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Malcolm Hulke's final Doctor Who serial returns to some of the themes of his first solo story, but in this post-Brexit populist age of isolationism, does Invasion of the Dinosaurs start to look frighteningly prescient?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Jim Cameron
Our thoughts on the tenth and last of the Best Picture nominees from this year's Academy Awards; spoiler: it isn't exactly Barbie.
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson
It's the Top 25 sci-fi - and fantasy - films like you've never seen it before, direct from the YouGov website
Countdown by J.R. Southall, witnessed by Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson
Not a contender for Best Picture at this year's Oscars, yet possibly the best film of the year, is Andrew Haigh's All Of Us Strangers - so to do it justice, we've paired it up with a couple of obvious antecedents (Haigh's 45 Years and Summer Among the Zombies aka The Discarnates, the previous movie adaptation of the Japanese novel Strangers) so we can give it the attention it deserves
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson
You can watch The Discarnates at the Wayback Machine
Our journey through this year's Best Picture nominees arrives at Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone's next collaboration after The Favourite, and an adaptation of the 1992 Alasdair Gray novel. But can it win?
This episode presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Mark Donaldson
Poor Things
Once more we had back into Doctor Who history, to choice a nexus point or three, and guess what might have happened had things played out in a different way; this time three listener questions
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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Iain 'Sodcast' Martin chooses one film in each of ten categories, that has made a significant impression upon him - and Matt gives his opinion on Iain's choices
Presented by Matt Barber, with Iain Martin
Iain on Threads
Another Best Picture nominee, this time we turn our attention to Bradley Cooper's biopic of Leonard Bernstein, Maestro
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
Patrick Troughton's third and final series as Doctor Who began with a whimper - but then landed a bang, as Peter Ling set the new TARDIS team adrift in the Land of Fiction. But how does The Mind Robber hold up, over half a century on?
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber
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It's a two-in-one podcast this time around, as the conversation we were having about Michael bay's first Transformers movie suddenly transforms into quite another conversation we had about Michael Bay's Transformers movie, at the half-way stage
Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold. Or Iain Martin. Or both - or each
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