THE LOBOT MODS 012: Mars Attacks! (1996) / Attack The Block (2011)

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In this final episode of LOBOT MODS season 1, we take a look at Tim Burton's sci-fi feature film MARS ATTACKS! and compare that with the 2011 UK action/sci-fi/monster feature ATTACK THE BLOCK. Two alien invasions. One by the skeletal would-be Martian overlords, the other from a bunch of ink-black plushies with radioactive teeth. Is the human race doomed? Not if John Boyega has anything to do with it.

In a wide-ranging conversation, hosts Aaron Wood and Paul Docherty talk about the legacy of Cold War sci-fi cinema, and about the place of comedy in the speculative fiction genre... And about Star Wars...

THE LOBOT MODS will return in ten weeks. See you in 2025!

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Music by Tony Longworth
Cover art based on a photograph taken by Jon Nicolls CC-BY-2.0

This podcast is brought to you by the feature documentary HEART OF NEON.