Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast about dads, pirates, and humungous fairies.

Rounding off our rewatch of our individual picks for the best film of 1991, this week Dave's choice takes us to Neverland, and to Steven Spielberg's Hook.

We all know that the core of Peter Pan's story is that he never grew up. What this high concept follow-up to the classic children's tales presupposes is... what if he did?

What will we make of this awkward, occasionally magical movie? Is this one of Steven Spielberg's rare misses? And how did Peter Pan decide to run away if he was just a baby? Seriously though, because he couldn't walk, or even understand about growing up at that point, and how did he stop being a baby one he got to Neverland?

We have questions.

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Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast about robots that become our dad.  

This week we continue our series on the best films 1991 with Rob's number one pick, Terminator 2: Judgement Day. This is James Cameron's sequel to his own 1984 noirish tech thriller, this time broadened into a family-friendly blockbuster in line with the career trajectory of its star, bad robot turned good robot, Arnold Schwarzenegger.

What will we make of this universally lauded action landmark? How will it fit into our ongoing discussions about machine sentience and artificial life? And what on earth are Rob and Nathan bickering about?

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Hello and welcome to Redshirt Cinema Club, a weekly podcast about robbing the rich, and storing the proceeds in an elaborate tree house.  

This week we begin our series on our individual picks for the best film of 1991, starting with Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Objectivity is going out the window, Robin Hood is coming back the other way, and everyone is having the best time. Except Rob. Join us now - join Robin Hood!

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The first of our retrospective mini-seasons focuses on the movies of 1991. Why? I think because Nath just wanted an excuse to talk about Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, but also it gives us the opportunity to each rank our top ten movies of the year and who doesn't love a ranking. We'll be watching each host's number 1 pick over the next three weeks, plus a community-voted movie for one of May's bonus episodes.

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Why do people keep going back to that island filled with dinosaurs? In the case of Jurassic Park 3 it's to a) save a missing boy and b) witness how much cleverer velociraptors have got. They can talk now! Set traps! And pretend to be statues! Not to be outdone by the newly introduced Spinosaurus which swallows a phone and proceeds to announce itself with a ringtone, like some monstrous version of Peter Pan's crocodile. Can the returning Sam Neill as Alan Grant prevent both this new gang of hapless humans from being eaten and also this movie from being rubbish? Let's find out!

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The Lost World? They've only found it.

How do you follow up a groundbreaking blockbuster that rewrote the rules of action cinema with a t-rex and three velociraptors? With TWO t-rexes and SIX velociraptors of course. The lads at InGen remember they left a massive island full of dinosaurs on simmer when a child's face is eaten, so they convince the world's premier open-shirted mathematician to return and ineffectually tell everyone that chaos will ensue.

Chaos ensues.

Join us as we discuss whether this is rubbish!

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A brand new series is upon us! One with miraculous dinosaurs, underhand IT contractors, and perilous adventure.

Throughout April we'll be revisiting the original Jurassic Park trilogy, beginning with Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking 1993 original. The movie is a firm podcast favourite, especially for Rob and Dave, but will the film's standard-setting digital effects hold up? Has the early-90s tech-terror storytelling aged? And why, after all this time, does nobody care about Dodgson?

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This really is it! The end of the Matrix series so far. Morpheus has died in a game you didn't play and Hugo Weaving was doing some theatre so Agent Smith has a new face. But the big news is that Neo is alive, somehow, and trapped in a new Matrix devoted to nodding self-referentially at the old one, while Trinity has become just a regular, Ducatti-riding, Hollywood hot mom of two regular kids.

Join us! As we discuss why two of us... actually like this film now? Even though it's sentimental, overly self-aware, and Neo can't kick as high as he used to.

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This is it! The end of the Matrix series, until they made another one. With Neo trapped in a cybercoma and strapped on a gurney next to a man doing a cartoonish Hugo Weaving impression, WHO will be available to speak to the big machine face and force a ceasefire before the squids interrupt the eternal raving of Zion? It barely matters.

Join us as we discuss what is supposed to be happening in this film, who won at the end, and why two members of the Redshirt Cinema Club somehow prefer this to Reloaded.

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With Nath exiting the Matrix (and the country) this week, Rob and Dave are taking the opportunity to read some of your amazing emails (and some of the less amazing ones too). We talk future plans, rugby fans and questionable flans. Does anyone even read these genius descriptions?!

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