Reality Check: Manufacturing Cloverfield - Originally podcast at Sci-Fi London Alex Fitch presents an edited version of the Cloverfield press conference - director Matt Reeves talks about bringing the giant monster movie genre up to date, the challenges of shooting an entire movie on ‘handycam’ and the pressures of living up to the hype generated by [...]

I’m ready for my close-up: Looking for Sweeney Todd, Originally broadcast 21/02/08 Recently brought to the attention of a new generation of media consumers through Tim Burton’s adaptation of the musical “Sweeney Todd: The demon barber of Fleet Street“, Todd has been terrifying Londoners for over 160 years. In a monologue written by Alex Fitch, comedienne [...]

Reality Check: ‘Other’ Cinema on DVD - Originally podcast at Sci-Fi London Alex Fitch talks to Noel Lawrence, founder of the Other Cinema DVD label about their range of esoteric / underground movies and collections of short films such as The Net - The Unabomber, LSD and the internet, Experiments in Terror, Decasia and Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y…Click [...]

Reality Check: Producing genre shows on the radio Originally podcast at www.sci-fi-london.com Alex Fitch talks to Dirk Maggs about his various genre and science fiction programmes on BBC radio from the recent revival of Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy to Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective agency, An American Werewolf in London & Independence Day UK… Download audio file (realitycheck_dirk.mp3)

Reality Check: Nostalgia and Cult TV -  originally podcast at www.sci-fi-london.com/audio Coinciding with the launch of the new TV series Ashes to Ashes which looks a lot like this…  … we have two interviews recorded at last summer’s Cult TV Weekender: Alex Fitch talks to actor Philip Glenister (DCI Gene Hunt) and writer Matthew Graham about Life [...]

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