Ep. 307 - The Year of Carpenter: Dark Star (1974)!

This week we kick off our 'Year Of' for 2022 by looking at a director and creator that has shaped our lives in may ways, John Carpenter. We have been long overdue to check out the rest of his output so we start at the beginning, 1974's Dark Star. Is there a foundation being laid for what was yet to come in this low budget sci-fi comedy that has a inflatable beachball as an alien and talking smart bombs? We'll find out!