My Movie DNA

In this bonus episode, Johnny is joined by his good friend and fellow podcaster Jasher Drake to talk all things James Bond. This is the first of three bonus episodes, and this episode explores the films of Sean Connery and George Lazenby. Johnny and Jasher talk about overused Bond cars and underused Bond gadgets, they talk about all the important things like which Bond Girl has the biggest secret weapons, and Johnny accidentally implicates the wrong Hollywood actor in a real-life unsolved murder.  This conversation was recorded online in mid-November of 2024. Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Loco Looper⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support. You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].

In episode 34, Johnny talks to director, editor, writer and podcaster Doug Dillaman. Doug’s second feature film GUT INSTINCT is currently infecting New Zealand cinemas, fresh from its world premiere at the Terror-Fi film festival.  GUT INSTINCT is a post-apocalyptic science-fiction film about an alien microbe that invades earth, presented as a public information film, and consisting entirely of archival footage from across the decades. It’s something that should be experienced in a cinema, and it can’t be recommend enough.  As well as a behind the scenes look at the making of GUT INSTINCT, their chat includes Doug’s highlights from the recent Terror-Fi film festival, including the best time-travel film Johnny's seen in a long time, they take a trip from classic Westerns, to psychedelic horror, to the urban jungle of New York City in the 1970s, and they discuss the link between Margaret Qualley and the Imperial Starfleet from Star Wars.  This conversation was recorded face to face in early November of 2024. Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Loco Looper⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support. You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].

In episode 33, Johnny talks to New Zealand genre-movie fan and podcaster Steve Skeet, one third of the ⁠Ludicrously Specific⁠ podcast. You may remember one of Skeet’s co-hosts Darren Waugh visited My Movie DNA all the way back in episode 18. Johnny's chat with Skeets covers a hush-hush talk about the Hollywood Avondale’s 24-Hour Movie Marathon - now in its 25th year - which they both attended recently, they discuss the lasting impact of directors like John Carpenter, James Cameron and George Miller on genre cinema, and they talk about the holy trinity of bad movies, bad directors…and bad accents. This conversation was recorded face to face in late October of 2024. Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Loco Looper⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support. You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].

In episode 32, Johnny talks to New Zealand composer and acoustician Reuben Jelleyman.
 Reuben popped up on Johnny's radar a couple of months back at a screening of Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner at the Hollywood Avondale, and before the film, Reuben provided a musical performance up on stage that just blew everyone away.  Not surprisingly their chat covers Reuben's rendition of selections from the iconic Vangelis soundtrack score, they discuss the New Zealand International Film Festival, which took place recently in Auckland, and they talk about the pressures of being a composer and a cinephile in 2024 when you’re not really a fan of either Christopher Nolan or Hans Zimmer. This conversation was recorded face to face in late August of 2024. Thanks to James Van As who wrote and performed the brilliant podcast music (check out James' ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Loco Looper⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ game) and to Willow Van As who designed the amazing artwork and provided general podcast support.
 You can contact My Movie DNA on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter @mymovieDNA or email [email protected].