Produced within the eye of a great, awesome life storm, Mike & Jenny find the time to discuss two of Hollywood’s most bombastic odes to Crime & Punishment. From the palpable, smoky alleys of Old Detroit, to the all-too familiar surroundings of LA 2019-Er Megacity, they take a look back at Paul Verhoeven’s endlessly thrilling and clever RoboCop, and then follow it up with Jenny’s first impressions of the big budget 1990s adaptation of the beloved British comic icon, Judge Dredd, starring Sylvester Stallone! Opening and closing arguments intact, this is a fair, composed (& often funny) look at the early evolution/de-evolution of the comic book movie experience. Fascism was never this entertaining. And never forget, Jenny Is LAW.

[00:00-03:35] Introductions & Housekeeping

[03:35-45:35] Thoughts On Robocop(1987)

[45:35-47:49] Drama Break

[47:50-77:22]Here Comes A New Challenger: Jenny’s Thoughts On Judge Dredd(1995)

[77:23-81:17] How To Find Us! Until Next!

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After a short bout of delays stemming from both of us being terribly caught up in some truly involved life changes and plans, we drop this wildly off-the-cuff, weird episode that while in one way serves as your typical DC foray, is really more a podcast a year and a half in the putting off. Much more a putting to rest our issues and loves regarding a mutual favorite (comic and film rendition), we go for nearly an entire episode, which then delves into Mike’s pick for Jenny which only superficially relates to the former. Weird childhood memories collide face-first into sobering reality as we explore Nelvana’s early 1980′s rock as myth toon extravaganza, Rock & Rule.

Whether we are talking about the bending of loser reality, or the strange parallels between an evil Phil Spector analogue, or an evil Steven Tyler/Iggy Pop/David Bowie, this is a strange, extra-packed tribute to our friends in the Great White North!

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Just in time for V-day. Hear what happens when our intrepid duo of media junkies stop to wax fun and philosophical regarding two major works produced by Hong Kong cinema icon, Tsui Hark( and featuring Joey Wong)! Both share memories & mutual love of the original 1987 fantasy-comedy groundbreaker, A Chinese Ghost Story. This is followed up by Jenny’s astonishing challenge to Mike in the spectacular 1993 fable, Green Snake! (Yes. A Maggie Cheung favorite, and he had never seen it. The injustice.) It’s a mystical, and musical journey that asian movie fans won’t want to miss!

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Join Mike & Jenny as they take on two movies (one mutually admired, and another possibly inflicted upon the other), and do their darndest from keeping these potentially conflicting emotions from overflowing. There will be ACTION, COMEDY, DRAMA, and quite possibly even SONG?

You’ll have to find out, as Mike & Jenny take on a neverending Hollywood conundrum; the issue of East Meets West in action films. What works, and what often doesn’t get made. What makes a good asian-american crossover, and what most action-cinema fans would rather forget.

Match 1 pits the almost forgotten Jackie Chan in as an american cop opus, The Protector (1985) VS. John Carpenter’s Big Trouble In Little China. Who says progress is a slow, lumbering creature?

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Something of a symbolic transition of an episode, and an epilogue to Combo Attack episode 013, where we dished out years of thoughts on perhaps the most talked about to death anime series of all time. And here we are with a little icing to that particular cake, where we go ahead, and ask the quintessential question that has dogged fandom since the beginning of this new series of films; If not a remake, reboot, or a sequel..just what are you? As longtime fans, and admitted non-experts, we do our best to make some genuine sense of the whole affair. Adventures On Infant Island co-host and movie watching life-buddy, Jenny Park & Joel Tune of Joel Tries fame join in for one unusual sit down and chat session.

 
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Hold on to your collector figures, it’s bound to get weird in here!

(a great video to coincide with our findings)

Greetings, friends!

Many of whom may have discovered this little corner of the ether by way of either Twitter, blogspot, or some other valuable tool of the nets. After a few years of chapping away at a potential next logical step for this protracted social media experiment, CCM is something of the end result to which hopefully some great material will begin and continue to come your way! What Cel Count Media will hopefully serve as is a home to the more audio-video-centric corners of the Variable Zero experience.  Previous homes such as the recently lamented Combo Attack Podcast functioned as something of a testing ground, and now that a number of lessons have been learned, and focus has been regained, it felt only logical that several new shows be hosted in one nice simple homebase. And since strengths will be numerous, and outlook fresh, this will also will serve as an informative and fun home for all things immediate.

Those curious may also be wondering as to the future of visual media commentary depots such as The Wandering Kaijyu, this is in no manner of danger of changing. Writeups, commentaries and reviews will continue to have a home there for the foreseeable future.

What Will Be Here:

Podcasts (Goes without saying..) From casual conversations regarding the current state of popular culture in a wired world, to informative and sometimes off-the-cuff reviews of films and anime from all eras, to even retrospectives on transmedia (films to video game franchises), and even the occasional special guest appearances, podcasts are the central blood of this particular site.

Video: From time to time, CCM will partake in local movie and pop culture events to keep fans up to date on recent V.Zero developments. Believe us, this is something we really wish to get off the ground in due time.

Occasional Posts: Whatever cannot be updated via .mp3, we’ll definitely keep you in the know regarding the site, events, and possibly even contests that may come in the months to years ahead.

So stay tuned to this URL as a first show is right around the corner. Believe me, it promises to be interesting.