The Super 70 Podcast

This month we take a look at Looker, the 1981 science fiction thriller by author-director Michael Crichton. Starring Albert Finney, James Coburn and Susan Dey, Looker peers into the uncomfortable and uninviting industry of advertising and marketing. Though not a perfect film, Looker exposes a raw nerve of our consumer society we should all be thinking about. Join me as we go scene by scene through a film penned and shot by the author of Disclosure and Jurassic Park. Look Closer.

You can find the Super70 Podcast on iTunes, Soundcloud, and links to them on my website www.thatdylandavis.com. You can reach me on Twitter @thatdylandavis or drop me a line at [email protected]. All music on this episode is written and performed by Rosalind MacPhail. You can reach her on SoundCloud or her website www.rosalindmacphail.com

The cultural gem we will be watching this month is Writer-Director Ken Finkleman's 1985 comedy Head Office. With a star studded cast and endless delivery of jokes it is easy to dismiss this very important commentary on corporate America that is just as relevant today. Turn The Super 70 Podcast on while we watch Head Office on DVD or the 90 minute version found on YouTube.

Find me at www.thatdylandavis.com for my books, my blog, my film reviews and my podcast. I am on Twitter @thatdylandavis. Comments and criticisms can go to [email protected]. music for this podcast provided by Rozalind MacPhail whom you can find at www.rozalindmacphail.com and who is also on soundcloud at www.soundcloud.com/flutegirl.

I know this is rather ambitious of me to choose such a complicated film for my first podcast, but I couldn't help it. Blade Runner is multi-layered, endlessly fascinating, but not perfect. Join me by turning the podcast on while you watch Blade Runner Final Cut (2007) and we'll go scene by scene through this flawed masterpiece of collaborative filming from the talented Ridley Scott.