Our American correspondent Ross Aitken returns for a conversation about George Miller's (to date) four Mad Max movies Ross on the Gallifrey's Most Wanted podcast
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 22 min
Our reaction to the news that showrunner Chris Chibnall and current Doctor Who Jodie Whittaker will be leaving the series in 2022
Jul 30, 2021•1 hr 5 min
This time on Film Club we're looking at English villages playing host to Nazi invaders in the middle of a World War, in Went the Day Well? (1942), The Eagle Has Landed (1976), Eye of the Needle (1981) and The Spy in Black (1939)
Jul 28, 2021•1 hr
In honour of the Film Stories project's recent Blu-ray release, we've snuck in a bonus review of Phil Alden Robinson's 1992 comedy thriller Sneakers, starring Robert Redford
Jul 26, 2021•25 min
Our season-by-season journey through the history of Doctor Who arrives at the fourth Doctor's penultimate series, the somewhat divisive Season 17. But was 1979 an annus mirabilis, or just anus? (Artwork 'borrowed' from FunnyNWittyReference)
Jul 23, 2021•1 hr 12 min
The latest short Film Club Lite review is of Kaneto Shindo's precursor to J-horror, a medieval tale of spirits and civil war from 1964; warning: moderate spoilers (Onibaba can be watched for free on YouTube)
Jul 21, 2021•31 min
A short bonus episode looking back on Season One of the latest Marvel Universe endeavour on Disney+, Loki
Jul 19, 2021•37 min
It's back to school on Film Club this time, as we take the train straight from platform 9-and-whatever all the way to Hogwarts and the first four Harry Potter films. But did we enjoy them...?
Jul 15, 2021•1 hr 5 min
It's been two years since the MCU was last in cinemas, but now it's back - and back five years ago, as it happens. But what did we think of Natasha Romanoff's long overdue solo outing?
Jul 11, 2021•28 min
The first instalment in our new strand features Season 20's Snakedance, Christopher Bailey's 1983 sequel to Kinda
Jul 09, 2021•24 min
Because Tim Burton directed the first remake of Planet of the Apes, it wouldn't have been right for us to move directly from the original franchise to the new without making this stop-off in between - taking in Mars Attacks! and Ed Wood for good measure. But oh boy, this was not the layover we would have wanted...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Simon's first Film Club Lite choice is a spoiler-light review of Anthony Harvey's 1971 adaptation of James Goldman's play, with George C. Scott as a man who believes he's tilting at Moriarty
Jul 05, 2021•26 min
A short bonus - and spoiler-free - review of Freaky, the new body-swap horror from Christopher Landon, director of the Happy Death Day movies
Jul 02, 2021•18 min
The spotlight of our microphones this time around is Peter Davison's third term as Doctor Who, but our biggest question is of course what will win our listeners' poll - and which story will come last?
Jul 01, 2021•1 hr 18 min
Pixar's latest - an homage to Italian cinema of the middle of the last century - dropped straight onto Disney+, but is it a sea monster or cinema heaven?
Jun 28, 2021•21 min
The second edition of Film Club Lite turns its attention to 2017's Groundhog slasher from Blumhouse Productions, and its 2019 sequel Happy Death Day 2U
Jun 24, 2021•31 min
Cy Endfield's 1957 toxic male melodrama Hell Drivers is the first film randomly selected for our new, shorter single-movie review strand
Jun 21, 2021•28 min
As JR embarks upon his maiden voyage through the Marvel Cinematic Universe, what better way to mark his progress than through the medium of podcasting?
Jun 17, 2021•48 min
Our discussion of the role of the Doctor Who companion arrives in the modern series
Jun 15, 2021•1 hr 16 min
A short (and very much spoiler-free) review of Love and Monsters writer Brian Duffield's directorial debut, the 2020 film Spontaneous
Jun 13, 2021•28 min
Man vs nature is kind of the theme of this (spoiler lite) instalment of Film Club, as we cast our attention towards three very different reinterpretations of the basic Robinson Crusoe story: Cast Away, Man Friday and Swiss Army Man.
Jun 11, 2021•1 hr 10 min
With his new Netflix zombie apocalypse, Zack Snyder goes back to his roots - only bigger, longer and uncut. So what did we make of Army of the Dead? Did we agree with the rest of the internet that it's an egregious waste of everybody's time - or did we make our own minds up?
Jun 09, 2021•17 min
TV Club turns its attention to three recent superhero series from beyond the usual Marvel / DC stable, primarily a couple adapted from Image Comics including the recent Netflix release Jupiter's Legacy
Jun 07, 2021•57 min
Tom Baker might have thought a talking cabbage adequate company for his TARDIS travels, but the reality is that a television programme needs characters for the audience to recognise and identify with or care about. But how has that role changed over the years? In the first half of our discussion, we talk about the Doctor's companions during the original series.
May 31, 2021•1 hr 28 min
In a discussion that has literally taken over a week to conclude, here are our further thoughts on David Tennant's third year in the TARDIS, Series Four. Artwork 'borrowed' from Douglas Sommerville
May 17, 2021•1 hr 13 min
In a discussion that literally takes over a week to conclude, here are our thoughts on David Tennant's third year in the TARDIS, Series Four. Artwork 'borrowed' from Douglas Sommerville
May 10, 2021•1 hr 45 min
After four sequels, two reboots and two television versions, Planet of the Apes is the adaptation of a novel that just keeps on coming. But just what is it that keeps on coming? That's the question we accidentally end up asking in this latest edition of Film Club, the first of four (non-consecutive) episodes dealing with the Apes saga.
May 06, 2021•1 hr 13 min
A short bonus Film Club, in which we discuss the eight movies nominated for Best Picture this year - plus a few others - and select our own favourites from the field
May 03, 2021•37 min
A short bonus Film Club episode, reviewing the new film from the Lord and Miller stable
May 03, 2021•23 min
Gallifrey's Most Wanted's Ross Aitken rejoins us for this edition of Film Club, in which the subject is director Walter Hill, with particular emphasis on Southern Comfort, Streets of Fire and Last Man Standing.
Apr 29, 2021•1 hr 2 min
