Obsolete even before it hits the feed, here are our thoughts as they stood on Saturday evening, regarding the then-still-serving Zahawi situation - plus Boris' motivation in visiting the Ukraine, can Labour win an overall majority at the next election, and more
Jan 30, 2023•42 min
Big spoiler warning: our review of The Menu, from The Web of Caves director Mark Mylod, is a conversation about all aspects of the film - which you should definitely see before listening
Jan 28, 2023•24 min
Our vague thoughts on the likely contenders for the top honours at this year's Academy Awards, plus (at 33.56) a review of Steven Spielberg's latest and most autobiographical picture, The Fabelmans
Jan 26, 2023•57 min
An overview of the seventh Doctor era, led by Matt, in which we ask the time honoured question: Which is better, Season 25 or Season 26?
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr 7 min
Mark and J.R. take a look at Park Chan-wook's latest, the double BAFTA-nominated romantic murder mystery Decision to Leave - in a mainly spoiler-light review
Jan 20, 2023•28 min
Dylan asks the team if James Gunn can be the saviour the DC movie universe requires, or whether Zack Snyder has already led it too far down the wrong path
Jan 18, 2023•57 min
A (moderately spoilery) conversation about Severance, Apple TV+'s series actualising the work-life balance in modern society
Jan 16, 2023•37 min
Maria Schrader's film about the investigation into cinema mogul and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein
Jan 13, 2023•39 min
The second part of our conversation about the state of the world and how we got here
Jan 11, 2023•40 min
Our thoughts on Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's apparently timeless postmodern consumerist satire on death, recently released by Netflix
Jan 09, 2023•24 min
Might the BBC be colourising black and white Doctor Who and animating further missing episodes for the sixtieth anniversary?
Jan 06, 2023•41 min
A profile of the recently departed television writer and script editor, whose works include Blakes 7 and Star Cops, as well as three highly regarded Doctor Who serials
Jan 04, 2023•1 hr 1 min
The first instalment of a fairly breezy (but nevertheless quite explicit) conversation about how we got to where we are now
Jan 02, 2023•46 min
A round-up of some of the television we watched over the Christmas holiday, including Inside No 9, A Ghost Story for Christmas, Ghosts and Detectorists. Spoiler warning: we will be talking about plot developments and resolutions
Dec 30, 2022•49 min
Spoilers ahoy, as we discuss Rian Johnson's second Knives Out Mystery, Glass Onion
Dec 28, 2022•32 min
Simon and Jon enjoy a leisurely post-Christmas chat about Richard Lester's two Beatles movies from the mid-1960s, by way of a (slightly belated) celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of them releasing their first single
Dec 26, 2022•46 min
Two films whose reputation has exploded over the years - one an overachieving Will Ferrell Yuletide comedy, the other a Muppet reinvention of a seasonal classic - but which will we choose to talk about in our Christmas Film Club Duet? (Clue: it ain't called a Duet for nothing.)
Dec 23, 2022•42 min
Matt leads Team B back through the last five years of Doctor Who, as they examine the Jodie Whittaker era
Dec 21, 2022•1 hr 17 min
With the Chris Chibnall and thirteenth Doctor era now over, it was time to find out which bits of it you liked the best - and to discuss which aspects of it worked and which didn't.
Dec 19, 2022•1 hr 29 min
Is it really fifteen years since Kylie Minogue helped make David Tennant's third Christmas Special modern Doctor Who's most watched episode? Question is though, was it actually any good?
Dec 16, 2022•23 min
In this year's TV Club Christmas edition, we talk about the BBC and Mark Gatiss' revival of the M.R. James Ghost Stories for Christmas strand
Dec 14, 2022•57 min
In our Music Club Christmas Special, Simon, Jon and JR each choose their Top 5 Christmas Songs - or in Jon and Simon's case, each other's. But will Cliff Richard win the day? And what's the difference between a Christmas song and a song at Christmas...?
Dec 12, 2022•54 min
It's 45 years since Star Wars arrived in the UK, high time we revisited the original trilogy and gave our thoughts on George Lucas' paradigm-shifting films, then and now
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 10 min
There's a new Doctor Who spin-off in the pipes and we're pretty sure we know what it is - what's more, we think they've already been making it for several months, and that it'll be with us sooner than we imagined
Dec 07, 2022•20 min
Dec 05, 2022•38 min
Our review of Matthew Jacobs and Vanessa Yuille's film about the legacy of the 1996 Doctor Who TV Movie, in terms of Jacobs' personal legacy, and (particularly American) fandom's too
Dec 02, 2022•41 min
The man who possibly 'saved' the first A Star Wars Story film Rogue One returns to one of that movie's main characters, in the prequel series Andor Presented by Matt Barber, with Simon Brett
Nov 30, 2022•46 min
Marionettes, mysterious doubles and murmuring hearts; it can only be Krzysztof Kieślowski's 1991 French-Polish drama The Double Life of Veronique, in the latest edition of Film Club Lite
Nov 28, 2022•25 min
Matt leads the conversation through a review of BBC1's 1992 Halloween special, in which a bunch of unlikely television stars go ghost-hunting
Nov 25, 2022•55 min
We're going tangential in this edition, turning our attention to the infamous 2008 independent spin-off video Zygon (aka Zygon: When Being You Just Isn't Enough)
Nov 23, 2022•26 min
