Happy new year! *party horn* Oh, wait…we can’t say that now, can we? Erm, welcome back? Pol, Bud & Art catch up on the trailers, the news, and the social media hellscape.

Preamble

09:18 – Pol’s Preamble™: The social media hellscape

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

23:52 – the Honey scam

Coming Soon

32:33 – Superman (teaser trailer, in theatres July 11)

45:03 – The Last of Us (Max series, S2, April)

47:33 – Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (Disney+ animated series, January 29)

49:33:53 – Happy Gilmore 2 (Netflix sequel, 2025, it has Taylor Swift’s boyfriend!) (Zoner Mary)

07 – The Electric State (official trailer, Russo Bros Netflix film, March 14)

54:57 – Death of a Unicorn (A24 film, Paul Rudd, Jenna Ortega, Will Poulter, Téa Leoni, and Richard E. Grant, in theatres 2025)

56:18 – Lilo & Stitch (in theatres May 23)

58:42 – Game of Thrones: Kingsroad (RPG, 2025, beta open now, PC and…smartphones? all CG, no gameplay)

1:00:11 – Avicii – My Last Show (Netflix special, dropped December 31)

1:00:47 – Heart Eyes (in theatres February 7)

1:04:59 – Sony planning live-action Horizon and Helldivers movies (Zoner Spenny)

1:06:37 – Good Omens’ final season will be a single 90-minute episode (TW: Neil Gaiman SA accusations)

1:07:20 – Zoner Spenny’s sizzle reel (from Cinema Now; some fake)

1:08:42 – Christopher Nolan’s Next Movie Is an Adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey

Geek News Proper

1:15:10 – Aubrey Plaza’s husband, indie filmmaker Jeff Baena dead at 47

1:16:42 – Zendaya and Tom Holland are engaged

1:26:05 – Outgoing Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra defends ‘Kraven the Hunter’ and ‘Madame Web’: ‘These are not terrible films’

RUMOURS and HEARSEY

1:27:40 – Marvel rumored to recast Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa ahead of Black Panther 3 (source: various rumourmills)

Reviews and Recommendayshes

1:30:14 – Squid Game S2 (Art)

1:32:31 – Wicked (Pol)

1:37:15 – A Man on the Inside (Art)

1:40:32 – Nosferatu (teaser) (Pol)

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In our final pod of 2024, Pol, Bud, Kirsten, and Art chat codewords, Thailand, Captain Superman, and Bluey. We also laugh at Kraven the Hunter and marvel at Christmas movies nowadays.

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

08:32 – deepfake codeword

Coming Soon

10:57 – The White Lotus (HBO series, S3, February 16)

12:39 – Captain America: Brave New World (“special look,” in theatres February 14)

17:06 – Karate Kid: Legends (in theatres May 30) (Zoner Mary)

19:33 – Novocaine (in theatres March 14)

22:29 – Cunk On Life (BBC movie, December 30, Netflix movie, January 2)

24:18 – The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (in theatres February 28)

28:58 – Malcolm in the Middle is returning to Disney+ (Frankie Muniz post w/ Bryan Cranston and Jane Kaczmarek)

33:08 – Bluey animated film announced

39:44 – Wicked 2 named Wicked: For Good (in theatres November 21, 2025)

40:52 – 28 Days Later (on digital December 18; we made it happen!) (this trailer looks like junk tho’)

44:39 – What If…? (Marvel animated series, third and final season, title reveals, once daily December 22–28, Disney+) (Zoner Mary)

– What If… The Hulk Fought The Mech Avengers?

– What If… Agatha Went to Hollywood?

– What If… The Red Guardian Stopped The Winter Soldier?

– What If… Howard the Duck Got Hitched?

– What If… The Emergence Destroyed the Earth?

– What If… 1872?

– What If… The Watcher Disappeared?

– What If… What if?

Geek News Proper

46:45 – Kraven the Hunter sets record with $11 Million opening weekend bomb, worst start of Sony-Produced Marvel films

Reviews and Recommendayshes

50:07 – The Sympathizer (Art)

53:13 – The Game Awards (Bud)

58:26 – Red One (Art & KJ)

Extro!

1:17:32 – Art’s late thoughts on Captain America: Brave New World and The White Lotus S3

1:23:09 – Spongebob Nosferatu

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VERY NSFW preamble! Then, Pol, Kirsten, and Bud talk about pushing buttons, getting scratched by a lion, misspelling “Santa,” robot infidelity, and the great and powerful land of Oz.

VERY NSFW preamble

00:41 – Swearsky – all swears/only swears being posted to Bluesky (NSFW, obvy)

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

09:36 – vehicular screenifications

Coming Soon

18:15 – 28 Years Later (Danny Boyle & Alex Garland return, Jodie Comer, Ralph Fiennes, Aaron, Taylor, and Johnson, in theatres June 25)

22:03 – From the World of John Wick: Ballerina (that’s literally its title) (Lionsgate film, June 6, starring Ana de Armas, Norman Reedus, Anjelica Huston, Keanu Reeves, and Lance Reddick’s final screen appearance 😭)

23:27 – Severance (Apple TV+ series, S2, January 17)

25:07 – The Gorge (Apple TV+ film, Valentine’s Day)

26:21 – Star Trek: Section 31 (Star Trek: Discovery spinoff movie, Paramount+, January 24, Michelle Yeoh, shot in Toronto) (Zoner Mary)

27:51 – Kraven the Hunter (opening 8 minutes)

RUMOURS and HEARSEY

31:25 – Chris Evans CIRCLING appearance in Avengers: Doomsday (source: Variety?)

Reviews and Recommendayshes

33:44 – Dear Santa (Pol)

36:22 – Blood, Sweat, and Pixels – Jason Schreier (Bud)

38:26 – Subservience (Pol)

43:07 – Venom: The Last Dance (Kirsten)

54:22 – Fly Me to the Moon (Pol)

57:30 – Wicked

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Pol, Kirsten, and Bud chat polyfluoroalkyl substances, Snow White and copyrights, The Sandman, rumours, and hearsey.

Preamble

01:37 – Pol & Kirsten’s Art rebuttals & coffee price texts

05:08 – Everybody’s Wrapped (Bud is a robot: confirmed)

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

15:54 – Esquimalt firefighters getting PFAS-free turnout gear

Coming Soon

19:39 – Snow White (in theatres March 21) (Zoner Mary)

31:00 – Squid Game 2 (Netflix series, December 26)

32:02 – The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (extended sneak preview, in theaters December 13)

34:17 – The Sandman (Netflix series, S2 BTS, 2025)

35:12 – Coming soon to Victoria: Jerry Seinfeld (April 26, tickets onsale Friday)

Geek News Proper

41:40 – Vin Diesel Fast & Furious ”update”

RUMOURS and HEARSEY

43:36 – Wild new rumor claims Hulk vs. Wolverine movie is now in ”pre-production” at Marvel Studios (source: ComicBookMovie.com)

Reviews and Recommendayshes

51:28 – Moana 2 (Kirsten & Pol, Indy’s first theatre movie!)

1:06:09 – Wicked (Kirsten)

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Pol, Bud, and Art chat robots, comics, aliens, Christmas specials, and karateka. Y’know . . . a normal week. 🤪

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

18:11 – robot ”kidnapping”

Coming Soon

20:33 – Lilo & Stitch (live-action Disney movie, in theatres May 23, 2025) (Zoner Mary)

23:12 – Watchmen Chapter II (out now, digital, Chapter I $7/10 CAD rent/buy, Chapter II $20 CAD, purchase only)

27:28 – Parthenope (A24, Gary Oldman, February 7)

29:24 – A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter (Netflix special, December 6 at 6:00 pm Pacific)

38:48 – Disney+ has all the Alien movies, including Prometheus

41:17 – Analogue’s 4K Nintendo 64 launches in 2025 for $249 USD (preorders sold out)

Geek News Proper

42:14 – Chuck Woolery, Love Connection host, dead at 83

Reviews and Recommendayshes

46:07 – The Penguin (Art)

56:07 – Glad-II-ator (Pol & Art)

1:10:51 – Cobra Kai part 2 (Art)

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Pol, Kirsten, and Bud talk Wicked, AI, all the live-action movies, and Jar Jar Binks even comes up today!

Preamble

04:36 – Wicked marketing followup

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

10:52 – Daisy the AI scambaiter

Coming Soon

22:44 – Severance S1 recap (but for real) (Apple TV+ series, S2, January 17)

23:53 – Beatles ’64 (Disney+ documentary, November 29)

29:44 – The Studio (Apple TV+ series, March 26)

30:58 – A Minecraft Movie (in theatres April 4)

35:57 – How To Train Your Dragon (in theaters June 13)

related: HTTYD: first look

40:07 – The Amateur (Rami Malek, in theatres April 11)

45:15 – Secret Level (Prime Video anthology series, December 10)

47:34 – Sophie Turner poised to play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider series on Amazon

48:28 – Lady Gaga joins Wednesday season 2

49:15 – Conan O’Brien tapped to host the 2025 Oscars

53:16 – James Bond: next actor will be in his 30s and ‘whiteness is not a given’

Reviews and Recommendayshes

56:10 – The Substance (Pol & Bud)

1:03:00 – Agatha All Along (Kirsten)

1:06:55 – Dune Prophecy (Pol)

1:08:05 – Heretic (Pol) (bonus Jar Jar Hugh Grant)

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Pol, Bud, & Kirsten talk Tweets, sleepy Marvel movies, interesting Mission: Impossible movies, and not-bad streaming shows. Plus, a special appearance from comedian Jason Lamb!

Preamble

01:19 – Tweets on Twitter, Tweets on Threads, Tweets on Instagram

13:12 – Pol’s big fancy birthday!

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

18:12 – The Case of The Mysteriously Rebooting iPhones

Coming Soon

23:15 – Captain America: Brave New World (in theatres February 14)

28:10 – Thunderbolts* (in theatres May 2) (Zoner Mary)

31:30 – What If…? (Marvel series, third and final season, December 22 on Disney+) (Zoner Mary)

33:13 – Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (in theatres May 23)

36:20 – Miyamoto’s tour of Donkey Kong Country at Super Nintendo World Japan (December 11 in Japan, 2025 in Florida)

40:54 – Coming to Disney+ in 2025 (The Bear S4, Skeleton Crew, Goosebumps: The Vanishing, Alien: Earth S1, Ironheart, Daredevil: Born Again, Andor, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, final season of The Handmaids Tale)

42:42 – Coming to Max in 2025 (Dune: Prophecy, And Just Like That S3, Pee-Wee as Himself 2-part doc, Task w/ Mark Ruffalo, whole-ass article about the 1.48 seconds of Nathan Fielder, Conan O’Brien Must Go S2, Peacemaker S2, IT: Welcome to Derry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, The Last of Us S2, White Lotus S3)

50:13 – Mary (Netflix historical Christmas movie w/ Anthony Hopkins, December 6)

54:08 – Takashi Yamazaki (Godzilla Minus One) is directing another Godzilla movie

56:35 – Denzel Washington says he’s starring in Black Panther 3 (article)

NOT Coming Soon

59:53 – James Gunn says Joker TV series with Barry Keoghan ‘is not being discussed nor has it even come up at this time’

Coming Soon RUMOURS and HEARSEY from Deadline

1:04:23 – SOURCES SAY Macaulay Culkin joins Fallout S2

1:05:06 – I HEARD Lucasfilm has tapped Simon Kinberg to write & produce a Star Wars trilogy

1:05:59 – SOURCES SAY Anne Hathaway & Zendaya to star in Christopher Nolan’s next film

Geek News Proper

1:07:30 – Warner Bros is selling 10 Tumbler Batmobiles from Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight movies ($2,990,000 USD, unconfirmed ‘fully functional but not street legal’)

1:17:11 – A guide to the many Wicked movie product collabs

related: Mattel pulls thousands of Wicked dolls off shelves after printing adult web address on packaging

Reviews and Recommendayshes

1:30:55 – Agatha All Along E01-E03 (Kirsten)

1:32:08 – Alien: Romulus (Kirsten)

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Need an escape from, y’know, reality? Pol, Kirsten, Bud, and Art talk Squid Game, Stranger Things 5, Martha Stewart, and more, and don’t mention anyone who should not be named.

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

06:16 – Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete

Coming Soon

17:14 – Squid Game (Netflix series, S2, December 26)

23:08 – Marvel Studios’ look ahead (Zoner Mary)

30:13 – Stranger Things 5 (Netflix series, final season, 2025)

– The Crawl

– The Vanishing of __________

– The Turnbow Trap

– Sorcerer

– Shock Jock

– Escape from Camazotz

– The Bridge

– The Rightside Up (S01E01: The Upside Down)

34:01 – Moana 2 (clip: Big, Bad Matangi, Disney animated sequel, November 27)

36:44 – Star Wars: Skeleton Crew (Disney+ series, December 3)

46:18 – September 5 (strangely, in theatres November 29, based on the Munich Massacre)

49:37 – Oregon Trail action-comedy movie in development at Apple

Reviews and Recommendayshes

54:28 – Trap (Art, Pol, and Kirsten)

1:04:02 – Conclave (Kirsten)

1:10:44 – Shrinking (Art)

1:14:41 – Martha (Pol)

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Pol, Bud, & Kirsten talk Severance, Star Trek, Tegan & Sara, and review a core horror movie from 1980 that Kirsten & Bud somehow never got around to seeing!

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

08:29 – iHearing

Coming soon (NYCC)

14:36 – Lower Decks clip (final season, Paramount+, two-ep premiere Friday) (Zoner Mary)

related: Strange New Worlds clip (S3, Paramount+ series, 2025) (Zoner Mary)

related: Star Trek: Section 31 to Premiere January 24 (Paramount+ series) (Zoner Mary)

15:53 – Tatiana Maslany guest starring in S2 of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (Paramount+ series, S1 currently in production in Toronto) (Zoner Mary)

17:08 – Daredevil: Born Again release date (Disney+ series, “starts streaming” March 4) (Zoner Mary)

Coming Soon (the usual stuff)

18:18 – Severance (Apple TV+ series, S2, January 17)

25:38 – Goosebumps: The Vanishing (Disney+ anthology series, S2, January 10)

28:50 – The Electric State (Netflix film, March 14) (Zoner Spenny, June)

34:59 – Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara (Hulu documentary, Disney+, out now)

38:58 – Carry-On (starring Taron Edgerton, light happy Netflix holiday film, December 13)

44:36 – Love Hurts (in theatres February 7)

45:25 – The Legend of Ochi (A24, coming soon, Finn Wolfhard doesn’t age)

48:38 – The Monkey (in theatres February 21, wr: Stephen King, pr: James Wan, dir: Osgood Perkins, starring: Theo James from the White Lotus S2!)

51:10 – Juror #2 (in theatres November 1, dir: Clint Eastwood, starring Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland?)
52:54 – Companion (in theatres January 10, starring Jack Quaid (Hughie), Sophie Thatcher (Yellowjackets, is ALSO in Heretic), Harvey Guillén (Guillermo in What We Do in the Shadows), and Rupert Friend (Peter Quinn from Homeland, Grand Inquisitor from Obi-Wan))

55:16 – Dune: Prophecy (HBO series, Max, November 17)

56:34 – DeLorean Labs – Time Capsule

59:02 – Tom Holland confirms Spider-Man 4 begins filming summer 2025 (on The Tonight Show w/ Jimmy Fallon)

Coming soon (not video)

1:03:24 – Tom Holland to star in Christopher Nolan’s latest film . . . about vampires?

1:07:11 – Secret Level voice cast revealed (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart, Keanu Reeves, Gabriel Luna, Temuera Morrison, Ariana Greenblatt (young everybody), trailer recap)

1:07:51 – Josh Brolin to play the villain in Edgar Wright’s The Running Man

1:08:07 – Andor S2 has finished filming (Zoner Spenny)

NOT Coming Soon

1:08:21 – Blade has been removed from Marvel’s 2025 release schedule (we get Predator: Badlands instead, November 7, 2025)

Listener mailbag ([email protected])

1:10:52 – Zoner Ewan: If each of the podcast members were Tranformers, what would you each transform into based on your personalities, rather than what you would prefer to turn into. Would Bryan transform into a turntable? Would Art transform into a Zamboni?

Reviews and Recommendayshes

1:20:33 – Friday the 13th? (KJ & Bud)

1:28:57 – Late Night with the Devil (KJ, Bud, & Pol)

1:37:36 – Saturday Night (Pol)

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Pol, Bud, and Art chat alarm clocks in 2024, Mormon girls, and Krypto the Superdog.

Bud’s Weekly Geek-out

10:25 – Alarmo

Coming Soon

19:05 – LEGO Marvel Avengers: Mission Demolition (Disney+ animated film, October 18) (Zoner Mary)

20:44 – Heretic (in theatres November 8)

24:11 – Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (BBC Christmas, Netflix January 3, 2025)

24:46 – Don’t Move (Netflix film, October 25)

26:00 – An Almost Christmas Story (dir: Alfonso Cuaron, starring John C. Reilly, Jim Gaffigan, and more, Disney+ short film, November 16)

26:45 – Kevin Smith finally regains control of Dogma, coming to streaming for 25th anniversary

28:54 – Krypto the Superdog will appear in James Gunn’s Superman: ”He’s a not-so-good-good-boy” (Zoner Ewan)

32:08 – Christopher Nolan sets next movie at Universal in IMAX for summer 2026 with Matt Damon eyed to star

43:08 – Avatar: The Last Airbender RPG game announcement (coming in a LONG TIME, console + PC)

Still NOT Coming Soon

45:16 – Charlie Covell urges fans to ”Please keep talking about Kaos” in first statement since shock cancellation

Geek News Proper

47:47 – Prime Video is adding Apple TV+ as a subscription add-on (Paramount+, Crave, AMC+, Shudder, Crunchyroll (anime), Teletoon+, Sportsnet, TSN, some BBC channels)

54:46 – Jerry Seinfeld ‘regrets’ saying the ‘extreme left’ killed comedy

Reviews and Recommendayshes

59:35 – Disclaimer* (Art)

1:01:51 – Agatha All Along E01–E03 (Art)

1:05:38 – Late Night with the Devil (Pol & Bud, brief)

1:07:20 – Hate to Love: Nickelback (Art)

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