The Best Of 1985: Community Pick Edition - vote now!
Hello Redshirt team!
We're in the midst of our 1985 season and it's time to find our community pick - the film that you choose, that we will watch and then discuss in an upcoming bonus episo...
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Back To The Future (1985)
Your kids are gonna love it...
Back To The Future! Our 1985 season begins in earnest this week with Dave's pick of the year, Robert Zemeckis' layered, heartfelt time-travelling adventure (al...
The Goonies (1985) - Commander Exclusive Bonus Episode
Hey you guys! 1985 season is upon us, and you know what that means? It means it's our time. Our time to watch The Goonies.
This is a film that Rob and Dave love so much that they c...
November schedule (and Bonus Episode update)
Morning all,
Two quick messages this morning! Our bonus episode has been hit by sickness, so we'll be rescheduling that to later this week. We're not sure exactly when this will be, but we'...
The Very Latest Edition
By Nathan Ditum
Hello dear Redshirts to this, the 12th edition of the Civilian Observer. It’s the latest edition, in both senses - we have become irregular in putting these out during a bu...
Mailbag & Our Top 1985 Movie Picks
We're taking a long overdue look inside the Redshirt Cinema Club mailbag this week (please keep emailing us, we do read them, promise) before kicking off our new mini season by each selecting our f...
2025-11-10 09:42:20 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Carpenter - The Thing (1982)
Man is the warmest place to hide this week, as our John Carpenter mini-season comes to a spectacular, gushing climax with 1982’s The Thing. Is Jed the dog the best dog actor ever? Could speaking ...
2025-11-03 09:45:29 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Carpenter - Prince of Darkness (1987) - Commander Exclusive Bonus Episode
Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast transmitting from the year 1999...
Commanders, this week’s bonus episode features a movie just waiting to inflict existential tra...
2025-10-29 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Carpenter - Escape From New York (1981)
Snake? Snaaaaaaake!
Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast about smoking, apparently.
In the distant future of the year 1997, Manhattan has become a su...
2025-10-27 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Carpenter - Halloween (1978)
Death has come to your little podcast, Redshirts...
Halloween has come early, which is only fair as two of us are coming very late to Halloween, John Carpenter's genre-setting 1978 teen slas...
John Carpenter - The Fog (1980) - Commander Exclusive Bonus Episode
“How can weather be scary?” is the question posed by today’s film, John Carpenter’s 1980 West-coast horror, The Fog. Luckily the film also provides the answer, which is to fill the weather ...
2025-10-15 15:36:38 +0000 UTC View PostJohn Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13 (1976)
Welcome to Los Angeles in 1976, setting for John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13, a tale of bad gangs, good guys, and a tragically mishandled ice cream order. This is America and Hollywood as ...
2025-10-13 05:00:25 +0000 UTC View Post100th episode special! 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - Commander tier exclusive
The 100th episode special is never late, it arrives precisely when it means to. In this case, as the 101st episode thanks to a building alarm that WOULD NOT STOP GOING OFF in a neighbouring unit. <...
2025-10-08 13:24:15 +0000 UTC View PostWhere to watch our upcoming season of films
Hello Redshirt crew!
As of yesterday we have embarked upon a new series on the pod, watching the films of John Carpenter from Dark Star (1974) to The Prince of Darkness (1987).
We lo...
John Carpenter - Dark Star (1974)
A new dawn! A new day! A new Dark Star!
Welcome to a brand new series on Redshirt Cinema Club, as we embark upon a vaguely Halloween-timed viewing of the early films of John Carpenter.
...
2025-10-06 11:03:50 +0000 UTC View PostAlien: Earth - Episode 8 'The Real Monsters'
The kids are awry
We've reached the finale of Alien: Earth! This week we discuss episode 8, 'The Real Monsters'.
The journey has ended, and have we been walking in a circle this whole ...
2025-09-29 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostSchedule change! 100th Episode Spcial
Morning all! A quick heads up from us - next week's 100th Episode Special on 2001: A Space Odyssey has been delayed by a week and will now arrive on Wednesday 8th October (which will mean it's actu...
2025-09-26 09:25:48 +0000 UTC View PostComing up - October and beyond on Redshirt Cinema Club
Hello lovely Redshirt listeners, Nath here. I hope you're all doing well, sitting or floating in zero G comfortably.
As we approach the end of our Alien: Earth series (an experiment in foll...
Alien: Earth - Episode 7 'Emergence'
This week - episode 7 of Alien: Earth, 'Emergence'.
Things are happening, Fletch - many of them bad, especially for any humans remaining on the Neverland island complex in possession of a mor...
2025-09-22 23:16:56 +0000 UTC View PostThe Fly (1986) - Commander tier exclusive bonus episode
This week's bonus episode has us climbing the walls here at Redshirt Cinema Club. Not in the idiomatic sense that we're feeling frustrated or anxious, but in the literal sense that we've altered ou...
2025-09-17 09:10:42 +0000 UTC View PostTomorrow's bonus episode - The Fly (1986)
Hello all - this is a heads up that tomorrow's bonus episode will be focused on David Cronenberg's '80s body horror, The Fly.
Why? WELL - it was Dave's idea, and it's one he might have had ...
Alien: Earth - Episode 6 'The Fly'
After the brilliant episode 5 we return to Neverland for Alien: Earth episode 6 as events ramp up for the season finale.
Wendy is transfixed by a now-adolescent Xenomorph, Slightly is despera...
2025-09-15 08:44:11 +0000 UTC View PostAlien: Earth - Episode 5 'In Space, No One...'
Episode 5 of Alien: Earth takes us back to the beginning. We wondered when we'd see the crew of the Maginot again and here they are, revealed in all their flawed, incompetent glory. An episode that...
2025-09-08 05:00:09 +0000 UTC View PostWhat's in Rob's Blu-Ray collection? Commander-exclusive bonus episode
Is collecting physical media still a thing for the Redshirt crew? And if so, what does that look like? In this episode, we're taking a nostalgic stroll through our days of collecting movies - the w...
2025-09-03 11:22:02 +0000 UTC View PostAlien: Earth - Episode 4 'Observations'
I'm looking through you...
It's time for episode four of Alien: Earth, 'Observations'. Which is apt because there's a lot of observing going on: Wendy in the lab, Boy Kavalier watching Joe,...
Alien: Earth - Episode 3 'Metamorphosis'
Ch ch ch ch chaaaaanges
It's time for episode three of Alien: Earth, and the title of the episode is 'Metamorphosis'. Which is a reference to our showgirl, of course, but also the Lost Boys,...
Arrival (2016) - Commander-exclusive bonus episode
Things fall apart. The centre cannot hold.
The mere anarchy loosed in this particular instance being a community poll to find the best genre movie made in the Marvel Era ("...before the dar...
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once - The New Movie Night Experience
In a recent bonus episode of the podcast we lamented the death of the video rental store and the subsequent cultural hole left in our movie-watching lives. The absence of that physical place, that ...
2025-08-18 16:57:56 +0000 UTC View PostAlien: Earth - Episodes 1 and 2
This week we're beginning our series on Alien: Earth.
Having watched the Alien film series in its entirety at the end of last year, we are perfectly prepared, poised like an apex predator, an...
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