Spocklight: A Star Trek Podcast
TV & Film
Spocklight at the Movies is on the run from our gambling debts and joining Tom Hanks, John Candy and Rita Wilson on a Peace Corps flight to Thailand, it’s Nicholas Meyer's 1985 comedy 'Volunteers'!
Liam reveals his somewhat recent appreciation for the late, great John Candy, discusses the history of THAT Coca Cola product placement and breaks down the problematic, white saviour tropes of the movie.
Paul talks up the shared comic sensibilities between the film and our own shorts from the mid 2000s (the 'Groovedoctor' oeuvre), chats the difficulties of nailing the landing in high concept comedies and ponders the potential of a contemporary remake.
While Matt talks Hank's character's inherent unlikeability and it's connections to the initial iteration of Woody in Toy Story, suffers from tonal whiplash as the film jumps for 4th wall breaking gags to sudden heads on pikes, and comes to the realisation that it’s close to being a slapstick version of Rambo.
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Episode 32: In the Pale Moonlight (w/ Andrew Keates)
Spocklight At the Movies 14: Death Wish 3 (w/ Daryl & Jeanette from Sudden Double Deep)
Spocklight At the Movies 13: Star Wars The Force Awakens (w/ Derek Arnold)
Spocklight At the Movies 12: Christmas Eve
Episode 31: The Motion Picture 40th Anniversary Special
Episode 30: The Next Generation Revisited (w/ Alex Petrovic & Joe Foster from This Thing On?)
Spocklight At the Movies 11: Robin Hood: Men in Tights (w/ Rich Wilson)
Spocklight At the Movies 10: The Andromeda Strain
Supplemental 17: Robert Sallin returns
Spocklight At the Movies 8: The Dark Tower
Supplemental 16: Interview with Michele Specht
Episode 29: The Animated Series Revisited (w/ Eliot J Fallows)
Supplemental 15: Interview with Shazad Latif
Spocklight At the Movies 7: X-Men (w/ Daryl & Jeanette from Sudden Double Deep)
Episode 28: Star trek Discovery Season 2 Spoiler Special (w/ James Dyer from Pilot TV Podcast)
Episode 27: The Original Series Revisited (w/ Jen Ives)
Spocklight At The Movies 6: Showtime (w/ Boyd Hilton)
Episode 26: Comics of Trek (w/ Professor Elemental)
Spocklight At The Movies 5: Innerspace (w/ Nick de Semlyen from Empire Magazine)
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