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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 […]

For this episode I have somewhat of a kindred spirit by the name of Alexandre Poncet. Alexandre is, like me, a lover of behind the scenes stories. He and his friend and business partner, Gilles […]

I don’t have much in the way of film artefacts these days. I have a couple of replica Star Wars helmets. Some Neca Alien and Jaws action figures and of course some reference books.My guest […]

For this episode I spoke to Gino Acevedo, a make-up and special effects expert that’s worked on films such as Lord of the Rings, King Kong, Iron Man, The Jungle Book, Planet of the Apes […]

This time my guest is film composer Daniel Pemberton. Before I go any further I just want to take a moment to thank my friend and colleagues John Lyons for connecting me with Daniel. Initially […]

Ok so for this episode I was put in touch with Hannah Barbera, Bluth and Disney artist and animator T.Dan Hofstedt. T Dan worked for Disney on a number of their big projects including Aladdin, […]