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It's 1940. The world is at war. Disney releases their first theatrical flop - but it would go on to be one of the top 25 highest grossing films of all time. This is Fantasia!
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It's 1940. The world is at war. Disney releases their first theatrical flop - but it would go on to be one of the top 25 highest grossing films of all time. This is Fantasia!
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Our dino year continues with Jurassic World: Dominion.
Our Dino year continues with Jurassic World shorts from YouTube and Netflix!

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We have a split decision on Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom .
Soon the Jurassic Park franchise will last as long as the Jurassic Era... and we are going to watch 'em all!
We dive into the ins-and-outs of season 2 of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal.
Our Jurassic-ly long exploration of dinosaurs on screen continues with Adult Swim's Primal .
Will and Eric continue to watch all the dinosaurs. This time, the dinosaur movie you haven't seen, Turok: Son of Stone .
Will and Eric continue to watch all the dinosaurs. This time that means watching the box office flop Early Man .
Will and Eric continue to watch all the dinosaurs. This time that means watching the long-forgotten film Le Chainon Manquant ( The Missing Link AKA BC Rock ).
One Million Years B.C. has left it's mark on cinema history... mostly due to it's movie poster. But how is the film itself?
We watch the movie that started the cavemen vs. dinosaurs trend!

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Near the Dawn of the 21st Century, 20th Century Fox brought us the Dawn of the Dinosaurs on film in the new millennium.
Jurassic Park , what hat thou wrought? We seek to answer the question "why was this made"? Were they "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"? Or is this the kind of movie that should've gone extinct long ago?
We continue our exploration of dinosaurs on film by entering The Valley of Gwangi !
The Geek Channel 8 team breaks down the Italian response to Fantasia.
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It's 1940. The world is at war. Disney releases their first theatrical flop - but it would go on to be one of the top 25 highest grossing films of all time. This is Fantasia!
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1 Geek Channel 8 - A Journey to the Beginning of Time 44:46
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Boys Adventure? Check. Mammoths? Check. More stop motion dinosaurs from the 50s? Czech!
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A look back at our fourth year of doing the show!
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We watch The Lost World... no, not that Lost World, the original The Lost World, the 1925 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel about Professor Challenger leading a team to the jungles of South America to find dinosaurs!
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Is Jurassic Park 3 better than initially received?
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1 Geek Channel 8 - The Lost World: Jurassic Park 1:12:48
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Can Spielberg recreate the magic of Jurassic Park in this sequel?
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Spielberg returned to the big monster genre more than 20 years later with Jurassic Park and we're going to talk about it.
Bringing shark season to an end with the film that started it all!
We watch The Meg - a cross between dinosaur and shark movie.
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Brat Shark summer continues with The Shallows!
More sharks! From 2012, BAIT !
Based on a true story, The Reef reminds us that sharks exist.
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Continuing our look at 1874 on film, we watch Stephen Chow in the 1994 Hong Kong action comedy Hail the Judge!
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We try to decipher a Russian Opera loosely based on a play, loosely based on a novel loosely based on Russian history... we think.
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We continue our exploration of films set in 1874 with Anna Karenina .
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We travel back to the year 1874 to taste the Blood of the Vampire !
The horror comedy Renfield reexamines Dracula in a modern context.
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1 Geek Channel 8 - The Last Voyage of the Demeter 1:01:01
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Once again we're all stuck on a ship with a vampire.
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1 Geek Channel 8 - Netflix Dracula episode 3 The Dark Compass 28:07
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The Conclusion of the 2020 BBC/Netflix Dracula brings the story up to present day England. Does it work?
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The second episode of the Netflix BBC Dracula, "Blood Vessel" devotes it's entire feature length to expand upon one short early chapter from Bram Stoker's novel.
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1 Geek Channel 8 - Netflix Dracula episode 1 Rules of the Beast 40:19
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Rosie and Eric take a look at the second BBC Dracula miniseries, released in 2020.
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1 Geek Channel 8 - Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary 43:27
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Dracula, as only the Royal Winnipeg Ballet Company could do it?
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How will the immortal vampires of today fare thousands of years in the future? That's the question asked by Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust.
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Another Dracula film purporting to be from Wes Craven... is Dracula 2000 worth seeing? We attempt to answer that question .
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1 Geek Channel 8 - Bram Stoker's Dracula part 2 28:54
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The second of a two part deep dive into Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula .
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The first of a two part deep dive into Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula .
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We take a look at the lighter side of the darkness with two Dracula based horror comedies, 1979's Love At First Bite , and 1995's Vampire in Brooklyn .
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We look at another Dracula film from 1979, this time a remake of Nosferatu , Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre . And, as usual, we tell you what wine pairs best with it.
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The movie geeks discuss Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens from 1922.
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Courtney Floyd of The Way We Haunt Now podcast joins us for an analysis of the 1979 movie version of Dracula.
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