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We listen to Matt Dinniman's audiobook DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL (Also in print as an ACE BOOK, from PENGUIN), and seek "Truth, Justice, Whatever" with Director Craig Gillespie's new D.C.U movie, SUPERGIRL.

We go sailing some more through three decades of the TOY STORY toy box, with a googly eye to Director Andrew Stanton's newest entry in the saga, TOY STORY 5, now before us in cinemas.

Winter chills with Curry Barker's "Be careful what you wish for" movie OBSESSION (in cinemas now), Genki Kawamura's liminally loopy EXIT 8 (streaming for rent or purchase), and Kane Parsons' limitlessly liminal BACKROOMS.

Probing questions asked of occupants of interplanetary craft with Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY, who you gonna call in DISPATCH the superhero workplace game (ADHOC STUDIOS) and we farewell genre author Jane Yolen.

Noir Way? YES Way for SPIDER-NOIR (AMAZON PRIME), genre pics from ABC CLASSIC'S ALL TIME GREATEST 100, and we farewell British Actor, Singer and Musician Anthony Stewart Head.

We collect the bounty on Jon Favreau's THE MANDOLORIAN AND GROGU, and bid farewell to BLAKE'S SEVEN actor, Michael Keating.

We have a butchers at the season five and series finale of the dystopic superpowered show, THE BOYS. (AMAZON PRIME)

We survey Eurovision 2026 for genre content, and check out Daniel Kraus's cross genre Pulitzer Prize winning novel, ANGEL DOWN.

Ewe knew we would flock to director Kyle Balda's anthropomorphic fantasy movie THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, and also drive into the John Griffin created science fiction (?) horror series, FROM (Streaming on STAN).

Come what may, in May (new content streaming and at the cinema) plus we look at horror comedy series WIDOW'S BAY (APPLE TV) and Yorgos Lanthimos adapts a South Korean black comedy alien conspiracy in his intense English language film, BUGONIA (Rentable on AMAZON PRIME and APPLE TV)

We swing by the SPIDER-MAN NOIR series trailer (AMAZON PRIME), glove up with the 2026 revival series of SCRUBS (DISNEY+), preview FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA 2026, recite Ian McEwan's Science Fiction novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW (JONATHAN CAPE - PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE 2025) and play with Keza MacDonald's gaming history book SUPER NINTENDO (GUARDIAN FABER 2026)

Nasty nuptials with Haley Z. Boston's SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN (NETFLIX) and Richard Schenkman's long-lived JEROME BIXBY'S THE MAN FROM EARTH & THE MAN FROM EARTH: HOLOCENE (AMAZON PRIME)

Oh the humidity! We head North for DEADLOCH: SEASON 2 (AMAZON PRIME), congratulate ARTEMIS II, and bullseye DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN - SEASON 2 (DISNEY+)

MARVEL'S THE AVENGERS comic book assembles 800 issues, ARTEMIS II and the first manned trip to the Moon in fifty years, set sail on the Grand Line for ONE PIECE SEASON 2, live action (NETFLIX), and danse macabre with Vicky Jewson's new horror movie PRETTY LETHAL (AMAZON PRIME)

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's PROJECT HAIL MARY movie adaptation kicks goals, the MELBOURNE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA'S ART OF THE SCORE: JAMES HORNER concert, and genre highlights of this year's MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL.

Watson today's episode? Rob Lloyd's MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL, show HOLMES UNBOUND: THE LOST CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, no stylish-yet-afordable-boots for the Buffy Reboot, Oscar genre gongs and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Concert ART OF THE SCORE: JAMES HORNER.

On today’s show: Missing DOCTOR WHO episodes, found! FIREFLY re-‘Toons! YOUNG SHERLOCK (PRIME), and the new POKEMON game, POKOPIA (GAME FREAK)

After a flyover of small and large screen genre, Shailee Thompson explains HOW TO KILL A GUY IN TEN DATES (ATRIA IMPRINT OF SIMON SHUSTER - 2026), and we chill out with two Studio Ghibli animated masterpieces WHISPER OF THE HEART (1995) and THE CAT RETURNS (2002) (NETFLIX, ETC)

Today, we look at Streaming drops, the latest episode of STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (PARAMOUNT +), dino rage with Luke Sparke's PRIMITIVE WAR (NETFLIX), engage Victoria Mahoney's THE OLD GUARD II (NETFLIX) and farewell authors Dan Simmons and Rob Grant.

We chat with the Simon Foster, Director of the Melbourne Science Fiction Film Festival, which starts at Cinema Nova next week in March, 2026, and also drill down into specific films, including: ALUCINA (FISHGIRL) - Director: Javier Cutrona, Ecuador, BLU’S (GREENTALE ) - Dir: Rajesh PK, India, SASYQ (STINKER) - Dir: Yerden Telemissov, Kazakhstan, and INVASION ’53 - Dir: by Danielle Weinberg, U.S.A.

We cast no shade on GODZILLA MINUS ONE streaming in B&W (NETFLIX), find that there can be only two with a tale of an immortal warrior in Keanu Reeves and China Miéville's THE BOOK OF ELSEWHERE (BOOM! STUDIOS/PENGUIN/RANDOM HOUSE) and submerge ourselves in Mark Fischbach's indy Sci-Fi horror movie IRON LUNG.

Today we overfly the M.C.U for 2026, appreciate the latest IRON MAN comic (MARVEL COMICS), light the lights on the new MUPPET SHOW special (DISNEY+), audit STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (DISNEY+) and farewell actress Catherine O'Hara.

We contract Christina Sweeney-Baird's pandemic novel, THE END OF MEN (2021 HARPERCOLLINS), an overview of the 2025 MCU, and we wonder at Marvel's Wonder Man (DISNEY+)

We midsummarise the genre gems of Melbourne's MIDSUMMA FESTIVAL, chat with David Innes, co-creator of genre play BEV AND MYRT AND THE SCROLL OF DOOM (MIDSUMMA), get plucky with AGATHA CHRISTIE'S SEVEN DIALS (NETFLIX) and attend STAR TREK: STARFLEET ACADEMY (PARAMOUNT+)

In our first show for 2025 we get on the walkies and take a last bicycle ride with the STRANGER THINGS finale (NETFLIX), "See" AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH, haunt the BBC GHOSTS (Various Streamers) and tour Century 21's new Melbourne Metro underground stations.