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FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies

FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies

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COMING SOON! SHADOW PLAY: The Stories We Tell in the Dark A story-driven podcast about cinema’s forgotten histories and bizarre realities. FILM ON THE FRINGE is a series of 10 episodes exploring modern cult classics and genre favorites and their connections to magic, myth, and mystery. Each episode digs into a movie, then peels back the layers to uncover the real-life folklore, science, and history that inspired it. From dream demons and cryptids to climate horror and cosmic dread, this is where film meets fringe theory. Film on the Fringe is a companion to MAGICAL MYSTERY MEDIA (aka Magical Mystery Radio), which was a freewheeling discussion about fringe documentaries.

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We discuss several recent "documentaries" occupying the twilight zone between fantasy and reality. Are these films omens? Augurs of a dark future?

Are we moving into a new dark age of superstition? Is the consensus reality of post-enlightenment reason vanishing in a post-modern haze of news and subjective reality?

And why are the French f*cking with us?

Oh, and John gets a visit from an owl.

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies - [Magical Mystery Media 25] DMT The Spirit Molecule

[Magical Mystery Media 25] DMT The Spirit Molecule

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09/21/16 • 79 min

DMT is a ubiquitous, naturally occurring compound that may be at the root of spiritual experience, the alien abduction phenomenon, even consciousness itself. So why is it taboo? We discuss the film AND book, DMT: THE SPIRIT MOLECULE.

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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Hypernormalisation is a nearly three-hour epic that leaps from subject to subject in a circuitous journey toward revelation. The film paints a vivid portrait of corporate control and increasing social insularity as it tries to make sense of our modern world's pervasive anxiety and uncertainty.

In filmmaker Adam Curtis's world, we are minds in the matrix, doomed to feed the machine with our bodies and souls.

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies - [Magical Mystery Media 44] Crop Circles! A FIELD FULL OF SECRETS
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12/07/16 • 87 min

"Two friends step into a crop circle. One emerges unaffected. The other decides to build a UFO with the help of an eccentric transsexual inventor."

If that's not the greatest pitch ever we don't know what is.

Adam and John discuss the 2014 documentary A FIELD FULL OF SECRETS.

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies - [Magical Mystery Media 103] HOLY HELL: Inside the Rise & Fall of the Buddhafield Cult
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02/09/18 • 103 min

We review the fascinating and disturbing documentary, HOLY HELL.

The film chronicles the 22-year journey of former members who were trapped in the bizarre Buddhafield cult.

Through personal archive footage and interviews, the film chronicles the rise and fall, not only of the cult itself, but of its strangely charismatic leader, Michel Rostand (aka Andreas).

This is one of those "cautionary tales" of how cult leaders use time-tested techniques to manipulate and coerce vulnerable and impressionable minds to do their bidding.

Check it out.

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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What if the bogeyman turns out to be real? That's the premise of 2009 documentary CROPSEY, written and directed by Joshua Zeman and Barbara Brancaccio. The filmmakers explore the origins of the urban legend they heard about as children, only to discover that there may, in fact, be some truth behind the tale.

And the truth, as they say, is... terrifying.

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies - [Magical Mystery Media 32] Madman or Genius: RESURRECT DEAD: MYSTERY OF THE TOYNBEE TILES
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10/20/16 • 110 min

TOYNBEE IDEA / IN KUBRICK'S 2001 / RESURRECT DEAD / ON PLANET JUPITER // For over 25 years, mysterious tiles have appeared on busy streets from New York to Brazil. These tiles hint at an outrageous plan to resurrect everyone who's ever lived - on the surface of the gas giant Jupiter. What does the message mean? Who placed these tiles? Secret society? Reclusive genius? And what does all of this have to do with playwright David Mamet?

Take a break from the current election madness and join us for a discussion into this incredibly strange and fascinating story of obsession, street art, synchronicity, and the outer limits of the human imagination.

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Stanley Kubrick's THE SHINING is: a) a confession of his participation in the hoaxed Apollo moon mission; b) a treatise on the genocide of the Native Americans; c) a meditation on the holocaust; d) all of the above; e) a frickin' horror movie.

New favorite word: apophenia.

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies - [Magical Mystery Media 136] BOB LAZAR: AREA 51 & FLYING SAUCERS
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08/09/19 • 112 min

We return to our roots and do a feature-length takedown - er, review - of the new(ish) documentary BOB LAZAR: AREA 51 & FLYING SAUCERS. Do we think there's life on other worlds? Almost definitely.

Intelligent? Probably.

That they've visited earth? Possibly.

The they've visited earth sometime in the last century? Unlikely, but who knows?

That Bob Lazar actually participated in a government effort to reverse engineer an alien spacecraft?

Listen and find out!

[aka Magical Mystery Radio]

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FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies - [Magical Mystery Media 148] Cancel Everything, NOTHING LASTS FOREVER
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08/04/20 • 71 min

We discuss cancel culture, the masons, breakaway civilizations, secret moon colonies... and one fascinating, mythical "lost" film from the 80s that ties it all together!

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How many episodes does FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies have?

FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies currently has 169 episodes available.

What topics does FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies cover?

The podcast is about Weird, Aliens, Society & Culture, Cryptozoology, Mysterious, Paranormal, Occult, Strange, Podcasts, Ghosts, Conspiracy, Fringe, Tv & Film and Mystical.

What is the most popular episode on FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies?

The episode title '[Magical Mystery Media 145] FURY OF THE DEMON, OPERATION LUNE, Cursed Films, The French are F*cking With Us' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies?

The average episode length on FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies is 90 minutes.

How often are episodes of FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies released?

Episodes of FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies are typically released every 7 days, 3 hours.

When was the first episode of FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies?

The first episode of FILM ON THE FRINGE: Magic Myth & Movies was released on Apr 1, 2016.

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