LAMBcast #252: Southland Tales

Much like last year, the LAMB Movie of the Month for January lucked out to be a sci-fi film, which is great since we're celebrating Escape-athon all month long. Said movie deals with time travel, vaguely defined perpetual motion technology, and badass futuristic zeppelins! Unfortunately, the movie is 2006's Southland Tales.

Punk Fiction

Elwood - the movie's champion - joined Jay and me for a discussion about Richard Kelly's follow up to Donnie Darko, one of my all time favorite sci-fi films. Dylan and Todd joined us for the ride. The episode's below, along with some notes.

"Let's dry our tears and face our fears."

1. We talked about the comics that Richard Kelly produced as prequels for this flick (as if the movie itself wasn't enough) - you can still buy them on Amazon.
2. Elwood talked about the theory that the flick's based on the Old Testament (or The Book of Revelation? I can't remember what we said on the podcast). If you're interested in that, it's apparently very true. Read this in-depth Salon article if you're up for it. It's pretty interesting (it actually kinda made me appreciate the film a little more...).
3. Here's that Back to the Future poll...vote! C'mon!
4. And you can head here to submit some LAMBcast topics. Thanks, guys!