Playwright, author and ex-Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel undergoes a series of sometimes tailor-made pop culture challenges
Apr 22, 2022•40 min
Our review of Legend of the Sea Devils, the penultimate story for Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall, and that trailer for the Centenary Special
Apr 20, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys participates in the inaugural set of challenges in the first edition of our new interview format, Pop Culture Clash
Apr 18, 2022•24 min
A comparison between Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 film Abre los Ojos - aka Open Your Eyes - and Cameron Crowe's 2001 remake Vanilla Sky
Apr 15, 2022•44 min
Tim Dorney of Republica and Tin Gin, chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Tin Gun on Twitter
Apr 13, 2022•39 min
Mark Cockram sticks around after his appearance on our anniversary episode, and chooses Edgar Wright's 2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as his selection for a Film Club Lite
Apr 11, 2022•22 min
It's ten years since the first Blue Box Podcast turned up in people's ears, so to celebrate here we (almost all) are, running down our listeners' favourite stories according to our poll of the various individual season poll winners. With a very special guest, returning from the very beginning
Apr 08, 2022•1 hr 23 min
Simon and Jon talk Caerphilly's finest in the latest instalment of Music Club
Apr 06, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Back in 2012 we decided it might be an idea to bank a Blue Box Podcast for a rainy day, so early that June JR, Mark and Simon convened to record a couple of commentary tracks, pairing a single original run episode with a complementary modern story. We weren't particularly pleased with the result, though, so we never did publish that podcast. Until now
Apr 04, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Back in April 2012, after our first Blue Box Podcast recording session (in which we ploughed through all of our first three episodes), Lee suggested we add his friend Simon to the team to make sure there were still enough of us to hold a conversation on the off-chance there were occasions when one or other of us wasn't able to come along. So we invited Simon to our second recording session - and Lee didn't turn up. And try as we might to be welcoming and to include Simon in the conversation, as ...
Apr 01, 2022•55 min
A review of this year's Academy Award Best Picture winning film, CODA, plus a catch-up on a few of the other Oscar nominees in that category
Mar 30, 2022•27 min
A review of the latest Spider-Man movie, No Way Home, as it comes to home media; warning: if you've somehow managed to avoid the spoilers surrounding this film, we will be discussing them here
Mar 28, 2022•56 min
There's a waft of fin de millénaire on this edition of Film Club, as we head back to 1998 to investigate existential angst among the parallel realities of Dark City, The Truman Show and Pleasantville
Mar 25, 2022•59 min
A discussion of the band They Might Be Giants, formed in New York in 1982 by Lincolnites John Flansburgh and John Linnell
Mar 23, 2022•57 min
In an admittedly perhaps ill-advised tribute to the career of William Hurt, we decided to go back to the movie that firmly put him on the Hollywood map, Lawrence Kasdan's 1981 directorial debut, the steamy thriller Body Heat. And there is lots of steam. Lots of it
Mar 21, 2022•37 min
JR and Simon look back to the turn of the 1990s and "rave culture", and discuss The Stone Roses' place in taking indie music overground
Mar 17, 2022•37 min
By way of an appetizer for our forthcoming millennial angst Film Club episode, here's a short review of an existential thriller from the 1960s: John Frankenheimer's Seconds
Mar 14, 2022•23 min
It's our very last season poll, and we're going back to 1976 to talk about Philip Hinchcliffe's third and final year as producer of Doctor Who: Season 14
Mar 10, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Mark and Matt turn their attention to the subject of comic Czech sci-fi, with particular emphasis on Jindřich Polák's 1977 film Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea, aka Zítra Vstanu a Opařím se čajem
Mar 07, 2022•46 min
Once planned to be the last season for Steven Moffat, our journey through the Doctor Who back catalogue reaches its final destination of the modern incarnation: Series Nine (With apologies to mimikeyu for co-opting the art)
Mar 03, 2022•1 hr 16 min
JR and Simon take a trip back to the 1980s to talk about playgrounds, peer pressure and programming, and to examine the differences and similarities between The Cure and Depeche Mode
Feb 28, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Another music-themed Film Club Lite review, and this time it's JR's choice: New Zealander Jason Lei Howden's 2015 comedy horror with a heavy metal theme, Deathgasm
Feb 24, 2022•23 min
Triumph, or travesty? It's the Trial of a Time Lord, as Season 23 goes under the scrutiny of our own particular Whodiciary
Feb 21, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Did Disney's thirds Mandalorian series live up to the first two...?
Feb 17, 2022•37 min
Matt and Mark take a look at the films nominated for Best Picture at the 2022 Academy Awards
Feb 14, 2022•39 min
It's time to wind the clocks back to 2007; David Tennant was enjoying his middle series as the tenth Doctor, Martha was stepping into Rose's shoes (or not) and Steven Moffat had just delivered Blink. But what did we make of it all?
Feb 10, 2022•1 hr 21 min
A short extra episode in which we choose our favourite songs from the Bond movies
Feb 07, 2022•29 min
In the second half of our discussion about the use of incidental music in Doctor Who, we concentrate on our feelings around the use of incidental music in the revived series Plus ten minutes at the beginning on the latest anniversary casting rumour concerning David Tennant
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Lee and Matt mark Ian Anderson's Blackpool-born band Jethro Tull's 55 years of existence by discussing their history and reviewing their new album
Feb 02, 2022•48 min
A comparison between the two recent movie versions of Macbeth, and a discussion of Shakespeare on film
Jan 31, 2022•1 hr 1 min
