Dinosaur Man

We kick off the first News & Reviews of 2022 with reviews of four films from 2021, naturally. 

'The Tragedy of Macbeth' is the new Joel Coen adaptation of the Shakespeare play which has just hit Apple TV+ after a few weeks in cinemas, seen as an awards hopeful, will it prove divisive? 'Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain' has finally come to the UK after being available for 6 months stateside, 'Malignant' is the latest horror movie from James Wan and is quite something to experience, the less you know the better. Finally, we talk about a film which isn't even the most recent film in the MCU, 'Eternals' is directed by Chloe Zhao and was seen as a big departure from standard Marvel formula by many. But do we like it?

As awards season pulls into view we begin with a new kid on the block in our inaugural Game of the Year awards for games played in 2021 (although released in some cases half a decade ago). Andy doles out awards to a bunch of big and small names in the world of video games, Alex acts as the recapper of the year in videogame news whilst giving his opinion on the couple of games he actually played last year.

As you may have guessed from the title, "It's Catchup Season Baby!". Alex and Andy have both been busy catching up with things missed earlier in the year over the festive period. Reviews include, and are limited to, comic book event 'Spider-Man: No Way Home', Oscar winner from 2021 'Another Round', franchise reboot 'The Matrix Resurrections', awards hopeful 'King Richard', satirical comedy 'Don't Look Up', 'The Card Counter', Disney animation 'Encanto', 'CODA', 'Ron's Gone Wrong', 'Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City', 'The French Dispatch' & 'Army of Thieves' 

Step into Christmas loyal listeners with us as your festive guides, it's the most wonderful time of the year and this is our festive treat to you. 

In keeping with the season we take a look at the connective tissue between heartwarming family drama 'Jack Frost', in which Michael Keaton plays a struggling blues musician who gets a second chance at a relationship with his son when he gets reincarnated as a sentient snowman, and 'Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman' which is also about a reincarnated man just trying to live his life again as he did first time around. 

Astonishingly the films do share a surprising amount in common, do they also share the same quality level? Yes.

Welcome to this, the final News & Reviews of 2021. As we close out another year we have a less busy than usual slate of reviews, mainly due to the ongoing situation regarding the rise in cases of Covid in the UK.

We do have reviews of awards frontrunner 'The Power Of The Dog', a brooding mood piece released on Netflix worldwide, 'Old' which is the latest film from M. Night Shyamalan and Andy gives his thoughts on latest James Bond outing 'No Time To Die'.

With the impending release of Spider-Man: No Way Home this week, we decided to take a look at his most famous stable of villains, The Sinister Six.

We cast multiverse versions of six villains previously featured in at least one of the Spider-Man feature films and justify our reasoning for some slightly strange casting decisions that are sure to annoy fanbases and possibly general audiences too, we also try to establish when notable action heroes were still relevant. 

After the rip roaring success of our deep dive into the world of Netflix original Christmas movies we return with another look into this years line up. We get into the ins and outs of three entries. 

'A Castle For Christmas', 'Single All The Way' and 'Love Hard' are the subjects this year. Unfortunately none of them are musicals but we live and learn, however there are always Christmas songs to be sung and Eggnog to be drunk, not to mention morals to impart!

Do they make us feel Christmas? Did Alex cry? Find out right here!

In the penultimate News & Reviews of this year Alex brings you a bumper crop of new releases. 

From Netflix we have documentaries 'Procession', 'A Cop Movie' and directorial debuts in Oscar hopefuls 'tick, tick...BOOM!' and 'Passing', alongside this we have festive Aardman stop motion with 'Robin Robin'.

Elsewhere there's powerful drama 'Rose Plays Julie', satirical thriller 'The Beta Test', mother and child horror 'Son' and MCU entertainment by way of 'Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'. 

Alex is joined once again by Paul in order to celebrate another significant milestone in the history of this podcast, it's Episode 400! 

We talk about the history of the podcast, the future, Fatboy Slim, Banksy and also review 2015's Science Fiction Mystery '400 Days', which is no good at all.

Bustin' makes us feel good! 

With the imminent return of the Ghostbusters franchise proper with this weekend's release of the sequel 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife', Alex and Paul got to thinking about what pointless sequels to beloved properties they could pitch to try and cash in on the retro trends. 

Alex loses the spirit of his original film whilst Paul manages to make a young and trendy version that still retains original cast members. Both sound pretty horrible, but which is worse?