Dinosaur Man

This is it, the conclusion to the greatest sporting contest of 2022, it's the Dinosaur Man Monster Mash! We rattle through towards the inevitable conclusion of this exciting tournament and crown a greatest horror villain.

Will Pinhead beat a tyre? Will Candyman rid his stomach of bees? Will Killer Klowns theme song see them through?

Greetings friends and welcome to the back end of Shocktober, we're ending with a two parter which pits titans against each other, it's the one and only Monster Mash! A 64 seed single elimination bracket tournament where classic movie monsters go up against each other the see who is truly the king on the monsters. 

There are aome shocks and surprises along the was a we work through the full bracket in this episode, with the remaining rounds to be covered in Part 2 so keep tuned in for that coming your way in the coming weeks. 

Andy's audio is sketchy this week as tech issues meant we could only pull the recording from his inbuilt laptop mic. All will be resolved for part 2. 

In yet another move to really provide you lot with value for money in podcast terms, we decided to make this another marathon length episode of News & Reviews, so I guess you're welcome. Plenty to talk about this week as Andy updates on 'She-Hulk', 'The Rings Of Power' and 'House Of The Dragon'.

On the film front we've got reviews of the latest crowdpleasing horror 'Smile', whodunit caper 'See How They Run', a pair of documentaries in 'The Territory' and 'Fire Of Love', bad taste comedy 'Funny Pages' and the rerelease of 'Avatar' in anticipation of the upcoming sequel.

Boo! 

And with that scare we kick off 2022's Shocktober episodes with a bang. We've got a packed month ahead of us so why don't we just get straight into it? 

This week, Alex talks us through the current trend of horror legacy sequels and what they mean for the genre. We discuss a few examples and talk through what works about the successful ones and what doesn't work for the misses, what lessons can we take from this and what does this mean going forward?

After the exciting snake pit action of last week, Alex has fought his way free to take part in this week’s news & reviews episode. Thank goodness he has as he’s got a backlog of things to talk about in an already news heavy week so this one’s going to be a marathon episode. 

There’s new David Cronenberg body horror ‘Crimes of the Future’, Bowie documentary ‘Moonage Daydream’, Idris Elba turns lion puncher in ‘Beast’, ‘Scream’ is another of 2022’s myriad legacy sequels, ‘Young Plato’ is an uplifting documentary regarding one headmasters efforts to reshape the culture of aggression in schoolchildren, ‘Saloum’ is a Senegalese supernatural action thriller comedy that feels like a blend you won’t often see and finally ‘Hatching’ is a Finnish coming of age horror. 

Due to reasons we cannot control we have not been able to record anything this week. Please enjoy this placeholder telling you the exact same thing.

We'll see you next week.

All the uproar and internet chatter surrounding the premiere of Olivia Wilde's new film "Don't Worry Darling" got us thinking here at Dinosaur Man HQ about other productions where on set or off set antics overshadowed the release of the film, for better or for worse. 

We look at famous examples of nightmare productions, casting clashes and attempted murder. Strap in for a wild ride!

Congratulations loyal listeners! You all successfully made it through last week's test episode, you proved your love of the pod and your reward is another news and reviews episode packed to the gills with reviews of the latest in movies (Alex) and TV (Andy).

Alex has reviews of new comedy horror 'Bodies, Bodies, Bodies', Spanish language film making satire 'Official Competition' & bizarre cosmic horror comedy two hander 'Glorious'. On the TV front, Andy gives his thoughts on Marvel's 'She Hulk', Amazon's epic 'The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power' and HBO prequel series 'House of the Dragon'.

Well if you were thinking, "Oh yeah news and reviews is all well and good but will you ever just make an episode which is purely a man reading numbers from a spreadsheet?" then you're in luck!

This is truly the darkest timeline, Alex spends an hour trying to work out if 'Batgirl' should have been cancelled by reading out budgets and grosses for Warner Bros DC comics properties since the turn of the century. What answer does he come to? Does Andy regret not doing research? Does Andy realise this would be the podcast if he wasn't on it?

Well after last weekend having a false start, here comes that batch of news and reviews you were all promised by the Sidecast.

This week we talk Jordan Peele's third directorial feature 'Nope', action franchise sequel 'Prey', wine tasting documentary 'Blind Ambition' & bizarre sprawling Indonesian action romance drama 'Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash'. A real grab bag this week for you all guys so enjoy the variety while it's there.