Back Look Cinema: The Podcast

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00:04:24 Opening Credits for Beat Street Starring Rae Dawn Chong, Guy Davis Jon Chardiet, and Leon W. Grant
00:15:29 Favorite Parts of the 1984 film Beat Street
01:01:23 Trivia from the urban hip-hop classic - Beat Street
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Zo finds himself in a timeline where Tokyo was destroyed in WWIII and from its ashes rose a Neo Tokyo. It's a thriving civilization if not filled with chaos: teenage biker gangs, heavy police presence, an aggressive military complex, violent protests, and a group of people that the media are calling terrorists. Rumors abound that these terrorists are actually trying to prevent Japan from doing research on the most devastating weapons that the world could never imagine in its wildest post apocalyptic nightmares. It's the an innate ability within all humans that allows them to access the primordial power of the universe itself and granting the possessor of that power unparalleled psychic abilities. The rumors say that they had succeeded before, but that the scientists who were attempting to control the uncontrollable were predictively unable to manage the fruit of their foolish labor. In their effort to contain the power and prevent a catastrophic outcome they manage to seal this "fruit" away for all time.  In this case their "fruit" was a little boy with incredible psychic abilities. The population at large knows nothing of this, put there are those who speak of this impossible little boy. According to them this boy is destined to come back. His name is Akira . . . or so the rumors say.
 
Episode Chapters
00:04:24 Opening Credits for Akira Starring Cam Clarke, Jan Rabson and Lara Cody [1989 English Dub]
00:15:29 Favorite Parts of the 1988 film Akira  
01:01:23 Trivia from the futuristic cyberpunk action anime - Akira
01:08:55 Critics' Thoughts on Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira  
 
Vice Article: How 'Akira' Has Influenced Modern Culture
Animation Obsessive Article: When Katsuhiro Otomo Learned
 

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Zo, once again, finds himself in an alternate timeline. This particular time is not that dissimilar from his own time. The major difference being that it seems that everyone is a cyborg with most people having at least some form of complex computer or robotics grafted onto or within their biological bodies. The normalization of the cyborg gives rise to advanced cyborg bodies with the only organic element being their human brain. Can someone who is almost completely a robot have a soul?  Can an AI be so complex that it develops its own soul and, to that end, the right of self determination? Zo hears rumors of a government agency called Section 9 and an operative within that agency named Major Motoko Kusanagi who's on the verge of finding out if there can indeed be a Ghost in the Shell.
Episode Chapters
00:04:24 Opening Credits for Ghost in the Shell Starring Mimi Woods, Richard Epcar and Tom Wyner [English Dub]
00:15:29 Favorite Parts of the 1995 film Ghost in the Shell 
01:01:23 Trivia from the futuristic cyberpunk philosophical action anime - Ghost in the Shell 
01:08:55 Critics' Thoughts on Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell 

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Zo is flung into the inconceivably distant future where he finds himself in the creepiest small town that he's ever found himself in. The town is stalked by demons and mutants and folks who live here have to be on their guard as they move about. A rancher named Doris finds out that there's more to worry about than common giant slugs and werewolves, because, as Zo had heard it, she's been confronted by a Noble. A Noble is what people in this distant time period sometimes call a vampire, and this particular Noble happens to be over 10,000 years old. It's good for Doris, then, that a mysterious stranger named D had come to town. A Vampire Hunter of extraordinary skill named D.
 
Episode Chapters
00:04:40 Opening Credits for Vampire Hunter D Starring Michael McConnohie, Barbara Goodson, and Jeff Winkless [1993 English Dub]
00:15:29 Favorite Parts of the 1985 film Vampire Hunter D
00:41:53 Trivia from the post apocalyptic horror anime - Vampire Hunter D
00:47:23 Critics' Thoughts on Toyoo Ashida's Vampire Hunter D
 

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Zo examines the recent adaptation of a Stephen King novel: Edgar Wright's The Running Man (2025) starring Glen Powell and comparing this film to the novel as well as the much beloved 1987 adaptation of The Running Man starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and directed by Paul Michael Glaser. What where the main differences? In what way was the new movie faithful to the novel? How do the different themes compare in these films and the novel? Find out in this episode; spoilers ahead!
 
Episode Chapters
02:12 Motivated Running
03:58 Richard Bachman
06:09 The Comparisons - Novel, Movie, Movie
10:24 The Running Man Ad
28:04 Critically Thinking About The Running Man

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