Time Babble

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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1.9 Somewhere in Time (1980) ”Mothra’s Balsam”

Deck the halls with peanuts & balsam! It’s the Time Babble Christmas Special!
This week we’re babbling about Somewhere in Time (1980) which was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and stars Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the novel Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson, who also wrote the screenplay, and makes an ‘astonishing’ cameo. The swoonsome soundtrack is provided by the legendary John Barry. 
There’s so much beauty on display that we can barely contain ourselves, however, giant geese, portraits that stare right back at you through the mists of time, Mothra, and the dangers of loose change bring a bit of serious reflection to our seasonal stupidities.
Remember: a time travel film is not just for Christmas, and whilst Somewhere in Time doesn't have the usual trappings of a science fiction extravaganza, the film has so much LOVE to spare, that we had to include two ‘Romance Corner’ sections. And that’s more than we can count.
Join us for a very merry Yuletide Babble!
 
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1.0 The Tomorrow War (2021) “Tuna Santa”

This week we’re babbling about The Tomorrow War (2021), which was directed by Chris Mckay and stars Chris Pratt, Yvonne Strahovski and J. K. Simmons.
Despite sounding like we’re recording in a tiny cupboard, 20,000 leagues under the sea, somewhere in the future-past, using only string and paper-cups, this is the episode which instigated the digressionary inanity that is the award-avoiding Time Babble you know and love.
Thankfully giving a wide berth to the majority of the film’s content, we begin by obsessing over our new-found culinary masterpiece that is Tuna Santa, and proceed by stumbling blindly through contemporary topics such as: daddy issues, the evil White Stripes, Abbie Hoffman, lashings of explody-porn, and the occasional top popped off…
 
Let Babble commence!
 
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1.8 Russian Doll (2019) “La Cucaracha”

This week we’re babbling about the first series of Russian Doll (2019), which was created by its star Natasha Lyonne, who also co-wrote the series with Amy Poehler, and directed the final episode.
Our inaugural plunge into telly box-based time travel, the chat will feature a mango, a reoccurring bathroom, an earworm of a song, several Ted Talks on the nature of existence, Paul Hardcastle’s endless remixes (yep, that’s right kids), and the same day, repeated again, and again, and again…
Dear listener, we’ve saved the best episode until last*, and we encourage you to watch the first series before the babble begins. 
Do ‘The Cocker-roach’!
 
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* Well not quite the last in this series, a few ‘surprises’ to come before the end of the year…
 
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1.7 Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979) “The Goose Edit”

It’s Goose Week on Time Babble! To celebrate, we’re babbling about Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979), which was directed by Russ Mayberry and stars Dennis Dugan as both our hero, and his android/robot twin, alongside a funeral* of ‘end of career’ british character actors, including Jim Dale as the villain, Ron Moody, Kenneth Moore, John Le Mesurier, Rodney Bewes and Pat Roach, as the magnificent Oaf.
'So many geese in movies - so little time’  is our mantra this week, as we praise the cinematic beauty of the goose-edit, one-take apple eating, and the liberal use, but inappropriate nature, of using an adult magazine in a children’s film. Remember - don’t forget to wear your asbestos space suit if you are about to be burnt at the stake. 
Did we say goose?
 
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1.6 The Adam Project (2022) “Christos”

This week we’re babbling about The Adam Project (2022), which was directed by Shawn Levy, and stars Ryan Reynolds, Jennifer Garner, Mark Ruffalo, and Catherine Keener.
The seemingly now obligatory father/son complex that's littered throughout modern studio filmmaking is present and correct here. However in Episode 6, ever champions of balance and fairness, Time Babble endeavour to make light of all they encounter: farting bullet wounds, the poor plight of the sympathetic henchman, time dogs, analogue smart tech, and for the admin nerds amongst us, we launch Time Babble Tick Box Bingo!
What better way to distract yourself from the void..?
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