474: Scrooged [1988] Movie Discussion

Merry Merry Merriment Season to one and all from the ‘Spoiler Filled Film Conversation, Hooray!’ group. We found some more Wrestling Christmas films, but we’re too scared to do them so instead we turn to Charles Dickens’s seminal A Christmas Carol, a story told so many times in so many different ways, and ask the question: what if Scrooge was a ruthless TV exec making a tv show of The Christmas Carol and he himself is then Christmas Carol-ed? Don’t worry, it’s not as confusing as it sounds. We’ve all seen this Christmas staple before here at SFFCH and seek to find whether we actually like this movie or not. Tune in to find out the answer now!

473: The Nickel Ride [1974] Movie Discussion

We indulge Jamie’s Exorcist obsession again this week by watching The Nickel Ride, a 70’s crime movie starring Jason Miller (and it doesn’t help that he looks like Jamie’s other obsession Harry Dean Stanton in this) as a criminal gang’s fence who’s professionalism is challenged by the evolving crime landscape and leave us wondering which will come first: being killed by the criminals or dying of an anxiety attack? This time we discuss: connections to the reality TV show Storage Wars, floating bald heads, all the craggy-faced middle-aged men, using annoyance as a pre-emptive psychic attack and getting angry at the poor beer-pouring etiquette.

472: Brainstorm [1983] Movie Discussion

We head back to some well trodden and well loved territory this week in exploring weird, nearly forgotten sci-fi cinema from the 80’s exploring, analysing and deconstructing Brainstorm from 1983. Up for discussion his week: why is this film more about the social lives or nerds than actual sci-fi, the realness of inventing a ground breaking technology only to turn it into porn, memory bubbles, contemplating all the dreadful memories we would inflict upon Gordy and finding out this is a film of two unequal parts: before elongated bicycle and after elongated bicycle.