World Beyond Movie Night – Fusion Patrol

John and Eugene look at 2022’s Shin Ultraman from the creatives that brought you Shin Godzilla. Synopsis In the 21st century, Japan has begun to come under attack by giant monsters, or kaiju.  Six kaiju have appeared so far; in each case, the creatures were either defeated or departed.  During this time, the SSSP was ... Read more

John and Eugene look at George Pal’s 1950 Technicolor space extravaganza, Destination Moon. It’s the film about a plucky band of industrialists who shoot for the moon so they can save the U.S. Space Program by extracting massive government contracts. Synopsis At White Sands, Dr. Cargraves and General Thayer, Ret. are about to witness the ... Read more

John and Eugene look at the TV movie starring Andy Griffith that inspired countless school children to shoot for the moon: It’s 1979’s Salvage (sometimes referred to as Salvage-1), where the owner of a junkyard builds and launches a rocket ship. Its destination: The Moon. Synopsis Harry Broderick is a highly-successful scrap and salvage man ... Read more

John and Eugene look at George Pal’s 1951 end-of-the-world film When Worlds Collide and ask, “They really wouldn’t blow up the Earth, would they?” Synopsis Dr. Bronson, an astronomer at the Mount Kenna, South Africa Observatory, has made an unsettling discovery.  He calls in reliable freelance pilot and courier, Dave Randall, to delivery photographic observations ... Read m...

John and Eugene look at the 1955 George Pal classic movie Conquest of Space and its attempt at a realistic look at space exploration. We ask the questions, “is space for mankind or the exclusive domain of God?” and “will religion screw up space, too?”

Take a journey with us as we visit the past future history of Everytown, as John and Eugene look at H.G. Wells’ Things to Come. Synopsis It is Christmastime in 1940 Everytown.  Life at this joyous time of year goes on as it always has, with people laughing, shopping, enjoying the panto, and being with ... Read more

Just in time to spread some holiday cheer, John and Eugene are taking a look at 1968’s The Green Slime. Synopsis A member of the crew aboard the UNSC Gamma 3 space station utters those inevitably fateful words, “nothing exciting ever happens around here,” and fast than you can say, “sir, I’ve got something on ... Read more

John and Eugene take a look at what may be the last of Hollywood’s Pre-Star Wars Sci-Fi spectacles.  It all changes after this one, folks. Synopsis The Domed City is a closed- oasis in a world destroyed by war.  Logan 5 is one of the elite Sandmen who enforce the ultimate law of the Domed ... Read more

Join us as we discuss the adventures of Dr. Who, Tom Campbell, Susan, and Louisa as they travel to the far-flung future Earth and meet some old friends.  Simon and Eugene discuss. This episode, originally released to our Patrons in 2020, is being released in honor of the late Bernard Cribbins, who recently passed. Synopsis ... Read more

While Godzilla has, in recent years, undergone a successful translation into the Hollywood movie-making machine, in 2016, it also underwent a renaissance revival in Japan with the release of Shin Godzilla. Like the very first Godzilla film, this was a movie with something to say about contemporary Japan, and it says it very well. John ... Read more

John and Eugene ask the question, “why not vampires,” consider if racial prejudice goes away if you lose your pigmentation, and why Chuck Heston never gets a good ending in a film. It’s the Omega Man! Synopsis Col. Dr. Robert Neville is a man with a problem:  He’s the last man on Earth, roaming the ... Read more

Movie Synopsis Somewhere in a mountain in Colorado, Dr. Charles Forbin flips the switch and activates the United States’ most secret and ambition project ever: Colossus – a huge impenetrable supercomputer That takes over the US missile arsenal. The goal of the project, to create an infallible, emotionless defensive system that will make sure human ... Read more

In April of 2020 we did a live-stream video episode of Fusion Patrol on YouTube featuring our discussion on the movie, The Black Scorpion. (Link to YouTube video.) …and here it is for your audio enjoyment. John and Eugene discuss. Synopsis In the year 1957, in Mexico, a volcano forms near the small village of ... Read more

Just in time for a very merry Fusion Patrol Xmas!  It’s K•9 and Company – the failed 1981 Doctor Who spin-off pilot starring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith and John Leeson as the voice of K•9. Simon and Eugene discuss this holiday classic! Synopsis: In the village near Chipping Norton, a Black Mass is ... Read more

There’s a new circus in town and you’ll die laughing. Fusion Patrol movie night finds John and Eugene looking at the cult film, Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Movie Synopsis: Crescent Cove is just another example of a small rural American college town. It’s a nice little, until the circus big top arrives. Mike and Debbie ... Read more

At the height of the 1960’s Dalekmania it was time for the Daleks to jump to the big screen and they brought along their old friend, Dr. Who for the ride.  Simon and Eugene discuss Peter Cushing starring as Dr. Who in Dr. Who and the Daleks!  Movie Synopsis: It’s just another quiet evening at ... Read more

In 1993 plucky writer J. Michael Straczynski attempted to take on the seemingly unassailable Star Trek for the mantle of best TV Space Opera not Intended for Children.  This, Babylon 5: The Gathering, is where it all begins. Join Simon and Eugene on this special look at the Babylon 5 pilot. If you’d like more ... Read more

Five Hundred episodes and we’ve landed on Altair IV, the Forbidden Planet. For our Big 500, Simon and Eugene discuss the impact this ground-breaking film had on things to come and talk about some of the things that have not aged so well. Surely, you’re not going to bring up the overt sexism? Yes, we ... Read more

Simon and Eugene continue their two-part discussion of the classic of Science Fiction cinema,  Blade Runner: The Final Cut. I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe: Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like ... Read more

Time for another celebration of some of the classics of Science Fiction cinema.  This time: Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Simon and Eugene discuss. Movie Synopsis:  Rick Deckard is a former Blade Runner: A special cop charged with retiring (read: hunting down and killing) rogue Replicants.  Replicants are artificial humans that are used as slave ... Read more

For our tenth year podcasting, we’re featuring a series of special episodes looking at some of our favorite sci-fi movies.  First up: Planet of the Apes. Movie Synopsis:  A spacecraft from Earth plows through space at near light speed. Alone in the cockpit, George Taylor muses about the world he’s left behind forever and the ... Read more

David Norliss, disbeliever, investigates the supernatural to debunk it.  What he finds challenges his understanding of reality. Simon and Eugene discuss the 1973 planned pilot movie, The Norliss Tapes, with some strong ties to Dan Curtis’ Night Stalker and Night Strangler movies. Episode Synopsis: David Norliss is a recognized-name author.  He’s been working on an ... Read more

Steve Austin, the world’s first bionic man, is back for his third pilot adventure, battling a mysterious, shadowy, secret organization of criminal masterminds as they execute a daring kidnapping and hold the United States to ransom for one billion dollars! Ben and Eugene discuss the Solid Gold Kidnapping.

Steve Austin is back for a second telemovie adventure.  This time, the bionic spy must thwart an international arms dealer from (a) selling our nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union and (b) capturing one of our nuclear submarines. Portholes will be violated. Ben and Eugene discuss.

“Steve Austin, Astronaut – a man barely alive.” “Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.  We have the technology.  We have the capability to make the world’s first bionic man.” “Steve Austin will be that man. Better than he was before –  better, stronger, faster.” So say the iconic words from the TV series, the Six Million ... Read more