World Beyond Movie Night – Fusion Patrol

Simon and Eugene continue their two-part discussion of the classic of Science Fiction cinema,  Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like ... Read more

Time for another celebration of some of the classics of Science Fiction cinema.  This time: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Simon and Eugene discuss. Movie Synopsis:  Rick Deckard is a former Blade Runner: A special cop charged with retiring (read: hunting down and killing) rogue Replicants.  Replicants are artificial humans that are used as slave ... Read more

For our tenth year podcasting, we’re featuring a series of special episodes looking at some of our favorite sci-fi movies.  First up: Planet of the Apes. Movie Synopsis:  A spacecraft from Earth plows through space at near light speed. Alone in the cockpit, George Taylor muses about the world he’s left behind forever and the ... Read more

David Norliss, disbeliever, investigates the supernatural to debunk it.  What he finds challenges his understanding of reality. Simon and Eugene discuss the 1973 planned pilot movie, The Norliss Tapes, with some strong ties to Dan Curtis’ Night Stalker and Night Strangler movies. Episode Synopsis: David Norliss is a recognized-name author.  He’s been working on an ... Read more

Steve Austin, the world’s first bionic man, is back for his third pilot adventure, battling a mysterious, shadowy, secret organization of criminal masterminds as they execute a daring kidnapping and hold the United States to ransom for one billion dollars! Ben and Eugene discuss the Solid Gold Kidnapping.

Steve Austin is back for a second telemovie adventure.  This time, the bionic spy must thwart an international arms dealer from (a) selling our nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union and (b) capturing one of our nuclear submarines. Portholes will be violated. Ben and Eugene discuss.

“Steve Austin, Astronaut – a man barely alive.” “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.  We have the technology.  We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man.” “Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before –  better, stronger, faster.” So say the iconic words from the TV series, the Six Million ... Read more

Dylan Hunt is back for a second bite at the TV pilot apple in 1974’s Planet Earth. Ben and Eugene discuss Gene Roddenberry’s second attempt at Pax.

As if the first story of Genesis wasn’t bad enough, along comes Genesis II – Gene Roddenberry’s tale of a future both destroyed by war and rebuilding with the dream of hope. Ben and Eugene look at the pilot movie, Genesis II.

What is the measure of a man?  What constitutes, “fully functional?” Ben and Eugene discuss The Questor Tapes.

In 1977 Gene Roddenberry created a pilot for a potential new TV series starring Robert Culp and Gig Young – Spectre. Ben and Eugene discuss this piece of television…  history.

Seattle, 1973.  A series of bizarre murders terrorizes the city.  One reporter, new to town, has seen it all before — or at least something very much like it. Carl Kolchak must battle a long-suffering editor, a disbelieving publisher and Seattle’s finest as he tries to prove an inhuman killer is on the loose. Simon ... Read more

1972 a surprise TV movie became the most-watched TV movie in American history.  Darren McGavin starred as Carl Kolchak, an abrasive investigative reporter who is investigating the story of a lifetime.  A vampire is prowling the streets of Las Vegas. Simon and Eugene discuss the TV movie that inspired the TV series that inspired the ... Read more

A special movie episode of Fusion Patrol. Ben and Eugene discuss Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth, the 2007 independent film that explores the concepts behind… immortality?  Or does it?

In the 1970’s the future was populated with robots designed to be cowboys and sex workers.  It’s time to clean up your six-shooter and join us for a look at Michael Crichton’s often-overlooked 1973 classic sex-with-robots film, Westworld. This episode is a special episode brought to you by our patrons at Patreon who help fund ... Read more

For our 200th episode, we look at the ultimate Star Trek movie (according to conventional wisdom.)  Can Ben and Eugene take a film that they love and pick it apart? Of course they can! Join us for the celebration of Star Trek that is The Wrath of Khan!

It’s Shark Week and Movie Night as we review the Internet meme that’s bigger and badder than the movie itself!  It can only be a Sharknado. David and Eugene take a light-hearted look at last year’s hottest SyFy movie. Honestly, we don’t know if it was the hottest movie or not, but it should have ... Read more

It might be a movie, but we couldn’t let something as big as a new Star Trek movie slip by without comment. This week Ben and Eugene talk about Star Trek Into Darkness.

In this episode we review something different – a movie big enough to be called a classic!  2001: A Space Odyssey.

Ben, Eugene and guest Simon from littlestorping.co.uk discuss the BBC’s new adaptation of H.G. Wells’ First Men in the World. This adaptation, by Doctor Who’s Mark Gatiss, sets the bar for film adaptations of First Men in the Moon. — First Men in the Moon Adapted by Mark Gatiss Starring: Rory Kinnear as Bedford and Mark Gatiss ... Read more