Strangers in Space

It's the third day of our Doctor Who meets House of Games style quiz, and this one's a guest edition as podcast hosts Phil from Who's He? and Harry from Who Can Convince You challenge our own Jim from the Krynoid Pod

Cult classic or tangerine nightmare? Only in the 1980s could Michael Mann go to the studio with a three-hour cut of his second feature, a demonic horror set in an East European castle during WWII and all playing out to the sound of a synth-pop score. What on Earth would we make of that?

What's more important, art or humankind-ness? That's the question Todd Field asks in his latest, the Best Picture nominated Tár - but does the film provide any answers? Matt and JR go looking

A Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day Two of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in another series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ

Our co-host Jon chooses films in ten categories, that have made a significant impression upon him

If you hadn't had enough Groundhog Day already, then here's a contemporaneous television take on the idea, although this second adaptation of Richard Lupoff's  short story hasn't aged nearly as well according to (most of) our panel

A Doctor Who-themed House of Games rip-off, it's Day One of our 'new' quiz format as JR sets the questions in a series of five rounds Can also be watched like a real television programme, as part of our YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD7MPHXjCYVXbrHHyQOFvRu-Oy5EEaFGZ

Poet, journalist and mentor Mark Blayney chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Photo by Dave Daggers

It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? JR and Dylan chat about Groundhog Day

It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Iain and Mark talk Groundhog Day

It's three decades since Harold Ramis' romantic comedy turned the time-loop twist into a genre in its own right, but how does it stand up thirty years later? Matt leads the gang through a conversation about Groundhog Day

Following our review of the TV drama Severance, here's our review of the film Severance, Christopher Smith's 2006 comedy-horror starring Danny Dyer

Our thoughts on Tom Baker's appearance as Sherlock Holmes in Letts and Dicks' classic serial adaptation of The Hound of the Baskervilles   Watch along: https://archive.org/download/the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-1982

Obsolete even before it hits the feed, here are our thoughts as they stood on Saturday evening, regarding the then-still-serving Zahawi situation - plus Boris' motivation in visiting the Ukraine, can Labour win an overall majority at the next election, and more

Big spoiler warning: our review of The Menu, from The Web of Caves director Mark Mylod, is a conversation about all aspects of the film - which you should definitely see before listening

Our vague thoughts on the likely contenders for the top honours at this year's Academy Awards, plus (at 33.56) a review of Steven Spielberg's latest and most autobiographical picture, The Fabelmans

An overview of the seventh Doctor era, led by Matt, in which we ask the time honoured question: Which is better, Season 25 or Season 26?

Mark and J.R. take a look at Park Chan-wook's latest, the double BAFTA-nominated romantic murder mystery Decision to Leave - in a mainly spoiler-light review

Dylan asks the team if James Gunn can be the saviour the DC movie universe requires, or whether Zack Snyder has already led it too far down the wrong path

A (moderately spoilery) conversation about Severance, Apple TV+'s series actualising the work-life balance in modern society

Maria Schrader's film about the investigation into cinema mogul and sexual predator Harvey Weinstein

The second part of our conversation about the state of the world and how we got here

Our thoughts on Noah Baumbach's adaptation of Don DeLillo's apparently timeless postmodern consumerist satire on death, recently released by Netflix

Might the BBC be colourising black and white Doctor Who and animating further missing episodes for the sixtieth anniversary?

A profile of the recently departed television writer and script editor, whose works include Blakes 7 and Star Cops, as well as three highly regarded Doctor Who serials