Pop Culture Talk That’s Out Of This World
Episodes
Sunday Sep 22, 2024
Sunday Sep 22, 2024
Time to fall down another geek rabbit hole. Join Carlos and James today on GeekFest Rants as they explore James' latest obsession: Star Wars Kenner Custom Figures.
This is the beginning of a discussion dealing with DIY customs, purchased customs and Hasbro's Retro line. There are many players out there producing some high quality figures.
It looks like we'll finally get to own most of the Star Wars figures Kenner never made.
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Monday Jul 29, 2024
Time to stop trying those new yoga poses and sit back, relax and watch some horror films. Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants for a quadruple horror feature review. The horror genre is alive and flourishing.
So, let's take a look at Late Night with the Devil, In A Violent Nature, A Quiet Place: Day One, and Longlegs.
PS: You'll get the yoga reference after watching the second film.
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Monday Jun 10, 2024
Today on GeekFest Rants, Carlos takes a look back at a promotional booklet from Universal Studios highlighting their 1982 movie slate. 1982 being the most genre packed movie year of our generation. Universal gave us such classics as E.T., Conan the Barbarian, John Carpenter's The Thing, and many more.
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Wednesday May 01, 2024
Man is the warmest place to hide. That's the original tagline of John Carpenter's The Thing. Join Carlos taday on GeekFest Rants as he attempts to decipher the order of assimilation in John Carpenter's The Thing. We will definetly go down the nerd rabbit hole with this one. Then we look at some new NECA and old McFarlane The Thing figures.
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Wednesday Mar 20, 2024
Today on GeekFest Rants we look at the pre-Star Wars George Lucas hit, America Graffiti and it's sequel, More American Graffiti. Join Carlos and James as they chime in on their views on these two films. Does the sequel live up to the original? What is the Happy Days connection to the original film. Is life today anything like it was in 1962?
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Today on GeekFest Rants, join Carlos as he reviews two new Star Wars posters, the 40th Anniversary, Matt Ferguson, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi one sheets. Then we'll look at three, John Walsh, Making of.. books: Conan the Barbarian, Escape from New York, and Flash Gordon. It does not get any geekier than this.
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Friday Dec 15, 2023
Do you wish there was a place where we could access all sorts of Star Trek related media assets, data, and stories? Join Carlos and James today on GeekFest Rants as they explore a preview of the Roddenberry Archive. What exactly is this and where does the story inspirations comes from? We'll try our best to find out.
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Friday Sep 29, 2023
Are you ready to enter the grid? Join Carlos and James today as they talk about the new Disney Tron Lightcycle Run ride. How does it compare to the Shanghai Disney Park version? We discuss the different seating options for riders. Plus, we review the latest entry into the Retro action figure line: Indiana Jones. How good can Hasbro duplicate the old Kenner Raiders of the Lost Ark figures and expand on them? Find out, today on GeekFest Rants.
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Friday Sep 08, 2023
Today on GeekFest Rants it all about Star Wars Kenner action figures collecting books. Is there a definitive guide to collecting the classic original Star Wars Kenner action figures? The answer is Yes. Join Carlos today as we pore over six excellent Star Wars Kenner action figures collecting books. Could there be more to come? Maybe.
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Are we in a new Golden Age of Star Trek? Join Carlos and James today on GeekFest Rants as they chat about all the Star Trek content available right now. From Discovery, to Picard, to Lower Decks, to Prodigy, to Strange New Worlds. And let's not forget what is on the horizon with Section 31, Starfleet Academy, and possibly Legacy.
Perhaps today is a good day to Trek.
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Thursday Jul 13, 2023
Join us today on GeekFest Rants as Carlos reviews his latest Star Wars acquisition: a one-sheet concept, Ralph McQuarrie poster that was repurposed and finished by artist Lawrence Noble for Star Wars Celebration Japan(2008). Then we look at a NECA, The Terminator figure from a few years ago that we just discovered. And wouldn't you know it? It took us down a Terminator rabbit hole.
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Monday Jun 12, 2023
Are you a Lego Maniac? Join Carlos and guest James today on GeekFest Rants as they look at the status of their Lego collecting. Some of us have cut back and some of us have not only double down, but also found new avenues to explore. And by that we are talking about the world of custom collecting Legos, it they don't make it... make it yourself.
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Wednesday Feb 22, 2023
Today on GeekFest Rants, Carlos reviews the Disney+ documentary Light & Magic. This could very well be the best doc about Lucasfilm's ground breaking special effect company Industrial Light & Magic.
Here we learn from the founders and craftsmen of ILM such as George Lucas, Dennis Muren, Phil Tippett, Ken Ralston, Joe Johnston, Richard Edlund, John Dykstra, Lorne Peterson, and many many more.
For all hard core Star Wars fans, consider this a Master Class on the history of ILM.
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Thursday Dec 15, 2022
Today on GeekFest Rants we are going to need a bigger boat. Join Carlos as he dives into two iconic movie posters: Jaws and Saturday Night Fever.
Hear the stories of how the art from the Jaws bestselling book easily transitioned to the movie poster by Roger Kastel. Plus, how Saturday Night Fever's PG re-release generated a new poster.
Then we move on to review some new action figures like Ziro the Hutt, The Thing, Stormtrooper George Lucas, Eddie Munson, and many more.
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Thursday Oct 20, 2022
Today on GeekFest Rants, Carlos dives into the recent Vice documentary-series Icon Unearthed: Star Wars. This time around this particular documentary is able to share the perspectives of such Star Wars contributors as Producer, Howard Kazanjian and Editor, Marcia Lucas.
This being the first time George Lucas' ex-wife participates with an on camera interview talking about her involvement with Lucas' early film career, all the way to their post Return of the Jedi divorce.
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Friday Jul 22, 2022
Today at GeekFest Rants we begin to catch up with this spring/summer's crop of genre films.
Join Carlos as he delves into The Northman, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and The Batman.
If this is just the beginning of the spring/summer film season, we are in for a great ride.
Friday Jun 17, 2022
Friday Jun 17, 2022
A Perfect Storm: a critical or disastrous situation created by a powerful concurrence of factors. Today on GeekFest Rants Carlos will examine three unrelated pieces of art, the film Office Space, the TV show Severance, and the musical special Bo Burham: Inside.
What do all these have in common?
Well, if you are a fan of this show you might figure it out. Or at least, you get our review of these fantastic selections.
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Almost three years in the making, The Bantha has arrived. Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he reviews the fan made creature to compliment our Kenner Star Wars action figure collection.
We'll go over the behind the scenes drama between rival companies The Fans Strike Back and Stan Solo Creations.
Plus we will also compare both companies version of Slave Leia, and what this could potentially tell us about the results of other preorders and the future of these type of fan made companies.
Friday May 13, 2022
Friday May 13, 2022
It's time for posters of the month. Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he delves into two fantastic international genre posters, Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Empire Strikes Back.
With Raiders we get Drew Struzan's vision for that classic film. For Empire we explore a different style with Noriyoshi Ohrai's rendition of possibly the best sequel ever made.
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
Thursday Apr 21, 2022
We are back! After a slight pause. So let's talk about Star Wars Coffee Table books. Join Carlos today at GeekFest Rants as he attempts to lift some of these massive literary creations.
These books are huge and heavy, most of them are Star Wars related but we have a few bonus ones from Cameron and Kubrick. So sit back, relax.......wait, don't sit back, sit forward, with these books on a sturdy table and enjoy.
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Tuesday Mar 08, 2022
Today on GeekFest Rants we take another look at Star Wars action figures. This time around join Carlos as we focus on figures from the original trilogy based on deleted scenes.
Star Wars and Return of the Jedi seem to have them mostly but we also see how The Book of Boba Fett brought back a old deleted scene location and it's characters into full blown cannon status.
Just when you thought you could not go back to Tosche Station to pick up some power converters, Tosche Station is still there.
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Thursday Feb 10, 2022
Today on GeekFest Rants we look at another "Making-of" sci-fi/horror classic: Alien. Join Carlos as he pours over J.W. Rinzler's Making of Alien book. This is another must have publication for genre fans.
These books are not only a commitment in the amount of time you will entrench yourself in the subject matter but an outright education in filmmaking.
Then we hop over to Posters of the Month with the US one sheet for, appropriately enough, Alien and Conan. One being an agency poster and the other a Frank Franzetta 1965 original, repurposed to promote the 1982 Conan the Barbarian film.
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
When collecting action figures you have to set some rules or else you'll run out of room and/or go broke very fast. One of my rules for Star Wars figures is figures based on "behind the scenes" individuals or "behind the mask" actors.
Join Carlos today on GeekFest Rants as he talks about his collection of Star Wars figures that are based on cameos by franchise contributors. These will include George Lucas, Richard Marquand, Jeremy Bulloch, Anthony Daniels, Ahmed Best, Joe Johnston, Dave Filoni, and Ralph McQuarrie.
Can you guess who has had the most different figures made of himself? No cheating by looking at the show art.
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Thursday Dec 30, 2021
Today on GeekFest Rants, Carlos will toast the end of 2021 with Posters of the Month and some Genre Wines. Up first we have the Return of the Jedi One Sheet Style A poster.
This is the one we saw back in 1983 as we lined up to see Return of the Jedi. A somewhat simple poster compared to the Style B.
Then we look at the Midnight Mass poster. A vintage style looking poster for the best limited series of 2021.
Finally, we raise our wine glass to Genre Wines. From the expanding Star Trek Wines collection to Skywalker Vineyards to even some John Carpenter's The Thing whiskey. What on earth will Carlos collect next?
Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
So the story goes, James Cameron got the idea for The Terminator while suffering from a fever dream in Rome during the port production of Piranha 2: The Spawning, his first film. However, sci-fi writer Harlan Ellison might disagree a little bit. Join Carlos at GeekFest Rants as he dives into this behind the scenes potential lawsuit the pitted Harlan Ellison versus The Terminator, but really James Cameron.
Then we take a look at Star Trek's development of the iconic U.S.S. Excelsior. The ship that was suppose to replace The Enterprise, which was later commanded by Captain Sulu, and which class later became The Enterprise-B.
We will also look at some Eaglemoss creations depicting the concept versions of this ship.