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For this episode, number 70, I finally spoke with director Patrick Read Johnson. He recently released his many years in the making, labour of love 5-25-77. A film that semi fictionalises and chronicles the early […]

For this episode, number 69 I spoke with ILM and Sony Image Pictureworks legend Ken Ralston. Ken started on VFX in advertising, then in 1976 he was employed to work on a little film called […]

For this episode, number 68 I spoke with an animator at ILM, namely Hal Hickel. Now, if you’re on twitter you’ll know that Hal is a prolific tweeter. I’ve had a number of conversations with […]

For this episode I had the pleasure of speaking with the ultra talented and lovely human being… Jean Bolte, that’s BoltE, rhymes with Nick Nolte as she told me. Jean has worked in the film […]

For episode 66, I have an Oscar winning director. But I don’t talk to him about his films at all. Instead I talk to him about a book he’s written. Lee Unkrich is probably best […]

Just before Christmas I spoke with Rose Duignan. If you watched Light and Magic on Disney+ you’ll have seen Rose, a long time employee at ILM. She filled several roles during her years there including […]

Now as any historian should, I like to hear differing points of view from people, in my case the memories of people who worked on the same movies. I like to dig deeper than just […]

I managed to get in contact with ILM VFX legend Dennis Muren, all thanks to a friend who put in a good word for me. Thanks Mark. Dennis and I chatted a couple of weeks […]

If you listened to episode 61 you’ll know it was part one of a two part conversation with Lucasfilm and ILM producer Jim Bloom. Jim is a great talker and worked on so many projects, […]

So for this episode, number 61 I have ex ILM and Lucasfilm producer Jim Bloom. Jim started his career proper on Lucas’s American Graffiti and then navigated a very interesting path through numerous titles with […]

Back in December 2021 I spoke with author John Walsh about his book “Escape from New York – The Official Story of the Film”, that was episode 41. Well he’s been busily beavering away on […]

Today’s guest is a writer, a showrunner, podcaster and original props collector by the name of Ryan Condal. I mean he’s the writer and showrunner on the world’s biggest show right now., House of the […]