In case you’re interested, here’s last night’s conversation about “The Empire Strikes Back,” on “SciFi Distilled.”
“Empire” was – and remains – such a big movie (number one in America again this week, thanks to its reissue in drive-ins) that it’s impossible to do it justice in just an hour and 20 minutes. But we had a good time, and our nostalgic reflections shot off tendrils in all directions, so that we also touched on Kenner action figures, the short-lived phenomenon of Sensurround, and the never-rebroadcast, but unforgettably horrible “Star Wars Holiday Special.”
Marybeth and Michael’s “Sci-Fi Distilled” is live-streamed on the show’s Facebook page every Wednesday evening at 7:00 EDT.
On a related note, I hope you’ll join Roy Bjellquist and me this Friday at 7 pm, as we fortify ourselves against Martian invasion in our discussion of the 1953 film “The War of the Worlds,” on “Roy’s Tie-Dye Sci-Fi Corner.”
How refreshing, to be able to revisit a story in which contagion actually works out for the benefit of humankind!
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