Boston SciFi Presents

Dec 12 2024 39 ep. 47 mins 51

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Exploring sci-fi, fantasy and speculative films through the lens of imagination & imagery.

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It Came from the Orson Welles: A Boston SciFi Podcast

Dec 12 2024 57 mins

Fifty years is a long time. Much has happened. Much has changed. Fifty years ago the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival began at a legendary movie theatre. Later it overcame a fire, an historic blizzard, and a plague. It overcame changing demographics, and rapidly evolving technologies. We have gone from seeing movies only in movie theatre to being able to catch a blockbuster whi

Return of the Modern Character Actors

Nov 18 2024 52 mins

Good movies have good actors. Better movies have better actors. They're called character actors. No longer typed as gangster or slapstick comedian, modern character actors show, range, understand psychology and film history. Listen in as film commentators Alexis den Boggende & Oscar Goff join MC Garen Daly in zoom through JK Simmons, Angela Bassett, Steve Buscemi, Brad Dourif a

We Approved this Message: Presidents on Film

Oct 28 2024 49 mins

Melissa StarkerDavid GiancolaYou can find us on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, I Heart Radio, Google Podcasts, and wherever you get your podcasts from. You can also find us on our YouTube Channel, BostonSciFi.Thank you. Please comment, like and share. And if you have an idea for a podcast, please share it with us. Many of our podcasts include movie trailers and cli

Podcast: UIVERSAL MEMORIES: The Films of Philip K Dick

Oct 08 2024 49 mins

Memory implants, replicants, alternative realities, and fake reality - these are some of the elements that make stories by Philip K Dick resonant decades after his death, and what makes them fodder for 'high concept' Hollywood films. Join author/crtic Hope Madden & film programmer Melissa Starker as Boston SciFi Presents UNIVERSAL MEMORIES: The Films of Philip K Dick. Garen Dal

Alien Probes & Other Visitations, A Boston Sci-Fi Presents Podcast

Sep 20 2024 47 mins

Visitors from another world are a relatively recent theme in movies that started in the 50s. Since then we have all sorts of illegal immigrants from genial neighbors to human eating nasties. Please join us as Simon Foster, Festival Director of the Sydney SciFi Film Fest and author Dan Kimmel probe #killerklownsfromouterspace, #attacktheblock, #paul, #marsattacks and more. So unhols

MODERN CHARACTER ACTORS, Part 1, A Boston SciFi Presents Podcast

Jul 11 2024 45 mins

You see their faces in movies and on TV. You hear their voices in animation, but you never quite know who they are. Listen in as film directors Hope Madden and David Giancola join MC Garen Daly as they try and define what a character actor is in the 21st century. Featuring #dickmiller, Catherine O'Hara, #jameshong, Keith David Brion James & more. Plus we'll look at when does a

TO SERVE MAN: Good Robots in Movies, a Boston SciFI Presents Podcast

Jul 11 2024 49 mins

Humans make them and use them. They can be safe, clunky contraptions or svelte streamline bodies, but they are designed to make our lives better. And in the process we imbue them with our emotions and sometimes are neurosis. TO SERVE MAN looks at how robots are depicted in movies.Weighing in with commentary and humor are Alexis den Boggende, Boston Hassle film critic and David Gian

The Body Horrific: A Boston SciFi Presents Podcast

Jun 25 2024 49 mins

There's horror and then there is BODY HORROR Listen in as film critic Alexis den Boggende and Broke Horror Fan creator Alex DiVincenzo explains;ain the difference. featuring Cronenberg' The Fly, The Human Centipede, Re-Animator, John Carpenter's The Thing with appearances by Tusk, Frankenstein, Altered States & Tetsuo. Maybe there is a fate worse than death.#podcast #movies #ne

Danger Ahead: On Harlan Ellison with Nat Segaloff, A Boston SciFi Podcast

May 23 2024 43 mins

May 27, 2024 would have been Harlan Ellison's 90th birthday. To appreciate this seminal writer, Boston SciFi talks with noted author Nat Segaloff on his book A LIT FUSE and his relationship with Harlan. We talk #StarTrek, #ScoobyDoo, #OuterLimits, #Terminator, lawsuits and more. Inside stories and funny moments all about one of speculative fiction's most unique writer.#podcast #mov

Summer Movie Preview 2024: A Boston SciFi Presents Podcast

May 09 2024 59 mins

The Hollywood pundits are holding their breath as studios release films this summer of 2024. We're in the post-Covid period. Hollywood is just coming out of production delays from the various strikes and a lot is riding on whether or not audiences will return to the cinemas. Listen in as film critic Erin Underwood and Boston Hassle lead film reviewer Oscar Goff join host Garen Daly