CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 3/13/25

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Things aren't looking bright!

It's been a while since we've had a new rock opera, and O'DESSA gives us a title character who, armed with a magic guitar, travels to a dystopian city ruled by a tyrannical game show host to fulfill an old prophecy. While there, she falls hard for her true love, but the infatuation soon turns into a rescue mission. Writer/director Geremy Jasper (PATTI CAKE$) zooms in to elucidate on his hero's journey.

From 2020:  In 1945, soon after atomic bombs exploded over Japan, two Hollywood studios were preparing big-budget films about the invention and use of that revolutionary new weapon. It was MGM that released THE BEGINNING OR THE END, a sort-of docudrama which covered the events leading from the U.S.'s initial reaction to the Nazis' own work to the project's terrible culmination at Hiroshima.  With his book, THE BEGINNING OR THE END: HOW HOLLYWOOD-- AND AMERICA-- LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB, author (and our sole guest) Greg Mitchell dives deep into studio meeting rooms, laboratories and military camps to tell the real story behind the celluloid one, detailing how what studio chief Louis B. Mayer called a "most important story" turned into a watered-down, stagey piece of Hollywood propaganda. 

Then, ALL-NEW "Screen Scene" movie reviews including ﻿﻿MICKEY 17; THERE'S STILL TOMORROW; IN THE LOST LANDS; SEVEN VEILS; THERE IS ANOTHER WAY; ﻿THE DAY THE EARTH BLEW UP: A LOONEY TUNES MOVIE and NOVOCAINE.

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This week's featured soundtrack: THE SOUND OF MUSIC (music by Rodgers and Hammerstein) [Twentieth Century Fox Film Scores]


GEREMY JASPER (O'DESSA) + GREG MITCHELL (THE BEGINNING OR THE END) + ALL NEW MOVIE REVIEWS (3-13-25) CELLULOID DREAMS

TIM SIKA (Celluloid Dreams The Movie Show)