A few months ago I asked a friend of mine, Paul Emig to pick a movie, any movie, for the Super 70 Podcast. He chose Peter Jackson’s Braindead and needless to say this was not my cup of tea. But we don’t care about bad taste at the Super 70 Podcast. We don’t care if it has a budget of twenty thousand dollars or two hundred million, if it’s shot on Super 8, or 70 millimeter. All we care about, if I may be allowed to paraphrase Russel Crowe, is if you are entertained. Also for the previous year, Ben Waterhouse has been begging me to watch the same film. Now what are the chances that I would find two people on this planet that both love Braindead? While we dissect the work of Peter Jackson we digress through his work to the other towers of ANZAC cinema, reach around the edges of the Uruk-Hai and debate the merits of The Beatles, Greta Van Fleet, and Christine McVie.
