Xtinction Agenda Podcast
1) Garth Ennis - The Punisher MAX #25-36
Exit the generals, spooks, and games of chicken missile. Enter horror. The things that man does to woman. The things that power does to us all. Let the noir shine in, illuminating the dark weakness of...Show More
2) Jet Li - Fist of Legend
Little disrespect to Gordon Chan in the title of this episode, I admit. Jet Li did not direct this one. But, really, no one showed up to this event for Gordon Chan. He did a good job, don't get me wro...Show More
3) Yuen Woo-ping - Tai Chi Master
Witness the film that PROVES that George Lucas traveled into the future in order to steal the secrets of martial arts success. He brought it back to the past and profited. With his ferocious nature, h...Show More
4) Tsui Hark - Once Upon a Time in China
Hinged wooden tripod flashes, fire capturing flame, the fall, the blurred chaos of love and family and loss, a trouble-making box that, once opened, refuses to hide its promise, bodies be damned. "Whe...Show More
5) Shane Black - Iron Man 3
Aristocrats and royalty wear armour and carry swords. They buy and sell what they need and lie about the rest. Our hero was once on track to aristocracy but gave it up in a fit of conscience and a bru...Show More
6) Alan Moore - Watchmen #4
Gender and Apocalypse. Hear me out. Laurie's mom pushed her into it, right? And Jon, that guy was pushed around by pops so badly, he didn't even have an 'h'. Both waltz around like binary stars. But n...Show More
7) Garth Ennis - The Punisher MAX #13-24
The gloves removed hit the floor like lead, puncturing lungs, bleeding red, untold bodies left for dead. All this, despite the concussive rounds, remained unsaid, silent infrared exploding heads. The ...Show More
8) Stanley Kubrick - Fear and Desire
Why should we not gamble, we at the bottom whose lives are without glory? "Well, we have nothing to lose but our futures."
9) Adrian Lyne - Jacob's Ladder
Behold the rattling swaying snake that chases and swerves along the spine, from shakra station to shakra station towards the eye, dropping passengers, like memories, at the end of the line, where dark...Show More
10) Vertigo-Era Weird War Tales
Oh God, don't let those harsh flames and sleepless nights touch me. Don't let them destroy my world. Don't let that grim, waiting horror come upon my life. Let all those ghosts live elsewhere, away fr...Show More