Tag: Event Horizon

Ep. 05-11: Event Horizon (1997)

When the Event Horizon, a spacecraft that vanished years earlier, suddenly reappears near Neptune, a team is dispatched to investigate the ship. Accompanied by the Event Horizon’s creator, William Weir (Sam Neill), the crew of the Lewis and Clark, led by Capt. Miller (Laurence Fishburne), explores the abandoned vessel. However, it soon becomes clear that something sinister lives in its corridors, and that the horrors that befell the Event Horizon’s previous journey are still present.

EVNT HORIZON

It’s really hard to describe how badly we want to like this movie. It’s gorgeous, and the cast is solid, but the script and directing just do not hold up. Join us as we discuss the troubled history of the film and its cultish rise in popularity since tanking at the box office. Listen as Johnny Has the Keys travels to the outermost of our solar system, where a long-missing ship is now the gateway to something far colder than space.

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Ep. 01-27: Sunshine (2007)

Earth’s sun is dying, and the end for humanity is near. In a last-chance effort to save the planet, a crew of eight men and women venture into space with a device that could reignite the star. However, a distress beacon from a long-lost spaceship triggers a chain of events that throws the crew and its desperate mission into a tailspin.

Danny Boyle’s Sunshine is a visual stunner. It’s not a perfect film but features a fantastic cast, many of which have gone on to higher levels of stardom since. Join us as we discuss the film, its peaks, its flaws, and the many “key” elements from past Sci-fi cinema from which it was influenced. Listen… as Johnny Has the Keys journeys on the ill-fated Icarus II and its noble but dangerous mission, into the depths of space to save the sun and thus humanity.

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