Sam Raimi's Evil Dead trilogy takes itself far less seriously than most of the rest of its contemporary "video nasty" movies, but how does it stand up four decades on? Presented by Dylan Rees, with Mark Donaldson and J.R. Southall
Was the Master's introduction into Doctor Who in 1971 (every story for the entire year) too much? Or do his eight (would have been nine) stories across the era justify their existence every time? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Iain Martin
In the first of two episodes covering the live action Resident Evil saga, we turn our attention to the first three films, 2002's original, it's 2004 sequel Apocalypse and Extinction from 2007 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees
We went back to the YouGov website to find out what their sample survey said about the most popular horror films in the UK, and suffice it to say there were some mysteries along the way. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
In a new mini-strand attempting to find out what Doctor Who writers get up to when they're not writing Doctor Who, we take a look at some of Terry Nation's other work, including episodes of Hancock, Blakes 7 and The Avengers Presented by Dylan Rees, with Jon Arnold and J.R. Southall
The middle story in Series 7A (like, don't get excited man) is Toby Whithouse's Western, A Town Called Mercy: but will we find it OK Corral, or Last Chance Saloon? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Apple TV+ seems to have made itself a home for sophisticated sci-fi of late, but how does this story of what happens to the people who've stepped out of Earth's atmosphere compare? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber Constellation on Wiki
With Season One now fairly imminent and series previews appearing the press, we thought we'd round up some recent news with rumours, summaries and - spoilers! - some spoilers too Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We asked Chat GPT to tell us why Terrance Dicks was the worst writer in the history of Doctor Who, in the hope it would at least provide illuminating evidence for the contrary... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Citizen Kane meets Amadeus, but is Gary Oldman going to be enough to get us through Bernard Rose's period biopic? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
A conversation about characters and creatures who could or should make a return to Doctor Who, in this episode focussing on the villains and monster species Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Mike Bartlett switches from Doctor Foster to Doctor Who, but can David Suchet lift a story with an ending that takes an unexpected left turn towards pleasantville Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
A remake of the 1989 Patrick Swayze film from the director of The Bourne Identity sounds like exactly the kind of thing we needed to report back on - so duly here are our views on Amazon Prime's Road House Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
A conversation about characters and actors who could or should make a return to Doctor Who, in this episode focussing on Doctors, companions and fellow Time Lords Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
A listener question about the value of multi-Doctor stories begins a conversation over the next few weeks about returning characters and whether they are worth it Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Dylan Rees
Sean Connery as a middle ages monk with Christian Slater as his sexually awakened sidekick in this medieval mystery, for which Matt's friend Will re-joins the team as we embark upon an epic conversation - with a few sound issues, which hopefully won't mar the experience Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Will Travis
Now that they've released the episode titles, we take a deep dive into the expectations and speculations we have for RTD's first full series back at the helm of Doctor Who; but be warned, we will be talking spoilers here (although be aware, we'll probably be getting most of this wrong anyway) Hosted by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
We thought it would be interesting to find out what happens when you ask Chat GPT to behave like a Doctor Who fan, and this is the result... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Iain Martin
Our Apocalypse UK occasional season begins with some thoughts on Cornell Wilde's 1970 adaptation of the John Christopher novel The Death of Grass, a film which prefigures Survivors in the afterglow of Easy Rider Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Jim Cameron and Dylan Rees
The first substantial trailer for BBC & D+ RTD-2 S1 has dropped, and so we start the conversation with some more thoughts about Steven Moffat's involvement Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber
One thousand episodes ago, we produced our first podcast on the Blue Box Podcast feed. In order to mark the passing of another 999 episodes since then, a double-header of nostalgic significance presented by a roll-call of hosts: The Dominators, and first Death to the Daleks Introduced by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber, Simon Brett, Jim Cameron, Mark Cockram, Dylan Rees and Iain Martin - and the spirit of Uncle Kev
A quarter of a century on, Twin Peaks fans were rewarded with another 18 episodes to round out the mystery and explain what the hell was going on. But was Twin Peaks The Return akin to Midi-chlorian madness, or did it leave us scratching our heads all the more? Presented by Matt Barber, with Jon Arnold, Iain Martin and J.R. Southall
You might have thought a simple announcement of the date that the new series of Doctor Who would launch on would elicit little more reaction than "That's nice, wonder what I'm doing that day" but no, the future is here and the past is unforgiving Presented by J.R. Southall with Jon Arnold
The Celestial Toymaker is soon to be with us, meanwhile Ian Levine is publishing bits of his own animated reconstructions and the BBC have decided to use AI to promote Doctor Who... Or are things not actually quite as wild as they might seem. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Dylan Rees
Our reaction to the winners and this time the ceremony itself, at the 96th Academy Awards Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
A breakthrough role for Reese Witherspoon and a break-back part for Matthew Broderick in Alexander Payne's second feature Election Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Malcolm Hulke's final Doctor Who serial returns to some of the themes of his first solo story, but in this post-Brexit populist age of isolationism, does Invasion of the Dinosaurs start to look frighteningly prescient? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Jim Cameron
Our thoughts on the tenth and last of the Best Picture nominees from this year's Academy Awards; spoiler: it isn't exactly Barbie. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson
It's the Top 25 sci-fi - and fantasy - films like you've never seen it before, direct from the YouGov website Countdown by J.R. Southall, witnessed by Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson
Not a contender for Best Picture at this year's Oscars, yet possibly the best film of the year, is Andrew Haigh's All Of Us Strangers - so to do it justice, we've paired it up with a couple of obvious antecedents (Haigh's 45 Years and Summer Among the Zombies aka The Discarnates, the previous movie adaptation of the Japanese novel Strangers) so we can give it the attention it deserves Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson You can watch The Discarnates at the...
