Spocklight: A Star Trek Podcast
TV & Film
Prepare to lock down and undergo the longest decontamination process of your life as we return to examining ‘Star Trek: The Motion Picture’ Director, Robert Wise's filmography with 1971 Sci-fi Horror Thriller, The Andromeda Strain, on another Spocklight at the Movies!
Liam admires the chilling effectiveness of the opening ghost town sequence but feels like they sacrificed entertainment value for rigorous authenticity and wishes the characters had more charisma than 'week one rejects in a reality show'
Paul gives us the skinny on original Author, Michael Crichton, finds the film to be an early precursor to the real-time stylings of 24 and the sci-fi nature of The X Files, praises Wise's technical prowess and dunks on the underground lab's undeniably shitty laser defence system
While Matt wishes the occasional sense of urgency was felt throughout the whole story, can't help but latch on to the potential for more paranoia-fuelled drama and is shocked by a certain monkey sequence that would surely cause PETA some outrage if done today.
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Episode 49: Star Trek Picard Season 2 Spoiler Special (w/ Sophie Petzal)
Spocklight At the Movies 27: The Muppets Take Manhattan (w/ Professor Elemental & Hattie Snooks)
Spocklight At the Movies 26: Sunshine
Supplemental 20: The Worlds of Gene Roddenberry
Episode 48: Year of Hell (w/ Agent Scott from the Spy Hards Podcast)
On Screen 4: Frasier (w/ David Trumble)
Spocklight At the Movies 25: 15 Minutes (w/ Tom Salinsky from The Best Pick Movie Podcast)
Supplemental 19: Ambush (w/ Greg Lock, Thomas Saville & David Trumble)
On Screen 3: Futurama
Episode 47: Star Trek Lower Decks Season Two Retrospective
Episode 46: Macrocosm (w/ Sophie Petzal)
Episode 45: Hollow Pursuits (w/ Hattie Snooks)
Episode 44: The Star Trek Draft
Spocklight At the Movies 24: Green Room (w/ Chris Hewitt from Empire Magazine)
The Best of Spocklight (Vol. 1) - The Movies of Trek
Spocklight At the Movies 23: Inside Moves
Episode 43: Twilight (w/ Cam Smith from the SpyHards and Subspace Transmissions podcasts)
Episode 42: The City on the Edge of Forever (w/ Boyd Hilton from the Pilot TV Podcast)
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