HeyJaredPhantasmaCast
A podcast where we talk about our favorite movies two at a time! Derek and Jake - two filmmakers, cinephiles, and physical media cheerleaders - pair up some of their favorite films to create undeniably fun double features! Hosted on Acast.
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Sphere and Loathing in Outer Space (opens the original)
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"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." - H.P. Lovecraft This week, we board two late nineties sci-fi thrillers that dare to ask: what happens when human curiosity reaches beyond the edge of the known universe? We're watching Paul W. S. Anderson's Event Horizon (1997) and Barry Levinson's Sphere (1998), two films that take cosmic horror to its most claustrophobic extremes. We look at how Event Horizon transforms a d
Not Your Dad's Zombie Movies (opens the original)
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Ep. 43 - The Signal & Pontypool This week, we are tuning in to the end of the world with David Bruckner, Dan Bush, and Jacob Gentry’s The Signal (2007) and Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool (2008). Forget flesh-eating ghouls, late 2000s indie horror realized that our obsession with mass communication was the real threat. In The Signal, airwaves hijack human minds and spark immediate, bloody paranoia. In Pontypool, an isolated radio station becomes ground zero for a virus carried entirely through spoken
Go Play Metal Gear Solid (opens the original)
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Ep. 42 - The Great Escape & Escape from New York This week, we are escaping into the worlds of two films video game auteur Hideo Kojima considers massive inspirations: John Sturges' The Great Escape (1963) and John Carpenter's Escape from New York (1981). These classic escape thrillers provided the structural blueprint and antihero swagger for Kojima's gaming masterpiece Metal Gear Solid . We look at how The Great Escape defined high stakes stealth mechanics and tension on screen, while Snake Pl
Rise of the Cyberpunk (opens the original)
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Ep. 32 - Ghost in the Shell & The Matrix This week, we are plugging into the digital void with Mamoru Oshii’s Ghost in the Shell (1995) and the Wachowskis’ The Matrix (1999). These prophetic cyberpunk cornerstones take radically different approaches to artificial intelligence and human identity. We look at how Ghost in the Shell questions the boundaries of the soul when humanity and technology converge, and how The Matrix flips that dynamic entirely. Instead of merging with machine intelligence,
Titans of Testosterone (opens the original)
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Ep. 40 - Commando & Cobra This week, we step onto the front lines of the legendary Stallone vs. Schwarzenegger arms race with Mark L. Lester’s Commando (1985) and George P. Cosmatos’s Cobra (1986). The mid-1980s saw two mega-stars constantly trying to out-gun, out-muscle, and out-body-count each other, giving birth to a wildly specific archetype: the benevolent rogue. We trace how Reagan-era anxieties funneled straight into stories about one-man armies stepping up because the justice system lack
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