Category: “On the 9’s” Series
-
2019 and the ENDING Effect – SA335
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSAnd so the day has come to talk of LAST year. From 1979 to 2019, we’ve taken a look at sci-fi and fantasy cinema over the decades and while we didn’t know the focus or the title of this episode until it developed in our conversation, last year…
-
2009 and the SPECTACLE Effect – SA332
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSVenturing to just a decade ago, Ben, Evan and Steve reminisce about Avatar, Star Trek, Transformers, Terminator, 2012 and MORE big movies . . . along with some of the smaller movies that were made possible because of the lower cost for effects like the big movies. This…
-
1999 and the CGI Effect – SA329
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe take a look back to 1999, a year filled with BIG money makers with BIG special FX! From The Matrix to Episode I to Toy Story 2 to Wing Commander to The Mummy, we take a trip down memory lane in a year that wasn’t the first…
-
1989 and the FRANCHISE Effect – SA327
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSIt’s a look back at 1989, a year filled with big money makers in the theaters – and a LOT of franchise connections: from the beginning of the Batman movie series to the fifth Trek film to the third in the Indiana Jones series to Ghostbusters and Back…
-
1979 and the STAR WARS Effect – SA322
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSBen and Steve journey back in time to talk about 1979 and it’s place in science fiction and motion picture history, and how the effects of the mega-blockbuster hit Star Wars began showing up forty years ago.