2024-03-13 19:01
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2024-03-10 21:47
Looking forward to the new Ghostbusters movie? If so, you’ll no doubt want to know about the Ghostbusters Frozen Empire post credits scene. It’s becoming an industry standard to… Read More
2024-03-06 21:09
The latest Blumhouse horror movie, Imaginary, lands in theaters this week. Directed by Jeff Wadlow, best known for Kick-Ass 2 and Fantasy Island, it follows a demonic plush toy called Chaunc… Read More
2024-02-25 16:12
“We’ve been saying goodbye for years, honey. This time it’s really goodbye.”
The filmography of Francis Ford Coppola is an eclectic one. While most people’s… Read More
2024-02-21 15:00
The London of 70 years ago is very different to the bustling, uber-capitalist cityscape it is today. Or at least, that’s the first thing you’ll glean when watching A Kid for Two… Read More
2024-02-14 22:17
In this episode, Oli and Luke turn judicial as they react to cinematic hot takes submitted by listeners. Will these opinions be cast aside or accepted as “fair enough”? They touc… Read More
2024-02-11 10:55
Looking ahead to the Family Guy Season 22 Part 2 release date? Unlike most seasons of Seth MacFarlane’s beloved animated comedy, the most recent run is split into two halves. With the… Read More
2024-02-10 18:30
Want to know more about the Madame Web post credits scene? The latest movie in Sony’s own Spider-Man universe is nearly here, with plenty of excitement behind it. In a year where we&rs&hell…Read More
2024-01-17 21:29
Looking for the 2024 Oscar nominations date? Awards season is fully underway, with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer sweeping up at the Golden Globes and keening towards Academy Awards g… Read More
2024-01-13 20:51
Fans of the foul-mouthed bear, rejoice: the Ted TV show UK release date has almost arrived. In lieu of a third entry in the film series, Seth MacFarlane has helmed a small-screen prequel, fo… Read More
2024-01-10 23:40
Looking forward to The Mandalorian & Grogu release date? The first Star Wars film since 2019’s divisive The Rise of Skywalker was announced in early 2024, with a fast-tracked produ… Read More
2023-12-29 15:50
Searching for the Money Heist Berlin release date and time? The latest spin-off to Netflix’s beloved Money Heist (or La Casa de Papel) is almost here, focusing on the character of Berl… Read More
2023-12-28 21:40
Looking forward to the Daredevil: Born Again release date? The latest iteration of Matt Murdock’s adventures is finally linked directly to MCU canon, leaving fans more excited than eve… Read More
2023-12-28 17:53
Looking forward to the X-Men 97 release date? Marvel’s reboot of the beloved 90s cartoon is due to arrive soon, as the first ‘proper’ inclusion of the X-Men in the MCU &nda&hell…Read More
2023-12-27 20:34
Matt Damon is one of the world’s biggest action stars. He’s super-spy Jason Bourne, he’s Dr Mann in Interstellar, and he’s Miller in Green Zone – but the l… Read More
2023-12-26 22:13
December 26, 2023: We still don’t yet know the Toy Story 5 release date. As we approach 2024 however, it’s closer than ever before!
In an investors’ call in February 2… Read More
2023-12-26 20:06
Marvel fans got their first taste of Riri Williams in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This young girl from Chicago became that film’s incarnation of Iron Man, and has her own solo adve… Read More
2023-12-26 19:12
January 9, 2024: Chucky Season 3 Part 2 is expected to release at some point this year, but we still don’t have a concrete date just yet.
For the first time ever, the most recent… Read More
2023-12-24 13:35
December 28, 2023: We updated our guide on whether South Park is ending in 2027.
Few sitcoms are as long-running as South Park. As we look ahead to the Season 27 release date, questions… Read More
2023-12-22 16:56
January 9, 2024: A new year has dawned, and while we know a new South Park season will drop this year, we don’t have a specific date just yet.
We’re closing in on a year sin… Read More
2023-12-22 16:23
With the closing chapter of the DC Extended Universe out now, there’s one question on the minds of comic fans: how long is the new Aquaman movie? Subtitled The Lost Kingdom, Arthur Cur… Read More
2023-12-14 22:46
Paul Verhoeven’s RoboCop is one of my all-time favourite films. It’s the perfect encapsulation of why the 1980s is the best decade in cinematic history, and I admittedly even hav… Read More
2023-12-12 20:40
I adore the Saw franchise. Ever since James Wan’s 2004 original revolutionised low-budget horror, each one has brought something to the table. While many criticise the franchise for fa… Read More
2023-12-11 00:01
They don’t make horror films like The Exorcist any more. Well, they try to, but if this Halloween’s Believer is anything to go by, the magic of William Friedkin’s 1973 orig… Read More
2023-11-23 00:16
The history of Santa Claus in cinema is a long and storied one. From Miracle on 34th Street to Bad Santa, pretty much every possible incarnation of Saint Nick has been covered on film. Out n… Read More
2023-10-22 21:18
Out on October 23, 2023 in a shiny 4K restoration, there’s nothing else quite like Jim Jarmusch’s Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai. It’s a film occasionally at odds with i… Read More
2023-08-10 08:55
After a brief absence, Oli and Luke return to discuss a range of films and TV shows made by Indigenous filmmakers, spanning New Zealand, Australia, and the United States of America.
Websi… Read More
2023-07-13 11:00
When it released in 2005, The Descent earmarked Neil Marshall as one of the most exciting directors in horror. Following a brief stint with Hollywood blockbusters afterwards, directing Centu… Read More
2023-07-06 19:56
The setup for Smoking Causes Coughing, the latest film from French director Quentin Depieux, is an absolute winner. It’s as simple as this: imagine Power Rangers, but with ultra-violen… Read More
2023-06-15 16:15
Let’s see whether there is a The Flash post credits scene. After years of delays and anticipation, Andy Muschietti’s The Flash is finally here. Wrapping up this current stage of… Read More
2023-06-14 21:10
From the very beginning, the odds were stacked against The Flash. Andy Muschietti’s long-delayed take on DC Comics’ speedster has been plagued by delays, real-life cast drama, an… Read More
2023-06-12 16:28
A year after its debut at Cannes Film Festival, Quentin Dupieux’s subversive superhero comedy Smoking Causes Coughing finally has a UK release date. The film will release on July 7, 20… Read More
2023-06-09 21:11
I love the Transformers franchise, but I certainly don’t love the Transformers films. None of the previous six efforts have lived up to a simple premise that’s evidently not easy… Read More
2023-04-26 17:51
Films like Plane don’t get made these days. Gerard Butler‘s latest foray into high-octane action feels ripped straight out of the nineties and noughties, riffing on Speed and Sna… Read More
2023-04-07 19:56
Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the seminal works within horror cinema. It kick-started the slasher genre, with a grotesque masked killer picking off a group of un… Read More
2023-03-28 10:57
The V/H/S franchise is the frontrunner in keeping survival horror alive, offering fairly consistent smatterings of supposedly recovered footage depicting all sorts of living hell. It continu… Read More
2023-03-25 22:30
DC Comics’ line of original animated films tends to be very consistent. It’s hard to come across a dud in the decades-long direct-to-video franchise, offering a reliable way for… Read More
2023-03-16 20:20
The Magic Mike series never felt like one screaming out for a full-fledged trilogy. Steven Soderbergh’s raunchy 2012 original was an audience-pleasing hit, and its 2015 sequel, Magic M… Read More
2023-02-12 17:59
This article was originally written in November 2020.
Well, that’s not strictly true.
Going back to the early episodes of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers feels like reuniting… Read More
2023-02-10 22:00
While the British film industry is with no doubt growing, some areas still lag behind. Welsh and Scottish representation instantly come to mind: two key nations within modern Britain that ar… Read More
2023-02-09 14:24
In an investors’ call yesterday (February 9), Disney announced a slew of new sequels to existing franchises. Chief of them all was a new Toy Story film, hence why discussion of the Toy… Read More
2023-02-08 16:08
The wheels of the MCU keep on turning, with the release of the third Ant-Man film coming up soon. Billed as the first entry in Phase 5 and our proper introduction to the new big bad –… Read More
2023-02-08 13:22
Luca Guadagnino is one of the most unique filmmakers working. Few directors can boast a three-peat quite as impactful as Call Me By Your Name, the Suspiria remake, and now Bones and All. It… Read More
2023-01-26 22:29
Now that the dust has settled on The Rock’s Black Adam, the big DC behemoth teased for over a decade, the home entertainment release is here for audiences to check out. We got our hand… Read More
2023-01-24 22:33
“Do you like it here on your own?”
“I’m not on my own.”
Horror is so often a ‘loud’ genre. Bombastic scares, gory kills, and the shrill screec… Read More
2022-12-21 12:21
Indie films tend not to focus on Christmas. It’s an ephemeral time of year that often pigeonholes films into only being watchable at that time of year: films that feel wrong to watch i… Read More
2022-12-20 14:55
Making Santa Claus a maniacal killer isn’t a novel concept. Matt Groening’s Futurama has been doing it 1999, and recent films like Bad Santa and Violent Night have altered Saint… Read More
2022-12-08 19:05
DC Comics and Warner Bros. needed Black Adam to succeed. Billed as its own reinvention of the floundering DC cinematic universe – one fraught with out-of-canon hits like Joker and The… Read More
2022-10-23 14:04
Adult animation is something of a dying art. For so long cartoons have been considered solely the domain of family-friendly entertainment, rarely delving into anything more risqué tha… Read More
2022-10-16 18:22
Damien Leone’s Terrifier is a notoriously grisly horror film. The feature-length forays of Art the Clown, portrayed with such ghoulish physicality by David Howard Thornton, opted for s… Read More
2022-10-03 13:45
The magazine comedy show is something of a dying art. Sometimes, when high drama and tense character relationships feel a little too overwhelming, there’s nothing easier than sticking… Read More
2022-09-28 11:27
Almost impossibly, the 1990 It miniseries is one of the 20th centuries most enduring pieces of horror media. What very easily could’ve fallen into the deluge of straight-to-TV adaption… Read More
2022-09-26 17:51
The re-quel has becoming something of a modern horror phenomenon. After David Gordon Green’s 2018 Halloween sequel, franchises like Scream, Slumber Party Massacre, and even Wrong Turn… Read More
2022-09-17 16:00
In a genre such as horror, which focuses so much on the nervy build-up to a terrifying third-act climax, the payoff is occasionally not worth the groundwork laid prior. In the case of The La… Read More
2022-09-04 21:30
The occult has always had a fairly strong cinematic track record. From hits such as The Blair Witch Project to The Witch itself, there’s something especially unnerving about secret rit… Read More
2022-09-04 12:21
DC Comics has always been known for producing more adult output than its main rival, Marvel. From the dingy Gotham of The Batman to the visceral violence of Joker, it’s been skewing in… Read More
2022-08-15 17:30
The plot twist at the core of the 2009 horror film Orphan is one of the most famous in all of contemporary horror. The shock reveal that Isabelle Fuhrman’s Esther is not an innocent ni… Read More
2022-07-30 10:38
After being impressed with the demo of Mothmen 1966 last year, the full game is finally out now. If the playable snippet we tried out in late 2021 showed off the retro aesthetics and Goosebu… Read More
2022-07-14 11:46
It’s rare that a film ostensibly about romance shows how toxic and one-sided relationships can be. Striking a balance between touching courtship and dangerous, manipulative behaviour i… Read More
2022-07-07 16:00
The recent career path of Nicolas Cage has been interesting to track, to say the least. Once renowned for his roles in hits like The Rock and Con Air, the past few years have seen him leanin… Read More
2022-05-28 12:23
The nostalgic reappraisal of the Star Wars prequel trilogy is one of the best things to happen to the saga in recent years. The decades since Revenge of the Sith concluded Anakin Skywalker&r&hell…Read More
2022-05-23 20:40
Note: The following is a first impressions look at Vampire: The Masquerade – Swansong. As such, it is representative only of the gameplay we’ve got through so far.
In the past… Read More
2022-05-15 14:08
One of the most exciting announcements from the recent Nintendo Indie World Showcase was Gibbon: Beyond the Trees, a visually striking side-scroller where you play as an eponymous ape swingi… Read More
2022-05-11 21:15
Renowned British documentarian and TV personality Reggie Yates burst onto big screens late last year with Pirates, his first foray into directing and screenwriting. Having worked on TV films… Read More
2022-05-04 18:03
“The true empire is the invisible one.”
As much as we may like to think we’re in control, it’s hard to deny that there are some powers simply beyond us. That&rsquo&hell…Read More
2022-05-04 16:34
The latest film in the ongoing Marvel Cinematic Universe is almost upon us, with Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness arriving this week. Directed by former Spider-Man filmmaker Sam R… Read More
2022-04-30 23:14
Generally speaking, a game tends to play similar to how it looks. That’s a rather vague opening statement, so let’s dig into it a bit more. Super Mario Odyssey‘s platformin… Read More
2022-03-08 18:22
In this very exciting episode, Luke and Oli are joined by esteemed Batman fan Will Hinton to go in-depth on Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Spoilers start at 17:05, so be sure to listen until… Read More
2022-03-06 18:58
After years of hype, delays, and a Ben Affleck-shaped rework to boot, Matt Reeves’ The Batman is finally here – to the tune of a staggering $248m opening weekend. This continuity… Read More
2022-03-05 20:33
It’s a commonly used adage, but sometimes a picture can be worth a thousand words. That’s especially the case in FAR: Changing Tides, the sequel to 2018’s Lone Sails, which… Read More
2022-03-03 10:18
If you racked your brains thinking of bands, or artists more generally, to branch into the B-movie horror genre, the chances are Foo Fighters wouldn’t have crossed your mind. Dave Groh… Read More
2022-03-02 14:41
In this latest episode of the podcast, Luke and Oli each pitch the video game movie concept that they think would rid this sub-genre of its inherent curse. Stay tuned for horror, simulation… Read More
2022-02-27 21:13
The premise at the core of Caveat, the latest of the Shudder lineup to arrive on physical media, is a simple one. A mysterious, monosyllabic man (Jonathan French’s Isaac) heads to a ha… Read More
2022-02-21 10:56
The internet is a dangerous, dangerous place. It’s a concept that’s been peddled since the .com boom in the early 2000s, as people could communicate with unfettered access like n… Read More
2022-01-29 16:17
“Darkness will ever be a part of me… it will be a part of every Jedi, of every living thing. To acknowledge the darkness is to know the darkness. To know the darkness is to begi… Read More
2022-01-17 11:17
There’s something undeniably special about the frat-adjacent horror subgenre. Past classics like The Craft made room for more recent entries such as The Sinners, proving you can ramp u… Read More
2022-01-11 13:29
The classic vampire story is hugely well-trodden ground within the horror genre, and it takes something truly refreshing to stake its claim as treading unfettered ground. Blade did it in 199… Read More
2021-12-18 19:06
As it draws to a close, 2021 seems to have been the year of the horror re-imagining. Franchises like Wrong Turn, Saw, and Candyman enjoyed some form of revival, and Slumber Party Massacre is… Read More
2021-12-02 16:03
A lot of vampire media tends to take itself awfully seriously. From the late-noughties thrills of the Twilight saga to the moody Castlevania anime, the blood-sucking undead tend to garner a… Read More
2021-11-24 20:18
Any spin-off from a major TV show is hard – let alone the second spin-off series. Five years after Fear The Walking Dead landed on our screens, and near on a decade after the original… Read More
2021-11-17 17:04
A film like The Wraith feels almost like a time capsule. It’s as quintessentially 1980s as it gets, through the aesthetics, filmmaking, and plot. That doesn’t always work in its… Read More
2021-11-15 12:00
More often than not, a legendary filmmaker’s debut feature is rarely representative of their later work. Just look at David Fincher: following his tumultuous time on the Alien 3 set, f… Read More
2021-11-10 13:08
Hot off its UK premiere at Raindance Film Festival, Father of Flies follows the lineage of murky, atmospheric family horrors like Ari Aster’s Hereditary. Yet Ben Charles Edwards’… Read More
2021-11-08 17:18
Lyle Mitchell Corbine Jr. makes his feature-length debut with Wild Indian, an interesting if occasionally lifeless thriller that examines the trauma of America’s indigenous population… Read More
2021-11-08 17:16
After twelve long years, New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion has returned with the remarkable slow burn Western The Power of the Dog starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Ple… Read More
2021-11-08 17:14
Luzzu follows a Maltese fisherman named Jesmark struggling with his morality and commitment to his family and traditions as he is hampered financially by fishing regulations that constrain h… Read More
2021-10-27 11:10
In today’s mammoth episode, Luke and Oli discuss everything they watched at this year’s BFI London Film Festival, as well as touching on DC FanDome, Oppenheimer, and the tragic d… Read More
2021-10-20 12:00
Andrea Arnold’s Cow throws audiences in at the deep end in her brutal rendering of a year in a dairy cow’s life, the opening scene the birth of our protagonist Luma’s fifth… Read More
2021-10-20 11:00
Matthew Heineman’s The First Wave is an electrifying and urgent documentary that follows medical staff and patients during New York’s devastating first wave of COVID-19. Heineman… Read More
2021-10-20 10:00
Sergei Loznitsa follows up his film State Funeral, a fascinating look at the Soviet Union’s deifying state funerals for Stalin, with Babi Yar. Context, a film that examines the context… Read More
2021-10-19 15:54
As a fully paid up member of the Church of Wrightology (for me the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy is only bested by the Lord of the Rings trilogy), I have been excited about his latest film… Read More
2021-10-19 15:46
With The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson has made arguably his most Wes Anderson-y film yet. An anthology film covering an eclectic range of stories told by different journalists working for t… Read More
2021-10-15 10:58
Set in the barren landscapes of Yakutia in Siberia, writer/director Liesbeth De Ceulaer’s Holgut is a mythic and ethereal docu-drama that poses fascinating questions on time and humani… Read More
2021-10-15 10:56
Ángeles Cruz’s Nudo Mixteco is an honest and compassionate portrait of a Mixtec community in the Oaxaca region of Mexico. Detailing three interconnected tales of economic migran… Read More
2021-10-15 10:52
Introduced to the audience whilst attending a party of literature aficionados questioning her knowledge on all manner of writers, it is immediately obvious that Laura, a Finnish archeology s… Read More
2021-10-15 10:48
Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s Clara Sola is an enchanting and mystical debut about a taciturn forty-year-old’s sexual awakening. Set in a remote village in Costa Rica, C… Read More
2021-10-13 14:56
Life on the front lines of the service industry is tough — we all know that — but Philip Barantini’s Boiling Point wants you to know exactly how emotionally gruelling the j… Read More
2021-10-13 14:00
The point-and-click RPG is a dying art, a relic of a bygone era before the intense stimulation of first-person shooters and massive online games. They were the purest form of gaming agency:… Read More
2021-10-10 18:17
Sometimes, in a world of producer involvement and studio meddling, the director really does know best. That’s certainly the case with The Ape Woman, Marco Ferreri’s 1964 socio-dr… Read More
2021-10-10 12:44
Writer-director-star Nana Mensah bears her all in Queen of Glory, a short, sharp dramedy charting life after familial loss. Screening at this year’s London Film Festival, it explores t… Read More
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