Category: Films
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Episode 32: Doug and the Slugs
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe are joined by documentary film maker Teresa Alfeld. She’s made two docs (as well as short films), The Rankin File: Legacy of a Radical and Doug and the Slugs and Me. Both of the co-hosts listened to (and loved) Doug and the Slugs when the Canadian band was popular…
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Episode 30: The Plays of Edward de Vere
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe are joined by the Canadian actor, director, producer and playwright, Saul Rubinek. They have a wide-ranging and educational conversation that they launch with the question: “Who was your favorite playwright.” Saul answers Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, whom he believes (along with many others) wrote all…
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Episode 24: Akira
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe chat with author Benoit Chartier about the anime film Akira. They begin with one of Mark’s questions: what piece of technology frightens you? Benoit admits he isn’t frightened by it, but he’s annoyed by ChatGPT and other AI techs, because it may flood the market with crap books. As…
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Episode 15: Alien
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark are joined by Tim Blackmore, an author and professor at Western University’s Faculty of Information and Media Studies, in an engrossing discussion about the 1979 classic movie Alien. They take a deep dive into the design elements of the movie, which has inspired Blackmore in his own work and…
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Episode 10: Lifeforce
View on Zencastr Sometime in the 80s, Hailey’s Comet reappeared in the sky. About the same time, Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce appeared in theaters. Corey Redekop was never the same. He joins Mark and Joe to discuss the 1985 cult classic, directed by the man who also made such films as Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist.…
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Episode 8: The Color of Light
View on Zencastr Joe and Mark talk to author Robert Chazz Chute about his work and one of his greatest influences, well-known author and screenwriter William Goldman, focussing on Goldman’s novel The Color of Light. While many may recognize William Goldman’s name as the screenwriter who wrote the Oscar-winning scripts for Butch Cassidy and the…
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Episode 6: O Lucky Man!
View on Zencastr Mark and Joe talk to author and former Amazing Stories editor Ira Nayman. The three have a wide-ranging and mind-bending conversation about the multiverse, theories of time travel, the nature of satire, and, of course, cannibalism. Nayman considers O Lucky Man! a “cinematic version of Candide.” Directed by Lindsay Anderson, and starring…