Dinosaur Man

It's Hollywood's biggest night! Unfortunately it's a departure from our usual experience with the Oscars as Alex is away so we can't do our annual watch along torture. Instead we bring you our alternative nominations and predict who or what should win and will win in some of the prestige categories. 

Will normal service be resumed next year? We pray that we never have to do another all nighter for this podcast.

Our semi regular video game episode returns with a bang, Andy has been playing more video games than usual, Alex has actually been consistently playing a game for longer than he was forced to. 

We round up both the good and bad in video games that we've been playing, whether Andy likes or hates a game he's put over 70 hours into and whether Alex will win the championship with Williams, exciting stuff!

In a relatively sparse episode of news and reviews we still somehow find time to prattle on for a while about nonsense, mainly Alex being upset with the movie industry if we're being totally honest.

We sum up the biggest and best in news stories, we try to work out who will actually watch 'Avatar 2', why they would try to make a 'Deadpool 3' and whether there are more than 2 types of films. 

On the review front we discuss 'Red Rocket', the new film from Sean Baker and one of Alex's most anticipated films of the year. Andy also covers Netflix's new Ryan Reynolds starring sci-fi film 'The Adam Project'.

With this weekend seeing the release of the latest film in the ongoing stories of the caped crusader in 'The Batman', we thought we'd see how Alex would survive being Batman with none of the training.

How many of the villains will Alex defeat? Will Gotham fear or praise him? Has anyone ever asked The Joker his name? Andy guides you through it all here.

This week we find a news & reviews episode which sees large scale disaster movies colliding with small budget movies about witchy women living their wiccan way in the woods. Nothing new here then.

We talk big budget nonsense in 'Moonfall', horror reboot garbage in 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', a couple of Shudder originals and Oscar nominated Spanish film 'Parallel Mothers'.

To celebrate the release of heartwarming man and dog road trip movie 'Dog' this week, we take time to pitch our own versions of one word animal escapades. We imagine the hijinks and scrapes we'd have along the way and flesh out some pretty predictable story beats that you find in all of these sorts of films. 

It's been a little while but News & Reviews finally returns with a solid crop of reviews of the latest in films and TV series. We also round up some recent trailers and the Oscar nominations that were announced last week. 

We talk about noir thriller 'Nightmare Alley', video game adaptation adventure 'Uncharted', quiet drama 'Mass', recent George Clooney directed coming of age memoir 'The Tender Bar' and puritanical horror 'The Last Thing Mary Saw'. Andy also rounds up season 1 of both 'Reacher' and 'The Book Of Boba Fett'.

As timely as ever we enter another year of this podcast with a spoiler review of a film which has been out for almost 2 months now, 'Spider-Man: No Way Home'. 

We go into what worked for us, what didn't, character reveals and inciting incidents. We talk in depth about all aspects of the film so we do sound the spoiler porg pretty early on, but chances are you will have seen the film by this point if you're interested in watching it. 

To add more competitive elements to the podcast we've looked to the world of sports for inspiration this week and come up with this, the first ever Dinosaur Man Draft!

Andy and Alex assemble their teams from the rest of the releases due in 2022, from superhero blockbusters to ultra low budget horror movies we run through it all to build a roster of films to compete for financial and critical supremacy.

Here it is folks, the magnum opus! The long awaited and prestigious Dinosaur Man awards for films of the year released in the UK in 2021. In what has become a long standing tradition we battle it out with our guest Paul Hudson to nominate and win in the 5 big categories. 

Listen in to find out which films are on the receiving end of some high praise this year!