Comfort Blanket

Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.This time: George Pal smash! It's When Worlds Collide, in which the puny Earth is spectacularly knocked about in a game of interplanetary billiards.Thanks to the support of our listeners on Patreon and Substack who made this series possible. More short series coming soon!patreon.com/comfortblankpodjoelmorris.substack.com

Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.This time: Robert Wise sets Michael Rennie loose with a giant robot, and teaches the world to say Klaatu Barada Nikto.Thanks to the support of our listeners on Patreon and Substack who made this series possible. More short series coming soon!patreon.com/comfortblankpodjoelmorris.substack.com

Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.This time: The Thing. Howard Hawks sends his usual capable men to deal with an intelligent carrot from outer space. It's for a Thing.Thanks to the support of our listeners on Patreon and Substack who made this series possible. More short series coming soon!patreon.com/comfortblankpodjoelmorris.substack.com

Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.This time: Things To Come, in which H G Wells and Alexander Korda predict the coming of The Helicopter Men.Thanks to the support of our listeners on Patreon and Substack who made this series possible. More short series coming soon!patreon.com/comfortblankpodjoelmorris.substack.com

Rewatching and reconsidering the greatest SF films according to the list published in 2000AD comic in 1980.We start with Metropolis, Fritz Lang's tale of robots, big clocks, and eyeliner.Thanks to the support of our listeners on Patreon and Substack who made this series possible. More short series coming soon!patreon.com/comfortblankpodjoelmorris.substack.com

Writer, comedian and YouTube star Jay Foreman (Map Men) returns to talk about another vivid and unique cartoon world: Cosgrove Hall’s wild and crazy Dangermouse offshoot Count Duckula, and celebrates the subversive joys of children’s television on the (gasp) commercial channels… Goodness!

Writer and comedian Madeleine Brettingham (Harry Hill's TV Burp, Have I Got News For You) talks about the cyclical comforts of wicker-basket obsessed hedgehogs-and-pumpkins glossy Country Living Magazine, and becomes the first Comfort Blanket guest to bring on something that is actually mainly *about* blankets.

Writer and comedian Athena Kugblenu (Frankie Boyle’s New World Order, Horrible Histories) talks about the family-all-together-on-the-sofa comforts of 90s sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, the comedy of class, the thorny issue of fitting in, and recognition humour as high art.

Author Hattie Williams (Bitter Sweet) talks about Nick Park’s lovable Oscar-smashing plasticene cheesepunk technologists, the joy of vegetable puns, silent villains and doomed romances, and the comforts of slow, careful, human craft.