Screen Watching

This week on the podcast Simon and Dan each list their most unpopular opinions about movies. Will it get the two of them cancelled? One can only hope. In terms of reviews, expect conversation on: Ahsoka (Disney+) Sound of Freedom (in cinemas) First Slam Dunk (in cinemas) Haunted Mansion (in cinemas)

Up for review this week: Heart of Stone (Netflix) The Chosen One (Netflix) Blackberry (In cinemas now) Mother & Son (ABC Australia) With Strays in cinemas now too, Dan and Simon ask: “Who’s a good boy?” And go through their top 5 dogs of film & TV.

Another week, another Screen Watching. We have the reviews: Asteroid City (In cinemas now) Strange Planet (Apple TV+) The Last Voyage of The Demeter (In cinemas now) Telemarketers (HBO, Max, Binge) Gran Turismo (In cinemas now) We have the big news of the week Emmy Awards dated in such a way as to make the awards irrelevant Is the Barbenheimer effect real? How have the strikes screwed fan conventi...

This week we have the reviews of the week. We discuss: The Meg 2 (in cinemas) 61st Street (The CW, AMC+, and Stan) Hidden Strike (Netflix) Captain Fall (Netflix) In this week’s Intermission segment, Dan deepdives into what FAST TV is and details the announced launch of Pluto TV in Australia.

Each week Screen Watching goes out with a video version. You can find that on Spotify and YouTube. As of this week there are new opening titles. How very exciting. We have reviews this week. New A24 Aussie horror film Talk To Me (In cinemas now) Taylor Sheridan’s new TV show Special Ops: Lioness (Paramount+) It’s the WWII European John Wick - Sisu (In cinemas now) Rapid fire thoughts on Minx (s2),...

This week on Screen Watching, there are the usual reviews: Oppenheimer Justified: Primeval City Barbie Command Z As a special treat, Dan also argues with SImon why he won’t see a movie based on Barbie IP. Oh, and then Dan and Simon expose their unwatched TV and movies in their watchlists during our weekly Intermission segment.

This week Simon and Dan shamelessly rip off the Movies To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein podcast format to discuss their own lives with film. ALSO: Dan’s thoughts on Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part One.

This week on the podcast Simon reviews the latest Mission: Impossible movie after attending a lavish media screening earlier in the week. Dan then reviews Gold Diggers (ABC Australia) and The Horror of Dolores Roach (which he watched in his house, like an everyman). Simon also reviews the new animated Netflix film Nimona, but he doesn’t disclose where he watched it. Simon then asks Dan whether the...

This week on the pod Simon reviews the new Indiana Jones film Dial of Destiny. He then chats with Dan about all things Indiana Jones as the two discuss their favourite elements of the previous Indiana Jones movies.

This week on the show Dan and Simon discuss whether superhero fatigue is really a thing. Also, reviews: Transformers: Rise of The Machines (In cinemas now) Secret Invasion (Disney+) The Walking Dead: Dead CIty (US: AMC, AUS: Stan) I’m a Virgo (Prime Video) Reality (US: Max, AUS: In cinemas soon)

In this (slightly late) podcast episode Dan and Simon review some movies and TV shows: The Flash (in cinemas now) Elementals (In cinemas now) The Betoota Advocate Presents (Paramount+) You Hurt My Feelings (In cinemas now) Yeah, it’s a bit quiet for new TV shows this week.

This week on the podcast Dan and Simon take a look at beloved movies and shows from the first 100 years of Warner Bros. They also review this week’s movies and TV shows: The New Boy (In cinemas now) The Idol (HBO | Binge) To Catch a Killer (In cinemas now) Based On a True Story (Peacock | Binge)

It is a very special episode on the podcast this week as Dan and Simon go crazy for a new Spider-Man animated film - could it be a Best Picture film? The two also talk about a new Netflix film with a very saucy title. This week’s reviews: Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse The Year I Started Masturbating Deadloch The Boogeyman Intermission: Dan and Simon discuss highpoints of masturbation on the...

This week on the podcast Dan gets his cranky pants on about just about every show and movie discussed on the podcast. And then in the Intermission Dan and Simon ask what shows need to be put out of their misery and ended ASAP. Up for review: The Little Mermaid (In cinemas now) Gremlins: Secrets of The Mogwai (Max in the US, Binge in Aus) FUBAR (Netflix) American Born Chinese (Disney+) Renfield (In...

This week Simon takes a bold stance against reviewing Fast X. And Dan says ‘Good for you, pal”. But then they actually do review some films and TV. The Mother (Netflix) High Desert (Apple TV+) Limbo (In cinemas now) Platonic (Apple TV+) There’s our weekly Intermission segment where we ask what families we’d follow in a Family Stallone style reality show. And then Simon starts betraying the entire...

Expect a lot of discussion around Muppets this week on the podcast. So, so much discussion. Reviews include: The Muppets Mayhem (Disney+) Hypnotic (in cinemas now) City On Fire (Apple TV+) Still: A Michael J Fox Story (Apple TV+)

It’s a monster week for reviews this week with one especially huge Marvel movie at the cinema and some very big titles debuting on TV. Just two notes for this episode that I (co-host Dan Barrett) think are hugely worth making mention of: 1. We review both the TV show Slip and the movie Beau is Afraid. Both involve Zoe Lister Jones and somehow Dan neglects to mention this fact during the podcast. W...

This week on the podcast, Dan and Simon roll up their sleeves and get busy with the reviews: Ghosted (Apple TV+) Mrs Davis (Peacock in the US, Stan in Australia) 80 For Brady (In cinemas now) Fatal Attraction (Paramount+) The Diplomat In this week’s intermission, Dan and Simon go on to consider beloved movies from the past with a very specific idea they wanted to put forth and how well does it hol...

Food dominates this week’s pod with Dan and Simon reviewing the food and drink heavy Drops of God and Hunger. It is all the excuse they need for this week’s Intermission to be about their favourite food shows on TV. Up for review: Hunger (Netflix) Drops of Gold (Apple TV+) Evil Dead Rise (In cinemas now) Dead Ringers (Prime Video) A Good Person (in cinemas now) Suzume (In cinemas now)

This week Simon and Dan get into a heated conversation about a poorly written Variety article that claims the box office is roaring back. Dan argues that there are still too many signs of ill-health. Oh, and then later Simon makes erroneous claims that new Jackie Chan film Ride On was a blockbuster release (Yeah, it was number one on the charts in China, but only pulled in just over $11 million)....

It is actually too much show. There’s the HUGE reviews: Super Mario Bros Movie (In cinemas now) Beef (Netflix) The Pope’s Exorcist (In cinemas now) The Company You Keep (US ABC, Disney+ internationally) Air (In cinemas now, but soon-ish to Prime Video) Murder Mystery 2 (Netflix) And THEN, Dan and Simon take a look ahead to the huge April to June releases ahead. What are they excited by? Plus they...

In a shameless bid for attention, Simon and Dan discuss movies that focus on sex. How have these movies shaped our two hapless critics as movie viewers? They also get into the filthy business of this week’s reviews: Dungeons & Dragons (In cinemas now) The Big Door Prize (Apple TV+) Tetris (Apple TV+) Grease: Rise of The Pink Ladies (Paramount+)

Another week, another Screen Watching. This week Dan and SImon embrace thrillers with reviews of: John Wick 4 (in cinemas now) Rabbit Hole (Paramount+) Boston Strangler (in the US on Hulu, internationally Disney+) The Night Agent (Netflix) The two also pitch spin-off TV show ideas to each other in our weekly Intermission. Which of these shows would you greenlight? Oh, and there’s the weekly birthd...

First of all - apologies about the audio in this episode. Dan had to record via Airpods and the results were not good. It’ll be better next week. If you persevere with us, you’ll hear our thoughts on the new Shazam film, the latest instalment of the XEU with Pearl, and TV shows Swarm, Lucky Hank, and Class of 07. If it wasn’t for the audio, it’d be a pretty good episode.

Yr ol’ favourite gumshoe podcasters Dan and Simon are back this week to solve the mystery of the HBO show that is returning after 3 long years. They also get all stabby with the latest instalment of a slasher franchise.  And in this week’s Intermission, the guys discuss the Academy Awards this coming weekend. Reviews:  Scream 6 (In cinemas now) Perry Mason s2 (HBO in the US, Binge in Aus...