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–And Now The Podcast Starts! is a critical, fun journey with four informed fans of film and TV. Each episode will focus on a different topic for review or discussion, usually taking the horror genre as a starting point, but going in an unexpected direction, and often featuring special guests.
Episodes
Friday Nov 04, 2022
A Ramble About Body Horror
Friday Nov 04, 2022
Friday Nov 04, 2022
This episode, Dan and Stella discuss the subgenre of body horror: what are our favourite body horror sequences in film and TV, what makes them work, how body horror crosses subgenres and how it's evolved with the development of FX techniques.
The discussion takes in the following films and shows, with occasional spoilers, so beware if you haven't seen them: Body Melt, Creepshow (TV), Hannibal (TV), The Relic, Robocop (1987), Scanners, Shivers (They Came From Within), Slither, Society, Starship Troopers, The Strain, Teeth, Torchwood: Miracle Day, Total Recall (1990), The Walking Dead.
00.00.41 Intro
00.05.04 Body Horror discussion
01.44.10 Outro and Recommendations
Relevant Links
Red Dwarf Series 1-8 and 10-13 are currently streaming via UKTV Play
The Exorcist, The Omen, The Relic (as mentioned in the discussion), The Awakening, The Babadook, Don't Look Now, Host and several other classic horrors are currently available for streaming via BBC iPlayer
The limited edition Ghostwatch Blu-Ray (featuring commentary from Stella) is now available from 101 Films
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
Check out our website, www.andnowpodcast.com
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Men (2022)
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Friday Oct 28, 2022
Welcome to the second proper weekly series of --And Now The Podcast Starts! And happy Halloween.
This episode, Kirsty, Ian and Dan are discussing Men, director Alex Garland's recent hybrid of folk horror, gender commentary and body horror, first in spoiler-free fashion, then with full spoilers.
00.00.41 Intro
00.04.04 Men review (spoiler-free)
00.33.23 Men review (spoilerific)
01.20.45 Outro and Recommendations
Relevant Links
Men is currently out on DVD and Blu-Ray and can be rented for streaming via YouTube and Amazon Prime
Legend's full listings for Halloween weekend can be found here
Archive 81 is currently available for streaming on Netflix
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
Check out our website, www.andnowpodcast.com
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Horror in Red Dwarf
Friday Jul 29, 2022
Friday Jul 29, 2022
A relaxed, horror-adjacent chat this week, as Stella and Dan put their feet up and chuckle about the horrific elements of their (and possibly everybody's) favourite sci-fi sitcom, Red Dwarf.
(The Series 2 episode they discuss without naming is called Thanks for the Memory.)
Red Dwarf Series 1-8 are available for streaming via Britbox. Series 9 onwards are frequently (but not always) available for streaming for free via UKTV Play.
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
Check out our website, www.andnowpodcast.com
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Revisitations #7: Alien Resurrection (1997)
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Following their discussions of Aliens (1986) in the previous two episodes, and Alien3 (1992) much earlier, Dan and Ian now take on 1997's not-much-loved fourth part of the franchise, Alien Resurrection, although the two can't agree whose idea it was. Listen as Ian rediscovers a nightmare from literally half a lifetime ago. The discussion doesn't dwell on the story in detail, but if you haven't seen it, beware of spoilers.
There's also a very off-topic digression about Game of Thrones and The West Wing, but Dan cut most of it out...
Alien Resurrection is available for streaming on Disney+.
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the purposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
Check out our other episodes on Aliens and Alien3 on our website, www.andnowpodcast.com.
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Revisitations #6: Aliens (1986)
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Friday Jul 15, 2022
Following the brief discussion last episode, Ian and Dan now get to enthuse at length about one of their favourite movies, James Cameron's 1986 sequel to Alien, Aliens. Plus a child pops in.
All the Alien films are available for streaming via Disney+
Find out more about the new Aliens documentary, Aliens Expanded, here
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Friday Jul 08, 2022
Questions of Horror #4: Is It Horror?
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Friday Jul 08, 2022
Apart from Howard (he says hello), the gang's all here as Stella, Kirsty and Ian join Dan to discuss how far the horror genre might stretch to include action, disaster and sci-fi films, with specific reference to The Poseidon Adventure (1972), Jaws (1975) and Aliens (1986). Beware: spoilers for The Poseidon Adventure - please note the timecodes below if you wish to avoid.
00.00.00 Intro and news
00.09.10 The Poseidon Adventure discussion
00.31.08 Jaws discussion
00.43.53 Aliens discussion
Relevant Links:
The new edition of Hammer and Beyond can be ordered for £10 from Manchester University Press
Also, happy birthday to our music maestro, Greg Hulme!
Tuesday May 31, 2022
DASHCAM - interview with Gemma Hurley & Jed Shepherd
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Tuesday May 31, 2022
Ian, Stella and Kirsty do their best without Dan's guidance (he's away on holiday, the slacker) and dig into 'Dashcam', Rob Savage's eagerly anticipated follow-up to 'Host', with a spoiler-free and spoiler-full discussions, plus an interview with 'Dashcam' screenwriter Gemma Hurley and its producer Jed Shepherd.
PODCAST TIMELINE
1'52 Trailer followed by spoiler-free discussion
22'00 Interview with Gemma & Jed
45'03 - TO END Spoilerific discussion - DO NOT LISTEN UNTIL YOU'VE WATCHED THE FILM.
To hear our previous interview with Gemma for 'Host' click here
To hear our previous interview with Rob Savage for 'Host' (with spoilers) click here
Friday May 27, 2022
Friday May 27, 2022
It's time to talk Tolkien, and specifically the more horrific elements of the Middle Earth canon. Peter Jackson's 2001 film instalment The Fellowship of the Ring (featuring the ever-forbidding Christopher Lee, of course) has long given Ian, Stella and Dan the collywobbles, but Ralph Bakshi's 1978 animated version is also memorably nightmarish. Joining them to enthuse about these films is the brilliant film journalist, podcaster and producer Catherine Bray, co-host of the highly recommended new podcast Not Another F*cking Elf: A Lord of the Rings Character Guide.
00.00.41 Intro and news
00.06.04 The Lord of the Rings discussion
Relevant links
Not Another F*ucking Elf (@notanotherelf on Twitter) is available on Apple Podcasts and YouTube and so far includes episodes about Gollum, Boromir, Legolas, Bilbo Baggins and Tom Bombadil, with five more episodes due to follow this season
John Ezard's 2001 Guardian article on Tolkien can be read here
Tickets for the 27th May cinema screening of Horror Express (1972) in Manchester can be booked here and the film is also currently streaming on BBC iPlayer.
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
Saturday Apr 30, 2022
AKA: 'Another Hannibal Love-In'...
We return to the world of Hannibal, Bryan Fuller's majestic TV remix of the works of Thomas Harris. As with our Season One discussion last year, Kirsty and Dan are joined by very special guests Dr Lori Hitchcock Morimoto of the University of Virginia and Dr Rebecca Williams of the University of South Wales for an in depth aca-Fannibal chat, and then by Stella (our very own Dr) and Ian for their take on the show.
WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS for the first and second seasons of Hannibal. If you've never seen the show, DON'T LISTEN TO THIS. Go and find our Season One episode (which is spoiler-free) and if you like the sound of it watch the show up to Season Two, then listen to this.
In the UK, Hannibal is free to stream via My5 (Season One only) or to Amazon Prime subscribers (all seasons).
00.00.41 Intro with Dan
00.05.25 Dr Rebecca Williams & Dr Lori Hitchcock Morimoto with Kirsty & Dan
01.14.10 Stella & Ian with Kirsty & Dan
All soundtrack and music clips are used for the puposes of criticism under Fair Use (US law) and Fair Dealing (UK law). No copyright infringement intended.
Visit our website, andnowpodcast.com
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Patreon Extract: 100 Years of Nigel Kneale
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
Thursday Apr 28, 2022
The date this episode drops, 28th April 2022, would've been the 100th birthday of Nigel Kneale, the great pioneer of SF/horror TV and film, who died in 2006. Here, in an extract from our forthcoming episode on Kneale's film version of Quatermass and the Pit (1967), renowned horror author Simon Clark tells Dan the story of how he found the script books of Kneale's 1950s Quatermass serials in a second-hand bookshop and why they are so important to him.
To hear the full version of this interview, in which Simon discusses in detail not just the three script books but also Kneale's other literary works, sign up to our Patreon page.
Look back through our podcast feed and on our website, andnowpodcast.com, to find our earlier Kneale-themed content: our Missed Classic on Beasts: During Barty's Party (1976) and our Halloween Retrospective on Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982), and Dan's written appreciation of The Woman in Black (1989).