Ben and Rob summon ‘Men’ (2022), written and directed by visionary director Alex Garland. This surreal, unsettling folk horror stars Jessie Buckley as a grieving woman plagued by a series of near-identical men—all played by Rory Kinnear—in a remote English village. As Alex Garland leaves behind the structured sci-fi of Ex Machina and Annihilation, ‘Men’ marks a bold turn into dream logic, emotional horror, and symbolic storytelling.

But what is Men really saying? What do the Green Man and Christ imagery mean in the context of British folk horror? Why do all the men have the same face—and why does the film’s final monster feel more tragic than terrifying? And most importantly: what kind of twisted genius makes this movie?

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Ben and Rob wade into the beautiful mind of Brian Wilson’s mind waters with ‘Love & Mercy’ the biopic that, much like the man, is split right in two. With Paul Dano as the young Brian Wilson crafting Pet Sounds and battling hallucinations, and John Cusack as the older Brian Wilson trapped under the thumb of a manipulative therapist, ‘Love & Mercy’ captures the genius of Brian Wilson, the dysfunction within The Beach Boys, and the line between inspiration and illness.

But why is Ben so deeply emotionally attached to Brian Wilson? Is Paul Dano secretly becoming what Gary Oldman once was? Why was it so hard to be a sober Beach Boy? And with Brian Wilson sadly passing away this week, are we objectively in a worse world, or is there hope?

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Ben and Rob take the test this week with The Assessment (2024), a stark, unsettling sci-fi drama that might just be the strongest directorial debut we’ve seen in years. With Elizabeth Olsen delivering what could be one of the best performances of the year, The Assessment throws us into a chilling future where personal worth is measured, judged, and quantified by the state—and failing the test means more than just bad news.

The lads ask: is The Assessment a late-stage capitalism nightmare, a meditation on motherhood, or just the most anxiety-inducing job interview ever put on film? They also dig into the real-life parallels that first-time director Fleur Fortune was navigating during production, and of course—what the hell does that blue pole mean?

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Ben and Rob welcome Annihilation, Alex Garland’s 2018 cosmic horror that proved too complex for the box office despite critical adoration. Starring Natalie Portman as a biologist on a grief-fuelled mission into a zone where DNA scrambles and metaphors get literal, Annihilation is part horror, part elegy, and part existential crisis. Alex Garland’s adaptation of the novel is somehow even bleaker than the source novel, perhaps contributing to it often being considered a poor follow up to Ex Machina.

But what’s so interesting about Annihilation’s five act structure? What’s this about Alex Garland being a True Gamer? Is Annihilation a misunderstood masterpiece or a cosmic screensaver with a bear jump scare? And what does this all have to do with our upcoming live show!?

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Ben and Rob wade into the beautiful mind of Beach Boy Brian Wilson’s mind waters with ‘Love & Mercy’ the biopic that, much like the man, is split right in two. With Paul Dano as the young Brian Wilson crafting Pet Sounds and battling hallucinations, and John Cusack as the older Brian Wilson trapped under the thumb of a manipulative therapist, ‘Love & Mercy’ captures the genius of Brian Wilson, the dysfunction within The Beach Boys, and the line between inspiration and illness.

But why is Ben so deeply emotionally attached to Brian Wilson? Is Paul Dano secretly becoming what Gary Oldman once was? Why was it so hard to be sober in The Beach Boys? And with Brian Wilson sadly passing away this week, are we objectively in a worse world, or is there hope?

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Ben and Rob test ‘Ex Machina’, Alex Garland’s sleek, sterile sci-fi thriller where tech anxiety gets seductive and sinister. Domhnall Gleeson plays Caleb, a wide-eyed coder sent to play assistant to Oscar Isaac’s Natan, a tech genius channeling Elon Musk if he ever got off the bad stuff; but the star of ‘Ex Machina’ is Ava—Alicia Vikander’s uncanny AI creation who may or may not be running her own Turing test on everyone.

The lads crack open the algorithms behind Ex Machina to find out whether this modern sci-fi masterpiece is Alex Garland’s best work—or just a very well-lit panic attack. But who is Alex Garland? Is ‘Ex Machina’ a secret bible camp? Given unlimited funds and no oversight, would we really be so much better than Nathan?

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Ben and Rob play ‘Funny Games’, Michael Haneke’s brutal shot-for-shot 2007 remake of his original home invasion masterpiece from ten years prior. Starring Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt, Tim Roth and Brady Corbet, ‘Funny Games’ is a hauntingly cold movie about not only the holiday from hell, but of horror movies and why we watch them.

But why did director Michael Haneke choose to remake almost exactly the same film he released ten years prior? Why do our villains keep breaking the fourth wall? Why do we enjoy such horrific films? And how does this all relate to Oscar darling ‘The Brutalist?!

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Ben and Rob play ‘Funny Games’, Michael Haneke’s brutal shot-for-shot 2007 remake of his original home invasion masterpiece from ten years prior. Starring Naomi Watts, Michael Pitt, Tim Roth and Brady Corbet, ‘Funny Games’ is a hauntingly cold movie about not only the holiday from hell, but of horror movies and why we watch them.

But why did director Michael Haneke choose to remake almost exactly the same film he released ten years prior? Why do our villains keep breaking the fourth wall? Why do we enjoy such horrific films? And how does this all relate to Oscar darling ‘The Brutalist?!

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Ben and Rob feel “DREDD”, the 2013 Pete Travis directed adaptation of 2000AD’s megastar character Judge Dredd, starring Karl Urban, Lena Headey and Olivia Thirlby. Written by Alex Garland (director of ‘Ex Machina’, ‘Civil War’, ‘Warfare’), ‘DREDD’ struggled to make back its budget, despite good reviews and praise for its accuracy to the source material.

But why did ‘DREDD’ flop so hard at the box office? Was it the studio’s awful need for this to be ‘DREDD 3D’? The general public not knowing who the hell Judge Dredd is? Or was it due to a certain secret director having to save the project from Pete Travis, the credited leader of the adaptation?

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Ben and Rob autopsy ‘Death Of A Unicorn’, A24’s latest horror comedy starring Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Richard E Grant and Will Poulter. ‘Death Of A Unicorn’ tells the tale of a father-daughter duo who hit a mythical beast with their car and somehow end up in a biotech conspiracy full of blood, mythology and not-so-subtle satire.

Is this film a takedown of late-stage capitalism or just a weird flex from a studio that knows we’ll watch anything as long as the lighting is moody enough? Why do the unicorns change colour? Has ‘Death of a Unicorn’ given us the horn or has A24 finally missed the mark? Wait, this a true story!?

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