It's a new Alex Garland film and he's prodding at the outer edges of modern morality once again, so we sat and watched it and here are our impressions
Jul 06, 2022•32 min
With the news that a second season has now been cancelled by HBO, this review - recorded a week ago - becomes our post mortem on Steven Moffat's adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's book about a woman who is married to an accidental time traveller, The Time Traveler's Wife
Jul 04, 2022•30 min
Simon and Matt watch the new, dramatised biography of the Sex Pistols on Disney+, examine the legacy of the band, and ask whether it's a better use of Danny Boyle's time than the Richard Curtis pic Yesterday
Jul 01, 2022•52 min
Matt hosts a conversation about the latest Star Wars streaming series on Disney+, the story of what happened to Obi-Wan before the original trilogy and after the prequels
Jun 29, 2022•41 min
Mark and JR exchange differing opinions on the latest outing from Karen Gillan, Riley Stearns' film about a woman who ends up with an unwanted clone, Dual
Jun 27, 2022•15 min
On its fortieth anniversary we ask if Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was all it's cracked up to be, and if Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is a worthy sequel
Jun 24, 2022•53 min
Mark and JR discuss the latest film in the Jurassic Park-World franchise, and ask if it might have been better off left stuck in the amber
Jun 22, 2022•18 min
Matt, Jon and Mark discuss the short-lived era of the first modern Doctor, Christopher Eccleston's ninth
Jun 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min
A retrospective of Mark Hollis' synth-rock outfit Talk Talk, who gradually morphed from a post-punk keyboard band into something much more singular. Including contributions from one host who is experiencing most of the music for the very first time.
Jun 17, 2022•47 min
Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Philip K Dick; what can possibly go wrong?
Jun 15, 2022•24 min
It's 65 years since the publication of John Wyndham's classic story about an invasion of alien babies, and so here's our review of Sky TV's latest adaptation
Jun 13, 2022•37 min
It's been a long wait, but it's finally time for us to rewatch Malcolm Hulke's Season 10 story Frontier in Space, and decide whether it's a scintillating political thriller or just two-and-a-half hours' worth of going around in not very interesting circles
Jun 10, 2022•25 min
Now that we've all had chance to see it, here's our review of the Daniels' follow-up to Swiss Army Man, the multi-universe comedy drama set in a laundry, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Jun 08, 2022•20 min
A conversation about the brief but influential musical career of singer-songwriter Nick Drake
Jun 06, 2022•48 min
Simon, Jon and Matt discuss the second season of the Star Trek The Next Generation spin-off Picard
Jun 02, 2022•38 min
JR springs a surprise subject for the latest Music Club episode, leading to a hunt through some forty year old memories and a few revelations about our favourite Madonna songs
May 27, 2022•50 min
It's forty years since Steven Spielberg's horror film for kids about a friendly resurrecting alien who gets stranded on Earth, was first released. So here we are looking back on it, with mostly fond eyes
May 25, 2022•32 min
A moderately spoilery round-up of some Doctor Who casting and shooting news, after the first week of outdoor recording on Russell T Davies' return to the programme
May 23, 2022•24 min
Ahead of the fortieth anniversary of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we look at Steven Spielberg's first four movies from The Sugarland Express to 1941, taking in Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind along the way
May 20, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Unhitched from our James L Brooks conversation, a separate discussion on the musical he made with songs by Prince, Sinead O'Connor and Carole King, which were subsequently removed before the movie's release - begging the question, was I'll Do Anything any better without them?
May 18, 2022•27 min
Fifteen years after they took their final trip in the TARDIS (by the time their new episode is broadcast, that is), David Tennant and Catherine Tate return to Doctor Who. That's right, it's another Sunday and another casting announcement, so here are our immediate thoughts on the reveal
May 16, 2022•33 min
Is it too early to invent the expression Doctor Whuti? Our thoughts on the casting of the new Doctor Who
May 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min
You'll have seen his name attached to every episode of The Simpsons, his directorial debut won Best Picture at the Oscars and he once did a musical without any songs with Prince (but that's another story); we turn our attention to Jack Nicholson's most long-term employer James L Brooks
May 11, 2022•1 hr
Thirty years ago it looked like they might be about to replace sliced bread, but things didn't go quite that far for Suede. Our latest Music Club profile, primarily focussing on their imperial phase in the 1990s
May 09, 2022•39 min
Matt, Jon and Mark take a look at the tenure of the fourth Doctor Tom Baker, in the first of a series of Doctor retrospectives that will look at the legacy of the actors and the characters they created in the role
May 06, 2022•1 hr 23 min
As a postscript to our Man With No Name episode, Simon chooses Sam Raimi's 1990s Western The Quick and the Dead as a subject for conversation in the latest Film Club Lite
May 04, 2022•22 min
Jane Lovering, biscuit-loving author of A Cottage Full of Secrets and winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year award, braves a less than ideal internet connection in order to undergo a series of occasionally tailor-made (but largely off-the-peg) pop culture challenges - before getting rudely cut-off by a disturbance in the host's neighbourhood
May 02, 2022•32 min
Gallifrey Most Wanted's Ross returns to chat with JR about Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Western trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Apr 29, 2022•59 min
Our review of Chris Atkins' new documentary about the KLF, telling the story of how they progressed from being an art-house Jive Bunny to deleting their entire back catalogue and burning a million quid before finally releasing it all on a streaming service nearly three decades later; it's quite a story, but does the film live up to it?
Apr 27, 2022•33 min
Our review of Matt Reeves' new version of (The) Batman
Apr 25, 2022•41 min
