Episode 6: “John Boyega Week feat. The Guy Debord Ouija Board”

Attack the Block, Pacific Rim: Uprising, and intentional communities

15 June 2019 · 44:42


Cancelling the Apocalypse
Cancelling the Apocalypse
Episode 6: "John Boyega Week feat. The Guy Debord Ouija Board"
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We examine the utopian ouvre of our hero John Boyega, in particular Attack the Block: A John Boyega Film and Pacific Rim 2: A John Boyega Film: Uprising, which takes us into council houses, slow and fast violence, intentional communities, friendship, and the inevitability of climate crisis. Also how much we hate George Lucas. (So the usual).

Media

Plan C (UK activist organisation)

Attack the Block (2011, dir. Joe Cornish)

Pacific Rim: Uprising (2018, dir. Steven S. DeKnight)


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