Welcome to The Open Slate! Ever sat through the credits and wondered what a stand-in stands on? Or whether the Base PA plays baseball? In this series, we sit down with working film industry professionals from across the departments for unvarnished, honest, practical conversations about how and why they joined the movie business, how they... Continue Reading →
Pieces (1982) Film chosen and introduced by Matt "I’ll send you a case of lollipops." Det. Sgt. Holden, Pieces You don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre! Prepare to be slayed by a withering look by the quintessential midnight movie—the Spanish-American slasher, Pieces—known in certain dark circles as Chainsaw Devil, Chainsaw Bastard, and also by... Continue Reading →
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? We delve into the murky, rain-soaked neon streets of 2019 Los Angeles for Ridley Scott’s seminal 1982 sci-fi slow burner Blade Runner. Retired replicant hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is pulled back into duty when four illegal synthetic humanoids are reported to be loose in the... Continue Reading →
Introduced by Matt Two Bahama Mamas, Please 🦈 Although borderline calamitous in its execution at times, I digested the terminal death rattle of the Jaws series (on a 4:3, open matte VHS taped off the telly, no less) so often as a nipper that when its filmic son of Scheider dons that yellow (symbolic of... Continue Reading →
Films chosen and introduced by Matt In 1982, the Ladd Company unleashed the dystopian sci-fi classic, Blade Runner. In 1984, they crapped out the first Police Academy movie. Quite the about turn. Overtly racist, sexist, homophobic, fat-shaming characters populated the hugely popular hit, which spawned six shady sequels ranging from amusing to abhorrent. Believe it... Continue Reading →
Film chosen by listener Darren Grab a t-shirt featuring this episode's cover image (expertly coloured and finished by our very own Scarious Artists, Matt, from a sketch by Devlin) at our Teemill store! “I know you gentlemen have been through a lot, but when you find the time, I'd rather not spend the rest of... Continue Reading →
Film chosen and introduced by Devlin https://open.spotify.com/episode/6KnehV823Ej9dcaxLOJfDl?si=906a13efed19462a If you go across and check out the wonderful introductory graphics Matt created for our About section on this site, you’ll see that nestled in my alphabetically-assembled Top 10 Films list is this week’s pick – Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 teen dream Rumble Fish. That it took me... Continue Reading →
Film chosen by Gali Back home, they would have put me in jail for what I'm doing. Here, they're giving me awards. We’re heading to the neon oasis in the desert for Martin Scorsese’s grandiose 1995 Vegas-set crime epic Casino. In 1973, gambling savant Samuel “Ace” Rothstein (Robert De Niro) is dispatched by his mob... Continue Reading →
LV-RMP Series Big things have small beginnings. Our LV-RMP series, where we explore every film in the Alien and Predator universe, finds director Ridley Scott making his long-awaited return to the genre, and franchise, that launched his illustrious career with 2012’s heady quasi-prequel Prometheus. A duo of young, ideologically divergent archeologists (Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green) believe... Continue Reading →
Compliance! We’re taking to the skies with the 1986 family sci-fi spectacular Flight of the Navigator from director Randal Kleiser. 12-year-old David Freeman (Joey Cramer) walks through the woodlands near his Florida home to bring his irritating little brother back home before it gets dark. Instead, after losing consciousness due to a fall, David returns... Continue Reading →
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