post-apocalypse...NOW!
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| 4th June 2011 Screen Shrapnel: Third Class listen | |
| 14th May 2011 Attack the Bollocks listen | |
| 16th April 2011 Shrapnel's Cuttoff listen | |
| 2nd April 2011 Radio Show of Forgotten Dreams listen | |
| 19th March 2011 Screen Nostalgia listen | |
| 12th March 2011 Screen Shambles listen | |
| older Screen Shrapnel episodes | |
Screen Shrapnel // 0800-0900 09.01.10
post-apocalypse...now!
The bombs are falling, the dooms-day clock has ticked its last tock, UFOs are hovering above The White House, your flat-mate it trying to eat your brains and you’ve just decapitated your rabid five-year-old daughter with a shovel…welcome to the Apocalypse. It’s on this cheery note that Screen Shrapnel kick-off the new decade, and, coincidentally, cinema has provided us with a couple of dystopian nightmares for the boys to mull over.
First up is John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer winner The Road, a hellish vision of a father and his young son’s attempt to survive in a lawless world following an unspecified global cataclysm. From the sublime to the ridicules, we also discuss Daybreakers, a far less subtle imagining of the end of humanity where vampires rules the planet and humans are hunter for their tasty hemoglobin
The team will also be discussing their favourite post-apocalyptic movies and, in Nick Green’s absence, we’ve roped in hirsute raconteur and all round cinema geek James Kloda to add some class to the preceding. It’s the End of Days people, it’s going to be gooey, gory, and a lot of fun.
Posted at 12:20, 9th January 2010
playlist
| 7/4 (Shoreline) | |
| Broken Social Scene | Arts and Crafts |
| The shrapnel team discusses John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac MaCarthy’s bleak masterpiece The Road | |
| Cannibal Resource | |
| Dirty Projectors | Domino |
| Do you ever think to yourself, ‘why don’t they make vampire movies anymore?’. If so, you’re a mentalist because there’s been a bloody load recently. Amazingly, though, the Ethan Hawkes-starring Daybreakers manages to inject some freshness to this most ubiquitous of film sub-genres. | |
| Hunting for Witches | |
| Bloc Party | Witchita |
| The Shrapnel team picks their favourite apocalyptic movies | |
| Black Sun | |
| Kode9 | Hyperdub |