The Lobot Mods: A Podcast about Sci-Fi Cinema
The future isn't what it used to be in science fiction cinema. Aaron Wood & Paul Docherty talk about sci-fi movies old and new, asking the question: are modern sci-fi movies getting worse or are we just getting old?
Two movies. Two decades. Every two weeks.
The Lobot Mods: A Podcast about Sci-Fi Cinema
THE LOBOT MODS 001 : Barbarella / Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
What's up with those bande dessinée sci fi adaptations for the big screen, eh? Maybe Hollywood rips off French sci-fi because the French do it better?
We take a look at Roger Vadim's 1968 film BARBARELLA, adapted from the Jean-Claude Forest comic book of the same name, and explore what it does and doesn't have in common with Luc Besson's 2017 flick VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS, adapted from the comic books by Pierre Christin and Jean-Claude Mézières.
There may also be some tangential rambling, and you're almost guaranteed some allusion to Star Wars somewhere along the line...
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Music by Tony Longworth
Cover art based on a photograph taken by Jon Nicolls CC-BY-2.0
This podcast is brought to you by the feature documentary HEART OF NEON.