The Outer Reels

By The Outer Reels

A semi-deep dive into the world of vintage, obscure sci-fi movies and TV with Sam and Jason.

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April 24, 2025 Forgotten German Sci-Fi: Hard to be a God (1989)
Sam loved this movie, but Jason not so much. Fire up this episode to listen to Sam go on about how awesome Ancient Astronauts is.
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1h 3min
April 17, 2025 Forgotten German Sci-Fi: Moon 44
As Sam notes, "I didn't have navigator rape on my bingo card", but we still enjoyed this other early Roland Emmerich movie from 1990.

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1h 5min
April 10, 2025 Forgotten German Sci-Fi: Terminus
"Terminus, from 1987. How do you sell this movie?"
I don't. It's a mess.
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50min
April 03, 2025 Forgotten German Sci-Fi: First Spaceship on Venus
There's some impressive stuff in this lost movie from communist East Germany. Just don't mind the propaganda.
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1h
March 27, 2025 Forgotten German Sci-Fi: The Noah's Ark Principle
We start our tour of Germany with Roland Emerich's student film. It's really impressive for what it is, though we're not sure what it is.
On a side note: unfortunately the YouTube channel we reference in this episode is already gone. Pour one out...

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1h 1min
March 20, 2025 Forgotten British Sci-Fi: The Terrornauts
"The whole movie, once they're in space, looks like a high school play." Also, Sam claims to be an editor, but he doesn't cut ANYTHING.
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59min
March 13, 2025 Forgotten British Sci-Fi: Xtro
This is what happens when you write movies on drugs, kids. Drugs are bad, okay?
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55min
March 06, 2025 Forgotten British Sci-Fi: The Man in the White Suit
Jason is shocked that Sam didn't outright hate this charming British classic staring Obi Wan Kenobi and Alfred Pennyworth.
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52min
February 27, 2025 Forgotten British Sci-Fi: Inseminoid
Sam explains why soft-core directors start doing sci-fi and horror in the 70's, which is a lot more interesting than this blatant Alien rip-off.
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58min
February 20, 2025 Forgotten British Sci-Fi: Devil Girl from Mars
We try some new software on this one. In the end Sam likes and Jason hates (HATES) it, so feel free to let us know your thoughts. Oh, and we also talk about a British sci-fi movie from 1951 that looks like a stage play.
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54min

FAQs about The Outer Reels:

How many episodes does The Outer Reels have?

The podcast currently has 95 episodes available.