Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a (mostly) weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode thrown in.
This time, an Easter treat and a new entry: Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop.
In an apocalyptic Detroit, a giant corporation announces its plans to privatise local law enforcement. In order to further this end, the company announces plans for a cybernetic law enforcement official. All that they need is a volunteer.
At time of recording, it was ranked the ∞th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.
Show notes:
- Recorded 24th March 2018.
- Correction: At one point in the podcast, Andrew references Paul Verhoeven’s anti-smoking stance following Basic Instinct. This is inaccurate; Andrew was actually referencing the stance of writer Joe Eszterhas. However, rest assured that this is the only factually incorrect statement in the entire podcast. Except for all the others.
- Fatal Attractions podcast, a podcast dedicated to the classic erotic thrillers genre.
- Watching RoboCop with Kit Power, a podcast dedicated to RoboCop.
- William Seemin at The New York Times on Lee Iacocco’s infamous “safety doesn’t sell” argument, July 1971.
- Paul C. Judge explores the question of whether safety sells in The New York Times, January 1990.
- Jerry Useem at The Atlantic on the checkered history of automotive ethics, January/February 2016.
- Chris McGreal at The Guardian on South Africa’s nuclear programme, May 2010.
- F.W. deKlerk discusses South Africa’s nuclear weapons with The Atlantic, September 2017.
- Andrew Glass offers a brief history of Reagan’s Star Wars programme at Politico, March 2017.
- William J. Broad at The New York Times on the technical challenges facing the Star Wars programme, September 1990.
- Rob Merrick at The Independent on the possibility of any U.S.-U.K. trade deal involving the privatisation of the N.H.S., February 2018.
- Tom Cruise on The Graham Norton Show revealing footage of him breaking his ankle on Mission Impossible: Fallout, January 2018.
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