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This week we take a look at the 2005 film adaption of the video game Doom. Karl Urban, The Rock and Rosamund Pike star in this flawed but enjoyable horror (?) thriller (?) comedy (?) film. Join us as we take a spoiler filled deep dive into most parts of the film and reveal where Doom will land on our board from above! ♦ Chapters ♦ 0:00 - Intro & Film Trailer 2:03 - Overall Thoughts & Plot...

We try out something slightly new for us as we pit two films against each other through five categories. Plot, cast, writing, action and our verdict scores will help in deciding which of these films is the better one. How do we decide? Well, by each of us giving a point to the film we think did the better job in each of those categories. It was a rocky road getting to the end of this though as we...

A recording of our recent live stream from the 15th September 2023! Including The Last of Us Part 2, The Messenger, a stage show called WiFi Wars and a documentary called The Lost Century: And How to Reclaim It. We also declare our favourite go to road trip snacks, give away a copy of Horace and revel in an audio file that was sent to us from one of our amazing community members (thanks Limp Biscu...

CAUTION - this podcast contains many, many duck puns. After listening to this podcast, you may need to seek medical help which is exactly where I'm typing this from. We apologise in advance. Howard the Duck is an unfamiliar film to us, and one we were excited to visit for the podcast. But, boy were we disappointed with what we saw. We tried to keep an open mind, but couldn't look past the...

This time we land into the world of Joss Whedon's Sci Fi western Firefly. We let Chris of his leash as we delve into the cancelation of the show, what made it so special to so many and we discuss each cast member in detail. We try to come up with a plan with scoring when one of us is missing as there is no Rich this week, plus we also try to put the board from above into some sort of order. ♪...

Digitiser, the teletext video game magazine recently celebrated its 30th anniversary in Lonodn and Jason & Rich were there to join in with all the shenanigans that were happening. Here we look back at the event and the two live shows plus our appearance on stage at the Chunky Fringe event which was being run alongside Digitiser Live. During the weekend we managed to round up some interviews in...

We go back to the '80s and visit a John Hughes film with some significance, even in the modern age with Weird Science. A film that three quarters of us were not familiar with until now and one in which we will not forget about for a number of reasons. On this episode we cover our general thoughts on the movie, the cast, our favourite scene and we find out where this lands on our board from abo...

With Jurassic Park incredibly reaching 30, we wanted to revisit this monumental piece of film making to celebrate the anniversary of its UK release on the 16th July 1993. We discuss why this film is so special to us, how the film adaption from the book was handled, our favourite scenes and we give our verdict and score before we try to discuss where we want the franchise to go in the inevitable fu...

To celebrate today's release of Indiana Jones: Dial of Destiny, we thought it would be a good excuse to revist the previous Indiana Jones films (yes, even Kingdom of the Crystal Skull). We share what Indiana Jones means to us and why its so special to us and others, we reveal our favourite Indiana Jones film, spend some time discussing Jon Williams amazing score and then share our hopes and fe...

We jump back to present day and Steve hosts a discussion on some of the media we have been consuming recently. We managed to pack a ton into this one including Ted Lasso, Yellowjackets, Good Omens and Tears of the Kingdom, plus a bonus rant on the state of streaming services in 2023 and we find out what our personal scariest moments have been! Music Clips Wind Temple - Boss from Tears of the Kingd...

City Hunter was an unknown to all of us and it was down to Jason that we covered this film based on the strength of its Street Fighter 2 section and um yeah, it was not the success he hoped it would be. City Hunter is a mixed bag with us which we go into in more detail, what we didn't like and what we did like, but this film will go down as the only film so far that broke Chris to the point th...

We were delighted to welcome to The Wolfie Pod, Mr Scott Martin Brooks who is well known for playing Dookie in the wassup Budweiser commercials. We find out about his days as an owner of a video rental store in Philadelphia, how he became involved in the Budweiser commercials and what it was like living through the aftermath of the commercials airing. We also found time to chat about some of Scott...

On this bonus episode we welcome on James and Alex, the organisers of the upcoming Nottingham Video Game Expo which is being held in central Nottingham on the 22nd July 2023. We run through their gaming history, with plenty of Dreamcast chat, find out what they learned from their last event back in December and then we move on and discuss this years event and some of the films and tv shows James a...

Al Horner is a journalist for many publications but you will find his work mostly in Empire magazine, GQ & The Guardian. What Al is most known for in our circles is for his podcast he hosts called Scripts Apart. Each episode he sits down with a screen writer and discusses their first draft of a film and they end up always being fascinating discussions. Our conversation with Al covered his writ...

This time we visit one of the biggest '80s science fiction movies ever made. One with an important message mixed in with stunning visuals and violence. Paul Verhoevan's RoboCop can be classed as an all time classic and we delve into this stunning movie through our usual spoilery format. Will this top Top Secret on our board from above? Maybeee or maybe not, better listen in to find out! MU...

Jason & Rich took off to OLL '23 games convention which happened over the weekend of the 15th-16th April 2023 at the Norfolk Showground in East Anglia and this is our celebration of what has become one of our favourite shows of the year. Not only do we discuss our experiences at the show, not only did we take eight interviews from some of the guests at the show BUT we were also joined by t...

Breaking Bad can only be described as one of the most important TV shows ever. But what made it so special and what does this show mean to us? We cover this plus an extenstive chat on the spectacular cast and our favourite episodes, will this be a perfect 10 all round? Will Chris give his third 10 in a row? Get listening to find out!! Music Clips  (All taken from the Breaking Bad OST) Breaking Bad...

What a treat we have for you this time!! We were very lucky to be joined by the ever gracious, GamesMaster & Games World legend Mr Rik Henderson! We find out about some of his favourite GamesMaster guests, the review process and whether he found out anything new from reading the oral history book, before we discuss Rik's picks for his film, TV show and video game. Rik Henderson Links Follo...

Welcome back to What's Wrong with Wolfie?  This time we revisit the 1994 Keanu Reeves action film Speed! This quintessential '90s film holds a special place in all our hearts and we had a blast revisiting it for this episode. so strap yourself in with your favourite beverage as thankfully we wont be going 50 mph while we discuss this classic film.  Music Clips   (All taken from the OST by...

Welcome to the all new What's Wrong with Wolfie? podcast!   We kick off with a spoiler filled discussion on the Zucker brothers spoof film Top Secret! We go a tad off rails at times as we reveal our feelings on the film, its gags, cast and most importantly where it lands on our board from above! Music Clips   (All taken from the Top Secret OST and sung by Val Kilmer)  Spend This Night with Me...

Welcome to Prepare to Fast Forward - our chance to discuss modern day pop culture! Steve demotes Jason to co host this time and takes the reigns as we reveal what films, TV shows and video games we are all looking forward to in 2023, before we get into a quick round of our predictions for the year ahead. MUSIC CLIPS Start Up - From Super Mario World 3D Jurassic Park Techno Remix - DJ Ralmark on Yo...

For this discusses we discussed...ourselves!  How did we learn from starting the podcast and what it has meant to us personally, what we rediscovered on our journey through the nineties and all the amazing guests that have been kind enough to share some of their time with us are on the agenda, before switching it over and letting you all know whats to come from us going forward. We reveal details...

What a way to end our run through the 90s by dedicating the last episode to one of the best consoles of all time.....the Sega Dreamcast. We delve into our Dreamcast histories by reliving our origin stories, discussing the ahead of it time features of the console, the controller and VMU  with our top three games to end off this Dreamcast extravaganza!!  MUSIC CLIPS It Doesn't Really Matter | Me...

Welcome to The Wolfie Christmas Special 2022!!!  This year we decided to tackle one of the '90s more decisive Christmas movies - Jingle all the Way!  Was this a turkey of a film or does it actually contain some humour, Arnie's acting and that kid who played Anakin who actually does alright are just some of the topics we cover plus we bring back a festive what's in your glass. From all...

On our last TV episode of the 90s, we cover three quintessential British TV shows. All show us what delights the TV world had for us at this time. Spaced was the kick starter that eventually brought us the Cornetto trilogy, Red Dwarf (which ended its original run this year) showed it was possible to mash up sci-fi and comedy successfully and Bits gave us hope after the end of GamesMaster. Fingers...