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Anders Thomas Jensen takes us through some of his most formative cinematic experiences.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Election Night (1998)

Mifune (1999)

Riders of Justice (2020)

Star Wars (1977)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Reptilicus (1961)

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959)

Innerspace (1987)

Amazon Women On The Moon (1987)

Airplane! (1980)

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

The Bridge On The River Kwai (1957)

Das Boot (1982)

Doctor Zhivago (1965)

Ryan’s Daughter (1970)

The Apartment (1960)

The Producers (1967)

The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother (1975)

Key Largo (1948)

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Blood Simple (1984)

Groundhog Day (1993)

Boss Level (2021?)

Live Die Repeat: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

Palm Springs (2020)

Barry Lyndon (1975)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

Amadeus (1984)

Ed Wood (1994)

The Buddy Holly Story (1978)

The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)

Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)

The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)

The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Little Shop of Horrors (1986)

A Prophet (2009)

The Sisters Brothers (2018)

The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

Unforgiven (1992)

Joe Kidd (1972)

Dirty Harry (1971)

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It’s awful, it’s terrible, it’s difficult to watch — but it’s finally available in its original 3-D, in the improved Space-Vision process. A giant monkey attacks Seoul, trashing cardboard buildings, toy boats and a dead shark (and it’s not shamming). Keep a good movie on hand to rinse this one away immediately afterwards. Not recommended for people taking prescription medication. If simians persist, consult your doctor.

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3-D Blu-ray

Kl Studio Classics

1976 / Color / 2:35 widescreen 3-D / 87 min. / ‘Attacking Primate monstEr’ / Street Date February 28, 2017 / 29.95

Starring Joanna Kerns, Alex Nicol, Rod Arrants, Nak-hun Lee.

Cinematography Tony Francis, Daniel L. Symmes

Editor Paul Leder

Original Music Bruce McRae

Written byPaul Leder, Reuben Leder

Produced by Paul Leder, K.M. Leung

Directed by Paul Leder

They say home video 3-D is in trouble, but viewers properly equipped are presently experiencing a renaissance in retrofitted and refurbished 3-D features.

Earlier this week, Scream Factory revealed they are releasing The Food of the Gods and Frogs next summer, and now the distributor has horror hounds looking forward to a creature feature season when school lets out, as four more titles have been brought onto the Blu-ray docket, pitting humans against a prehistoric reptile, a mutated octopus, killer ants, and a devilish king cobra.

From Scream Factory: “Since our announcement earlier this week of our double-bill of Food Of The Gods & Frogs went over so well with the majority, we thought it would be exciting/surprising if we followed it up and revealed Four more “Animal-Creature attack” films coming sometime next Summer for the first time on the blu-ray format! So without further ado…

– Bert I Gordon’s Empire Of The Ants (with “Dynasty’s” Joan Collins battling radioactive insects) will be paired with 1982’s devil-possessed cobra film Jaws Of Satan...

★★★★☆ Niels Arden Oplev's (director of the first in the original Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo trilogy and the recent Deadfall) partly autobiographical film We Shall Overcome (Drømmen, 2006) is a tender portrait of a young boy growing up in 1960s Denmark who, inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. takes a stand against tyranny. Thirteen-year-old Frits (Janus Dissing Rathke) is the victim of bullying at school but it is his headmaster, rather than his fellow pupils, who is his main tormentor. Lindum-Svendsen (Bent Mejding) rules the school with a rod of iron and strikes terror into the children's hearts.

Frits' farmer father (Jens Jørn Spottag, a regular fixture in popular Scandi-crime TV series The Protectors) has suffered a nervous breakdown and is in hospital, so Frits finds solace in the company of the school's newest recruit Freddie (Anders W. Berthelsen) a hippy, trainee teacher who introduces...