Ozone Nightmare

Tonight I'm joined again by Doug Bielmeier, teaching professor, musician, and host of The Process for another Late Night Double Feature! In this episode we're talking about a pair of movies that seem pretty unrelated except for the fact that on release no one knew what to make of them. First up is 1984's The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, followed by 1986's Big Trouble In Little China. Two movies that are hard to classify but easy to fall in love with!

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This week we're talking about release notes, Neuromancer, Blade Runner 2099, Obsession, KTown Bricks, and Backrooms. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

Todsay on the 5: The mood among video game fans has been pretty dour between the XBOX layoffs and Sony's continued anti-consumer moves. While I'm not going to tell anyone I think things are great, it's actually possible all this misery could lkead to something positive. Maybe!

Today on the 5: This week Lando and I are watching a pair of modern films that did vert well critically and with audiences. This episode is about 2028's Backrooms. This film had a tough hill to climb in trying to appeal to fans of the web series it started as as well as newcomers, but amazingly it did managed it expertly.

Today on the 5: You've likely seen some coverage of the reported escape of an OpenAI model that proceeded to attack a cybersecurity platform. This event is viewed by some as a further sign that AI is highly dangerous, which many others believe it's simply a marketing stunt in a very crowded market. In my opinion, either of those explanations lead to the same conclusion.

Today on the 5: For our movie reviews this week, I decided we should watch a pair of modern films that have gotten very positive responses from critics and audiences. First up is 2025's Obsession, a movie that is both finely crafted and riotously fun.

This week we're talking about sportsball, tech backlash, Rebel Moon Part Two: The Scargiver, Bubo, The House With Laughing Windows, and Tenebrae. Show music by HeartBeatHero and OGRE. Support the show!

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Today on the 5: It's been almost 2 years since I did my first Stalker 2 impressions, which means I'm well overdue for an update on my experience with the game!

Today on the 5: For our second film to review this week, we watched another Italian slasher with 1982's Tenebrae. Another masterwork from Dario Argento, this one has so much rich filmmaking and sound work that it's impossible not to recommend for fans of the giallo genre.

Today on the 5: AI companies are facing lawsuits from parents of children who turned to chatbots for advice on how to handle mental illness, in some cases resulting in the worst possible\r outcome. Proponents of these technologies often repsond to calls for regulation and accountability by claiming these are "edge cases", and therefore not numerous enough to warrant oversight. This reasoning leads me to wonder how many dead children is enough to start looking more closely at these products?