Fuds On Film

A new year stretches out in front of us, and the way things are going it's probably humanity's last. Before we deal with that carnival of terror, let's look back at the best and the worst films we caught during Space Year 2016.

We're dropping truthbombs on Kubo and the Two Strings, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them, Mechanic: Resurrection, Your Name, De Palma, and Sully in this exciting episode - dare you listen?

Today we're browsing through the case files of MK ULTRA, or at the very least taking a look at two very contrasting films based around brainwashing, with Joe Wright's 2011 outing Hanna and John Frankenheimer's 1962 classic, The Manchurian Candidate.

Star Trek has earned itself a place in popular culture thanks to its endless television syndication run in a way that we might not see again, now that media has spread itself across so many channels and platforms and we're not all stuck with the same four channels of our youth. Today we're taking a look at the big screen outings for the original cast.

Another month has passed, so again we congregate to discuss what horrors cinema has unleashed on us. Get our takes on The Light Between Oceans, Captain Fantastic, Bastille Day, Doctor Strange, The Shallows, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Supersonic, Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and The Infiltrator.

We're looking at The Prestige and The Illusionist this month, two films with fairly similar high level plots but very different executions as they explore rivalry, love, and obsession through the world of illusion. And we don't mean the old Megadrive game. See the full show notes at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/illusionist-prestige/

We're all used to the Technicolor realities of modern cinema by this point, but there's still more than a few examples where, either by economic necessity or stylistic preference, it's monochrome in the multiplex. Today we're looking at some notable examples, namely Pi, The Good German, Good Night and Good Luck, Schindler's List, The Mist, The Man Who Wasn't There, and La Haine. Find the full show notes at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/modern-black-and-white/

As October draws to a close, it's time for us to reconvene and pass judgement on an assortment of films: Blood Father, Bridget Jones Baby, Soy Nero, Inferno, The BFG, The Girl on the Train, The Red Turtle, and The Free State of Jones. Full show notes are available at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/intermission-october-2016/

Now, on this podcast we love a bit of Dick, ol' Phil K being a favourite author in this neck of the woods, with some of our favourite films based on his work. We've already discussed Blade Runner and Total Recall, but it's fair to say that these are both only very loosely based on the works that inspire them. We thought we'd take a look at two films rather more adherent to the source material, with Richard Linklater's 2006 adaptation of A Scanner Darkly and 2014's Radio Free Albemuth, directed by John Alan Simon. Full show notes available at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/scanner-darkly-radio-free-albemuth/

We thought we'd return to the horror genre's heyday in the 70's to look at six of the most highly regarded horrors the world has yet seen. Join us as we discuss Don’t Look Now, The Wicker Man, The Exorcist, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Omen, and Halloween. Get the full show notes at http://www.fudsonfilm.com/70s-horror/