Time Babble

2.10 Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) ”The Colbys”

This week we’re babbling about Safety Not Guaranteed (2012), directed by Colin Trevorrow, and starring Aubrey Plaza, Mark Duplass, Jake Johnson and Karan Soni.
The film is about a real fake classified ad, seeking a companion to travel in time, and is a delightfully low budget film that many people may have missed on its original release. Let’s make that right!
Our lo-fi indie babbling covers all the up-to date pop culture questions, such as ‘What was the spin-off from either Dallas or Dynasty that features a spaceship?’, alongside  ‘How do you stack your soup?’, ‘Do you take your Star Wars figures out of the box?’, and ‘Is it really a car chase if all the cars are only travelling at 15 miles an hour?’
All of these questions and many more, may not be answered in our latest podcast.
 
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2.9 Flight of the Navigator (1986) ”The Eleventh Cow”

This week we’re babbling about time travel film royalty: Flight of the Navigator (1986), directed by Randal Klieser, and starring Joey Cramer, Veronica Cartwright and the voice of Paul Reubens as Max.
Our 80s synth-induced babbling visits the only public toilet in Florida, first gig confessions, futuristic robot post vehicles that still need a Sarah Jessica Parker to help deliver the mail, the most incompetent security this side of a heavily monitored NASA base, and some cows. Count them. Oh, and the best dog-based title sequence ever committed to film.
The film stands the test of time, and is an essential rewatch. Or if you’re one of our younger listeners, you‘ll be able to check out the olden times, when you were encouraged by your parents to go wander in the scary woods all alone, via the railway tracks, at night. 
We am, we’ll be.
 
Time Babble Series Two, Episode Nine is waiting for you now on Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and all good podcast services. If you can’t find it on your usual streaming service, please write in to the usual address.
 
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2.8 The Time Travelers (1964) ”Danny The Electrcian”

This week we're babbling about The Time Travelers (1964), directed by Ib Melchior and produced by the legendary Samuel Z. Arkoff. The film was released by American International Pictures, who are best known for their low budget ‘B’ movies with  high production values.
Our own zero budget babbling this week features futuristic musical instruments, impressive (and not so impressive) magic tricks, Danny the Electrician (YAAAY!) and his lusty antics (could he be one of the greatest screen comedians of all time?), The Cramps (yes, The Cramps!) in space, and a preposterously comprehensive, if lengthy, audit of space sex robots.
Despite what you might assume  from our meandering insights, the film is full of fun, with some quite impressive sets and costume designs. Albeit alongside possibly one of the most confusingly bleak endings in cinematic history.
Join us, and Danny the Electrician (YAAAY!), for our latest Babble.
 
Time Babble Series Two, Episode Eight is waiting for you now on Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and all good podcast services. If you can’t find it on your usual streaming service, please write in to the usual address.
 
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2.7 The Outer Limits S1 E06 (1963)

This week we're babbling about episode six from the first series of the classic tv show, The Outer Limits (1963): The Man Who Was Never Born. It was written by Anthony Lawrence, directed by Leonard Horn and stars a very young Martin Landau.
For those who have sensitivity towards frogs, please consider this a warning, as we expose the underwritten obsession this episode has with our amphibian friends. However, the listener can console themselves with various distractions, including alien shape-shifting, the lady’s pocket, the accuracy of french pronunciation, and mutant fingers, tickling a dog.
 
Time Babble Series Two, Episode Seven is waiting for you now on Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and all good podcast services. If you can’t find it on your usual streaming service, please write in to the usual address.
 
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2.6 65 (2023) ”Curry Powder Mountain”

Hey, listen! This week we're babbling about 65, or 65 Million Years Ago Prehistoric Earth had a Visitor (2023), directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods and starring Adam Driver, Ariana Greenblatt, fighting off a render farm's worth of dinosaurs. 
On the very first Time Babble live trip out to the cinema, our tiny brains were duped into thinking this was a time travel movie, which embarrassingly, it certainly is not. Oh, but it could be… it really should be…
But, as you well know by now dear listener, here at Babble HQ we neither shirk our duty, nor give a tinker's cuss about our own rules, nor indeed do we want to waste the money we’d already spent on what was otherwise a wonderful day out. So keep your ears peeled and you'll be presented with our traditional mix of deeply researched critique and shameless gaggery, covering such erudite profundities as the Hand Ocarina™, a particular 90s acid-rave pop banger, the benefits of writing with curry powder and, um, our very first buttterfly-based concept pub venture.
 
Time Babble Series Two, Episode Six is waiting for you now on Podbean, Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Podcasts and all good podcast services. If you can’t find it on your usual streaming service, please write in to the usual address.
 
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2.5 Dominick Hide Double Bill (1980 and 1982) ”The Full Dominick”

This week we're babbling about two films from the BBC Play for Today series: The Flipside of Dominick Hide (1980) and its sequel Another Flip for Dominick (1982). Both plays were directed by Alan Gibson and co-written with Jeremy Paul. 
The plays star Peter Firth as Dominick, Caroline Langrishe as his past love Jane, Pippa Guard as his future wife Ava, and Patrick Magee as Caleb (a.k.a. Future Scrooge).
Both ‘Flips represent the very best of BBC drama in its heyday, and an oddity for the 80s, as everyone is so damn nice to each other! Indeed, if the listener can count the number of times we say ‘nice’ during the podcast, you’ll win a prize! (you won’t).
So pour yourself a Gilbey’s gin and tonic, strap yourselves into your time-machine-UFO-special-effect and prepare to flip back to a more ‘innocent’ time, of super-young British character actors, creepy giant teddy bears, future-altering pooches, an earworm of a theme song, and far too much Brush Stroking for our liking.
Both of these films are flipping brilliant, so are well worth travelling into the future past to seek them out.
 
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2.4 Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020) ”Snake Oilsman”

This week we’re babbling about Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (2020), written by Makoto Ueda and directed by Junta Yamaguchi.
But before we do, and just for you our dear and loyal listener, we invite you to gorge on some extracurricular babble about our supporting Doraemon cartoon: The Time Machine is Lost (2005). Yaaaaay! 
This unfeasibly joyful and wildly overemoting short, is just a tiny part of an expansive collection of manga, TV and anime, featuring this feline cultural icon. Come grab hold of a monster’s ball from the giant pouch of a future cat-like robot!
In no less strange and hilarious fashion, in our feature babble we attempt (with our tiny brains) to fathom the recursive complications of a beautifully precise and constructed ‘one-take’ film... sidetracked as we are by Cotton Eye Joe, the inaugural mention of gloriously bleak Hungarian master filmmaker Béla Tarr, and predictions of the future, with the tasty jams & jellies of the most notorious historical Snake Oilsman of them all - Nostradamus!
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2.3 It Happened Tomorrow (1944) ”23 Skidoo”

Greetings from the Time Babble Zeppelin!
This week we’re babbling about It Happened Tomorrow (1944), directed by René Clair, and starring Dick Powell, Linda Darnell and Jackie Oakie.
This terrific tale of tabloid-based time travel is a perfect example of the endless variety of this most generous of genres. Who would've thought that we’d find Time Babble HQ’s favourite, if most elusive, slang phrase (yes, we’ve all got ‘em) “23 Skidoo”, snuggled inside this warm, funny and charming comedy.
But have no fear, our loyal Babblers, for within a few minutes you'll be merrily chuckling along with us. Together we’ll discover: who really shot Abraham Lincoln, what the ‘Cad and his Dicks’ get up to on their boozy nights off; witness a serious amount of Police related bottom-kicking, and enjoy the first appearance of a cucumber in vaudeville. We also meet everyone’s favourite alley lurker, the sweet and also quite creepy, Pops..!
 
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2.2 Twelve Monkeys (1995) ”Dribble Me This”

This week, we’re babbling about Twelve Monkeys (1995), which was inspired by Chris Marker’s legendary short film La Jetée (1962), directed by Terry Gilliam, and stars Bruce Willis, Madeleine Stowe and Brad Pitt.
Apparently, it’s easy to get distracted by a monkey lowered down a well holding a beef sandwich, and Time Babble is no different. But the careful and/or loyal listener will also be rewarded with a deep dive into primate-based time travel, tales of unique Oscars categories, the first (of likely many) nods to the genius of Guy Maddin, faulty monkey calculations, and the finest dribbling this side of Hollywood.
Make sure you watch this one in HD to fully enjoy the hamster, and the bare botty back-scrubs.
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2.1 Brigadoon (1954) ”Grouse Point Blank”

This week we’re babbling about Brigadoon (1954) a lavish MGM musical directed by Vincente Minnelli, and based on the stage musical by Lerner and Loewe. The film stars the glorious pairing of dance legends Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse, and the morose, perpetually drunk, yet wise cracking Van Johnson.
The most Scottishly Scottish of musicals, Brigadoon is also a magical, mystical village that rises out of the mist every hundred years. But, for the singing and dancing residents of Brigadoon, only one day has passed. And no-one is allowed to leave, lest the entire village will disappear back into the mist…
As well as discovering the delights of a Dancical*, you’ll witness the love of a young boy for his ‘Lassie’, gather heather on the hill, and cower from the delightfully creepy ‘Sandy the Candyman’. And despite this being a family friendly musical, there are also a considerable amount of tops being popped off during the dramatic chase sequence.
Did anybody say tartan?
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