Our Chinese martial arts movie kick continues with the 1994 action comedy Legend of The Red Dragon, which soon descends into a trope filled, silly, Looney Tunes-style live-action cartoon that forgoes logic and sense for as many visual gags as it is possible to jam in there and, do ya know what, we are totally here for it! It’s a film that never stops delivering it’s fun crazy antics, far too many to list here, so we’ll just say strap in for an entertaining wild ride.

It’s the classic story of ‘parents go away for the weekend and kids have to deal with hell portal that opens up in the backyard’ in The Gate from 1987. If you’re looking for a Stranger Things fix this may be the perfect film for you with its fun blend of kid-centred family film meets surprisingly effective supernatural horror in a movie featuring: demonic geodes, dancing with dead dogs, hilarious tiny gremlins demons, perplexing moth symbolism, our favourate miming scene ever and the seemingly inevitable fireworks climax of every 80’s movie.

How have 4 British people making a film podcast not tackled a Carry On in over 10 years? Some kind of generational trauma, perhaps? The fact that they seem to revolve only around innuendos to private parts? Well, whatever the reason we have finally deemed it time to examine this huge part of our comedy culture by watching, what we have been assured is ‘one of the good ones’, Carry On Up The Khyber. Come and join our discussion about: a plot that entirely revolves around not wearing underwear, the most cringe-inducing comedy names, every actor being incredibly charming, more actual satire than we were expecting and, whilst agreeing this movie’s time has passed, still finding a surprising amount to admire.

Richard Kelly took the world by storm with his debut feature Donnie Darko. There was a lot of expectation on his follow-up Southland Tales, a film that seemed to promise even more originality and mind-bending antics. Unfortunately, what everyone got was probably the biggest sophomore slump in film history with a drawn out, pretentious and non-sensical movie. What did we make of it? Come and find out in our discussion involving: taking a long time to try to figure out the story, an unexpected Justin Timberlake music video, ice-cream-truck weapons dealers, underwater perpetual motion machines and actually being thankful for the juvenile humour.

Moulin Rouge was huge when it dropped in 2001 and is credited with reviving the movie musical with it’s lightning pace, wacky antics and maximalist aesthetic. Was this actually a good thing? This week we seek to find just how well this jukebox musical has aged in a discussion about: elephant boudoirs, narcoleptic Argentinians, well hidden Ozzy Osbourne cameos, Richard Roxburgh stealing the show as the most stereotypical villain, David Wenham in drag far too briefly and just being overwhelmed by how aggressive this film is all the time.

We’ve never done a South African film before and what better choice than Yankee Zulu, a movie half remembered from childhood about criminals, poachers, theft, racists and royal affairs. But don’t worry, it transforms into outback Home Alone at the end so it’s all good. Up for discussion this week: dismemberment pranks, disappearing poo pranks, the weird rules of The South African Lottery, being surprised that Prince William is a main character in this and, yes, a hell of a lot of race swapping hijinks.

Oh dear, we’re going to explore the early days of anime film adaptation this week with the awkwardly named The Guyver. To be fair, the later days of anime film adaptation haven’t improved very much, but My God, they really didn’t have a clue what to do with this one. Come and join our discussion about: wasting your Jeffery Combs, mixing Power Rangers with Akira, David Gales’s giant teeth, forehead tongues, Mark Hamill disturbingly transforming into a cockroach and somehow mashing the chest bursting scene from Alien with the shark stalking scene from Jaws.

God forbid we actually expect a story about mermaids in a film called Mermaids. Of course we should have expected it to be about Cher as a flight-y mother moving her kids across country and her 15 year old daughter starting a love affair with a 26 year old dude. I suppose Christina Ricci does like swimming though, that’s… something. Come and join our discussion about: Bob Hoskins’ perpetual ‘lucky guy’ energy, pumpkin heads, rebelling by becoming a devout Christian, awful paintings, something about JFK and… nope, still no mermaids.

It’s time to fight our way through the back catalogue of martial arts films from The Shaw Brothers Studio by taking on The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter. Our first challenge: try to workout what the title of the movie means. Result: We fail. But don’t worry, we meet all the other challenges this crazy film thrusts at us in our discussion involving: plentiful Wu-Tang Clan references, the benefits of numbering your offspring, pond slapping, coffin ballet, wishing there was a training montage and being overwhelmed by the amount of forced dentistry in the climax.

We return to obscure Steven Spielberg this week with The Sugarland Express, a crime dramedy from 1974 which was his first official feature film and first collaboration with John Williams. Is their movie magic already fully formed at this point or is it a case of tentative first steps into greatness. Come and join our discussion where we: root for the protagonists to fail, discover the sub genre of ‘too many police cars’, witness our favourite car vandalism scene, ponder the effectiveness of the portable toilet antics and wonder just exactly what they did to make that child cry all the time.