The Martian Drive-In Podcast

For number ninety I talk about a favourite genre TV show of the 1960s, The Champions, the crisis in Australian politics and then I move on to Political Science Fiction movies. (Spoiler: pretty much every science fiction movie has a political aspect to it.) Support the podcast via Patreon - Daddy needs Blu-Rays.

For number ninety I talk about a favourite genre TV show of the 1960s, The Champions, the crisis in Australian politics and then I move on to Political Science Fiction movies. (Spoiler: pretty much every science fiction movie has a political aspect to it.) Support the podcast via Patreon - Daddy needs Blu-Rays.

Yep, recorded this one live at Continuum 12 the annual Melbourne Science Fiction convention. Grant Watson and Narrelle M. Harris help me talk about The Return of Captain Invincible, what do you do when someone whose work you love turns out to be a repugnant arsehole and other issues of the day. Audience giveaways happened, silliness ensued and the podcast, for those reasons, runs almost two hours.  Grant Watson's Fiction Machine web site Narrelle M Harris's web site Check out Ben Peek's new novel Leviathan's Blood on Amazon. Please take a look at Stephen D Sullivan's web site - he supports Martian Drive-In Podcast Support this podcast via Patreon. Email feedback to: feedbackpaleo@gmail.com

Yep, recorded this one live at Continuum 12 the annual Melbourne Science Fiction convention. Grant Watson and Narrelle M. Harris help me talk about The Return of Captain Invincible, what do you do when someone whose work you love turns out to be a repugnant arsehole and other issues of the day. Audience giveaways happened, silliness ensued and the podcast, for those reasons, runs almost two hours.  Grant Watson's Fiction Machine web site Narrelle M Harris's web site Check out Ben Peek's new novel Leviathan's Blood on Amazon. Please take a look at Stephen D Sullivan's web site - he supports Martian Drive-In Podcast Support this podcast via Patreon. Email feedback to: feedbackpaleo@gmail.com

This time it's science fiction westerns starting with John Favreau's 2011 Cowboys and Aliens starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, then we move to 2005 for Joss Whedon's Serenity starring Nathan Fillion and Morena Baccarin.  Support the podcast via Patreon- you know you want to. 

For this Easter 2016 MDIP I look at a couple of B horror movies from the early 1960s which treat women badly. First we have 1962's The Brain That Wouldn't Die starring Jason (Herb) Evers and Virginia Leith, then we back back to 1960 for The Hypnotic Eye starring Jacques Bergerac and Allison Hayes, with a cameo by James (Inside The Actors Studio) Lipton's father Lawrence. Support the podcast via Patreon.

This time around I'm comparing the 2003 movie Hulk directed by Ang Lee and the 2008 Louis Leterrier version. Nothing that's grim, nothing that's Greek, just a look at a couple of iterations of a modern legend. Also, there's feedback. Support the podcast via Patreon.

This time around, I look at the classic 1975 TV movie Trilogy Of Terror starring Karen Black and then to 1979 for David Cronenberg's eerily autobiographical film, The Brood starring Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar and Art Hindle, a flick best described as Kramer Vs Kramer mashed up with Forbidden Planet. (Listen to the podcast to find out why.)Support the podcast via Patreon.

This time around, I've just finished binge-watching the 2015 Netflix superhero series Jessica Jones and am about to lay on you why I think it's one of the best efforts yet in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and how the themes and plot of it are incredibly timely.Support the podcast via Patreon.

This time around I look at a movie from 2015 and another from 2000. First there are feral cannibalistic children attacking their teachers in Cooties, and then we have a very different superhero origin story in Unbreakable.Support the podcast via Patreon. 

For the second part of Yucktober,we go to 1958 for the space-rapist movie I Married A Monster From Outer Space and then to 1996 for the best Shakespearean adaptation Troma Studios ever did: Tromeo And Juliet. Support The Podcast via Patreon.  

I start the two Yucktober episodes with one of Disney's worst movies, the 1962 NASA satire Moon Pilot starring Tom Tryon and Dany Saval and then we head to 1974 for John Boorman's follow up to Deliverance, the totally crazy and self-indulgent wonder that is Zardoz.Support the podcast via Patreon.  

This time around the common theme is charismatic stars and outlier movies. We start with the 1958 drive-in classic The Blob starring Steve McQueen and a blob of food colouring and silicone, then we go to 2013 for Jim Jarmusch's vampire movie Only Lovers Left Alive starring Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston. Support the podcast via Patreon for as little as $US1.00 per month.

This time it's fringe genre stuff. First the stylish but pretty empty CQ directed by Roman Coppola and starring Jeremy Davies and John Phillip Law, then we go to Jean-Luc Godard's 1967 French apocalypse with Weekend Starring Mireille Darc and Jean-Pierre Léaud. Support the podcast via Patreon.

In this one, I go from the late-era cyberpunk of Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days, starring Ralph Fiennes and Angela Bassett to the gritty working class future of Pitch Black starring Vin Diesel and Radha Mitchell to the current Hugo Award/ Sad/ Rabid Puppies imbroglio which I discuss with Janice Gelb. Support the podcast with Patreon.