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Happy Birthday to Mayor Adam West! To celebrate this momentous day, my wife and I decided (more me, to be honest) to rank our favourite 3 Batman films of all time. My wife's memory couldn't unpack any of the pre-Nolan trilogy films into anything other than a single film, so we watched a few of them, plus a few animated films as well, to round out the list (it's a tough life). And so here we present our picks, along with some honourable mentions. Do you agree? Disagree? Let us know!

Women, throughout history, have had a bit of a tough time of it. Life is getting better for them, but like life, it's taking cinema a bit longer than it probably should to make feminism (just means gender equality, nothing scary) the norm. To celebrate the birthday on September 10th of Alison Bechdel (the originator of the Bechdel Wallace Test), my wife and I engage in a brief discussion of the depiction of female characters in films. Good examples, what needs to change, whether a film can be classed as feminist if it contains a super sexy gratuitous lesbian sex scene and our favourite feminist film of all time.

In a kind of continuation of Tiffany's FlightFlix, I watched two films this week that had marked similarities to them. Both were written by and starring women (although both directed by men, interestingly), both featuring the kind of comedy that falsely gets them referred to in movie magazines as 'raunchy' and both, bizarrely, featuring small roles for WWE professional wrestler John Cena. And when I see two films that my wife has seen and that are fairly similar and I haven't done a Flix in a while, you know what I have to do! Movie duel! Which is better? Which is worse? Which featured my bae? Find out inside...

GoldSilverBronze is a fun game I play on Flix sometimes whereby myself and my guest will rank our favourite 3 films of a particular genre, type or back catalogue. I have, to this point, focused on male actors, something my darling, feminazi wife deems unacceptable. So here is me making amends. The top 3 films of the impossibly likeable Sandra Bullock, featuring myself and the wife in question. Do you agree? Disagree? Sound off with your favourite 3 Sandra Bullock movies!

The DC Movie universe has, like a baby deer, taken its first few steps on shaky legs. Man of Steel was... good, if a little dour, and with a very poor grasp on its lead character, and Dawn of Justice gave us more of the same, with the addition of another poorly written hero in Batman. Sure, the legs wouldn't seem quite so shaky were they not being shone in such stark contrast to Marvel, whose elephant legs seem ever surer with each new wrinkle in their universe. So if DC are having trouble getting their heroes right, logic dictates that they delve into their luxuriantly deep barrel of villains for the next step, for it is indeed with villains that DC traditionally has the edge on their Marvel-ous rivals. The result is Suicide Squad, a film about bad guys doing good, whether they want to or not. The critics have given it a bit of a bashing, so I was very intrigued to see what David Ayer and crew could come up with. Here are my thoughts, along with the always welcome thoughts of the transcendent beauty that is Tiffany B. We go into all kind of details, as the title suggests, so be wary of entering if you haven't seen it yourself. If you have, and you want to know what other people thought, then click away and give us a few minutes of your time!

When my good friend James came to visit from the UK, I knew I had to get his dulcet tones and informed views on Flix. I gave him free reign to pick anything to do a GoldSilverBronze on, and he picked romantic comedies. No judgement. Did we pick you favourite, or did we (more likely) miss it off? Let me know your views!

San Diego! Home of Ron Burgundy and host to the annual celebration of geekery and body odour. As much a showcase for movies as comic books these days, it always produces a healthy crop of sexy, new trailers. But how sexy were these trailers? And who won the war of comic book movies this year? Come inside, dear listener, and all will be revealed...

My wonderful wife and I dissect a couple of road tripp-y movies and decree which is the superior movie, and more importantly: WHY. Give it a listen and let us know whether you agree!

My wife and visited the cinema to see The BFG for a dash of magic, a slathering of silliness and maybe even a wistful reminder of the motherland. Did it deliver? Was it a scrumdiddlyumptious, whizzpopping treat, or did it cause a whiff as bad as last week's snozzcumbers? It it physically possible for the combination of Disney, Spielberg and Roald Dahl to produce a bad children's film? Find out inside... and then let me know what you thought!

It's another installment of my infamous movie duel podcast. It's the heavyweight cinematic clash you've all been waiting for: Away We Go vs Already Tomorrow In Hong Kong. They're both movies about two people having a connection on a night out, and allowing that night to play out. But who will win? Who will lose? Why was the rubbish one so much worse than the other? Which had a 5-star setting? Find out inside!