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Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 322 Jaws vs. The Exorcist!
Several weeks ago Part-Time Fanboy podcast participant Yvis Cannivale re-tweeted a tweet from Twitter user @TommyDoyle47 that asked the question, "Which is the better movie? Jaws or The Exorcist?" While the idea of comparing two of the greatest movies of all time...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 321 PTF Film Club-Alien Nation!
In 1988 a new kind of extraterrestrial visitor arrived in theaters. In the film Alien Nation, the immigrants from the stars were of a different breed. Instead of being invaders with superior lifestyles and technologies, these aliens were refugees. The Newcomers of...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 320 PTF Film Club-Pretty In Pink and Some Kind of Wonderful!
Several weeks ago on Part-Time Fanboy we took a look at two of John Hughes's classic films, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club (you can listen to that episode by clicking here). Recently, on a Zoom chat with some of Kristian's friends, the subject of John Hughes...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 319 The 21 Jump Street TV Pilot Episode!
This week Part-Time Fanboy continues its expedition into the eighties with a look at a very different kind of cop show that debuted in 1987. 21 Jump Street told the story of a squad of detectives who infiltrated high schools and colleges busting young adults and...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 318 Tim Larsen Rides Mayfield Eight Onto Kickstarter!
Mayfield Eight is a comic created in the spirit of a grindhouse style biker gang movie. The creator of Mayfield Eight just launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the second issue of his biker gang bonanza. Tim Larsen started his artistic career as a painter but...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 317 V The Final Battle!
In 1984, almost a year to the day that the original mini-series debuted, NBC television aired the much-anticipated sequel to V. The original series had ended in a bit of an open ended fashion with Earth resistance fighters still locked in a struggle with the invading...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 316 Steven Prince Kickstarts The Monster Matador!
Steven Prince is a writer and artist who has been self publishing his own comic book, Monster Matador, for years. This week sees him kicking off a Kickstarter campaign for the latest chapter in the saga of his creation known as Monster Matador: Tango of the Matadors....
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 315-V The Original Miniseries!
In May of 1983 the TV watching public would be treated to a television event unlike any they had ever seen before. Television mega-producer, director, and writer Kenneth Johnson (the man behind the creation of The Bionic Woman, The original live-action Incredible Hulk...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 314-Buck Rogers in the 25th Century Pilot Episode!
When Star Wars debuted in 1977 to blockbuster success the rest of Hollywood moved in to cash in on its good fortune. Television producer Glen A. Larson was one of the first to try and capitalize on the success of George Lucas's space operatic debut, first with...
Part-Time Fanboy Podcast: Ep 313-The Greatest American Hero Pilot Episode!
In the early eighties, decades before there would be a Marvel Cinematic Universe, television mega-producer Stephen J. Cannell was given the task of producing a superhero TV show. Cannell, not being a comic book fan himself and having no real desire to work on a...
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