This week sees Ben and Danny discuss The End of Oak Street and the films of director David Robert Mitchell. After some initial confusion regarding Mitchell's transition to Blockbuster filmmaking, they identify key themes in his early filmography and how, even with a bigger budget, he (just about) manages to craft something meaningful.

This week sees Ben and Danny take advantage of the Odyssey's box office domination and return to the 'Director Deep Dive', kicking off the resurrection with 'Bloody Sam' Peckinpah. They rattle through the majority of his filmography chronologically, discussing key themes in each and how his characters are anachronistic archetypes weathering the storm of societal change. They also explore the mythology around Peckinpah himself and how this leads to an unfair assessment of his work.

This week, Ben and Danny tackle Nolan's cinematic behemoth, The Odyssey. They also revisit Nolan's filmography and reevaluate his position as one of mainstream cinema's most revered directors.

This week sees a shadow-drenched Ben and Danny (we will be back in the usual space next week!) discuss the unreentingly gnarly Evil Dead Burn. This precedes a discussion on the Evil Dead films of the past and more recent present, the challenges that come with maintaining and changing a franchise in a different time, and New French Extremity Cinema - a subgenre whose nastiness has found its way into the latest deadite-fueled assault on the human form.

This week, Ben and Danny revisit action cinema to discuss the ideological and market imperatives that sculpt Eastern and Western narratives - and how the resulting violence finds justification in ever-familiar tropes. They also review The Furious and where it sits in the contemporary East Asian action canon.

What better way to celebrate England's dogged path to World Cup Glory than listening to two of the nation's finest sons discuss the spoof genre? They chat about Scary Movie, the appeal of the Wayan Brothers' puerile brand of cultural critique and how it manages to sidestep the comedic tendency to lament a different cultural landscape. We didn't expect to say the latter either.

This week sees Ben and Danny pause their endless wanderings through a liminal maze to rest up in a tastefully designed living room and discuss Backrooms. They also talk about how the internet has become a breeding ground not only for filmmaking but also for a new kind of horror mythology born from the darkness and uncertainty in everyday life.

This week sees Ben and Danny temporarily trade the masturbatory-tinged gloominess of the latter's living room for a slicker, more purpose-built affair. Spurred on by an uncharacteristic visual and auditory slickness, the boys wax lyrically about Mark Jenkin's Rose of Nevada. They also discuss films that centre on the loss of community, culture and identity in the face of technological innovation and the resulting socio-economic shifts that leave so many in the rear-view mirror.

This week sees Ben and Danny dig out the dimonte gloves before wading into the formulaic borefest that has become the musical biopic. They unpack how their narratively familiar nature exists to recontextualise the legacy of beloved musicians, often to the detriment of the artist's original intentions.

This week sees Ben and Danny eventually discuss Sci-Fi smash hit Project Hail Mary - how it reinvigorates the sci-fi genre with a sense of optimism that, although saccharine, is a welcome recalibration of ideas around human collaboration in geopolitically turbulent times.