the-high-desert-prophecies-ep
1 hr 13 min
December 24, 2020 "Yesterday's Enterprise" from Star Trek: TNG (w/ Eric Stillwell)
Christmas bonus for you!! It may be television, but it rates with any of the Trek films. And we can do this because it's chronologically before Star Trek VI.
Even better, we've got one of the story writers, Eric Stilwell, on as a guest. Along with writing this, he served as a production assistant and script coordinator for TNG, so the man has some tales to tell. Some of them are at his blog: https://boldlygoing.blog
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Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter: https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And for more of the music you're hearing here, you heard Matt's sounds at the end of this link: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/the-unknown-reality
1 hr 11 min
December 22, 2020 Jingle All the Way (w/ Mark Malek)
Gimmie your Christmas!! You can say it's not sci-fi, but let's not forget Turbo Man, jetpacks, and the fact that Arnold Schwarzenegger exists is pretty sci-fi.
Matt used to bum around on Christmas with guest Mark Malek while they both ignored their families, so he seemed like good fit here. See him bury himself or something in this year's Quaranstein: https://youtu.be/HZJzDgqZNOw
Please do like, subscribe, and rate on all the things like Facebook, Twitter, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Wherever you happen to be hearing us, really.
Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter:
https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
Matt went full Santa this week with the music, but dig the sounds he does the rest of the time here: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/
1 hr 8 min
December 15, 2020 Godzilla: King of the Monsters
While this is the most recent place to get your monster action - we're not sure it's the best. Nevertheless, there are quite a few monsters to discuss here. A bit of a weird one for us with Matt beaming in his end of the audio from the day room of a Japanese hospital - I guess that's fitting for a Godzilla flick.
Please do like, subscribe, and rate on all the things like Facebook, Twitter, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Wherever you happen to be hearing us, really.
Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter:
https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
Matt has not yet released that album he said he would in the podcast, but you are hearing the music from it this week. It'll eventually be at this link, and there is no lack of sounds to explore in the meantime: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/
1 hr
December 08, 2020 Son of Kong
We're continuing our plunge into the monstrous this month with this medium sized monster - a Diddy Kong if you will. It's a weird mismash of 30's film styles which is strangely also a direct sequel to King Kong.
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Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter: https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And for more of the music you're hearing here, check out Matt's sounds over at: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/
58 min
December 01, 2020 The Valley of Gwangi
We're kicking of our monster month at the Sci-fi Sanctuary with this one. It features those weird, off-brand, pre-Jurassic Park dinosaurs, but at least they've been animated by the legendary Ray Harryhausen. As an added side tangent, this is probably the closest we're going to get on covering "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
Please do like, subscribe, and rate on all the things like Facebook, Twitter, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. Wherever you happen to be hearing us, really.
Luke is getting back into extensively talking about monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter:
https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And for more of the music you're hearing here, check out Matt's sounds over at: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/trade-wind-navigators
52 min
November 24, 2020 The Truman Show (w/ Miguel Conner)
Lots of "metas" to wade through with Jim Carrey's first notable foray into a more dramatic role. We think a few Deep Thoughts, consider what it takes to make a satisfying life. and hold the film up to the mirror of Gnosticism.
And who better to join us on that journey than writer, podcaster, and deep diver into all things Gnostic, Miguel Conner. You can continue that dive with him over at his Aeon Byte Gnostic Radio, found at this link: https://thegodabovegod.com/
Luke is getting back into talking about large monsters, and you will want to hear him here - especially if you are into Monster Hunter: https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And for more of the music you're hearing here, check out Matt's sounds over at: https://damagedtape.bandcamp.com/album/ambiguous-reality
1 hr 4 min
November 17, 2020 When Worlds Collide
This one is a groundbreaking, early sci-fi feature - but it's also a mighty dry affair and serves up a heaping pile of 1950's weird racism. Matt and Luke try to unpack the ins and outs of this George Pal film about the end of the world.
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Luke talks to you about those Monster Hunter monsters at the Monster Mash:
https://gintendo-namer.squarespace.com/monster-mash
And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here:
https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/i-often-dream-of-the-apocalypse
54 min