The Massive Attack Podcast

Wow, what can we say about this one?

With Mitch exhausted after going to the midnight screening of "The Force Awakens" last night, we decided that there was no such thing as too much Star Wars, and dug up his DVD copy of the Star Wars Holiday Special from 1978.

Do you like Star Wars? Do you like Bea Arthur? Do you like funky retro cartoons featuring the debut of Boba Fett? And more importantly, do you want to see a wookie grandfather watching strange virtual reality porn? If you answered yes to all of these, this is the one for you!!

There are some versions of this floating around online, including this one from YouTube that may or may not contain the Boba Fett bit, if you want to check it out for yourself.

Mr. Bean is a strange fellow who gets in all mannor of crazy situations, none moreso that in this very funny Christmas themed episode from back in 1992 called "Merry Christmas, Mr. Bean".

This might just have been Joe's favourite special from this years crop, and Mitch had some genuine laughs too. If you'd like to watch it for youself before we give away the gags, check it out on youtube here.

In the first of our unknown specials for the year, today we typed in "Christmas" on the kisscartoon.me search box and tried our luck with what came up.

This strange but kinda cute collection of Christmas stories had gave us some chuckles, but we're still hoping to find a hidden gem like last year's "Junky's Christmas".

If you want to see if for yourself before we give out the spoilers, check it out at kisscartoon.me.

For Day 2 we thought we'd try our luck with an old favourite, and watched the Season 5 Robot Chicken Christmas Special. In true Robot Chicken fashion it takes on Christmas favourites like Home Alone, the very first Christmas, and the big man, Santa, himself.

There are a few versions of this floating around online, we watched the uncut version that was on Kisscartoon.me if you want to watch it yourself to avoid spoilers.

Back with a vengance for our second year, it's time to hang the stockings, make some egg nog and sit back for 12 days of Christmas specials to put you in that Christmas spirit once again. Every day in the count down until Christmas we will be watching a TV special or Christmas themed episode, and giving you our own special take on things.

So, for day 1 this year we thought we'd try something brand new and watched the Netflix original, "A Very Murray Christmas" starting the one and only Bill Murray and a handful of his hollywood friends. Was it any good? Was it a great way to kick off this year's specials? Hmm...maybe not, but listen to what we though of it anyway!

Wow, it's December already?

So, for what is becoming an end of year tradition, this month we sit down and discuss our Top Fives for the year. Not just a "Best Of" list, we cover some of the new stuff we've picked up, as well as our favourites for this year in games, comics, TV, movies and podcasts.

As usual there are the strange tangents, possible spoilers and a bit of colourful language thrown in too!

After a short re-cap of our Halloween trick or treat outing we dive into games, with Joe digging "Dirt 3", and Mitch finishing "Transformers: Devastation", as well as having a bit to complain about with Microsoft and their account systems.

We then jump into TV with new shows "American Horror Story: Hotel", "Ash vs. The Evil Dead" and "Supergirl" as well as a bit more Transformers talk around "Robots In Disguise".

Then Mitch goes to Imax for "The Walk" and Joe stays home to see the classic "To Kill A Mockingbird", Amy Schumer feature "Train Wreck" and top 5 movie of the year late contender, "Ex Machina".

With Halloween only a week away, on the show this month we look at some Halloween themed cartoon episodes, including "Fat Albert", "Invader Zim" and the very first Treehouse of Horrors from "The Simpsons".

Before that we also talk "Frozen Freefall Snowball Fight", "Sleeping Dogs" and "Transformers: Devistation" on the Xbox 360, check out what's good  and bad in the new Fall TV line-up, Mitch sees Kevin Smith live while Joe watches his latest movie "Tusk", Joe's gun knowledge in "Run All Night", the similarities between Ultron and Raymond Reddington,  and we have a non-spoiler chat about "The Martian" while singing the praises of Matt Damon. Could he just have replaced Ryan Reynolds as the greatest actor of our generation?

Inspired by the awesome comic "Hip Hop Family Tree" and the recent cinema release of the N.W.A. Bio-pic "Straight Outta Compton" we dive into rap and hip hop the way only two middle class, middle aged white boys from the suburbs can. We also look at other hip hop themed movies "Krush Groove", "Wild Style", "8-Mile", "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" and the Chris Rock spoof rapumentory "CB4".

Before that we manage to sneak in a bit of gaming with "Peggle Blast" and Season 2 of "WWE Supercard" on ios, discuss the animated Dan Harmon series "Rick & Morty", wrestling with NXT Takeover - Brooklyn, and Mitch's strange experience seeing "Magic Mike XXL" at the Astor.

Mitch even gets a bit of culture and gives us his review of the radio play "The Intergalactic Nemesis".

This month no rain, and no topic either, but that doesn't mean we didn't have a lot to talk about. We hit "Angry Birds 2" on IOS and old Arcade classis on the MAME emulator before diving into TV with more from kisscartoon.me, magical tales in "Penn & Teller: Fool Us", FBI fun with "The Blacklist" and mad mexicans battling it out with "Lucha Underground: Ultima Lucha".

We then have a giant list of films to tackle, with features "Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation", "Ant-Man", "Nightcrawler", "Taxi Driver"  and a longer chat than it probably warrants for "Pitch Perfect 2".

After that the movies continue with docos on true crime with "Crazy Love", Adam Carolla's "Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman" and incomplete super heroes in "The Death of Superman Lives".

We even find some time to talk up the tennis doco spoof, "7 Days In Hell" and wrap up the show with a tribute to the Hot Rod himself, "Rowdy" Roddy Piper.