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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey into horror with five informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking a horror subject as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
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Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
To coincide with the release of Alien: Romulus, Dan is creating a new video essay series exploring the Alien films and Prometheus. Here's an audio version of the third and final part (you can hear both of the first two parts earlier on this feed).
The video versions in progress can be seen at on our Patreon page and we will be announcing the public release of the final videos at a later date. For early access, become a paying Patreon supporter at Patreon.com/AndNowPodcast - we would really appreciate it.
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Friday Aug 23, 2024
Friday Aug 23, 2024
To coincide with the release of Alien: Romulus, Dan is creating a new video essay series exploring the Alien films and Prometheus. The video versions in progress can be seen at on our Patreon page and we will be announcing the public release of the final videos at a later date. For early access, become a paying Patreon supporter at Patreon.com/AndNowPodcast - we would really appreciate it.
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Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
To coincide with the release of Alien: Romulus, Dan has created a new video essay series exploring the Alien films and Prometheus. The video version can be seen at on our Patreon page. where a new episode will be publicly viewable each week for free, but if you want to watch an early version of Part Two right now, become a paying Patreon supporter at Patreon.com/AndNowPodcast - we would really appreciate it.
View the video version here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/110523589
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Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
We're back! And we're sorry we've been away for so long. This episode will be a brief reunion, but by no means a final one. The podcast will return for a full series this autumn, and before then there are further treats on the way.
The new British horror movie on the block is Chris Cronin's The Moor, an acclaimed slice of particularly Northern English folk horror. As The Moor appears on streaming services to rent and buy, Ian interviews Cronin and co-lead David Edward-Robertson, while Dan joins Ian to review the film in non-spoiler fashion.
You can rent or buy The Moor now on YouTube and Amazon UK, among others.
Critical Readings on Hammer Horror Films, to which Dan is a contributor, is out now from Routledge.
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Friday Nov 10, 2023
Friday Nov 10, 2023
Exorcist II: The Heretic has been called "the worst film ever made" (by Mark Kermode) and has attracted derision ever since its release in 1977, not least by the makers of the original The Exorcist (1973). Our Ian, who worships The Exorcist, has always avoided it. But esteemed critic Neil Young, our special guest on this episode, insists The Heretic is a more interesting film than its progenitor. Listen as Neil explains while he feels this way, Ian and Stella react to The Heretic for the first time, and Dan tries to chart the middle ground!
(Regular listeners will be aware that our schedule is still up the spout. This episode has leapfrogged the promised episode on Quatermass [1979] with Simon Clark, ostensibly to coincide with the cinema release of The Exorcist: Believer, but then we missed the date anyway - and don't mention the new film here cos this episode was recorded months ago. Our podcast schedule is going to remain random for a while, unfortunately, due to Dan's complicated life.)
Relevant links
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) is available for rental streaming via YouTube and Amazon
The bonkers trailer is also on YouTube
Todd McCarthy's Film Comment article about the film is available to students and academics with a JSTOR subscription here
Read more of Neil Young's film criticism at his website
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Friday Sep 01, 2023
Friday Sep 01, 2023
We return to an unplanned irregular release schedule (Dan explains all on the pod) with the first in a series of long-envisioned specials in which horror maestro Simon Clark explains to Dan why the scripts of Nigel Kneale's 1950s trilogy of TV terror about Professor Bernard Quatermass are such an inspirational read. 2023 is the 70th anniversary of the transmission of the first serial, The Quatermass Experiment, and a very special live reading of the original scripts is to be performed for one night only at Alexandra Palace on Saturday 9th September.
The existing episodes of The Quatermass Experiment (1953) are on YouTube.
James Swanton discusses The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) on The Evolution of Horror podcast
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Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
At Stella's urging, Dan has finally checked out the ghoulish comedy sequel, Addams Family Values, and it's fair to say he loves it. Hear them rhapsodise, with spoilers throughout. It's the second Missed Classic in which the team are called to praise Carol Kane (the previous one being When A Stranger Calls), but Dan feels bad that they never mention Jimmy Workman, who's stuck in the least interesting Addams role of Pugsley, but gives a perfect performance.
Relevant Links
Addams Family Values (and 1991's The Addams Family) are streaming via Paramount+ and can be rented from YouTube and Amazon in the UK
Wednesday is streaming via Netflix
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Welcome to our hot-take review of a movie that was released six months ago (and a discussion recorded four months ago)... In what will hopefully become an annual tradition, Stella and Dan get to talk about the new Scream movie. Just in case you still haven't seen it, the discussion is divided into spoiler-free and spoiler-filled sections.
00.00.00 Intro and our adventures getting into cinema screenings
00.19.06 Scream VI review - non spoiler
00.43.22 Spoilers ahoy!
Related links
Scream VI is available for rental streaming via YouTube and Amazon and will soon be coming to Paramount Plus (despite what we say in the episode, it isn't there currently)
Dan's Film Stories article inspired by the release of Scream VI
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Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
A long while after our last Missed Classic on When A Stranger Calls (1979), Ian Winterton confronts another feted movie he has heretofore avoided, 1984's iconic Wes Craven slasher, A Nightmare on Elm Street. Dan joins him for the discussion and there are spoilers from the start.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984 version) is available to rent on Amazon.
Since this chat was recorded, RedLetterMedia's two-part Re:View video on the Elm Street series has sadly become unavailable
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Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
WARNING - SPOILERS FOR MIDNIGHT MASS ARE COMING IN THE VERY NEXT PARAGRAPH - AND THIS IS ONE (HUGELY RECOMMENDED) SERIES THAT'S BEST ENJOYED ENTIRELY UNSPOILED!
Or, "Vampire In A Cardigan".
Kirsty, Stella, Ian and Dan are reunited to discuss a real masterpiece of recent years, Mike Flanagan's seven-part Netflix drama, Midnight Mass. We've already discussed Flanagan's The Haunting of Hill House and Doctor Sleep on the podcast; hear how this measures up.
Midnight Mass is streaming via Netflix
Also check out:
Collider's interview with Mike Flanagan
The Leading Podcast's interview with Hillary Clinton
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