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Podcast: The Kulturecast
Episode: The Island (1980)
Description: We reach the end of Marrr-ch, a month named for what else but pirate films, with a movie that's as tonally inconsistent as it is entertaining, the big screen adaptation of Peter Benchley's The Island. Northwestern film professor Spencer Parsons stops by to talk all about how he thought this movie was something else entirely but loved its brand of insanity nonetheless.Starring forever stodgy Brit Michael Caine as Blair Maynard, he kidnaps his son and heads for the Bermuda Triangle to attempt and solve the mystery of why so many ships go missing in it. What he...