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Cosmic Motion

William Boodell and Colin Dixon

Cosmic Motion is a weekly audio program wherein Writer/Director/Editor William Boodell and Multimedia Editor Colin Dixon discuss films from a filmmaking point-of-view. They often invite other filmmakers to participate in the discussion.Join them as they traverse the cinematic cosmos in search of gems both established and hidden.

tv & film film reviews

All Episodes

105:35

024 - NIGHT OF THE COMET (Thom Eberhardt, 1984) with...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/11/11

Two valley girl sisters (Catherine Mary Stewart and Kelli Maroney) wake up to find most of the world’s population gone. The comet that has just passed the earth has also wiped out everyone who wasn’t protected by metal walls. Those exposed humans who haven’t been turned to dust share the fate of becoming man-eating zombies. Deep in the desert scientists who foresaw this problem have protected themselves in an underground bunker but have found that they didn’t do a great job of it. Now they need

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89:32

023 - PRISON (Renny Harlin, 1987) with Kevin Rhoades

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/10/31

Burke (Viggo Mortensen) is a mysterious prisoner sentenced to live in a prison that is haunted by the ghost of an old inmate who has a score to settle with Warden Ethan Sharpe (Lane Smith).Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Kevin Rhoades as they visit the spooky correctional facility where Renny Harlin launched his U.S. career.

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84:47

022 - COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT (Joseph Sargent,...

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2025/10/25

Dr. Charlies Forbin (Eric Braeden) and his associates build and engage an AI supercomputer known as “Colossus” whose purpose is to protect the United States in the event that anyone attacks. Plans go awry when Colossus instead melds with a Russian supercomputer named Guardian with the intent to control and perhaps enslave all of humanity. The U.S. government, Dr. Forbin and his team make best efforts to thwart Colossus’ plans, but have they built this artificial intelligence too well?Join Bill,

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93:03

021 - VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (Jaromil Jires,...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/10/20

Valerie (Jaroslava Schallerová) has just had her first period and is becoming a woman. This means she has to traverse a confusing dreamscape of friends, family members and others who now look at her with desire. It becomes clear that Valerie must learn how to fend for herself in a predatory world.Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Alison Star Locke (THE APOLOGY) as they drop into a visually engaging but disturbing dream about young female adulthood.

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85:30

020 - THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK (Francesco...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/10/10

Sylvia (Mimsy Farmer) is a scientist who struggles to keep it together as she appears to her lover, friends and neighbors to be losing her mind. Is she?Join Bill, Colin and Writer/Director Matthew S. Robinson (MY FRIEND VIOLET) as they try to piece her together.

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91:40

019 - FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON (Luigi Bazzoni, 1975)

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2025/10/03

Florinda Bolkan plays Alice, a translator who seems to be living events and going to places she can’t fully recall. She’s also having disturbing dreams connected to a film she once saw wherein an astronaut is left all alone on the moon in a government (or is it a corporate?) experiment. Is Alice losing her mind? Is she part of a larger conspiracy? Or has reality simply devolved into a rabbit hole full of mysterious characters and events that she must struggle to piece together?Join Bill, Colin and

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82:11

018 - THE BOOK OF STONE (Carlos Enrique Taboada,...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/09/26

Governess Julia Septién (Marga Lopéz) is hired to watch over Silvia (Lucy Buj), a young girl with a friend named Hugo (Jorge Pablo Carillo). However, Julia will come to learn that Hugo is actually a stone statue standing on the family home’s grounds. Silvia’s father, Eugenio (Joaquín Cordero), and stepmother, Mariana (Norma Lazareno), don’t know what to do about Silvia’s obsession with Hugo which seems to plague them. When strange things begin occurring and as family life begins to unravel, Julia

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017 - RED ROCK WEST (John Dahl, 1993) with Frank Merle

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2025/09/21

Michael Williams (Nic Cage) is a broke, wounded Marine vet who wanders into a small-town Wyoming bar to be mistaken by bar owner, Wayne Brown (J.T. Walsh) as a hired killer from Texas named Lyle. When he agrees to kill Wayne’s wife (played by Lara Flynn Boyle), Michael then doubles the amount when the wife he’s supposed to kill pays him to double-cross her husband and kill him instead. But that’s just the beginning because the true hired killer, Lyle, from Dallas (Dennis Hopper) shows up and things

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016 - DUEL TO THE DEATH (Siu-Tung Ching, 1983) with...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/09/12

Every ten years, a representative swordsman from China and from Japan must duel to the death as a matter of tradition between the two countries. The Chinese Bo Ching-wan (Damian Lau) and Japanese Miyamoto Ichiro (Norman Chu) are selected as their nations’ best to compete in a fair manner. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, forces from both countries have other ideas. Also, Sheng Nan (Flora Chong-Leen), daughter of Master Han (Paul Chang Chung), wants to compete, but she’s a girl. Both Ching Wan and

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015 - SHIP OF FOOLS (Stanley Kramer, 1965) with Cindy...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/09/08

An unhappy cruise ship doctor and his crew are surrounded by an amalgam of 1933 Americans, Mexicans and Germans on their way from Mexico to Germany, each with their own lusty, romantic, ideological, human dramas to play out in miniature. By the end, director Stanley Kramer hopes you will learn something about the folly of humanity.Join Bill, Colin and Post Production Supervisor Cindy Freeman as they set sail with a combustible international cast that includes Oskar Werner, Simone Signoret, Vivien

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014 - A WOMAN OF PARIS: A DRAMA OF FATE (Charles...

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2025/08/29

Jean (Carl Miller) and Marie (Edna Purviance) are in love and decide to run off to Paris together. Just as they are about to, Jean’s father dies and Marie leaves for Paris alone. A year later Marie has worked her way into being the romantic partner of high society playboy Pierre Ravel (Adolphe Menjou), who doesn’t seem to have any intention of marrying her, though he might just love her. That’s when Marie runs into her old small town flame, Jean. Just as it seems that Jean and Marie might be back on

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013 - THE NAVIGATOR: A MEDIEVAL ODYSSEY (Vincent...

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2025/08/24

A small hamlet somewhere in medieval UK is anticipating the coming of the black plague, but a boy who seems to be able to see pieces of the future has visions that could guide them away from a sickly, horrible death by boring into the earth and coming out the other side of it to plant a copper crucifix at the top of a cathedral before the sun rises. The boy’s fanciful prescience leads a small group of the town’s men straight into the year 1988, where they struggle to understand these new

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97:15

012 - IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (Jack Arnold, 1953)...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/08/15

Amateur astronomer John Putnam (Richard Carlson) and schoolteacher Ellen Fields (Barbara Rush) see a space ship crash land and try to convince the authorities and townspeople that aliens are among them; but no one wants to listen…that is until very strange things begin happening to the locals.Join Bill, Colin and Author, Documentary Filmmaker and VFX Artist Adam Lima as they look to the skies and a small Arizona town to meet beings from another world.

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85:55

011 - DEATH WATCH (Bertrand Tavernier, 1980) with...

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2025/08/11

In a future where nobody dies from illnesses, there’s a reality show named “Death Watch” which convinces a doctor to lie to perfectly healthy author, Katherine Mortenhoe (Romy Schneider), that she is dying of a terminal illness so they can film her as she thinks she’s living her last days. Producer Vincent Ferriman (Harry Dean Stanton) hires Roddy (Harvey Keitel), a man with cameras implanted in his eyes to befriend her and follow her around as she goes through this psychodrama. Eventually, Roddy

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010 - NOBODY’S FOOL (Robert Benton, 1994) with Antony...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/08/01

Sully (Paul Newman) is an older man in a small town whose life hasn’t exactly worked out perfectly, but he’s done it his way. He’s also angered and alienated a lot of people in the process. When his down-on-his luck son, Peter (Dylan Walsh), happens to visit town with his wife and son, Sully gets a second chance at being a family man. This movie boasts an incredible cast including Bruce Willis, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Margo Martindale and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Join

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85:05

009 - CAMERA BUFF (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979) with...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/07/24

Filip Mosz (Jerzy Stuhr) is a factory worker whose wife (Malgorzata Zabkowska) has just given birth to their daughter. The ecstatic new father buys an eight millimeter camera, and his life begins to change. Filip begins to use the camera all the time, and his boss wants him to film pieces for the factory. Before you know it, Filip’s films are playing well at a film festival, and his amateur hobby begins to threaten the simple happiness he had with his wife and daughter. Is Filip’s awakening to movie

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008 - LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN (Uli Edel, 1989) with...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/07/17

Hubert Selby Jr.’s taboo-smashing 1964 novel jumps to the screen in Uli Edel’s theatrical adaptation starring Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Lang, Burt Young, Peter Dobson, Ricki Lake and many others in an ensemble piece about poverty-stricken troubled souls in 1950s Brooklyn. What emerges is dark and disturbing and yet thoroughly human. Join Bill, Colin and writer/director George Zaver as they take a long walk down some shadowy streets.

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108:43

007 - BLAST OF SILENCE (Allen Baron, 1961) with Steve...

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/07/11

Frank Bono (played by the director Allen Baron himself) lives the lonely life of a hired killer. He’s going to New York City to complete a job when he runs into old friends who cause him to rethink his life. Joining Bill and Colin this week is writer/director Steve Mitchell to explore a classic American crime indie that depicts a killer’s contract where the job and the killer begin to unravel.

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64:32

006 - CONVOY (Sam Peckinpah, 1978)

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/07/03

Trucker “Rubber Duck” (Kris Kristofferson) runs afoul of Arizona Sheriff Lyle Wallace (Ernest Borgnine) after Wallace extorts money from Duck and his friends. So begins the latest in a series of conflicts between Rubber Duck and Wallace, including the sherriff trying to detain his friend Spider Mike (Franklyn Ajaye), with Wallace in hot pursuit as Duck and company hightail it for the New Mexico border to avoid getting arrested. Various friends and admirers join Rubber Duck’s escape and form a

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63:20

005 - CLEAN, SHAVEN (Lodge Kerrigan, 1993)

Cosmic Motion ·

2025/06/26

Peter Winter (Peter Greene) has a lot going on in his head and most of it is painful. It’s all he can do to try to appear “normal” when he isn’t alone. Despite all this, Peter wants to find the daughter who was taken away from him. Meanwhile an investigator searches for a child murderer and his suspicions are beginning to point to Peter. Is Peter’s daughter in trouble? Join Bill and Colin as they investigate Lodge Kerrigan’s debut, a gripping, experimental dramatic thriller.

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