[School of Movies 2022]
This one is really rather special and arguably the longest time coming of any of our shows. Pitch Black, released in February 2000 in the USA didn't make it to the UK until November of that year. There's even some confusion in this episode because I wasn't sure if Sharon and I were actually together as a couple when we saw it (turns out we were, just). But significantly, this was our first movie where we left the cinema together on fire with analysis that we were twanging back and forth like verbal badminton.
It's a tight, focused, visceral, planet-survival thriller, drawing from many inspirations but managing to combine them in a way that keeps it continuously gripping, even after all these years.
This is the first of a dedicated three-week series of episodes revolving around the transmedia franchise that sprang from this standalone movie; a handful of very savvy decisions mixed with a bucket of bad ones.
The chronological order goes...
1. Escape from Butcher Bay (Patreon Exclusive Episode)
2. Assault on Dark Athena (In a double-bill with Butcher Bay)
3. Pitch Black (Main Event)
4. Dark Fury (Patreon with the video games)
5. The Chronicles of Riddick (Main Event)
6. Riddick (Patreon)
See you in a few days for a delve into Vin Diesel's career and the Peter-Chung-animated 30-minute short, followed by the sprawling, pretentious Conan-the-Barbarian-in-Space of "The Chronicles of Riddick" next week.
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Justice League: The Animated Series
Guest Lecturer: Guillermo del Toro
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The Mask of Zorro
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Season 1)
Rise of Skywalker Revisited
X-Men: Evolution
X-Men '92
Star Trek: Discovery
Strange Days
Prey (2022)
Undertale
Gravity Falls (Show 6: Episodes 37-40)
Gravity Falls (Show 4: Episodes 21-36)
Wakanda Forever
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