It's time.
Day: Friday - 04/28/2023
Time: 8:30 Central, 6:30 Pacific
Runtime: 1 hour 34 minutes
Cost: $4
(link live ten minutes before show)
Film. Comics. Sci-Fi. Superheroes. Pulp. Noir. History. Superman. 20th Century Archaeology.
Friday, April 28, 2023
Thursday, April 27, 2023
PodCast 240: "Deep Blue Sea" (1999) - an Angry Animals podcast with Jamie, SimonUK y Ryan
Format: HBO?
Viewing: second
Decade: 1990's
Director: Renny Harlin
SimonUK takes Jamie and Ryan to the darkest depths of late 90's sci-fi horror action so they can all take a bite out of a film that's a little fishy. Join us as we flap our jaws discussing sharks with engineering degrees, sea bases of dubious design, that old chestnut of imitating better films, and neat-o puppets.
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Music:
Main Title - Trevor Rabin, Deep Blue Sea OST
Deepest Bluest - LL Cool J
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Jerry Springer Merges With The Infinite
Not many talk-show hosts get a movie playing themselves doing their own talk show. Not many talk-show hosts inspire operas. Not many talk-show hosts wind up doing a talk-show after a major political scandal involving paying a hooker with a signed check and then *still* winding up as mayor of a major US city for a stint.
Jerry Springer was probably not a good man, but in 2011, I did meet him in the sportsbook at the Planet Hollywood hotel in Las Vegas where he was very nice to me and posed for drunken blurry pictures that have since been lost to bad asset management on the interwebs. He was there hosting the Vegas nightly show of America's Got Talent. He smoked a giant cigar and looked bored.
Like many talk-shows, Springer started off trying to do reasonable interviews that went in-depth on important issues, but when cancellation seemed imminent, he and his producers transformed his show into the chair-hurling, fist-tossing, hair-pulling bonanza it was. Which made Springer rich, ultimately ran for roughly 25 years and spun off a few other shows, including a behind-the-scenes that made no one look good. But when your set is designed to look like a sewer with a stripper pole, I guess no one cares?
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Harry Belafonte Has Merged With The Infinite
Actor, singer, activist and icon Harry Belafonte has passed at the age of 96.
Belafonte appeared in innumerable films, on television and was a popular recording artist. Because I grew up in the shadow of his peak era as a performer, I knew him as a curious mix of "the guy who sang the Banana Boat song" and who would appear on television to weigh in on important topical issues - and be taken seriously. Which is not something then or now that I or the culture give many celebrities leeway. But as a player in the civil rights movement, Belafonte carried the torch forward for his entire life.
It was in college I came to understand his role as a Black man in film, and his broad appeal as a performer that helped him speak to everyone. Of course, my first exposure to Belafonte was probably his appearance on The Muppet Show, which is a curiously moving episode.
Here's to Mr. Belafonte, who fought the good fight.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Watch Party Watch: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace (1987)
Watched: 04/21/2023
Format: Amazon Watch Party
Viewing: Unknown
Director: Sidney J Furie
I won't get into why we did this, but we did do it as a watch party, and I think folks enjoyed the experience if not the film.
But here at The Signal Watch we also recently podcasted the film, so if you didn't listen to the episode then (and it's pretty good, if I say so myself), now is a great opportunity to hear three dudes who know a lot about Superman stuff talk about the movie.
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