FOEC slips on its gauntlets and fighting wedges to kick ass for Wonder Woman and discuss the state of female superheroes on screen in the era of shared cinematic universes. You can share your thoughts on all things super-heroic and cinematic by writing to [email protected]

FOEC's look back over the Alien series concludes with reviews of Prometheus and Alien Covenant, in which we dissect our lack of enthusiasm for the central premise of Ridley Scott's new era of Alien prequels. Perhaps unsurprisingly, our discussion ends with some fantasy filmmaking, and asks, Which OTHER directors would we like to see tackling the Alien universe?

As huge fans of the Alien series, Sandy, James, Jeremy and Joe nerd out hard over the third and fourth entries in the series, ahead of FOEC's upcoming review of Alien Covenant. Send your feedback and Alien-related thoughts and memories to [email protected] and we will gladly read your feedback on the third episode of our Alien special!

Part 1 of FOEC's 3-part special on the Alien franchise. Send feedback to [email protected] Our regular hosts are joined by special guest Joe to discuss the impact and brilliance of Alien and Aliens. Over the next two weeks we will have episodes on Alien3, Resurrection, Prometheus and the series' latest entry, Alien Covenant

FOEC reviews the live action iteration of the classic manga/anime Ghost in the Shell, followed by a discussion in which we discuss the successes and failures of American remakes of Asian films by giving side-by-side reviews of Ring and The Ring, and Infernal Affairs and The Departed.

Sandy and Jeremy are joined by London-based filmmaker Francesca Castelbuono to review 'Moonlight', discuss its unexpected Oscar success and discuss two more films to have brought LGBT stories into populist cinema, namely Todd Haynes' 'Carol' and Roland Emmerich's 'Stonewall'

We review Maren Ade's nebulous comedic masterpiece, Toni Erdmann, and discuss the comic archetype of the "chaotic intruder" by getting all Freudian on the Bill Murray vehicle What About Bob? and Jim Carrey's oft-maligned dark comedy, The Cable Guy/

The release of 'Silence' marks the end of Martin Scorsese's 27-year-long journey to film Shusake Endo's powerful novel about Jesuit missionaries in 17th Century Japan. We take this as an opportunity to discuss the other films in Scorsese's canon, which grapple with the power and agony of faith.

Sandy, James, Jeremy and Liz recommend their favourite scary movies, Westerns, animations, documentaries and favourite movies overall from UK cinemas in 2016, along with a truck-load of recommendations sent in by friends of the show.

In this episode we pair a full review of Gareth Edwards' Rogue One with a look back over the history of Star Wars spin-offs, including a fiercely contested recommendation of the two made-for-TV Ewok movies.