Continuing to look at Films worth avoiding, "The Man with the Iron Fists" is the "Film Dump" entry for today. This 2012 Martial Arts thriller sees a humble blacksmith settle down in a feudal Chinese village. When a band of warriors, assassins, and a rogue British soldier descend upon the village and its people, the blacksmith is left with no choice but to turn himself into a living weapon to protect his people. RZA, Russell Crowe, and Lucy Liu star.    

Chris is back on the Film Club, this week looking at Films worth avoiding on the 'Film Dump'! Up first is 2010's 'Grown Ups', in which Adam Sandler, Kevin James and co. play a group of childhood friends reunited for the funereal of their old baseball coach. Picking up where they left off, the buddies -- with wives and children in tow -- discover why age does not, necessarily, equal maturity. Salma Hayek, Chris Rock and David Spade also star.

Simon, original lead singer of New Jersey rockers Twisted Sister, was in the studio to present the Film Guide today, but before he could start, the studio spontaneously burst into flames. Danny tried to tell everyone that it was because he was 'hot stuff', but people had long since stopped listening to Danny (both in person and on the radio) so that was quickly dismissed. A little investigative work was done, which determined that the source of the fire was Simon's chair. Digging a little deeper, it became clear that Simon was keeping a lit Cuban cigar in his back pocket. After everyone had finished facepalming, he explained that he had the cigar to celebrate successfully making it through a week without starting any fires. Oh Simon!  Ok, that was a lie, but Simon was in the studio to talk about the UK box office, new releases in the cinema, and his pick of films on TV for the coming week. Friday American Hustle 12.10am – 2.30am Channel 4 Saturday Unbroken 9.00pm – 11.40pm Film4 Sunday Changeling 11.05pm – 1.50am ITV3 Monday Se7en 10.00pm – 12.40am ITV4 Tuesday I Origins 11.15pm – 1.25am Film4 Wednesday Legally Blonde 10.10pm – 12.10am 5STAR Thursday Les Misérables 12.45am – 3.55am Film4

Continuing to look at "Dystopian Films" this week, today Chris picks "Twelve Monkeys" from 1995 to discuss. In the future, time travel has been invented and is going to be used to find a cure to the population-destroying virus that swept across the earth. Bruce Willis stars as the Convict chosen to gather information on the virus, but is left with little help aside from the manic Jeffrey (Brad Pitt). Directed by Terry Gilliam, Brad Pitt won a Golden Globe for his supporting role.  

The Film Club week of "Dystopian Futures" comes to an end today with Chris' choice of 2015 drama "Z for Zachariah". In the time following a disastrous event that has wiped out human civilisation, one scientist (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and one miner (Chris Pine) find themselves caught in a love triangle for the affection of what seems to be the last woman on earth (Margot Robbie).

"Dystopian Futures" is this weeks theme selected by Chris, we continue looking at dark dramas with "The Road"from 2009. Set many years after a grim catastrophe that left America as nothing but a grim wasteland, a man and his son aim to travel across the continent to make it to the sea. Along the way they must survive as best they can on what they can scavenge, and try to avoid roving gangs of savage humans who will turn them into slaves, or worse. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee star as the two main characters.

On the show today we had the first Local Literary Feature since coming back from our summer break, and sitting in the hot seat now is West Herts Drivetime's Chris Aikman, who has taken over from Marie Kemplay who sadly cannot present the feature any more. On the feature this week Chris and Danny discussed the six books vying for the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster; History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund; Exit West by Mohsin Hamid; Elmet by Fiona Mozley; Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders; and Autumn by Ali Smith), as well as the news that legendary writer Marcel Proust used to pay newspaper editors to review his books favourably. Chris also chose two 'Books of the Month', one fiction and one non-fiction: Munich by Robert Harris and What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton. And finally Chris and Danny discussed big local literary event this month - The Chorleywood Literary Festival - that sees the likes of Richard Osman, A.N. Wilson, Andy McNab, Henry Blofeld, and St Albans' own Roger Protz all making appearances. For more information on the event please visit the website here.

Chris is back with a new theme for this weeks Film Club, setting the theme as always on a Monday, look forward to a week of "Dystopian Futures", starting with "What Happened to Monday?". Set in a future in which overpopulation has led to families being restricted to having one child, Noomi Rapace plays each sister in a family of identical septuplets, forced to hide the truth of their birth from the government. When one of their own disappears, the sisters must take action to find her. Willem Dafoe and Glenn Close also star.

Wrapping up a week of moving World War 2 Films, Chris' last pick is 1977's "A Bridge Too Far". Another epic reaching almost 3 hours, this film is infact based on a Cornelius Ryan book! The film follows an allied paratrooper unit in 1944, who must reclaim a Netherlands highway to break into Germany. Directed by Richard Attenborough, it stars an ensemble cast including Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Edward Fox, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Laurence Olivier, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell and Liv Ullmann.

Continuing to look at Films based on the Second World War, today Chris and Danny discuss "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". Based on the novel by John Boyne, this 2008 drama is a powerful film about two boys who become friends during the horrors of the Holocaust. Bruno (Asa Butterfield) is the son of a concentration camp commandant, and Shmuel (Jack Scanlon) is a Jewish inmate in the camp. The film also stars David Thewlis, Vera Farmiga, Rupert Friend and David Hayman.