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It's episode 226...and this time travel crap, just fries your brain like a egg..
Looper (2012) tells the story of Joe, a 'Looper'. Loopers are assassins who kill people sent from the future, where time travel exists but is controlled by criminal gangs. There are also psychic people. Fun and games ensue when Joe is ordered to kill a 30-year-older version of himself.
We discuss then whens, wheres and whyfors of mute begging, hoverbike jousting, propose picking a safe word for you and your older self, and Joe outs himself as a Little Monster masquerading as a Moonage Daydreamer.
All of which leads to one important question: How would you survive?
Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: This is a Remington 870. One blast could cut you the f*ck in half.
Join us next time as we go under the skin of Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin (2013)
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It's episode 225...and I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.
Back to the Future (1985) tells the story of Marty McFly, a precocious teen with deadbeat parents and a good friend in Doc Brown, a local inventor and all-round eccentric. When Marty helps Doc test his newly-constructed time machine, he winds up stranded three decades earlier in 1955. Can he convince the younger Doc Brown to help him, and can he make sure his high schooler parents still meet and fall in love?
It's time for celebration as we mark the 35th anniversary of one of the greats of family adventure cinema, and cover all the usual ground - fawning potrayals of Americana, desperate levels of product placement, troubling depictions of sexual violence, the ending's facist overtones, and elderly men welding U-Boats in a 3ft canal in West London.
All of which leads to one important question: How would you survive?
Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: Nobody calls me chicken!
Join us next time as we carry on time travelling in Rian Johnson's Looper (2012).
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It's episode 224... and change doesn't happen spontaneously.
The Platform (2019) (or El Hoyo (2019) depending on whether you are in spain or not), tells the story of Gorreng, a man who wakes up in a vertical prison of several hundred floors. Each day, a platform lowers food from the top floor downwards, with prisoners relying on the lack of greed of those above them in order to eat. Why? Well, why not?
We talk about the benefits of a mobile vegetable patch; how to make sure your message is received by delivering it in person; and the importance of really thinking through the design of a prison system before you open.
All of which leads to one important question: How would you survive?
Whatever happens, one thing's for sure: hunger releases that madman in us.
Join us next time as we go Back to the Future (1985).
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