We Needed Roads Podcast

📚🎬  Adapt This Book! | Dream Movie & TV Adaptations  🎬📚 What if Hollywood actually listened to us for once? In this episode of  Adapt This Book , Neil, Marie and Luke each pick a book they  desperately  want to see turned into a film or TV series — and then argue, nerd out, and wildly over-pitch like we’ve accidentally wandered into a Netflix boardroom. 📖  Luke  brings the emotional devas...

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Join Neil & David as they dive boars head first in Sam Raimi's blood and mucus filled desert island darkly comic survival horror Send Help starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien. We breakdown how much of an Island bad ass Linda Liddle is until she becomes slightly problematic, and how much of a mewling man baby O'Brien's Bradley is throughout Will there be a redemption arc f...

🚨 SPOILER REVIEW 🚨In this episode of We Needed Roads, Neil and David sit down for a full spoiler discussion of Rental Family, a film that quietly sneaks up on you, wrecks your emotions, and then gives you a big, gentle cuddle afterwards. Neil goes all in, describing Rental Family as a warm hug of a film and argues that Brendan Fraser’s performance here hits harder and feels more honest than his...

Park Chan-wook is back, and No Other Choice is another masterpiece. In this FULL SPOILER REVIEW, Neil and David dive headfirst into Park Chan-wook’s pitch-black thriller, unpacking the insanely precise editing, the escalating moral nightmare, and just how far desperation can push an ordinary bloke when a job is on the line. Along the way, Neil asks the truly important questions:Would David murder...

This week on We Needed Roads, Neil and David sit down to talk about Hamnet… and immediately regret thinking this would be a normal, emotionally stable conversation. Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s devastating novel, Hamnet is a quiet, beautiful, grief-soaked gut punch — and yes, we spend most of this review adjacent to the kitchen as someone was clearly cutting onions We get into:Performances that abs...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads for the most metal film of 2026 so far!!! This is your no-holds-barred SPOILER SPECIAL for 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple — directed by Nia DaCosta, with Danny Boyle’s & Alex Garlands DNA still pulsing through every frame like the infection itself. If you haven’t seen the film yet, stop right now, because we are about to rip this thing open like Samson and a sp...

Welcome back to We Needed Roads, and this is your FULL SPOILER WARNING, because today we’re heading back to Derry… and nothing is safe. 🎈Neil, David and Luke dive headfirst into the storm drain of Welcome to Derry, HBO’s Stephen King–soaked return to the town that really should’ve been condemned decades ago. We’re turtles,, cursed history, nightmare fuel, and how this show plugs into the ever-exp...

Alright folks, welcome back to We Needed Roads. This week Neil, David, Jose and Luke are catching up on everything they watched over the holidays – a wildly unhinged mix of Christmas classics, (regular classics) and they even escaped the Christmas cheer to make it to the cinema several times! We’re diving into stone-cold legends like Jaws (still perfect), Home Alone (way darker than you remember),...

Happy New Year and welcome back to We Needed Roads — the podcast where the chat is nerdy, the swearing is plentiful, and research on release dates was definitely done. This week we’re diving head-first into all the major TV show and movies were excited about that are hopefully dropping in 2026. From superhero behemoths and prestige dramas to horror sequels, wild indies, new streaming experiments —...

Hello and welcome back to the final We Needed Roads podcast of the year, our Top 10 Films of 2025 episode! And honestly, we’re lucky this recording still exists because friendships were tested. Neil championed small British indie films no one else had heard of, David flew the flag for horror like it was a religion, Marie championed exactly two films, and Jose… well… Jose knows what he did and has...

We watched an irresponsible amount of television in 2025, and now it’s time to shout about it. On this episode of The We Needed Roads Podcast, we count down our Top 10 TV & streaming shows of 2025 — from prestige TV to the smaller show only Neil tried to make us watch. Join Neil who likely watched more TV than his other 3 co-hosts combined, Marie who checked out if it wasn't gay enough and als...

Merry Christmas from everyone at the We Needed Roads Podcast!!! It’s a time for friends, family, peace on earth and goodwill to all men (except Jose). Join the We Needed Roads team as SantaGreggors hosts a wonderfully festive Christmas Movie Quiz where David, Marie, Jose & Luke compete to be the ultimate Christmas movie nerd. And just like a real family Christmas in this episode there will be...

It’s a happy day in Hell — because we’re diving deep into Hazbin Hotel Season 2. This season took everything fans loved and cranked it up. We got lore, emotions, wild twists, and songs that that are the good kind of tingle. Vox rises as an incredible villain, delivering some of the most , memorable and entertaining songs of the series. The music is top-tier — from emotional ballads to heavy metal...

We don't have time to bleed but we do have time to get into all the bloody spoilerific carnage (PG-13 carnage that is!) in Dan Tractenberg's 3rd Predator film, Predator Badlands. Join Neil, David & Jose as they hunt for answers in their full spoiler review of Badlands and ask questions like 'is this actually a Predator film?' & 'Have they turned the Predator into a Disn...

Tron has never been a massively successful franchise in terms of Box Office or critical acclaim, yet its always been a franchise that had amazing ideas that the 3 films have never delivered on. Join Neil & Jose as the delve into all 3 Tron films and look at what made the first two films cult hits and have such a hardcore fan base, but also why the films have never been able to be mainstream bo...

Gen V Season 2 promised to keep the chaos, blood, and satire of The Boys alive — but somewhere along the way, it lost its edge. The We Needed Roads crew dives deep into their disappointment behind Prime Video’s latest superhero spin-off. From messy storylines and uneven character arcs to a waste of a good villain, we break down why Gen V feels like a fall from grace rather than a triumphant return...

We finally covered a film festival...kind of, if not having seen any of the films is coverage? But thankfully we know someone that did attend the London International Film Festival this year, first time guest on the We Needed Roads Podcast film journalist and co-host of the W-rated Podcast Clare Ellen Hope. Neil sits down with Clare to find out all the films that we need to see when they come out...

The We Needed Roads gang rises from the grave for our ultimate Halloween trivia showdown — joined by Luke from The Howdy Beans Podcast! Quizmaster David returns to haunt us with questions about classic horror movies, slasher villains and all things Halloween pop culture. But only one host will survive the night... or at least win bragging rights. Who will be crowned the Master of Horror Trivia? Wi...

James Gunn’s Peacemaker is back for Season 2 — and after the success of Superman, Gunn brings his signature chaos he created in season 1 into the new DCU.The We Needed Roads crew teams up with @TheHowdyBeansPodcast to break down the wild mix of action, comedy, and trauma that makes Peacemaker one of DC’s most unpredictable shows. John Cena’s Peacemaker continues to wrestle with his demons (predomi...

Alien: Earth crash-lands on FX and Hulu — the first Alien TV series from Noah Hawley, set two years before Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi horror classic. Starring Sydney Chandler, Alex Lawther, Essie Davis, Samuel Blenkin, Babou Ceesay, Adarsh Gourav, and Timothy Olyphant, this series brings the xenomorph terror home. But is Alien: Earth a bold new evolution for the franchise — or the worst idea since...

So many books deserve love (and a Netflix, Prime Video, or HBO deal). The We Needed Roads crew and Luke from @TheHowdyBeansPodcast are back with five more books we want to see adapted for film or TV.Books we discuss in this episode: Raybearer by Jordan Ifueko — Young Adult Fantasy, Epic Fiction HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt — Horror, Dark Fantasy, Thriller Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman — Sci-...

Prime Video’s The Girlfriend is a six-episode psychological thriller based on Michelle Frances’ novel. Starring Robin Wright and Olivia Cooke, the series follows a mother convinced her son’s new girlfriend isn’t who she claims to be….We break down the good, the bad, and the WTF of The Girlfriend — including spoilers, toxic mothers, control, and who is telling the truth. Is it a gripping psychologi...

🎙️ Join Neil and David as they dive headfirst into all the spoilers from Francis Lawrence’s bold new take on Stephen King’s 1979 dystopian classic The Long Walk. From the novel’s huge influence on the dystopian genre, to the standout performances that bring the story to life, and the biggest changes from page to screen—we’ve got it covered. And the big question: how long do you think you’d last on...

Apple TV+’s Murderbot might just be the best sci-fi adaptation no one’s talking about. Based on Martha Wells’ cult-classic series The Murderbot Diaries. Alexander Skarsgård brings to life everyone’s favourite depressed & anxious robot —we all relate to way too much. Marie break down the biggest differences between the books and the show, while Neil and Jose give their unbiased thoughts on the...