World Beyond Movie Night – Fusion Patrol

Dylan Hunt is back for a second bite at the TV pilot apple in 1974’s Planet Earth. Ben and Eugene discuss Gene Roddenberry’s second attempt at Pax.

As if the first story of Genesis wasn’t bad enough, along comes Genesis II – Gene Roddenberry’s tale of a future both destroyed by war and rebuilding with the dream of hope. Ben and Eugene look at the pilot movie, Genesis II.

What is the measure of a man?  What constitutes, “fully functional?” Ben and Eugene discuss The Questor Tapes.

In 1977 Gene Roddenberry created a pilot for a potential new TV series starring Robert Culp and Gig Young – Spectre. Ben and Eugene discuss this piece of television…  history.

Seattle, 1973.  A series of bizarre murders terrorizes the city.  One reporter, new to town, has seen it all before — or at least something very much like it. Carl Kolchak must battle a long-suffering editor, a disbelieving publisher and Seattle’s finest as he tries to prove an inhuman killer is on the loose. Simon ... Read more

1972 a surprise TV movie became the most-watched TV movie in American history.  Darren McGavin starred as Carl Kolchak, an abrasive investigative reporter who is investigating the story of a lifetime.  A vampire is prowling the streets of Las Vegas. Simon and Eugene discuss the TV movie that inspired the TV series that inspired the ... Read more

A special movie episode of Fusion Patrol. Ben and Eugene discuss Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth, the 2007 independent film that explores the concepts behind… immortality?  Or does it?

In the 1970’s the future was populated with robots designed to be cowboys and sex workers.  It’s time to clean up your six-shooter and join us for a look at Michael Crichton’s often-overlooked 1973 classic sex-with-robots film, Westworld. This episode is a special episode brought to you by our patrons at Patreon who help fund ... Read more

For our 200th episode, we look at the ultimate Star Trek movie (according to conventional wisdom.)  Can Ben and Eugene take a film that they love and pick it apart? Of course they can! Join us for the celebration of Star Trek that is The Wrath of Khan!

It’s Shark Week and Movie Night as we review the Internet meme that’s bigger and badder than the movie itself!  It can only be a Sharknado. David and Eugene take a light-hearted look at last year’s hottest SyFy movie. Honestly, we don’t know if it was the hottest movie or not, but it should have ... Read more

It might be a movie, but we couldn’t let something as big as a new Star Trek movie slip by without comment. This week Ben and Eugene talk about Star Trek Into Darkness.

In this episode we review something different – a movie big enough to be called a classic!  2001: A Space Odyssey.

Ben, Eugene and guest Simon from littlestorping.co.uk discuss the BBC’s new adaptation of H.G. Wells’ First Men in the World. This adaptation, by Doctor Who’s Mark Gatiss, sets the bar for film adaptations of First Men in the Moon. — First Men in the Moon Adapted by Mark Gatiss Starring: Rory Kinnear as Bedford and Mark Gatiss ... Read more