Giant bees! Giant Chickens! GIANT ENEMY CRAB! Ray Harryhausen takes on Jules Verne in the 1961 adventure MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.

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• Mysterious Island (1961 film) - Wikipedia

Our H.G. Wells month wraps up with the 1964 movie FIRST MEN IN THE MOON.

Space cops. Victorian slapstick. Thrilling conflict with a non-human menace. How many movies did they fit into this movie?

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• First Men in the Moon (1964 film) - Wikipedia

H.G. Wells month continues (continued? will continue?) with George Pal's 1960 version of The Time Machine.

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• The Time Machine (1960 film) - Wikipedia

A bonus show from our special Patreon feed: Something New to Watch!

Ian and Matthew went out to see the movie The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring Nicholas Cage and Pedro Pascal.

That was…an experience. And Matthew feels targeted.

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In 1898 H.G. Wells imagined a war between the people of Earth advanced invaders from Mars. Since then storytellers have re-envisioned this conflict for their own times. One of these was George Pal, whose 1953 movie became a generation's iconic depiction of THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. How does that mid-century version hold up seventy years later?

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Brave knights, weapons ready, armor made fast, ride into battle astride their mighty...motorcycles.

Can a code of chivalry survive on a carny circuit? Ian and Matthew explore this and more as they discuss George A. Romero's KNIGHTRIDERS.

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Knights in shining armor. A mythic sword conferring the power to unite a kingdom. A manic mage. Ian and Matthew talk about John Boorman’s Arthurian epic EXCALIBUR.

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• Excalibur (film) - Wikipedia

Following up on our Streets of San Francisco show, Ian takes over to talk about the spiritual descendant of Quinn Martin and the best American animated series you may have never seen: Disney's middle-school police procedural FILLMORE!

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Tonight’s episode: our first QUINN MARTIN PRODUCTION!

A young Michael Douglas and a seasoned Karl Malden solve crime on THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO.

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1984's ROMANCING THE STONE was a hit that surprised even its own studio. So what could they do but make a sequel to release the very next year?

Ian and Matthew find out whether 1985's THE JEWEL OF THE NILE lives up to the original.

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• The Jewel of the Nile - Wikipedia