Redshirt Cinema Club

Mar 09 2025 44 ep. 83 mins 116
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Redshirt Cinema Club is a weekly a podcast about films and fandom. Watch the biggest and best sci-fi and genre movies along with us, then join us for deep dive discussions, cultural context, and laughs.

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The Matrix

Mar 09 2025 97 mins  
We're unplugging from the real world and diving into The Matrix over the next few weeks, starting with the breathtaking 1999 original that changed the course of action cinema forever. How will it hold up 25 years on? Was Cypher right? Why am I me, and not someone else? We tackle all of these questions and more in today's episode!Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.

How Has Fandom Shaped You?

Mar 03 2025 58 mins  
Before we dive into our next series, this week we're pausing to reflect on fandom and the effect it's had on our lives. Has fandom shaped our sense of identity? Do we physically display our fandoms, and look for communities of like minded people? Are there fandoms we've forgotten and rediscovered? Please share your own stories with us!Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at pa

Mailbag - The end of our David Lynch series

Feb 24 2025 75 mins  
As is becoming tradition, we're taking a breath this week and plunging our heads into the mailbag before we set out on an adventure in a far away galaxy. As always, we've been sent some excellent observations, anecdotes and conversation starters from all around the world. Prepare to laugh, gasp, and strongly disagree! Join the Redshirt Cinema Club! Support us at patreon.com/redshir

David Lynch - Mulholland Dr

Feb 17 2025 111 mins  
Our David Lynch mini-season comes to a close with 2001's Hollywood nightmare, Mulholland Dr. Like Twin Peaks, Mulholland Dr started life as a pilot for an ABC TV series, but became a self-contained puzzle of a film when that pilot was rejected. The resulting movie is part-Cinderalla story, part noir throwback, and part artful commentary on the power dynamics and hidden spaces of th

David Lynch - Twin Peaks

Feb 09 2025 80 mins  
Our journey through the works of David Lynch brings us to Twin Peaks, the hit 1990 TV phenomenon that's influenced everything from Alan Wake to Stranger Things and still loved and talked about 35 years on. The thing Lynch made, alongside writer Mark Frost, around which a genuine fandom was born - people travel to the real life Great Northern Hotel for coffee and cherry pie. But wha

David Lynch - Blue Velvet

Feb 02 2025 97 mins  
Our season celebrating and exploring the films of David Lynch continues with 1986's Blue Velvet. What a pairing with last week's film, Dune - the same director, star, and producer bring us a film of vastly different scope, and unique perspective. Blue Velvet is the story of a young man's involvement with a mystery, a dreamy love story interrupted by the rich textures of a sensual n

David Lynch - Dune

Jan 26 2025 94 mins  
Join us as we begin a new season of David Lynch movies with 1984's Dune. Dune has already featured in the podcast, as part of the creative tangle that helped define sci-fi cinema in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and saw the inception of Alien and Blade Runner. Now, as we embark upon a mini-series focused on the works of the recently passed David Lynch, we're watching Dune itself.

The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies

Jan 19 2025 74 mins  
It's gone. It's done. We complete our journey through Middle-earth with The Battle Of The Five Armies, a film Rob has never seen, and Nathan wouldn't mind having never seen. Listen, the chances of us suddenly loving the Hobbit movies and this becoming a triumphant ending are slim to none. But... climactic things are in the air. Armies are marching. Deep lore is waking from its slum

The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug

Jan 12 2025 86 mins  
If Rob watches one more minute, this will be the most Hobbit movie he's ever seen...We're marching on with our unexpected adventure, which this week means watching the second of Peter Jackson's Hobbit films, The Desolation of Smaug. Rob has only seen half of this film before, leaving the cinema back in 2013 thanks to 48 frames-per-second-induced motion sickness. Nath has seen the w

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

Jan 05 2025 86 mins  
As January follows Christmas, so too does The Hobbit follow The Lord of the Rings. A thump of ice-cold reality after the festive high. It's 12 years since we saw The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - will the lens of hindsight impact our reaction? Or will the CG orcs, cartoonish action and that scene with the plates prove too great a burden? Listen on to find out, and join us next we