Winner of Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards, Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front is the third adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque novel and the second time the story has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar
Mar 27, 2023•22 min
It's here, but is it any good? We watched Cocaine Bear, so you wouldn't have to
Mar 24, 2023•22 min
Our thoughts on the new Luther TV movie, in which Idris Elba's character gets the boot from the establishment where he's been working these last years, and fetches up as a special agent for Netflix instead
Mar 22, 2023•30 min
Our recent addition Dylan chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet
Mar 20, 2023•53 min
Now that Inspector Morse's origins have been fully explored - or as fully as writer Russell Lewis is going to - we turn our microphones to the prequel series Endeavour, and ask if it's a spin-off that lives up to its predecessor
Mar 17, 2023•1 hr 12 min
Dylan and JR give their thoughts on the new and recently concluded post-apocalypse drama The Last of Us
Mar 16, 2023•45 min
It's the final day of our Doctor Who-themed House of Games-styled quiz, with Matt, Jon and Iain challenging to be the ultimate victor Until Round Tow, whereafter JR's challenge is to inject some sense of jeopardy back into the competition; in the end, the only winner is you, of course, the listener
Mar 15, 2023•47 min
Our thoughts on the winners and occasionally losers, after this year's Academy Awards were announced
Mar 14, 2023•40 min
Ahead of our reaction on the Oscar results themselves, here are our thoughts on the latest from Darren Aronofsky, The Whale, for which Brendan Fraser has been nominated Best Actor
Mar 13, 2023•28 min
The last Best Picture nominee we're going to get to before the Oscars announce their winner, is Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness, a satire on status mostly set on a ship
Mar 12, 2023•25 min
It comes to a pretty pass when football's 'Mr. Nice Guy'™ gets sent off from his own television hosting job, but that's thirteen years of Tory government for you: not so much football sponsorship as footballer censorship; our thoughts
Mar 11, 2023•32 min
Top Gun: Maverick might perhaps be the most unlikely candidate for this year's Best Picture Academy Award, but does it stand a chance in hell of winning?
Mar 10, 2023•17 min
Having talked about She Said earlier in the year, we now turn our microphones to Plan B films' other MeToo movie, Sarah Polley's latest, the Best Picture-nominated drama Women Talking
Mar 09, 2023•24 min
It's the penultimate edition of our Doctor Who-themed House of Games-styled quiz, as Dylan, Iain and Matt go five rounds in an evenly paced competition
Mar 08, 2023•31 min
Baz Luhrmann's glitterball biography of Elvis Presley - or of Colonel Parker perhaps - is the latest review in our rundown of this year's Best Picture nominees
Mar 07, 2023•36 min
It's been a curious week in UK politics, what with Rishi Sunak's Windsor framework and Matt Hancock's double-dealing ghost writer; obviously that was how we wanted to kick off Oscars week
Mar 06, 2023•31 min
Martin McDonagh's film about a feud on a remote Irish island exactly a century ago is the latest of this year's Best Picture nominees to come under our microphones
Mar 03, 2023•24 min
It's the third day of our Doctor Who meets House of Games style quiz, and this one's a guest edition as podcast hosts Phil from Who's He? and Harry from Who Can Convince You challenge our own Jim from the Krynoid Pod
Mar 01, 2023•44 min
Cult classic or tangerine nightmare? Only in the 1980s could Michael Mann go to the studio with a three-hour cut of his second feature, a demonic horror set in an East European castle during WWII and all playing out to the sound of a synth-pop score. What on Earth would we make of that?
Feb 27, 2023•28 min
What's more important, art or humankind-ness? That's the question Todd Field asks in his latest, the Best Picture nominated Tár - but does the film provide any answers? Matt and JR go looking
Feb 24, 2023•27 min
A Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day Two of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in another series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ
Feb 22, 2023•29 min
Our co-host Jon chooses films in ten categories, that have made a significant impression upon him
Feb 20, 2023•51 min
If you hadn't had enough Groundhog Day already, then here's a contemporaneous television take on the idea, although this second adaptation of Richard Lupoff's short story hasn't aged nearly as well according to (most of) our panel
Feb 17, 2023•29 min
A Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day One of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in a series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ
Feb 15, 2023•35 min
Poet, journalist and mentor Mark Blayney chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Photo by Dave Daggers
Feb 13, 2023•1 hr 3 min
It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? JR and Dylan chat about Groundhog Day
Feb 10, 2023•29 min
It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Iain and Mark talk Groundhog Day
Feb 08, 2023•26 min
It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Matt leads the gang through a conversation about Groundhog Day
Feb 06, 2023•40 min
Following our review of the TV drama Severance, here's our review of the film Severance, Christopher Smith's 2006 comedy-horror starring Danny Dyer
Feb 03, 2023•22 min
Our thoughts on Tom Baker's appearance as Sherlock Holmes in Letts and Dicks' classic serial adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles Watch along: https://archive.org/download/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-1982
Feb 01, 2023•40 min