Episode 17 – Tim Lucas, Pt. 1 - a podcast by Phi Phenonenon

Tim Lucas had been writing various columns reviewing home video releases — one of the first critics to actually review the presentation elements of the release along with the content — before he started Video Watchdog, a magazine that Quentin Tarantino once called “the only reliable film magazine in the world.” On today’s episode, part one of a longer interview, we talk writing reviews in his high school newspaper of X-rated films, an impactful first viewing of A Clockwork Orange that hit him with both on- and off-screen mortality, his long run writing at Cinefantastique magazine, creating Video Watchdog, and his uncredited drafts that laid foundation for David Cronenberg’s film adaptation of William S. Burrough’s Naked Lunch. Though Watchdog ceased physical publication in 2017, Tim still runs the Video Watchblog, alongside occasional posts for the New Beverly Blog, while also recording over 100 DVD and Blu-ray commentaries. (Interview begins at 8:52.)

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