Hi this is Steve from the Cinephiles. In our next episode we welcome writer

producer executive and my little pony guru Michael Vogel to discuss the 1978

Richard Donner film Superman starring Christopher Reeve. This is a big one. I mean today

superhero movies come out all the time, but this was the very first one, the first mainstream

big budget comic book adaptation and Christopher Reeves Superman

well that's always going to be the gold standard for me unlike our last movie

when we were Kings you can get Superman just about anywhere you can rent it it on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play,

there's a really good Blu-ray edition with lots of special features and I think you can

even watch a free version with ads on YouTube. So check out Superman and look for the next episode of

the Cinephiles on Friday. Who knows we might even spend a few minutes talking

about the latest screen versions of the Big Blue Boy Scout.

Okay, maybe more than a few minutes.

See you then. Hello and once again to the cinnophiles where each week we enter the world of a classic film

and explore its themes, history, of filmmaking and the influence it has on films today.

My name is Steve Morris, I'm a filmmaker and directing teacher in Los Angeles, California.

Hey, I'm John Roca, I'm an actor and B.O. artist here in Los Angeles, California and host of shows.

Of a myriad of magazines, yes.

And today for the first time on the Cinephiles we have a very special guest our first

guest Mike Vogel is a animation executive and expert who started at Sony TV

animation where he developed Spider-Man, moved on to Hasbro where he

oversaw such properties as the Transformers, G.I. Joe, and of course the

unbelievably and wildly successful My Little Pony, which he's also been a producer and a writer for

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