The Futile Podcast

Deconstructing 80's & 90's action movies. Relating them to comics, TV, and cartoons from then and now.

202. Popularity

202. Popularity (right click OR click)

Posted just a few minutes before the end of my birthday.  Horrah I got a rejection from the SxSW film fest today for a present.  So I’ll probably post the said rejected short online soon.   I did a little too much work outside in the rain today, so I feel kind of bad.  I’ll just say it’s the end of the beginning.

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music:

Pixies – Where is my Mind

The Last Boyscout

The Last Boyscout review (right click OR click)

Who knows where life will take us but for now this may be the final Futile Podcast.  Though I’m sure it is quite the whimper to the deafness of the void, I say that this will not be the end.

musics:

Boz Scaggs – Lowdown

Sigor Ros – Svefn-G-Englar

Robots in movies pt. 3

Just Robots Bein’ Robots (right click OR click)

We finish up our talk about portrayals of robots in cinema with a talk about movies that seem to handle the idea of a robot with some sense of seriousness rather than making them some lame sounding board for discussing Humanity.

Academic blog of record: www.eripsa.org

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Robots in movies pt. 1

Pixar and Wall-E (right click OR click)

Ian and Prof. Estrada talk about the various portrayls of robots in cinema.  In part 1 we talk about Pixar and specifically the triumph that is Wall-E.  Check the prof’s site:  http://eripsa.org/

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