Shane Morton and Madeline Brumby join Jim for a rousing discussion of a Ray Harryhausen 1977 Classic – “Sinbad & The Eye Of The Tiger,” starring Patrick Wayne, Jane Seymour, Taryn Power, Patrick Troughton, Damien Thomas, Bruce Barnabe, Margaret Whiting, and Peter Mayhew. This tale has Sinbad (Wayne) helping Dione
No Original Members? In nearly every case when you see a classic band in concert now, it’s not the original line-up. Does that dampen your experience? Many legacy bands currently on the road are down to only one original member–and a few have none. Is it still the band if
Boldly Going with Trek Track: A Chat with Joe Campbell Exploring the Final Frontier at Dragon Con In this episode of The Dragon Con Report, we set our phasers to “fun” and beam aboard one of Dragon Con’s most beloved programming tracks — Trek Track. Our guest, Joe Campbell, joins
Mark Maddox joins Jim for a discussion of two Gene Roddenberry TV Movie pilots from the early 1970s – “Genesis II” and “Planet Earth,” starring Alex Cord, Mariette Hartley, Majel Barrett, Ted Cassidy, Percy Rodriguez, John Saxon, Diana Muldaur, and Christopher Cary. Both stories deal with a researcher (Cord, Saxon)
Our June episode is Part 2 of a Podcasting Crossover Spectacular! Part one took place over on “The Flopcast” Episode #686, hosted by Kevin Eldridge, where I was his guest and we extensively discussed ‘Movie Title Songs’. Part 2 is right here in Episode #5 where Kevin is my guest,
Cigar Nerds Podcast: 40 Years of Goonies. Hey You Guys! This week we’re taking a look back at our youth and talking about the 40th Anniversary of The Goonies. In science we discuss new helicopters, auto scopes, boxing robots, and high tech corvettes. In Nerd News we look at Sandman
Jim reflects back on the first time he saw this sci-i cult classic from 1973 -“SSSSSSS,” Strother Martin, Dirk Benedict, Heather Menzies, Richard B Shull, Tim O’Connor, Jack Ging, Reb Brown, Kathleen King, Charles Steel, and Noble Craig. This is a tale of a mad scientist who wants to create
LAST ALBUMS We all can think of those artists or bands that we feel went just one album too far (and sometimes more!) and what might have been a great ending, capping off an iconic career, is undermined by a less-than-stellar follow-up. This week Anthony and Alan talk about some of the examples they
Make plans but don’t plan the outcome is a phrase I heard often in my early years. My grandfather was a fount of knowledge, wisdom and cliches. Not planning the outcome was his favourite expression. This idiom has stuck with me for my entire life. And yet, this nugget of
Jim helps celebrate the 70th Anniversary of a classic Kaiju film _ “Godzilla Raids again,” starring Hirashi Koizumi, Setsuko Wakayama, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura, Haruo Nakajima, and Katsumi Tazuka. Following the destruction caused by Godzilla in the first film and his demise by the “Oxygen Destroyer,” another Godzilla is found
THE CLASH This week Rob and Alan chat with author Iain Key about his new book All the Young Punks: A People’s History of the Clash, an oral history of one of the most seminal bands in modern music. Iain is well-known to Louder Than War regulars as the presenter of his own Indie
In this episode of The Dragon Con Report, we suit up for a thrilling conversation with Laurence Lagnese, event coordinator for the Palmetto Knights! Laurence shares insights into the world of armored combat and the rich pageantry of medieval mayhem that the Palmetto Knights bring to Dragon Con each year.
