Ep. 12 - Silent Running & Brainstorm (DOUBLE FEATURE)

This ain't Rocky Horror, but Mia still brought us a science fictionnnn double featurrrre! This week, the dastardly duo look at the entirety of Douglas Trumbull's directorial filmography (since he only directed two films, it was pretty easy).

This is a man who invented stunning, unique visual effects for Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, and Terrence Malick, and on their most famous films, no less! So why did he never manage to make it as a director himself? Was it just wrong movie, wrong time? Should he have stayed in the VFX lab? Or were there more nefarious forces at work? (Probably not that last one.)

This week, on a very special episode of Is it Good?, we take a look back at the films of a man driven by revolutionary passion and ingenuity, perhaps to his own detriment.

Thanks to Tom Lehrer for the use of our theme song, "Selling Out".