Two spaceships from Earth on a mission to blow up celestial bodies - one mission to save mankind, the other to escape boredom.
We take a look at Danny Boyle's 2007 film SUNSHINE, starring Cillian Murphy, and compare that high-stakes deep space survival drama with John Carpenter's debut feature, the genre-defining 1974 sci-fi film DARK STAR. Has science fiction cinema advanced since Carpenter's classic? Or has all the imagination and vitality been sucked out of space movies?
In a wide-ranging conversation, hosts Aaron Wood and Paul Docherty sermonize relentlessly, stirring the pot of science fiction nostalgia, all the while orbiting the legacy of George Lucas like demented moths around a lightsaber...

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