Today's show: Schock! Horror! - Cold blooded...

As it's the afternoon of Walpurgisnacht, why not tune into Richard Thomas' new weekly bite sized (15 min) show, as he presents the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movie trailers... Today it's the turn of primordial landscapes and lost continents and the beasts that roam within
them...

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

N.B./ This year's Sci-Fi London features a special 1950s Hammer quadruple bill on May 5th, all the proceeds of which go to help Resonance FM... So, if you were intrigued by my mention of Stolen Face on our Halloween show last year, now's your chance to see it as well as: X the Unknown, Four Sided Triangle and the seminal British Sci-Fi film Spaceways! Click below for details...

Podcast: The current state of Sci-Fi Movies

Last night's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 27.3mb)

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

If you'd like to buy any of the films that Louis Mentioned which showed in last year's festival:
Die you zombie bastards!, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America and The Machinist are available to buy on PAL region 2 DVD, while
Subject Two and Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre are only available on NTSC Region 1 DVD...

Tonight's show: The current state of sci-fi movies

Alex Fitch interviews Louis Savvy, organiser of Sci-Fi London, the capital's annual science fiction and fantasy festival about this year's event. Sci-Fi London is held from the 3rd to the 6th of May and this year features such films as Recon 2022: The Mezzo incident and Plane Dead (a.k.a. Flight of the living dead), documentaries like Future by design and also runs concurrent with Cine-excess, a conference on cult cinema that includes screenings of David Mamet's Edmond and Gyorgi Palfi's Taxidermia. Alex and Louis discuss these films, the highlights of last year's festival and (natch) the current state of sci-fi on the big and small screens.

10.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

In comics news: It's the GRAPHIC NOVEL WEEKEND at the Cartoon museum in London, so why not go along to hear talks by Posy Simmonds, Ilya, Nick Abadzis, former Close-up guest Mark Stafford and forthcoming Close-up guest Bryan Talbot... Click here for more details.

Links: Sci-Fi London homepage
Cine Excess homepage
Taxidermia review at backprojection.com

N.B./ This year's Sci-Fi London features a special 1950s Hammer quadruple bill on May 5th, all the proceeds of which go to help Resonance FM... So, if you were intrigued by my mention of Stolen Face on our Halloween show last year, now's your chance to see it as well as: X the Unknown, Four Sided Triangle and the seminal British Sci-Fi film Spaceways! Click below for details...

We apologise for this distruption to the usual schedule...

No show this week, I'm afraid...

Richard has this to say on the subject:

Due to structural damage to the studio ceiling, we are obliged to close the studio effective immediately until further notice. All programmes from Thursday 19 April are cancelled including pre-recorded material. The scale of the work we need to undertake over the next few days will leave little time to arrange repeats. The nightloop will be the sole broadcast during this period. Many apologies for this. We have taken expert health & safety advice concerning this matter and they have advised us to take this course as a matter of urgency.
We hope to move to a new premises at the very earliest opportunity.
Until then, please bear with a schedule of repeats and disrupted programming.


More news as soon as I have it!

Now, more than ever(!):

Podcast: "How gay is the screen" part 2

Last week's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.7mb)

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com
Read reviews of films showing at the LLGFF at backprojection.com
Listen to an episode of Midnight Sex Talk about gay bars in London
If you're one of our Californian listeners, you can catch Small Town Gay Bar at Outfest on Wednesday

Today's show: Schock! Horror! - Kong

In this new weekly bite sized (15 min) show, Richard Thomas presents the best examples of 1950s and 60s monster movie trailers starting with the Eighth Wonder of the World TM Kong!

4.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Listen to Richard's show on Godzilla
Buy the Region 1 NTSC or Region 4 PAL DVD of these trailers

Tonight's show: "How gay is the screen" part 2

Following the conclusion of this year's London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, Alex Fitch interviews director Malcolm Ingram about his documentary Small Town Gay Bar and then talks to Inigo Andersson (a film night and club promoter) and Michael Hall (a video shop manager) who are helping to encourage access to gay film-making the rest of the year when the festival isn’t on...

10.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: The London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
IMDb page on Small Town Gay Bar
Film Wotever's Myspace page
Michael's band Nebraska's Myspace page
MSNBC article on how TV is 'less gay' this year

Podcast: "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" - the films of Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait

Last week's show is now available to download... (mp3 format, 28.1mb)

For more info, please visit the home of this episode at www.archive.com

Tonight's show: "Shoot, shoot, shoot!" - the films of Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait

Richard Thomas presents a show on the work of experimental film-makers Chris Welsby & Margaret Tait who explore(d) nuances of the landscape when captured on film...

10.30pm BST Resonance 104.4FM (London) / streamed at www.resonancefm.com

Links: Chris Welsby's website
Lux Online biography on Margaret Tait
Article on the London Film-makers' co-op
Lux Online article on landscape film-makers
Fundació Antoni Tàpies website regarding the exhibition that gave tonight's show its name

Podcast: The Curzon cinemas podcast #01, April '07

April finds a sibling show to I'm ready for my close-up hitting the information superhighway...
Alex Fitch presents The Curzon cinemas podcast #01 featuring reviews of films released this month at the five cinemas in the Curzon network plus exclusive interviews with the directors of The Lives of Others and Half Nelson...

The show went live on April 1st 2007 and more information can be found here...
(mp3 format, 24mins / 10.8mb)