Doctor James McLean and I continue our wide-ranging discussion of Star Trek and its history in our eighth "excellent journey" podcast.
Creator of the award-winning web series, Abnormal Fixation. One of the horror genre's "most widely read critics" (Rue Morgue # 68), "an accomplished film journalist" (Comic Buyer's Guide #1535), and the award-winning author of Horror Films of the 1980s (2007) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002), John Kenneth Muir, presents his blog on film, television and nostalgia, named one of the Top 100 Film Studies Blog on the Net.
Monday, November 13, 2023
John and Jim's Excellent Journey #8!
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
John and Jim's Excellent Journey #7: Star Trek ( Part I)
Dr. James McLean and I return for our irregularly scheduled cult-television podcast, John and Jim's Excellent Journey on (Kasterborous) to talk all things...Star Trek.
Give it a listen on Spotify:
Tuesday, September 05, 2023
John and Jim's Excellent Journey #6: Have You Reached Your Crunch-Point?
James McLean and I are back with our irregularly scheduled, irregular topic podcast, "John and Jim's Excellent Journey!
This time out, we debate the idea of a content "crunch point," in terms of movie and TV, an over-saturation of the things we once loved (like superhero movies), but which now engender only exhaustion.
Take a listen!
Monday, July 31, 2023
John and Jim's Excellent Journey: The House Between
The latest "John and Jim's Excellent Journey" podcast episode has been posted over at Kasterborous!
This time up, James McLean and I are discussing audio dramas of cult-TV and movie franchises, as well as my own experience creating Enter The House Between, my new audio drama.
Here's the link:
https://www.kasterborous.co.uk/john-and-jims-excellent-journey-5-the-house-between/
Here's the show on Apple:
Thank you for listening!
Friday, June 15, 2018
Excellent Journey Returns: First Season Wonders/Second Season Blunders
Sunday, November 05, 2017
John and Jim's Excellent Journey #3: Fugitive-esque
Friday, July 21, 2017
John and Jim's Excellent Journey Podcast #2: Space:1999
Check out the second chapter of my podcast with the extraordinary and learned James McLean. Our topic for this episode of John and Jim's Excellent Journey: Space: 1999 (1975 -1977).
This episode was recorded in April, well before Martin Landau's passing last week, but it is posting at the perfect time to remember one of the actor's most beloved roles.
Here's the link: http://beyondkasterborous.com/index.php/2017/07/19/excellent-journey-podcast-2-space-1999/
Sunday, March 26, 2017
John and Jim's Excellent Journey: Episode 1
CULT TV FLASHBACK: Dead of Night (1994-1997)
This year, Dead of Night: The Complete Series , was released on Blu-Ray by Vinegar Syndrome , and I just had the pleasure of falling into i...
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Last year at around this time (or a month earlier, perhaps), I posted galleries of cinematic and TV spaceships from the 1970s, 1980s, 1...
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The robots of the 1950s cinema were generally imposing, huge, terrifying, and of humanoid build. If you encountered these metal men,...



