Movie Monday: Westworld (E319)

About this episode

In this episode, the hosts discuss the 1973 sci-fi western Westworld and feature contributions from various guests.

For April’s Movie Monday, we watched the 1973 sci-fi western Westworld, written & directed by Michael Crichton. This episode features contributions from: (in order of appearance) Jason Connerley of Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast (podcast) Goblin’s henchman (podcast, blog) and the UmberBulk of the Southwest Sofa Crew Joe Richter of Hindsightless (podcast) Lex Mandrake of Dank Dungeons (itch, YouTube) & Jorphdan of Jorphdan’s Jocular Junction (YouTube, jorphdan.com) M. W. Lewis of The Worlds of MW Lewis (podcast) Darkfluid of The Silver Key (podcast) & Q Joseph Gill of The Dekahedron RPG Podcast Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/ At the special request of Goblin’s Henchman, the movie for May goes out to Geoff. It’s 1982’s classic neo-noir sci-fi Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, based on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. That episode will air on May 25th, so please send in your submissions by the 23rd if you’d like to be included in the show. Send submissions to ⁠spencer.freethrall@gmail.com⁠ or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall Also, be sure not to miss my other movie podcast, With Wife and…

People in this episode

Host: Free Thrall

Guests: Jason Connerley, Goblin’s henchman, Joe Richter, Lex Mandrake, Jorphdan, M. W. Lewis, Darkfluid, Q Joseph Gill

Topics covered

• Westworld
• sci-fi
• RPGs
• movie discussion
• guest contributions
• film analysis

Keywords

• Westworld
• sci-fi western
• Michael Crichton
• movie podcast
• guest contributions
• film discussion
• Blade Runner

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast, UmberBulk of the Southwest Sofa Crew, Hindsightless, Dank Dungeons, Jorphdan’s Jocular Junction, The Worlds of MW Lewis, The Silver Key, The Dekahedron RPG Podcast

Books & works: Westworld, Blade Runner, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Frankenstein, Dracula

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