We're dancing through life with John M. Chu's movie adaptation of the musical Wicked.

To mark the release of Gladiator II, Anthony and Andrew unpack our fascination with gladiator stories and historical and mythological epics.

 For the annual Halloween episode, Anthony and Andrew discuss scary robots, from Metropolis to M3GAN.

What makes the martial artist an appealing archetype in fiction? Anthony and Andrew unpack the tropes with reference to some of their favourite examples!

Mutants, multiverses, and mowing down the fourth wall! Anthony and Andrew talk Deadpool & Wolverine.

With Twisters tearing through theatres, Anthony and Andrew look at the uses and meaning of "man versus nature" conflicts in narrative.

Anthony and Andrew explore the dungeoneering tropes of the hit animated series Delicious in Dungeon, aka Dungeon Meshi.

Anthony and Andrew explore the themes and approaches of the three iterations of the Planet of the Apes movie franchise.

 Anthony and Andrew mark ten years of the reading-and-writing podcast by reflecting on ten themes and trends in storytelling from the past decade, including streaming, shared universes, the state of the "sure thing", and the rise of cozy entertainment.

Anthony and Andrew break down the runners and riders in the 96th Academy Awards categories for Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Movies discussed include:

• American Fiction
• The Zone of Interest
• Barbie
• Oppenheimer
• Poor Things

• The Holdovers
• May December
• Past Lives
• Anatomy of a Fall
• Maestro