A Year Can Do A Lot To A Person (episode 70)

 

Triumph or disaster? Vintage or trainwreck?

These are some of the questions we ask ourselves as we consider the year 1983 in science fiction film - prompted by a contemporary review which suggested it might have been particularly terrible.

You see, on the one the one hand, there's WarGames. But on the other, there's Krull. And somewhere in between sits Brainstorm.

As well as mulling over these cinematic masterpieces, we have a science fiction transport quiz courtesy of friend of the show Andy Parry, and our usual round-up of past, present and future SF.

Discussed in this episode:

• Brainstorm
• The Dead Zone
• Krull
• Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn
• Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
• WarGames
• Yor:The Hunter from the Future
• The Hobbit 
• Childhood's End 
• Dragon Con's blood drive
• Phil will be presenting at Wolverhampton Literature Festival in February 2027 (schedule details still to be confirmed)
• The second issue of Small Planet magazine covers the proposed Hugo in Translation award.
• Phil guests again on the podcast Every Single Sci Fi Film Ever*, discussing Planet of the Apes (1968)
  
  

 

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