The High Ground

For the fourth instalment of our Franchise Wars series, we compare and contrast the two sides of the same Disney coin: 1994's THE LION KING and 1995's POCAHONTAS. Considered to be the 'A' Disney film, POCAHONTAS ended up playing second fiddle to the 'B' project: probably Disney's most successful classically animated feature, THE LION KING. We look at why this was and also examine why we find both personal to us. Spoilers.

With news that the highly-anticipated Snyder cut of JUSTICE LEAGUE is finally coming, we discuss our thoughts on the matter and consider whether alternate cuts of other films make a difference or are just a waste of time and money. Spoilers for various films.

In keeping with our Paul Verhoeven theme today, we discuss the amazing piece of art that is ROBOCOP, and whether it can be considered the ultimate movie of the 1980s. So let's go back to near-future Detroit, crack out the OCP 70-inch flat screen, tune in to Media Break, play some Nuke 'Em and follow the Prime Directives to see if we can deconstruct one of the finest action sci-fi films of all time. Dead or alive, you're coming with us! Spoilers.

Today is the exact 15th anniversary of STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH, and as such we look back on our memories of what was, at the time, the last STAR WARS film, and how the franchise has changed in the years since. We see if this one is still strong in the Force. Spoilers.

We continue our retrospectives of Quentin Tarantino's back catalogue in the third outing, 1997's JACKIE BROWN. We give our views and memories of Tarantino's admittedly least memorable, yet still fantastically enjoyable work, also his lone foray into adaptation. When you absolutely, positively have to choose one podacast from the rest, accept no substitutes. Sorry, I had to! Spoilers.

In the 19th instalment of our beloved quickie series (that came out wrong), we discuss the implications and our personal views on the recent news of Universal's movies being pulled from Odeon and Cineworld cinemas due to their desire to go full-on streaming. Could it be the end of traditional cinema media, or is it just worth getting used to maybe having no more Universal films at the cinema?

Happy Star Wars week everyone. For your delight, in our hardest Franchise Wars episode yet, we compare arguably the two most talked-about movies in the most talked-about franchise: A NEW HOPE (or even just STAR WARS for those who were there at the start; imagine that!) and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. This is without a doubt the toughest of these episodes to date, so let's hope we can end this destructive conflict, and bring order to the galaxy. Spoilers.

We wrap up our look at THE MANDALORIAN with the finale of season one. We also take a brief look at the first instalment of the new Disney + Documentary series THE GALLERY. Spoilers.

Here we analyse Indy's fourth and most-maligned outing and decide if we think it's as bad as everyone says it is. We take a balanced look, weighing up the pros and cons equally. This could be messy. Especially when Callum tries to defend the atomic flying fridge! It was lead-lined, alright?!