Back Look Cinema: The Podcast

Zo enters a world of magic, rot and decay. This world shouldn't be this way as this magical place was once green and briming with life. In time Zo finds out that a prophecy must be fulfilled in order for this world to be restored to its former glory. A rare being, a Gelfling who is guided by creatures known as the Mystics, is said to be the one to find the Crystal Shard that can be used to heal the world. On his way this Gelfling may find allies, but there are also numerous adversaries in the wilds. The wicked rulers of this world, known as the Skeksis, will stop at nothing to prevent the prophesy from coming to pass. They would do anything to prevent any surviving Gelfling from using the Crystal Shard to restore The Dark Crystal. Episode Segments 00:04:08 - Opening Credits for The Dark Crystal starring Jim Henson, Frank Oz, & Kathryn Mullen 00:18:17- Favorite Parts of the 1982 film: The Dark Crystal 00:56:09 - Trivia from the movie The Dark Crystal 01:03:25 - Critics' Thoughts on Jim Henson and Frank Oz's The Dark Crystal

Zo has a met up with a Navy friend of his who happened to be a submarine officer. Zo's Navy friend was all shook up as there where a lot of things that happened on the sub that had him questioning whether or not he should resign his commission. In the conversation the young officer revealed things that happened that were probably classified top secret. The friend talked about that they almost fired nuclear missiles and almost started a nuclear war and that it was only the intervention of the very cautious XO that prevented the launch. This intervention lead to an argument between the XO and the Captain of the boat, the XO forcefully relieving the Captain of being in command of the boat, and most damning, the mutiny of the crew. Zo asked his friend if the friend sided with the XO or the Captain. The friend didn't want to say, but would only comment that the whole incident felt like the coming of . . . a Crimson Tide. 00:08:08 - Opening Credits for Crimson Tide starring Gene Hackman and Denzel Washington 00:22:50- Favorite Parts of the 1995 film: Crimson Tide 01:07:14 - Trivia from the movie Crimson Tide 01:21:23 - Critics' Thoughts on Tony Scott's Crimson Tide

Zo was invited by his friends in Chicago to attend a live boxing match. He declined not wanting to deal with the traffic. He later learned that there would've been more than just traffic to deal with. Besides getting stuck in the aforementioned traffic and getting into a fender bender in their borrowed RV trying to get out of that bumper to bumper headache, Zo's friends also got lost in the city taking an unfamiliar route to the stadium, accidently hit a pedestrian with the RV, got the RV banged up and stuck in a narrow alley, witnessed the murder of that same pedestrian by some gangsters, and spent most of their night running for their lives from those psychopathic killers! It seemed like the kind of tribulations that people would have to deal with on Judgement Day. Zo didn't know if he would've survived his friends' Judgement Night Episode Segments 00:03:41 - Opening Credits for Judgement Night starring Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr., Denis Leary and Jeremy Piven 00:12:27 - Favorite Parts of the 1993 film: Judgement Night 00:28:04 - Trivia from the movie Judgement Night 00:33:25 - Critics' Thoughts on Stephen Hopkin's Judgement Night

Zo is in the famed Chinatown area of Los Angeles enjoying the sights, the sounds and, as it turns out, a bunch of commotion. Zo loves a good martial arts bout just like everyone else, but does a kung fu fight have to break out at the Chinese restaurant where he's at trying to enjoy egg fu young? It seems as though a well dressed Chinese man and a tall, lanky, goofy looking African American are in a full-on Hong Kong film fight with a bunch of unruly Chinese gangsters. At some point the tall goofy one, who's been talking non-stop during the fight, screams out "LAPD!," so these are supposed to be the cops? Instead of law and order they're causing an unacceptable amount of chaos smashing dishes, overturning tables and generally upsetting customers. Bumper to bumper traffic and kung fu fights . . . is Rush Hour always like this? Episode Segments 00:03:41 - Opening Credits for Rush Hour starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker 00:12:27 - Favorite Parts of the 1998 Film: Rush Hour 00:28:04 - Trivia from the Movie Rush Hour 00:33:25 - Critics' Thoughts on Brett Ratner's Rush Hour

Zo goes on an ocean cruise. The voyage turns out to be longer than he expected. In fact, he finds out that he's at a time and place where this particular sea voyage will come to an end sometime in the middle of Neveruary. Being on a permanent tour on the ocean has it's perks, like, being so adjusted to boating life that one never gets sea sick. Then there are the downsides like constantly being harassed by pirates, being cheated by men drifting in the open ocean, horrifying mutated sea monsters, and never seeing the site of dry land again. Zo had heard a lot of strange tales while on this trip such as the story of The Mariner who had gills behind his ears so that he could breath underwater and that he was traveling with a woman and a special child who had a tattoo of where dry land could be found. On the one hand, Zo is tempted to find this Mariner and follow him and his companions to there destination. On the other hand, Zo had heard that this Mariner is being hounded by a group of ornery Smokers. Ain't nobody got time to be dealin' with no Smokers, man! Might as well sit back, relax and enjoy the Waterworld. Episode Segments 00:09:15 - Opening Credits for Waterworld starring Kevin Costner, Dennis Hopper, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Tina Majorino 00:19:52 - Favorite Parts of the 1995 Film: Waterworld 01:00:26 - Trivia from the Movie Waterworld 01:08:42 - Critics' Thoughts on Kevin Reynold's Waterworld