The link to The Girl Who Leapt Through Time is probably the wrong one, YMMV. Steve Mould investigates how kettles work here.

Bingo popularity, UFOs and their cultural and political implications, and Japanese and American educational practices.

The word "whimsical" is often used to describe Marcel The Shell With Shoes , and hack reviewers Paul and Rick also failed to find an original word. Paul explains Garrison Keillor, Rick recounts a terrifying Zorb accident . Does grade inflation affect the final scores?

Finally we get to the Dune sequel. is it a "dry-squib"? Rick attacks a beloved piece of Paul's childhood. Paul creaks around noisily in his Harkonnen style black leather mumu. Melange and worms discussed in Periodic Videos Chemistry of Spice Melange YouTube videp

In response to Enter The Void last week, enjoy this Smack My Bitch Up Cat Version. 

This is your brain dying on DMT. Gaspar's Noe's existential trip makes Paul invent the word "toitering". Enter The Void with Drive-By Cinema. Also see The Prodigy classic "Smack My Bitch Up".

Paul, author of Atomic Aardvark, reviews the work of novelist Austin Wright, and the fictional author Edward Sheffield in the woman-reading-a-book neo-noir Nocturnal Animals. Paul also recommends the YouTube channel of Toyah Wilcox. Who is Steve Adams?

Somehow managing to see The Invisible Man (2020), Paul makes a spirited defence of the much-maligned sociopaths, and reminisces about cell phone ringtones. Rick wonders how people correct things without tipp-ex.

Content advisory for themes of suicide in the extremely long and rather moving Chinese film An Elephant Sitting Still. Rick recommends Ally From China YouTube channel for her analysis of the St Pancras piano incident.

Horticultural thriller Little Joe has Rick and Paul contemplating the authenticity of happiness. Paul invents the condition of pterydactyly, Rick asks about the Chinese game phenomena Jubensha, which is discussed in detail on the People Make Games YouTube channel.

Spanish container survival Nowhere makes Paul and Rick wonder about cell-phone reception mid-ocean and shipping economics.

"The seagulls around here have mobility scooters"

Find out about the fate of lost containers on the Casual Navigation YouTube video What Happens To Lost Containers?

Cyberwarfare armageddon in Leave The World Behind. And also a detailed explanation of how GPS works, to Paul's horror. Trump's expertise on magnets and the Kevin Bacon game.

TV show Mr Robot.

Flatliners.

Listen to the end-title song on the Drive-By Cinema Spotify playlist.