This Week's Apocalypse

This week the boys find themselves face to face with the great equaliser, The Grim Reaper!

Can they employ the skills of confusion, bumbling, and general incompetence to thwart the entity known as Death (with a capital D)?

This week's movies and timestamps:

0:04:45 - James Wong - Final Destination (2000)

0:25:00 - Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal (1957)

0:48:35 - Harold S. Bucquet - On Borrowed Time (1939)

Kevin and John are hosting a party for time travellers, but it turns out they aren't good house guests. the toilet's stuck in a recursive loop, and three of these bozos are here twice!

It's time to retreat to the chillout room and figure out a way to send these ne'er-do-wells back to when they came from....

This week's movies and time stamps:

0:04:40 - Peter Hyams - Timecop (1994) 

0:21:05 - Terry Gilliam - 12 Monkeys (1995) 

0:46:45 - Shane Carruth - Primer (2004) 

1:05:30 - Decision Time!

This week our nostalgia comes back to haunt us in both a metaphorical and quite literal way.

Join Kevin and John as they try to find the best way to fight back against the terrible pull of collectible action figures, still in their original packaging!

This week's movies and time stamps:

0:04:40 - Michael Bay - Transformers (2007) 

0:20:05 - Gary Goddard - Masters of the Universe (1987) 

0:47:20 - Steve Barron - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)  

1:03:00 - Decision Time!

"Be careful what you wish for", as the old saying goes.

This week Kevin needs John to wish him free, but before he does that, they'll need to watch a few films and figure out the best way to word that wish.

And all before the tide comes in...

This week's movies and timestamps:

0:04:40 - Babak Anvari - Under the Shadow (2016) 

0:36:55 - Tom Daley - The Outing/ The Lamp / La Lampa (1987) 

0:54:05 - David Charbonier, Justin Powell - The Djinn (2021)  

1:12:50 - Decision Time! 

How do you know if the people around you are really who they appear to be?

Join Kevin and John as they try to figure out if they are really themselves, or if they are... Them?

This weeks movies and timestamps: 

0:04:00 - Harry Bromley Davenport - XTRO (1982) 

0:31:50 - Philip Kaufman - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) 

1:05:45 - Robert Rodriguez - The Faculty (1998) 

1:40:05 - Decision time! 

Between sleepy-time assassins, somnambulist slashers, and snoozy spy-craft, John's dreams have gotten out of control, so Kevin's hacked in to lend a hand. The problem is, he doesn't have a clue about what he's doing, and someone else is in here with them...

This Week's Movies and Time Stamps: 

0:05:00 - Christopher Nolan - Inception (2010)   

0:41:20 - Joseph Ruben - Dreamscape (1984)   

1:08:00 - Wes Craven - A Nightmare On elm Street (1984)   

1:38:30 - Decision Time! 

Vampires? Aliens? People-Eating Plants? How do we deal with whatever caused The Apocalypse this week?

Every Monday, horror writer Kevin Lenaghan, and Expert in the Ineffectual John Ferris, try to find the best movies to educate the remaining survivors about how to fight back!

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This week John and Kevin have wandered too far off the beaten path, into a forest of enchantment, wonder, goat boys, and goblin girls (to say nothing of Tim Curry's horns). 

Only the legends of cinema can help them now, as they slog through the undergrowth, dodging pixies and Pan, alike...

This week's movies and time stamps:

0:04:45 - Graham Baker - Beowulf (1999)

0:31:38 -  Ridley Scott - Legend (1985)

1:01:25 - Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

1:40:35 - Decision Time!

Black Mountain has a sore tummy, so John and Kevin have scaled the peak to see if they can help. Now if only they can learn the language of the Vulcanologists, and get a straight answer out of one of these people... 

This week's movies and time stamps: 

0:03:30 - Roger Donaldson - Dante's Peak (1997)   

0:41:45 - Simon West - Skyfire (2019)   

01:14:20 - Mick Jackson - Volcano (1997)  

01:47:35 - Decision time!

This week our Planets get hacked and Gibsons get overloaded!

Hackers are in John's mainframe, and Kevin tried hitting Ctrl+Alt+Delete to no avail. Time to learn from the Hollywood Hackers!

This week "recommended" viewing and timestamps: 

0:03:50 - Iain Softley - Hackers (1995) 

0:27:45 - Irwin Winkler - The Net (1995) 

0:47:35 - Dominic Sena - SWORDFISH (2001) 

1:14:45 - Decision Time!