Two screen comedies dominate the Screen Watching podcast this week with Dan Barrett taking a look at The Office Spin-off The Paper. Is it a worthy successor to the beloved comedy, or is The Paper just comedic bird cage liner? Then Simon Foster walks us through The Roses - the divorce comedy remake of War of The Roses almost no one was really after.

Dudes! Screen Watching is back with thoughts... some might dare go as far as to suggest they are hot takes... on the following:

• The Toxic Avenger (2025) - Finally in cinemas
• The Thursday Murder Club - Netflix
• Caught Stealing - in cinemas
• Eenie Meanie - Disney+/Hulu
• Peacemaker s2 - HBO Max

It's not a big week for reviews, but it's a substantial one with two reviews of shows/movies from bona fide creative genius' you should be across.

• Eddington - the new Ari Aster (Midsommer, Beau Is Afraid) film is in cinemas now
• Long Story Short - the new Raphael Bob-Waksberg (Bojack Horseman, Undone) show is on Netflix now

Dan and Simon are back to argue on the Screen Watching podcast. Whoever wins, we all lose!

This week they have a natter about:

• Alien Earth (Hulu/Disney+)
• The Life of Chuck (In cinemas now)
• Butterfly (Prime Video)
• Platonic (Apple TV+)
• Smilla's Sense of Snow (SBS On Demand)
• Playing Gracie Darling
• And a very brief chat about Weapons (in cinemas)

Simon chats with us about Weapons on the podcast this week, but we're a bit more interested in the similarities between Freakier Friday and King of The Hill - two reunion projects over a decade since the original. Only one of them is any good though.

With no major releases this week, Dan and Simon have a really broad and unusual assortment of titles to discuss this week:

• Together (in cinemas)
• Leanne (Netflix)
• Omniscient Reader (In cinemas)
• The Assassin (on Stan in Australia, Prime Video elsewhere)
• Convoy (Plex)
• The Greatest Hits (Disney+)
• Return To Me (it was on Prime)

It's a more film-centic Screen Watching than usual with Dan and Simon taking a look at Fantastic Four: First Steps (in cinemas now), digital rental Millers in Marriage, and the Netflix release of Happy Gilmore 2. There is also a bit of South Park and Firefly talk too.

Big show.

We ask this week the expected question around the latest Hollywood remake I Know What You Did Last Summer (the question obviously being why remake this and not just start with the remake of I Still Know What You Did Last Summer?) and then go on to talk about something actually pretty good, which is Netflix's new Eric Bana forestry cop drama Untamed.

Look up in the sky - we're talking about the new Prime Video show Ballard. It's a spin-off from Bosch. Okay - we're also talking about James Gunn's new Superman movie. It's kind of a big deal. Oh, and there's also some chatter about the new Lena Dunham Netflix show Too Much, and Simon finally catches up with How To Train Your Dragon.

You'd have to be Superman to create this much show.

Jurassic Park helped the dinosaurs defy death. This week on Screen Watching, Dan and Simon discuss the latest entry into the film series, Jurassic World: Rebirth.

And then they discuss the latest David Cronenberg body horror, his quasi-autobiographical The Shrouds.