Synopsis
A podcast exploring the film Annihilation one minute of screentime per episode
Episodes
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some deep, some buried, some quite speechless feeling
27/12/2019 Duration: 15minin the novel, the biologist begins to describe the tower, in the film, lena finishes examining the gator and we flashforward to lomax questioning her in #annihilation minute 38.
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stalked some fantastic leviathan
20/12/2019 Duration: 15minA boar attacks in reality and in the novel, a gator attacks in the film, #Annihilation minute 37.
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something they had picked up in the garden
13/12/2019 Duration: 18minAs the women get away from the fishing hut only to have its occupant come after them, we have visible production equipment, continuity errors, and some great behind-the-scenes details in #Annihilation minute 36.
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putting a yellow against a purple, a curved shape against a round shape
22/11/2019 Duration: 13minLena examines the flowers, Thorensen finds transport, Shepard takes some samples, Radek finds something lurking in the fishing hut, and Ventress does nothing in #Annihilation minute 35.
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a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge
15/11/2019 Duration: 16minWe venture behind the scenes and into Chernobyl as the women approach a half-sunken fishing hut and find the local fauna to be quite unusual in #Annihilation minute 34.
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could not remember the whole shape of the thing
08/11/2019 Duration: 13minAs the women strike camp and head south in #Annihilation minute 33, we drift into a passage from J G Ballard's The Drowned World.
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and making the world reflect the compass of the soul
01/11/2019 Duration: 10minThe women orient themselves as they decide what is next after none of them can recall setting camp, in #annihilation minute 32.
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whose day had slipped past in one quick doing after another
25/10/2019 Duration: 24minLena gets her bearings after waking inside the Shimmer, and editing mistakes, production mistakes, or maybe a Shimmer-fueled #timeloop makes the geography of the campsite a little confusing in #Annihilation minute 31.
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that it was all ephemeral as a rainbow
18/10/2019 Duration: 19minFlashback to Lena's affair, then enter the Shimmer in Vandermeer's novel and enter the Zone in the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic before Lena wakes up inside her tent, and something is wrong in #Annihilation minute 30.
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like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life
11/10/2019 Duration: 18minAs the women approach and finally enter the Shimmer, we drift into #sunshine, #doctorwho, #lost, #eventhorizon, #tvtropes, and other directions. #Annihilation minute 29.
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ah, but what beautiful boots you wear!
04/10/2019 Duration: 10minLena finishes her conversation with Ventress, talks to Lomax in the future, then the five women approach the shimmer as we take a look at their uniforms and equipment in #annihilation minute 28.
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do take me to the lighthouse with you
27/09/2019 Duration: 10minas Lena volunteers for the mission into the Shimmer, let us take a look at her childhood curiosity from the novel. #annihilation minute 27
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you're not planning to go to the lighthouse, are you?
20/09/2019 Duration: 08minLena questions Ventress' motives for entering the Shimmer as she herself readies to volunteer, and we take a look at those who returned from Area X in the novel. #Annihilation minute 26.
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it was all a blur to her. what was he thinking now?
13/09/2019 Duration: 10minWe take a look at Tessa Thompson as the conversation between the four women ends and LENA goes to visit KANE in his isolation tent, a mission into the Shimmer imminent. in #Annihilation minute 25.
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"it was all edges and angles; it was all uncompromisingly plain"
06/09/2019 Duration: 18minWe explore the reasoning behind an all-woman team and take a look at Tuva Novotny as we learn these women are about to enter the Shimmer in #Annihilation minute 24.
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sit at table with them like a person in a dream
30/08/2019 Duration: 21minLena, Thorensen, Sheppard, and Radek compare jobs as we take a look at Gina Rodriguez and this all-female team in #Annihilation minute 23.
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the self-surrender she had seen on so many women's faces
23/08/2019 Duration: 19minLENA meets the other women on a firing range in a cut scene, #AlexGarland steals character names from #JGBallard but doesn't mention it, and THORENSEN invites LENA to join the other women at their table in #Annihilation minute 22.
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and the butterfly sun itself on the faded chintz
16/08/2019 Duration: 12minin bed, lena mocks kane's suggestion that she pines for him longingly while he is away, and we drift into #madamebutterfly before returning to the present in #annihilation minute 21
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the light of a butterfly's wing lying upon the arches of a cathedral
09/08/2019 Duration: 09minStill lying in bed, LENA wonders about KANE's upcoming mission, as un bel di vedremo interrupts #Annihilation minute 20.
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dissevered yet somehow belonging
02/08/2019 Duration: 10minLying in bed, LENA and KANE talk about God's mistakes (or not), and the #HayflickLimit and cellular aging. #Annihilation minute 19.