FRAME BY FRAME

WARNING, NSFW or around children. This episode contains an exploration - with educational principles within context - of cursing within movies.

Rough sound but here we are here to talk about the new Axel F movie. We cover all bases, and we learn a lot about old people shaming. Get it on!

We finally did it. We got together to talk about Silent Running - and it was an emotionally heavy discussion. Just when you thought you knew enough about a movie, then I come bounding in with my size 12 old man's slippers and add, the watering can story to the mix. We then delve into an unlikely connection with the passing of Donald Sutherland. A loss that is felt deeply worldwide.

Alien abductions. If I had a nickel! Right? We're here again on an alien space craft, but thankfully, we're indebted to the sound department to not make such a big deal of our big deal, and allow us to focus on the podcast. What do you talk about when you've been abducted by aliens? Alien Abduction movies. More the case however, we talk about The McPherson Tape and its reboot, Alien Abduction: Incident at Lake County. Could this be the end of our time travel narrative? We can only hope

So we begin with what we thought was our belated Silent Running / Outland episode, but something went wrong.

Suddenly, we're transported into the car radio of Sam Raimi. It's 1976 and he's heading to San Francisco to find investors at one of the west coast's biggest (at the time) film festivals. He picks up a couple of hitch hikers who are promptly dropped off at DEVIL'S TOWER Wyoming. The strangers are Andy and Stephen: Time travellers who are stuck in the past. A perfect time to talk about Close Encounters of the Third Kind while they figure out a way to get back to the present.

Meanwhile, in the "present day" world of podcasting, Andy and Stephen have discovered the "Dark Star" episode drop from 1971 and are baffled. But that's fine because they are all for added content, even if they don't know where it comes from. Here they get to add to the episode grind: Late Night with the Devil and Network. Two movies that couldn't be further apart in ethos, effect and moral truth.

Well here we go again. Another time-travel episode. This time we head back to 1971. We're at the University of South California. At the film department, John Carpenter and Dan O'Bannon are getting their heads together and making Dark Star. But little did they know this film was not only going to be successful, it was going to secretly change the landscape of science fiction and cinema. Without Dark Star we might not have had Star Wars, Alien or even other John Carpenter classics. But like in Back to the Future 2, it's not a good idea to change history. Just learn from it, and be better people. Wipeout.

We kick off the TENTH season of Frame by Frame with a horror movie. What would you expect? Imaginary is a movie about an imaginary friend. It involves a Teddy Bear, which wasn't too far away from our own little short, CaCo3 (2014). Thankfully we didn't need lawyers. We didn't even need to look for comparisons. It was clear from the start that Imaginary had other plans. Did we like it? Well, listen and find out.