Films & Filth

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

Films & Filth episodes

September 15, 2020 Short Circuit and Short Circuit 2
Rolling through our sci-fi comedy month is this duo of films that are as 80's as you can get. There may have been Wall-E, and 80's Robot, but Johnny Five was first - unless we count the NES's R.O.B. and some early industrial robotics.
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And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here:
https://damagedtape.bandcamp.com/album/conflagration-of-nibiru
1 hr 3 min
September 08, 2020 Twins
We've seemed to have stumbled a bit into a sci-fi comedy month - we'll be getting to Short Circuit and the Bill & Ted films (including the new one) later this month. This one doesn't seem so sci-fi on the surface, but once you consider the genetic experiment resulting in the twins, and that weird engine in the boot of the car, it gets a pass in the Sanctuary. To be fair, Schwarzenegger always gets a pass in the Sanctuary.
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Luke talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon: https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here:
https://damagedtape.bandcamp.com/album/the-erotic-couch-cannibal-sisters-soundtrack
54 min
September 02, 2020 The Rocky Horror Picture Show (w/ Andrew Shearer)
It's astounding!! There's nothing more of a cult film than this one. It may have "horror" in the title, but it is far from lacking in science fiction double feature tropes.
Matt may have made it to about 20 midnight screenings of this one, but returning guest Andrew Shearer went so many more times playing Riff Raff as part of the cast that would go wild in front of the screen. He's the Great Gonzo of microcinema, and you can get started at his Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/gonzoriffic/
This is a musical, and we went all out with a tribute EP. Andrew dragged his daughter into the studio for the occasion, and Matt got into his first beatnik groove in a while:
https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/rockin-the-horror
And let's not forget those smaller, Pokemon creations. Luke gets into those at:
https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
1 hr 17 min
August 25, 2020 Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (w/ Larry Nemecek aka "Dr. Trek")
Star Trek III is that one hanging on back at the party. You probably wouldn't notice them much, but if you strike up a conversation, you may be in for a good time. I hope we managed that here.
Today's guest is Larry Nemecek, who straight up owns the name "Dr. Trek." He wrote the literal book on TNG in the 90's, is a consultant for a myriad of things Trek (including the loved and lamented "Star Trek: The Experience" in Las Vegas), played a bit of McCoy on one of the better Star Trek fan films, and now rummages through Gene Roddenberry's file cabinets for "The Trek Files" podcast. Can't have a better link than the dude's name, yeah?
https://larrynemecek.com/
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Luke talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon:
https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here:
https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/the-electrick-book-of-the-dead
1 hr 1 min
August 18, 2020 Minority Report (w/ Charlie Robinson)
In 2002, it all seemed so fantastically dystopian. But in 2020, it comes across more like reality spiced with a few gallows humor anachronisms. We get deep into the dark vibe that pulses from the heart of this Steven Spielberg/Tom Cruise jam.
And we've got the right man to get that weird with us. Charlie Robinson is the author of the encyclopedia of spiritual skepticism, "The Octopus of Global Control," and has his own fantastic podcast, "Macroagressions." Here's a link to get down with Charlie:
http://theoctopusofglobalcontrol.com/
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Luke talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon: https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here:
https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/the-unknown-reality
1 hr 12 min
August 11, 2020 Magical Mystery Tour (w/ Dan Richter)
This Beatles flick is more bizarrely fantastical than science fiction, but today's guest certainly has some serious sci-fi cred.
Dan Richter is at the center of a Venn diagram of the grooviest art of the 1960's. He played Moonwatcher, the lead ape in the opening Dawn of Man sequence in "2001: A Space Odyssey," and yes, we get back to that for a bit here as well. He was a friend of Yoko Ono when she was pushing the avant-garde edge in the mid-60's, and later served as John and Yoko's personal assistant for the three years that included the Beatles' break-up, the "Imagine" album, and Lennon's most politically active period. Dan has some wild stories to tell. Here is his website:
http://www.danrichter.com/
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Luke talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon:
https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
I don't think we could get away with actually sticking Beatles music in our podcast, but Matt’s music for today was mostly composed by playing the Revolver album backwards and transposing the chords into new compositions. Which you can hear here:
https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/trade-wind-navigators
1 hr 2 min
August 04, 2020 Batman Begins
SWEAR TO ME YOU WILL LISTEN TO THIS PODCAST!!! We will be getting to more Nolan films, but this is the last of our 2020 Nolan month, which ends without a new Nolan film. We get into militarized police, suicidal caterpillars, and loud bug noises. Maybe Matt should have chosen a nice snowy temple to record in like the League of Shadows' instead of this mid-summer one.
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Luke talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon:
https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here:
https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/weapons-of-mass-instruction-2
56 min
July 28, 2020 Inception (w/ Santiago Velasquez)
The original idea was so do a Nolan month that would be capped off by Christopher Nolan’s new sci-fi, “Tenant.” In our weird world, that one has been pushed back to mid-September or more, but we’re rolling the ball anyway with 2010 action-blasting epic puzzle box, “Inception.”
Joining us today is Santiago Velasquez, who played in a punk rock band with Matt in the 90’s, and is now a man of his own means, making PG-13 erotic female combat videos over at his site, Sleeper Kids World. He’s one of the best in that particular niche, and you can find his work here:
https://sleeperkidsworld.com/
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Luke talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon:
https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/electrick-sages
1 hr 14 min
July 21, 2020 Interstellar (w/ Dr. Erin MacDonald)
This week we’ve decided to add some class to an intellectually superior sci-fi film, but Matt and Luke are not the ones up for that job. Fortunately, we do have Dr. Erin Macdonald on the microphone, who is fully qualified to go deep into things like gravitational waves and the different zones of black holes. She is currently science advising for - all of Star Trek. Now, this film is not Star Trek, but it lives those Roddenberry ideals as hard as the best Trek does. Learn some more by starting at Dr. Macdonald’s page here. Erin will Explain the Universe to you: https://www.erinpmacdonald.com/ 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 talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon: https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here: https://rovingsagemedia.bandcamp.com/album/party-season-of-the-sun
1 hr 1 min
July 14, 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog
Gotta Go Fast!!! - in this somewhat shorter episode of the Sci-Fi Sanctuary. How does the world of Sonic turn out in this film? Can Jim Carey still be properly wacky? We answer these questions and more in this second episode of the Dreamcast vs. GameCube Challenge!
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Luke talks to you about true PokeLove at Luke Loves Pokemon:
https://twitter.com/lukelovespkmn
And Matt’s music for today’s episode lives here:
https://damagedtape.bandcamp.com/album/psychedelic-anthropology
42 min