Dan and Simon kickstart 2024 with more inane bickering. Oh, and they review TV shows and movies too.

Up for review:

They were going to discuss the new Nicholas Cage film Dream Scenario, but got distracted. That’ll probably be next week - ignore the odd reference to it at the start of the podcast.

Oh, and the two look ahead to 2024 and offer some predictions and identify trends to watch out for.

Simon Foster and Dan Barrett talk about TV and movies on the Scren Watching podcast. It is mandatory that they release an indulgent podcast of their top 10 movies of the year. It is so indulgent that each of them offer a list of 10 each.

Understand that these are the only best movie lists you will need in 2023.

Each week on the podcast Dan and Simon offer their thoughts on the new TV shows and movies of the week. They then occasionally get into petty squabbles as they work through their thoughts.

But what happens when each come to a table to proffer their lists of the definitively best TV shows of the year? Did you expect this to be a respectful, safe space conversation?

Look, he’s Woody Allen.

Simon chats with him about his latest film Coup de Chance.

It’s Christmas, which means the focus is on the big holiday release movies this week.

There’s also chatter about Teri Hatcher, LA Law, and Highlander 2, among other things.

We’re edging towards Christmas, but that isn’t going to stop the reviews and baseless opinion:

And of course we do our weekly quizzes and other nonsense.

Dan and Simon take to the microphones.

We review:

Also discussed: Grand Theft Auto VI, Godzilla Minus One, Merry Little Batman, and Norman Lear

It’s the end of the world as we know it. And we feel fine!

On the pod this week we discuss our favourite end of the world movies. Oh, and reviews:

This week a new free streaming service launched in Australia. It’s called Brollie and it has a good collection of arthouse and cult movies. Dan and Simon offer their thoughts on the service and each choose some recommendations from the library.

Also… reviews:

Napoleon (In cinemas and soon on Apple TV+)

Fargo season 5 (SBS On Demand, or Hulu in the US)

The Royal Hotel (In cinemas now)

Squid Game: The Challenge

This week Dan and Simon are joined by a different film critic named Simon. It is Simon Miraudo who has just written the really fantastic Book of The Banned: Devilish Movies, Dastardly Censors, and the Scenes That Made Australia Sweat.

Also on the pod, we have reviews. This week: