Ross Aitken, aka Old Who from the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast, guests once again to chat about another three dystopian future visions from the 1970s, in Z.P.G., Westworld and Rollerball Gallifrey's Most Wanted on Twitter
Jan 11, 2021•1 hr 18 min
A review of Pixar's latest production Soul, and a round-up of some of the Christmas TV treats that were on offer this year
Jan 06, 2021•56 min
A review of the New Year's Day 2021 Doctor Who Special, Revolution of the Daleks
Jan 03, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Another short bonus instalment to take us into the new year, as we randomly select pairs of Doctor Who stories and then try and divine the connections between them
Dec 31, 2020•19 min
From The Christmas Invasion to The End of Time, the Russell T Davies era saw Doctor Who become established as a Yuletide family favourite. But were the tenth Doctor specials any good? Clay figures created and photographed by Millie McKenzie
Dec 28, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Our Christmas film of 2020 is Frank Capra's 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life. Plus a rundown of the films we reviewed in 2020; what was our least favourite - and will this one top the list?
Dec 24, 2020•33 min
Matt and Simon review the second series of The Mandalorian from Disney+, and discuss the latest Star Wars announcements
Dec 21, 2020•38 min
Old Who (that's Ross) and New Who (that's Vic) from the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast, go On the Spot for sixty seconds at a time, on randomly selected Doctor Who stories, so you don't have to Gallifrey's Most Wanted on Twitter
Dec 18, 2020•20 min
With no new arrivals and no departures, Doctor Who in 1972 was very much like Doctor Who in 2015; business as usual. But was Jon Pertwee's third term any good? Clay figures created and photographed by Millie McKenzie
Dec 16, 2020•1 hr
It's been on the radar for most of the year, but now that Christopher Nolan's latest has arrived on DVD, it's time to level up on our thoughts about Tenet. Top spot, or dud?
Dec 14, 2020•40 min
A review of Mank, David Fincher's new film for Netflix, a comparison with its predecessor, RKO 281, and a brief detour into the legacy of Orson Welles and Citizen Kane
Dec 11, 2020•54 min
A short bonus episode, in which we look ahead to the 2020 Doctor Who holiday special, Revolution of the Daleks. Warning: contains potential spoilers and speculation
Dec 09, 2020•21 min
The twelfth Doctor's first season comes under the spotlight as we travel back to 2014 for Series Eight Artwork borrowed from "JwMnMaso"
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 35 min
Dan and Mike of the Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics podcast go On the Spot for sixty seconds over a randomly selected variety of movie titles ... so we don't have to. Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics on Twitter Fifteen-Minute Film Fanatics Podcast
Dec 03, 2020•23 min
Ross Aitken of the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast returns, to discuss three more movies from the 1970s: No Blade of Grass, Electra Glide in Blue and The Stepford Wives
Nov 30, 2020•58 min
An experiment in talking about Doctor Who without mentioning specific stories or anything connected with them ... so you don't have to.
Nov 26, 2020•19 min
The nadir ... or the renaissance? We had back to 1987 to check out Sylvester McCoy's first season as Doctor Who, to find out how we feel about it 33 years later. Millie McKenzie on Twitter
Nov 23, 2020•1 hr 27 min
It's time for RTD's second series, David Tennant's tenth Doctor's first, to go under the spotlight, as we turn our microphones back to 2006 and Series Two (Artwork borrowed from Wario64I)
Nov 19, 2020•1 hr 21 min
A discussion on the merits - or otherwise - and meanings of the three motion picture adaptations of the novels of John Fowles, The Collector, The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman
Nov 16, 2020•1 hr
J.R. and Matt chat about the new Netflix adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, and absolutely avoid comparing it with the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film, which we also talk about just incidentally. Honest.
Nov 12, 2020•31 min
Our discussion on opening and closing episodes in Doctor Who arrives at the modern era
Nov 09, 2020•59 min
A review of Netflix' and Mike Flanagan's The Haunting of Bly Manor
Nov 05, 2020•26 min
We choose some of our favourite moments from the career of Sean Connery
Nov 02, 2020•16 min
With actual Halloween on general hiatus this year, we head back instead to our pagan past and take a Venetian holiday in 1973, to talk about the horror double bill of The Wicker Man and Don't Look Now Warning: contains swears
Oct 29, 2020•1 hr 10 min
(Three of) the regular hosts each talk for sixty seconds on a variety of randomly selected Doctor Who stories. Artwork from a photograph by Scott Sebring
Oct 26, 2020•20 min
It's the final season of the 1960s, and the last for second Doctor Patrick Troughton. We turn our microphones to Season Six, perhaps the most inconsistent till the fifth Doctor's first. Artwork 'borrowed' from FunnyNWittyReference
Oct 22, 2020•1 hr 26 min
The first in a three-part story by Stephen Muppet, in which the TARDIS lands fifty years into the future to find all is not well. To find out what happens in the following two instalments, visit Beermat Productions at Wordpress.com
Oct 19, 2020•31 min
A short bonus episode in which we select random pairs of Doctor Who stories and then struggle to find connections between them
Oct 15, 2020•16 min
Our foreign correspondent Ross Aitken returns to help examine what the filmmakers of the 1970s seemed to think we had coming; it's the turn of Soylent Green, A Boy and His Dog and Logan's Run to go under the Film Club microphones Ross on Twitter Ross' podcast
Oct 12, 2020•1 hr 12 min
In the second instalment of our look at Doctor Who's curtain raisers and finales, we focus on the first and last episodes of the late 1970s and 1980s
Oct 08, 2020•1 hr 34 min
