Nostalgium Arcanum
A Repository For The Pop Culture That Made Us Who We Are
We found 10 episodes of Nostalgium Arcanum with the tag “scifi”.
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Killer Klowns From Outer Space
October 7th, 2024 | 1 hr 42 mins
1980s, 80s, alien, aliens, camp, campy, cinema, circus, clown, clowns, cult classic, cult film, film, films, halloween, horror, horror movies, movie, movies, scifi, slasher
Send in the Klowns, from light years away. Killer Klowns From Outer Space remains a kampy konfection of 1980s klassic horror that still thrills and chills with big top bombast. We're joined by comedians Rich Baker and Merry Mary Hynes to praise this film's tightrope-walking silliness that's as tasty as cotton candy and only slightly less deadly.
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2000s Movies: Part 1
August 26th, 2024 | 3 hrs 6 mins
00s, 2000s, action, cinema, comedy, film, films, horror, lord of the rings, movie, movies, pirates, romcom, sci-fi, scifi, spider-man
The first half of the 2000s was a time for building franchises, adapting IPs, and getting a jittery country back on its feet. In this episode our crew (Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo) join us to round-table our favorite films from 2000 to 2004, and all that jazz.
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Predator
July 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 43 mins
1980s, 80s, action, alien, aliens, arnold, arnold schwarzenegger, avp, carl weathers, cinema, film, horror, jesse ventura, movie, movies, predator, schwarzenegger, sci-fi, science fiction, scifi, yautja
Listen to this episode! Come on! Do it! Do it now! Guest Jala Prendes (host of Jala-Chan' Place, Monster, Dear Monster, and Duckfeed.tv's The Level) joins us to once again watch Arnold Schwarzenegger go mano-a-mano, this time against an alien killing machine on safari. For all its loud 80s action, the film's less-is-more approach is why this classic still gives viewers a mighty handshake nearly four decades on.
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90s Movies - Part 2
June 3rd, 2024 | 2 hrs 50 mins
1990s, 90s, action, cinema, clueless, comedy, david fincher, disney, fight club, film, high school, horror, jim carrey, matrix, movie, movies, scifi, teen
We conclude our survey course of 90s movies by revisiting the late teens of our crew of guests (Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo) for those films that challenged us and shaped us into who we are. Once again, our lists feature fan favorites and hidden gems alike.
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90s Movies - Part 1
May 27th, 2024 | 2 hrs 40 mins
1990s, 90s, action, cinema, comedy, disney, film, forrest gump, fugitive, horror, jurassic park, movie, movies, pulp fiction, schwarzenegger, scifi, shawshank, spielberg, tarantino, terminator
On this episode our crew (Ami Lief, Tania Newton, and Ryan Merlo) join us for the first of a two-part roundtable of our top ten 90s films. This part focuses on movies released from 1990 to 1994. See if your favorites line up with ours, and perhaps you'll find a few hidden gems you may have missed.
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Fallout
April 29th, 2024 | 1 hr 35 mins
1950s, 50s, amazon, ella purnell, fallout, games, gaming, jazz, mac, pc, pc games, pc gaming, postapocalypse, postapocalyptic, retrogames, retrogaming, rpg, rpgs, scifi, twilight zone, videogame, videogames, videogaming, walton goggins, zombie
Duck and cover! We're going back to the radioactive world of tomorrow as companion B.T. Moorer joins us to open the vault to Fallout. This unique videogame series and its recent blockbuster TV adaptation use an alternate history post-apocalypse to spin stories that, twist, turn, disgust, and delight all at once. We give it a big thumbs up!
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The Terminator
February 26th, 2024 | 1 hr 55 mins
arnold schwarzenegger, dystopia, horror, james cameron, lance henriksen, robots, sarah hamilton, schwarzenegger, scifi, synth, t1000, t800, terminator, time travel
No matter how many times Arnold has been back, the original Terminator film still holds up as a taut, suspensful, scifi horror classic. Guest Jala Prendes (host of Jala-Chan' Place, Monster, Dear Monster, and Duckfeed.tv's The Level) joins us to praise the exquisitely crafted and sturdy skeleton beneath James Cameron's powerful 1984 masterpiece.
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RoboCop
February 19th, 2024 | 2 hrs 33 mins
1980s, 80s, action, detroit, dystopia, entertainment, film, horror, movies, paul veerhoven, peter weller, police, satire, scifi, veerhoven
Like RoboCop himself, beneath this film's flashy exterior lies turmoil and humanity. Guests comedian Rich Baker (@richbakercoaching) and Dan Oster (MadTV, A Podcast, But Evil) join us to investigate Paul Veerhoven's dystopian satire of dehumanization, but one that still manages to kick a lot of iron butt. I'd buy that for a dollar.
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Spaceballs
February 12th, 2024 | 1 hr 34 mins
alien, aliens, bill pullman, comedy, film, george lucas, joan rivers, john candy, mel brooks, movies, rick moranis, sci-fi, scifi, spoof, star trek, star wars
Spaceballs? Oh shit, there goes the podcast! Guest and master of the Schwartz Matt Storm a.k.a. Matt Stormageddon joins us for a look back at Star Wars as filtered through Mel Brooks' mastery of vaudeville, satire, and moichandizing!
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Independence Day
January 8th, 2024 | 1 hr 56 mins
1990s, alien, aliens, area 51, bill pullman, conspiracy theories, extraterrestrial, extraterrestrials, id4, invasion, jeff goldblum, martian, martians, randy quaid, roswell, scifi, war of the worlds, will smith, x-files
Welcome to Earth. This week guest Matt Powers joins us to revisit a 1990s disaster classic that, like its extraterrestrial scourge, loomed large over the action blockbusters of the era.