This month’s movie was Masters of the Universe (no, not that one). Directed by Gary Goddard and released in 1987, this starred Dolph Lundgren, Frank Langella, and Courteney Cox, of all people.

This episode features contributions from:

(in order of appearance)

Jason Connerley of Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast (podcast)

Joe Richter of Hindsightless (podcast)

Goblin’s henchman (podcast, blog) and the UmberBulk of the Southwest Sofa Crew

Mirke the Meek (podcast)

Karl Rodriguez of The GMologist Presents… (podcast, YouTube)

Lex Mandrake of Dank Dungeons (YouTube, itch)

Honourable mentions: Lifeforce dir. Tobe Hooper (1985), John Blanche (1948 - June 2026)

Check of the Cerebravore review of Masters of the Universe (2026)

If there’s still time, you can back James Spahn’s Blades of Power here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/barrelridergames/retroquest?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

With Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey looming over the horizon, I felt this was the perfect opportunity to visit the ancient Greece of 1963 and the Ray Harryhausen classic Jason and the Argonauts, directed by Don Chaffey. That episode will air on July 25th, so please send in your submissions by the 27th if you’d like to be included in the show.

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In this episode, Karl Rodriguez of The GMologist Presents… (podcast, Youtube) catches up on a few Movie Monday episodes.

Honourable mentions: Sinbad, Ray Harryhausen, Buckaroo Banzai, Westworld, HBO, Michael Crichton.

The movie for June is 1987’s Masters of the Universe, directed by Gary Goddard and starring Dolph Lundgren. That episode will air on June 29th, so please send in your submissions by the 27th if you’d like to be included in the show.

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Thanks to some great feedback and some more of that awesome Barney Dicker chat to share, this episode is basically a second instalment of Movie Monday: Blade Runner.

But before the Blade Runner chat, I respond to a message from M. W. Lewis of The Worlds of M. W. Lewis concerning April’s movie Michael Crichton’s Westworld.

Then it’s onto some Blade Runner feedback from Jason Connerley of Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast, Joe Richter of Hindsightless, and Goblin’s Henchman, before rounding things off with more of my chat with Barney Dicker of Loco Ludus.

Honourable mentions: 2001: A Space Odyssey dir. Stanley Kubrick, Dark Star dir. John Carpenter, Westworld (TV series), Masters of the Universe dir. Travis Knight, Legend dir. Ridley Scott, Edge of Tomorrow dir. Doug Liman, Minority Report dir. Steven Spielberg, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick, Alien dir. Ridley Scott, The Long Tomorrow by Dan O’Bannon and Moebius, The Incal by Alejandro Jodorowsky and Moebius, Blade Runner 2049 dir. Denis Villeneuve

Read Barney’s “Stroboscopic Revelations in Blade Runner” here https://www.academia.edu/36398665/_Stroboscopic_Revelations_in_Blade_Runner_PhotoResearcher_No_29_2018_

Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

So, from the sublime to the ridiculous. The movie for June is 1987’s Masters of the Universe, directed by Gary Goddard and starring Dolph Lundgren. That episode will air on June 29th, so please send in your submissions by the 27th 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 I. Isla and I take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

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May’s Movie Monday, was specially requested by Goblin’s Henchman “This one goes out there for Geoff”.

This month, we watched Ridley Scott’s dystopian neo-noir sci-fi Blade Runner from 1982. Starring Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hanna, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh, Brion James, Joanna Cassidy, Joe Turkle and William Sanderson. Adapted from Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

This episode features contributions from:

(in order of appearance)

Barney Dicker of Loco Ludus (podcast)

Joe Richter of Hindsightless (podcast)

Goblin’s henchman (podcast, blog) and the UmberBulk of the Southwest Sofa Crew

M. W. Lewis of The Worlds of MW Lewis (podcast)

Jason Connerley of Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast (podcast)

Read Barney’s “Stroboscopic Revelations in Blade Runner” here https://www.academia.edu/36398665/_Stroboscopic_Revelations_in_Blade_Runner_PhotoResearcher_No_29_2018_

Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

So, from the sublime to the ridiculous. The movie for June is 1987’s Masters of the Universe, directed by Gary Goddard and starring Dolph Lundgren. That episode will air on June 29th, so please send in your submissions by the 27th 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 I. Isla and I take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

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This episode is an audio unboxing special. I open a bunch of parcels and describe the contents.

Featuring:

Gunner Almer’s Grimscar (solo) RPG https://crowheartroleplay.itch.io/grimscar-rpg-solo

Charlie Ward’s we&we from EX FIRST GAMES https://ex1st.itch.io/we

Man Alone’s Prima Materia https://dicenest.com/products/prima-materia-is-an-alchemical-oracle-for-solo-role-playing-worldbuilding-and-creative-inquiry

Man Alone explains Prima Materia https://youtu.be/UXTwHg-HPwA?si=HTKR-x6SWTVA68mL

Adam Hensley’s Monolith https://adamhensley.itch.io/monolith

James M. Spahn’s White Box Dungeon Adventures from Barrel Rider Games https://www.lulu.com/shop/james-spahn/white-box-dungeon-adventures/paperback/product-57wrvy4.html?srsltid=AfmBOooPRv4dtyrYwPFipc55GwZ6Ezmikf_K1Lt4kHf7nXFIdMUpSStg&page=1&pageSize=4

Vagabond Pulp Fantasy Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook from Land of the Blind https://landoftheblind.myshopify.com/collections/vagabond-pulp-fantasy-rpg?srsltid=AfmBOoqAREu7j9Ii6dbfXCve0J5TZwKrXyaNrepT--gi_cuxCABzHWon

Call of Cthulhu: 50th Anniversary Slipcase Set

Honourable mentions: Andy Goodman (Grizzly Peaks Radio), Jen Fridy (HangnailJenny), Scott Dorward (The Good Friends of Jackson Elias), Mike Perceval-Maxwell (Mr Spike’s Bedtime Stories), Barney Dicker (Loco Ludus)

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 the new podcast I’m involved with, entitled With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. In our latest episode, we pit Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein against Luc Besson’s Dracula. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

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In this episode, I respond to some Movie Monday: Westworld feedback from Goblin’s Henchman and Joe Richter of Hindsightless, and share my initial thoughts on the Westworld TV series from 2016.

If you’d like to be a paranoid android, why not try The Gaslight Club by Stoo Goff https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/335302/the-gaslight-club

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.

Also, be sure to check out With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. Find it wherever you get your podcasts.

Leave me an audio message via ⁠https://www.speakpipe.com/KeepOffTheBorderlands

You can email me at ⁠spencer.freethrall@gmail.com⁠ or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall

You can find me in a bunch of other places here ⁠https://freethrall.carrd.co⁠

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 I. Isla and I take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. In our latest episode, we pit Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein against Luc Besson’s Dracula. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

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Starting with some feedback for March’s Movie Monday, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, from Joe Richter of Hindsightless and Jason Connerley of Nerd’s RPG Variety Cast.

Then some RPGs that have piqued my interest:

Flail: an old-school fantasy brawler from Games Omnivorous https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/games-omnivorous/flail-an-old-school-fantasy-brawler

FatherFog, a fairy-tale horror RPG from Tuesday Knight Games https://www.tuesdayknightgames.com/products/fatherfog0e?srsltid=AfmBOop6eoLBV6crKZMW1QtRaSxM8U_H07IpU-HT77wnUDolDvAMspXf

Keeper’s Call by J. P. Coovert

I also take a look at Vermis III: Old Curses & Buried Horrors by Plastiboo https://hollow-press.net/products/vermis-iii-old-curses-buried-horrors,

Blade Runner RPG: Replicant Rebellion & Asset Pack from Free League

Find the Movie Monday Letterboxd list here https://letterboxd.com/the39thman/list/movie-monday-1/

The movie for April is the 1973 sci-fi western Westworld, written and directed by Michael Crichton. That episode will air on April 27th, so please send in your submissions by the 25th if you’d like to be included in the show. Send to ⁠spencer.freethrall@gmail.com⁠ or look me up on Discord as FreeThrall.

Also, be sure not to miss the new podcast I’m involved with, entitled With Wife and I. My wife, Isla, suggested we take turns choosing movies to watch together, then share our thoughts with anyone who cares to listen. In our latest episode, we pit Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein against Luc Besson’s Dracula. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts.

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