The Massive Attack Podcast

Despite the rain being so loud on the night of recording we could hardly hear ourselves think, we managed to cover a bit of gaming with Mitch slipping back down the "Peggle" rabbithole, before moving to TV where we talk "WWE Tough Enough", more "Veronica Mars", "Carnivale",  the mini-series "Houdini", and Joe dives into the website Kissanime.me and a cartoon called "Wanna Be The Strongest In The World" which he assures us is not porn.

After that Mitch brings in a bit of culture with the theatre production of "North By Northwest" and we follow that up with a chat about current releases "Minions" and "Terminator: Genisys", missed classic "The Shawshank Redemption", Mitch's True Crime obsession, the crowd funded "Veronica Mars" movie, and a very indepth look at the documentary "The Sheik", featuring everybody's favourite 80's heel, The Iron Sheik.

It's "Cult Movie Challenge" time again, and this time around we look at 4 films from 1957: "12 Angry Men", "Funny Face", "The Seventh Seal" and "Bridge On The River Kwai". It was a mixed bag, with very mixed opinions on these classics.

Before that we also look at this year's E3 news, Joe gets stuck into more ios gaming with "Clash of Clans" and Mitch finishes "Lollipop Chainsaw" on the 360.

In TV we go non-spoiler "Game of Thrones", hotpants crazy for "Supergirl", and meta Dan Harmon in "Community", before turning our attention to movies for new releases "Mad Max: Fury Road" and "Jurassic World", Adam Carolla's semi-bio pic "Road Hard" and Mitch's old favourite, "Brain Donors".

And Mitch gets to put the boots into the Welsh one more time too!

The nerds as happy this month as they have both finished 2 games on Xbox 360, "Far Cry 4" and "Force Unleashed 2" for Mitch, and "Sacred 3" and the 2013 "Tomb Raider" for Joe.

After that they talk TV, with Season 5 of "Game of Thrones", Season 2 of "Silicon Valley", the ESPN Doco "E:60 - Behind the Curtain WWE NXT", and comic book shows. Mitch was inspired after watching "The Jinx" last month to delve into more true crime, so he disects "The Staircase", and Joe subjects his kids to 80's "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe".

We then have a lot of movies to discuss, with "Taken 3", "Walk of Shame", and "Exodus: Gods and Kings", as well as big blockbusters "Avengers: Age of Ultron" and "Fast and Furious 7", and no so big blockbusters with the Fast series spoof, "Superfast!" We also possibly do our shortest review ever of a recently released film.

We then set up for next month, announcing another Cult Movie Challenge, this time inspired by "Inside Amy Schumer" we're going to watch "12 Angry Men" and some other classics from way back in 1957.

It's a big one this month, as we discuss Joe's new iOS addiction, "SimCity Buildit", more of Mitch's adventures in "Far Cry 4" and whether Netflix will hurt pay TV super heavy weight, FOXTEL.

We also talk TV with the dissapointing "Glee" finale, the equally disappointing "Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special", and the new show "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt". We then go spoiler heavy on Wrestlemania XXXI and Raw the night after, including the best sign ever on a WWE show.

In movies we look at robots in "Chappie", artists in "Big Eyes" and the cantankerous Dan Harmon in the "Harmontown" documentary.

Then around the 50 minute mark we go super spoiler heavy and have an in depth conversation about the HBO documentary series, "The Jinx: The Life & Deaths of Robert Durst", so if you haven't seen it yet, maybe try and watch it before we give away the twist ending.

After taking a month off we're back to discuss our recent outing to the Soundwave Festival, then it's back to the usual format with a chat about retro gaming, more "Far Cry 4" from Mitch and a little mention of WWE Supercard.

We then talk TV, with Mitch checking out two new shows, "Last Man On Earth" and "The Odd Couple" and Joe trying "Better Call Saul", as well as some more reality TV highlights, and a history lesson on Killer Bees via Leonard Nimoy and "In Search Of..." before a discussion on the current state of the WWE and wrestling in general leading into Wrestlemania.

After that we wrap up the show with movies, including embelishing true events in "The Immitation Game" and "American Sniper" and Mitch not sure if he liked "Jupiter Accending" or not.

We end the show with the track "Liberty" by The Interrupters, who we both really dug at Soundwave. Check out their album on iTunes, it's worth a listen.

After the massive undertaking that was the 12 Days of Christmas Specials we're back to normal this month. We talk holiday gaming with "Lego Batman 3", "WWE 2k15" and "Max: The Cursed Brotherhood", TV with "Veronica Mars" and "Steve Austen's Broken Skull Challenge" and a trip to the cinema for "Big Hero 6".

We then get stuck into the movie releases coming up in 2015 that float our boats, there are pleny on the horizon including sequals and franchises, but none bigger than what's due in December, so we talk in depth about what we want out of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens".

** On a side note, there was a SNAFU with the mics at first, so the first few minutes is a little low quality, but bear with us as its sorted after that. **

It's been a long 12 days as we counted down to today, Christmas Eve, but we made it. So what better way to celebrate than with our Jesus, Dan Harmon, and the Community Season 3 epsiode "Regional Holiday Music".

Not only is it a Christmas themed episode, it is a dig at the TV show "Glee", features Donald Glover rapping, and has Alison Brie dressed in a sexy elf outfit too! All our Christmases have come at once!

There is no place we could find to link it online unfortunately, unless you have Hulu, but take our word for it, it is a great ep.

It's the penultimate day of the 12 Days of Christmas Specials, so Mitch dug deep to pick this Invader Zim Christmas Special "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever". Joe had never seen Invader Zim, but enjoyed the absurdity of it all.

We watched this one from Mitch's DVD collection, but it is available on Vimeo if you want to watch it too!

Much like yesterday with Mitch picking "Astro Boy", today we go with one of Joe's favourites in "The Simpsons". There were a ton of Christmas themed episodes to choose from, but we went with the Season 7 epsiode "Marge Be Not Proud" that revolves around Bart wanting the latest video game for Christmas, but Marge not wanting to get it for him.

It's hard to find full Simpsons eps online, but we did find an editied version on Vimeo if you want to check it out for yourself.

Both of us were big Astro Boy fans when we were kids, so it made sense for us to pick this episode from the 1980's run called "The Light Ray Robot" for Day 9.

Sure, it doesn't have a lot of Christmas in it, but it is set at Christmas time, and that's enough of a link for us. Besides, Mitch needed an excuse to talk about his love of Osamu Tezuka's works anyway.

We watched the English dubbed version from Mitch's DVD collection, but there is a Japanses one with English subs on the official Tezuka chanel on YouTube if you want to check it out, as well as some of his other goodies too.