We review new and classic films, movies and TV shows and then see if we can improve them, with some hilarious outcomes!
The Falcon and The Winter Soldier is finished and boy was it good. It took a bit of time but it got there. We also talk about the cinematic masterpiece that is ThunderForce. Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings trailer as well as speculation on Emilia Clark and Olivia Coleman's roles in Secret Invasion. Get your ears around this.
Few things this week: Suicide Squad Trailer, Loki Trailer, Free Guy, The Zemo Cut, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier Episodes 2-4 and Godzilla vs Kong! Lots to discuss, and we're the ones for the job!
Big week! We answer the big important questions, like: - Zack Snyder's Justice League is out - is it any good? (and were we right with our predictions (clue - some of us were) - Where does the DCEU go from here? Where should it go?! - What is going on in Falcon and the Winter Soldier? (and who is that dude at the end?) - What did we make of Raya and the Last Dragon and is it worth the £20 to watch? Lots to get through, timestamps below: News: 0:00 Raya and the Last Dragon: 12:30 Falcon and the Winter Soldier: 19:00 Zack Snyder's Justice League: 36:36
On the news front, we have some more information on The Justice League Snyder Cut release, Thor: Love and Thunder leaked set footage and a new Amazon Prime release Tom Clancy's Without Remorse starring Michael B. Jordan. Here we are with The Series Finale (see what I did there ...) of WandaVision. Boy! What a series finale it was. We had it all, brilliant fight scenes, lots of emotions and two end credit scenes! What more could you want? If you want to jump to us talking about WandaVision, go to 17:23 Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Kathryn Hahn, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters, Josh Stamberg, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali
This week, we discuss the new title for the upcoming Spiderman film; No Way Home and we discuss the new Marvel TV created show Helstrom. To listen to WandaVision straight away skip to 29:16. The penultimate WandaVision episode is upon us! In this episode we take a trip through Wanda's memories to see where her power all started and really find out how strong Agatha is. Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Teyonah Parris, Kathryn Hahn, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters, Josh Stamberg, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali
Couple of trailers out this week which we're excited about - Falcon and the Winter Soldier which we're very excited about after ... well ... not being! Also have the Mortal Kombat trailer which looks fun as heck! We also have our views on the newest WandaVision - Episode 7 - Breaking the Fourth Wall. Loads happened in this episode, from Darcy and Vision having their own little buddy cop session, Wanda struggling to keep her powers in check and our first end (mid) credits scene! Look out for that! Plus we learn a lot about Agnes ... or shall we say ... (SPOILERS) ... Agatha Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters, Josh Stamberg, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali
We caught up with WandaVisions Episode 6: an all new halloween spooktacular! We pick up wth Wanda, Vision, the kids Billy and Tommy (Wiccan and Speed) and Quicksilver as they embark on every TV show's rite of passage of having a halloween episode during their run. Kind of fun, kind of filler, all nostalgic for the 90s! Also, we discuss a bit more of the Joss Whedon news, as well as Gina Carano's removal from the Star Wars Mandolorian show. Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Evan Peters, Josh Stamberg, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali
WandaVision Episode 5 - On a Very Special Episode ... It just gets bigger and better! In the real world, in WestView, in our TVs - Get your WandaVision fix here! Big spoilers for this episode so we shan't say much more here. Come and listen! Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Josh Stamberg, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali and SPOILER ........... ... Evan Peters
Bit of DC news this week before we launch into a non-spoiler and spoiler review of Wonder Woman 1984. DC's newest movie, set after Wonder Woman and before Batman vs Superman, we join Diana Prince who is living her life in the roaring and technicolor 80s! Join us to see what we made of this and our character swap at the end ... Starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright, Connie Nielsen and many more.
What is going on? We know more! Do we love it? More again! Join us for our review of WandaVision Episode 4, We Interrupt This Program. In this episode we find out what has been happening behind the scenes. Who the person writing in the notepad was, who called out to Wanda on the radio and what happened to Monica Rambeau after Scarlet Witch evicted her from the town of Westview. Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Teyonah Parris, Randall Park, Kat Dennings, Josh Stamberg, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali
Join us for all things news: We talk all things: DC news (Justice League, Snyder Cut, Jared Leto Joker, Flash Movie, Michael Keaton, Titans) Marvel News (Eternals, Captain America's possible return, Spiderman 3) Star Wars news (Obi Wan show, Ahsoka show, Thrawn casting)
What is going on? We don't know! Do we love it? Yes! Join us for our review of WandaVision Episode 3, Now In Color. Also join us for more rampant speculation, including; House of M, reality warping, AIM, a Marvel Truman Show, Skrull mind wiping tech, and more! Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali, Teyonah Parris
This week we watched Netflix's new movie Outside the Wire. Set in the near future, a sci-fi/action-war movie about a disgraced drone pilot who is punished by being sent to fight on the ground ... somewhere near a wire ... that he must go outside of ... or something. It'll make you rethink everything you know about the rookie/seasoned partnership (as long as you haven't seen Training Day. It'll make you think about what it means to be human, and what the balance is around what the line is between artificial intelligence and humanity (as long as you haven't seen AI or Ex_Machina). It'll most likely make you wish you watched one of those movies instead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Damson Idris, Enzo Cilenti, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, Pilou Asbæk ...
WandaVision is here! After about 18 months of no Marvel, it's our look at Phase 4 of Marvel and boy are we excited. We're dropped into this strange "I Dream of Jeannie" or "Bewitched" world starring Wanda Maximoff and Vision and it's a hoot! We have no idea what is in store but join us for a chat about the characters we see, the Marvel easter eggs, and some fun Scarlet Witch trivia. We also touch on House of M and Avengers vs X-Men ... Starring Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Kathryn Hahn, Fred Melamed, Debra Jo Rupp, Asif Ali, Teyonah Parris
We finally saw The New Mutants! This film has been in the works for about three years, being made by Fox and then delayed due to reshoots and the Disney acquisition and has not been very promising ... Tune in to see what we thought of this potentially very disappointing movie - you may be surprised ... you also may not ... Centered around five young mutants who are in a facility and are just discovering their powers, while trying to find out what the facility is actually testing them for. Starring: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga and Adam Beach.
We take a look at the upcoming films in 2021 (according to a Rotten Tomatoes list) and chat through whether we think they'll be good, bad or if we are totally indifferent to seeing them (of which there are a few!). Including: Mission Impossible 7, Fast and Furious 9, Fantastic Beasts 3, Shang Chi, Eternals, Spiderman 3, Dune, The Matrix 4, Morbius, Uncharted, Death on the Nile ... and lots and lots of others.
The end of 2020 is here so we have compiled a list of films and TV that we loved, hated and what we were surprised by! Including all the greatest hits of 2020: Mandalorian, The Boys, Transformers: War for Cyberton trilogy, Upload, Clone Wars, The Witcher, October Faction, Locke and Key, Tiger King, Mulan, Onward, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, Guns Akimbo, Bill and Ted 3, The Hunt, Sonic the Hedgehog, Project Power, Old Guard and more ...
Merry Christmas everyone! Given it's Christmas, we thought we'd watch a Christmas movie ... Fatman. Not your typical Christmas movie, a bit in the vibe of Gremlins. Well worth a watch. Go watch it then tune in. Stay till the end to see what we do with this movie in our character swap! Starring Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield and others
We watched The Queen's Gambit on Netflix, based on the book by Walter Tevis. The first part of this is a non-spoiler review for those of you who haven't seen it and would like to know our thoughts in advance, then later in the episode we chat about what we particularly liked about the show as a whole. Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Chloe Pirrie, Bill Camp, Marcin Dorocinski, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Harry Melling, Moses Ingram, Marielle Heller, Jacob Fortune-Lloyd, among others ...
Disney's investors' day took place so we chat about everything you need to know about it! Everything you need to know (that we speculate) about potential plots and release dates for: Beauty and the Beast, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Turner and Hooch, Alien TV Series, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Rangers of the New Republic, Ahsoka, Andor, Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Star Wars: Visions, Lando, The Acolyte, A Droid Story, Rogue Squadron, Indiana Jones, Hocus Pocus 2, Three Men and a Baby, Pinocchio, Chip 'N Dale: Rescue Rangers, Peter Pan and Wendy, Disenchanted, Cruella, Lightyear ... probably some others too.
The finale of the Mandalorian Season 2 is finally among us and boy what an episode it was!! We have badass women, awesome fight scenes, throwbacks that are amazing, nostalgia trips and a reveal that was out of this galaxy! Mando, Cara Dune, Boba Fett and Fennec set off to finally rescue Grogu from Moff Gideon with a little help from Bo-Katan and Koska. Starring Pedro Pascal, Temuera Morrison, Gina Corano, Sasha Banks, Katee Sackhoff, Ming-Na Wen, Giancarlo Esposito and (SPOILER) ... Mark Hamill
Disney's investors' day took place so we chat about everything you need to know about it! Everything you need to know (that we speculate) about potential plots and release dates for: WandaVision, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Black Widow, Loki, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, Eternals, Spider-man 3, What If, , Ms Marvel, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Thor: Love and Thunder, Black Panther 2, Captain Marvel 2, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, Ant Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, Fantastic 4, I Am Groot, She-Hulk, Secret Invasion, Ironheart, Armor Wars, Moon Knight. Soooooo many Marvel Properties! So little time! So much speculation! So much fun!
Bill Burr is back in another heist episode of the Mandalorian. Lots and nothing happened all at once this week! Was it filler? Was it a good episode for character development? Was it neither?! Was it both?!?! Either way, it seems we'll have to wait another week to find out what has happened to poor little Grogu! Starring Pedro Pascal, Bill Burr, Gina Carano, Ming-Na Wen, Giancarlo Esposito, Temura Morrison, Richard Brake
What the farrik?! Spoilers for the Mandalorian in here so go watch it then come back and listen! Mando is back, he's made it to Tython, home of a Jedi temple, and all hell breaks loose, and we get the best version of Boba Fett we've ever seen! This episode answers lots of questions we didn't know we needed answers to, and plenty that we did! It also asks more questions but boy are we excited to find out the answers! Starring Pedro Pascal, Temuera Morrison, Ming-Na Wen, Giancarlo Esposito, Grugo, Gina Carano.
Oh My God!!!!!!!!!! Chapter 13 has landed, Dave Filoni did not let anyone down in writing/directing this, and boy oh boy what an episode! We follow Mando on his quest to find Jedi Ahsoka Tano to return The Child to the Jedi. There is so much to unpack this week. We discuss The Clone Wars, Rebels, The Prequels, The Sequels, The Originals, Lore and potential spin-off series'. Staring Pedro Pascal, Rosario Dawson, Diana Lee Inosanto, Michael Biehn and specal guest Grogu.
We're halfway through Season 2 of The Mandalorian and it is hitting us thick and fast with great episodes at the moment! Let's hope it doesn't slow down! Back on Nevarro for repairs, we get assaulted by all sorts of Star Wars nostalgia from director Carl Weathers here! It's familiar but updated, Scout Troopers on speeders, Tie Fighters making the best sounds in all of movies and Stormtroopers ... actually hitting things?! Well done those guys - they were wasted on the outer rim. Starring Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Carl Weathers, Horatio Sanz, Giancarlo Esposito
SQUEEEEEEEE! It's Season 2, Episode 3 - Chapter 11, The Heiress ... I give up with these numbers now ... and you can hear this in real time during this podcast! Spoilers from the outset in this one - and in this description - go watch it then come and listen! Mando is back, and on the hunt for more Mandalorians to help him with his quest. This Episode is a balls-to-the-wall Star Wars nerd fest which made me squeal like the little (Middle) nerd I am. We chat all things Bo-Katan, the Clone Wars, Rebels, Mandalorians, Mandalore, the Darksaber and the things that make this episode so good. Starring Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Sasha Banks, Titus Welliver, Giancarlo Esposito
Mandolorian Season 2, Episode 2, Chapter 10, The Passenger, The one where The Child eats a Frog Lady's eggs ... so many names, the same episode! Get strapped in for a rollercoaster of an episode where we argue about The Child's motives and whether or not this episode was any good or rather pointless. Never before have the Super Dipple Bros cared so much about ... anything. Give it a watch, give it a listen, give it a like.
MANDALORIAN IS BACK AND SO ARE WE!! We talk all things Mandalorian Episode 1 ... Chapter 9 ... (sigh, Star Wars and their numbering) Where has he been? What's he been doing? How is the child?! We mean it, is the child ok?! Will he find any more Mandalorians? And who is this mysterious person he's on the trail of on Tattooine. Will it be Boba? Will it be a random to throw us off the trail? Probably that one ... Starring Pedro Pascal, Timothy Olyphant, Amy Sedaris and Gizmo's son.
THE BOYS SEASON 2! It's bigger, louder and crazier than the first. If you've not seen it and want to know our thoughts, we don't spoil any of it until part of the way in (all warned in advance!). We also then go into our thoughts on Season 2 as a whole as well as the finale! Starring Karl Urban (Billy Butcher), Erin Moriarty (Starlight), Jack Quaid (Hughie Campbell), Antony Starr (Homelander), Dominique McElligott (Queen Maeve), Jessie T Usher (A-Train), Laz Alonso (Mother's Milk), Chace Crawford (The Deep), Tomer Capon (Frenchie), Karin Fukuhara (Kimiko), Nathan Mitchell (Black Noir), Aya Cash (Stormfront) and so so so many more!
Guess what... We're back... Again... With Alien Resurrection. This is probably the most devicive movie of the Alien franchise. We discussed the good (of whch there is quite a lot) and the bad (of which there is quite a lot) Written by Joss Whedon and directed Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Starring Sigourney Weaver (again...), Winona Ryder, Ron Perlman, Gary Dourdan, Michael Wincott, Kim Flowers and Dominique Pinon
And we're back with the third installment of our Alien franchise reviews, this time with the somewhat underrated Alien 3. Set on a prison colony planet, Ripley crash lands and has to deal with, guess what, more aliens! Starring Sigourney Weaver (obviously!), Charles Dance, Brian Glover, Ralph Brown, Charles S Dutton and lots more! This is quite the cast for a good old fashioned Character Swap!
... and we're back with the sequel and it's bigger than before! We unbox our very own Aliens Loot Crate and discuss all its lovely little trinkets. Tune in to see what we make of the movie and whether or not it still holds up or if it's just nostalgia at play.
It's all the news of the week! DC Fandome happened and brought with it trailers for The Batman, Wonder Woman, Shazam, Black Adam, The Suicide Squad, Justice League - The Snyder Cut, Gotham Knights, Kill the Justice League ... and more! Also we pay our respects to Black Panther's Chadwick Boseman who sadly passed away this week. Side note: for some random reason it sounds like Middle is sitting in a tin can. We'll be sure to let him out for the next episode.
In space, no-one can hear this podcast. Prior to our Aliens Loot Crate coming, we rewatched Alien! This sci-fi thriller/horror from Ridley Scott is still one of the best of its genre to this day. Get in on some of this Alien action while it's hot! Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, Bolaji Badejo and Helen Horton.
Bill and Ted day came and brought with it the trailer for Bill and Ted Face the Music, so we watched Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. Oh the nostalgia ... The character swap this week gets interesting with the many many faces of Keanu Reeves - be sure to check it out. We also go over out thoughts on the Mandolorian Casting, PS5 Reveal and the Daredevil rumours. Be excellent to each other!
This week, in a little break from the norm, we discuss our thoughts on the newly announced Sonic 2 and Labyrinth 2, the David Ayer cut of Suicide Squad and the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League, and whether this is a good thing or whether fans have too much power. Get involved! We also discuss the best DC Movie Universe. If you've not seen it yet, tune in to listen to a spoiler free review of it!
And the DC just keeps on coming, this week with Joker. Joaquin Phoenix morphs from mild mannered Arthur Fleck into Gotham's very own Batman villian, the Joker in this Oscar winning performance. Hit play to hear our thoughts on the movie, performances, direction and stay to the end as we not only charater swap, but we rate the other Movie Jokers from across the years. This one is not to be missed! Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert DeNiro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham, Bill Camp, Leigh Gill and many more!
This week we watched Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), which was a spin-off to the Suicide Squad film released in 2016. Colourful and manic, listen in to see what we made of this soft-sequel/spin off. Starring, Margot Robbie, Jurnee Smollet-Bell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ewan McGregor, Rosie Perez and Ella Jay Basco.
We tackled the entire gamut of DC properties from the DCEU, through the animated movies and TV shows to decide whether or not DC is good or bad! We discuss: Wonder Woman, Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman, Justice League, Aquaman and Shazam!; Teen Titans, Teen Titans GO!; Flash, Arrow, Supergirl, Legends of Tomorrow, Batwoman; Swamp Thing, Constantine; Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Justice League: War, Son of Batman, Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Batman vs. Robin, Batman: Bad Blood, Justice League vs. Teen Titans, Justice League Dark, Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, Suicide Squad: Hell to Pay, The Death of Superman, Reign of the Supermen, Batman: Hush, Wonder Woman: Bloodlines, Justice League Dark: Apokolips War; probably some other things too ... albeit some more than others! What a busy week!
We had a lot to say about Star Wars after our May the 4th Mandalorian episode so for Revenge of the Fifth we did a whole bonus episode on Star Wars as a whole. Listen to see which ones we think are the best and worst in the franchise and whether we think Star Wars has a bright future or if it's time for a change ...
The Mandalorian just finished in the UK on Disney+ and as it's Star Wars day we thought we'd do a review! Following a galactic bounty hunter whose morality is questioned during a job, the Mandalorian takes place over eight, half-hour episodes and can be streamed on Disney+ now. Starring Pedro Pascal, Gina Carano, Nick Nolte, Carl Weathers and Werner Herzog among many many others, listen to see how we'd improve this show by using the back catalogue of the actors in it ...
This week we watched Sonic the Hedgehog. Tune in to see what we thought of this and how it can be improved! Starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter among lots of others! We also rate computer game movies in general and discuss the best and worst of these. Comment if you think we missed any!
This week is Netflix's Extraction starring Chris Hemsworth, Golshifteh Farahani, Rudhraksh Jaiswal, Shivam Vichare, Piyush Khati, Randeep Hooda and Pankaj Tripathi. Written by Joe Russo (Avengers Endgame) and Directed by Sam Hargrave, this action film takes place when Tyler Rake, a fearless black market mercenary, embarks on the most deadly extraction of his career when he's enlisted to rescue the kidnapped son of an imprisoned international crime lord. Shit gets real. Check out the first half for a non-spoiler review (and our musings about the state of cinemas post-lockdown) and then for a spoiler review, followed by CHARACTER SWAP!
This week we watched 1995's Outbreak starring Dustin Hoffman, Morgan Freeman, Rene Russo, Cuba Gooding Jr, Donald Sutherland and Kevin Spacey! This is yet another virus-based movie (we're sensing a trend lately) which has just arrived on Netflix in the UK and is already in the top-10 most watched movies in the country. Listen along and see what we thought about the movie, how it differs from last week's movie Contagion and how we think this could be improved by swapping characters around!
This week we watched 2011's Contagion, trending on Netflix in the UK for reasons we cannot figure out! Check out what we thought about the movie, how close it is to real life and whether we think it's worth watching at home. Starring Matt Damon, Kate Winslet, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marion Cotillard, Jennifer Ehle Bryan Cranston and others!
In a break from usual, we've watched Tiger King on Netflix and ... just wow. American-based big cat and exotic animal owners all getting caught up in a murder-for-hire plot - if this was a made up film, it wouldn't get funded for being too crazy to be believed! By now you've all seen it and have your own opinions on this madness, join in to hear ours! Tiger King, starring Joe Exotic, Carole Baskin, Bhagvan Antle, Howard Baskin, John Finlay, Eric Goode, Rick Kirkham, Jeff Lowe and more
With the cinemas closed and us being a captive audience due to the lockdown, we watched a cinema release On Demand through Amazon Prime - The Hunt! When a group of 12 people waking up in a field, unsure of where they are or how they got there, they soon realise that they are part of the hunt! As this is new, we've gone no-spoilers then spoilers so you can get an idea what we thought of it without ruining the movie for you (hopefully!) but the trailer does a very good job of that itself, or go and rent the film then give this a listen ... This film stars Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Emma Roberts, Justin Hartley, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall, Ethan Suplee, Glenn Howerton and far too many more to type!
Because we cannot go to the cinema and do Quiet Place 2 as planned, what else would we watch while stuck indoors other than ... DIRTY DANCING! This classic 1987 movie is nice and feel-good and apparently has a strange side-plot even we didn't know about ...
With A Quiet Place 2 imminent, we went back to look at the original Quiet Place movie from 2018, starring Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds and Noah Jupe. We come up with two more films from this cast which are definitely worth a listen ... and might be nonsense!
This week we took a request to review The Expendables (2010) starring Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li and just about every other 90s action star! Stick around to the end to see how we thought we could recast this movie. Let's be honest, it's carnage!
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