Milestone Movies

Send us Fan Mail And so we come to the end! The final episode is here! Bringing the podcast right up to where we started exactly a year ago, my 50th year, 2025. And a nice little low-key British indie to bow out with; Tim Key and Tom Basden's 'The Ballad of Wallis Island' Thanks SO MUCH to each and every one of you who gave up some of your time each week to listen to my ill-informed...

Send us Fan Mail Let's. Flippin'. Go.!!   The two most perfectly-cast comic book actors ever are reunited; but this time do it SO much better! The MCU fully embraces the best bits of the legacy of Fox's X-Men films, goes R-rated for the first time and is an absolute winner! Maximum Effort! Join me for the penultimate episode of the podcast, as the end is nigh...

Send us Fan Mail A brutal, bloody treat this week, as I look at an unexpected blast of vengeance and violence from Finland, 'SISU', which came out of nowhere to blow every other movie of 2023 out of their jackboots and leaving nothing but a smouldering pile of cinematic bodies in it's wake!

Send us Fan Mail A first for the list this week; my film of the year for 2022 is a movie made for streaming, not the cinema- it's Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds' THE ADAM PROJECT', a rip-roaring, hilarious, sci-fi, time travel, coming-of-age epic!

Send us Fan Mail Wait, haven't I already done a Ghostbusters episode? Well, yes, but when the son of the original director comes along and manages the impossible by both honouring the legacy AND setting up it's future in a brand new Supernatural Spectacular, how could i resist? An absolute treat for fans of the original, and indeed anyone with half a soul! (and I almost make it to the en...

Send us Fan Mail We all know what a s***show that year was, with not all that many classic movies to discuss, so what better time to answer some listeners questions!!

Send us Fan Mail You must have known this one was coming! The culmination of 22 amazing game-changing movies came together to make not just the ultimate comic-book movie, but simply one of the greatest stories ever made! I could do this all day!

Send us Fan Mail At a time when the cinemas were choc-a-block with comic book superheroes, one film stood head and shoulders above the rest as the smartest, funniest and coolest of them all- and it was based on a kids cartoon! Join me and my special guests (yep, they're back!) to discuss this and everything else from 2018!

Send us Fan Mail Yep, another year when i can't quite decide which is my favourite film of the year (although, i do actually get there in the end!), but there are some absolute cracking flicks this year to discuss! As mentioned on the episodes, i'm planning on doing a wrap-up Q&A episode as we get near to the final instalments (*sob*), so please feel free to send me any questions in...

Send us Fan Mail Another life-affirming, hugely positive slice of film fun again this week, with Dexter Fletcher's 'Eddie The Eagle', which documents the true-life rags to (almost) riches story of Eddie Edwards who, through sheer force of will, managed to capture the hearts of the whole world in the 88 winter olympics.

Send us Fan Mail Here's another one of those movies that I love, but suspect that many people have decided they don't like without actually watching! I find it an endlessly entertaining, and, importantly, really optimistic story with some jaw-dropping visuals and awesome performances; give it a go- i reckon you'll love it too!

Send us Fan Mail I know, I know: ANOTHER kids film? But what a film- so much funnier and cleverer than anyone was expecting, Everything really is Awesome! 

Send us Fan Mail A bit of a change-up today, as I meander around all over the place talking about the best movies of 2013, without actually settling on my favourite! Still, it was a bumper year, so wont you please join me once again..for Milestone Movies!?

Send us Fan Mail A really under-appreciated Sci-Fi gem from 2012 this week, a fantastic adaptation of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Barsoom' series of pulp fantasy classics, which is SO much better than it's reputation would have you believe! Check it out please! We are hurtling towards the Big 5-0 now, just a few more episodes to go, so keep it Milestone Movies! Thanks for listening!...

Send us Fan Mail Monkey Magic this week on Milestone Movies, as i delve deep into the epic long-running Simian franchise that is P.O.T.A.! From the Ape-Mania and the rubber masks of the 60's and 70's, right up to today's flawless motion-capture masterpieces, it's a fascinating and thought-provoking series that seems set to run and run!

Send us Fan Mail No, seriously- hear me out! If you've never experienced the DragonsVerse, you need to get on board! I was as pleasantly surprised as anyone that this movie (and all of it's many spinoffs!) turned out as well as it did, and there was no real competition when it came to choosing my movie of the year for 2010!

Send us Fan Mail A brilliant slice of sci-fi that came out of nowhere (well, actually from South Africa)  to blow us all away, Neill Blomkamp's "District 9" is my movie of the year for 2009. An oddly affecting 'alien invasion' movie like nothing before or since, it was a decent-sized hit at the time, but deserves to have been enormous! 

Send us Fan Mail 2008- the year that everything changes! Jon Favreau casts Robert Downey Jr in the role he was born to play, gives us a tiny glimpse of Samuel L Jackson and the Marvel Cinematic Universe is born! Cinema and TV will never be the same again... 

Send us Fan Mail "The Greater Good..." The team behind Shaun Of The Dead strike Fried Gold once again with their awesome take on all-action cop thrillers... except it's in a sleepy English village! Properly laugh-out-loud comedy alongside blistering action sequences, all delivered by the very finest of British character actors, Hot Fuzz is the second part of the 'Cornetto Trilo...

Send us Fan Mail "With No Power, Comes No Responsibility!" Kevin Smith returns once again to the 'Askewniverse' that he accidentally created with his low budget debut in 1994 with an absolute corker of a sequel; 2006's 'Clerks II'. Building on everything he'd done up to this point in his movies, Smith elevates the story of a bunch of slackers and dealers in...

Send us Fan Mail You can't stop the signal! Gather round, Browncoats, as i delve into Joss Whedon's superb space opera SERENITY, as well as it's parent TV series, the amazing FIREFLY! Thanks for listening, please do like and subscribe etc!

Send us Fan Mail You've got red on you!  For my money, the greatest British comedy film of all time, Shaun Of The Dead is an absolute gem! Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are amazing in Edgar Wright's movie debut, and the legacy of what they created here is still being seen to this day. Join me for this week's episode of Milestone Movies!

Send us Fan Mail Perhaps a less well-known treat for us this week, as I take a look back at Wayne Kramer's Vegas-set 'The Cooler', which despite a trinity of fantastic character performances and a mesmerising story, was never really rewarded the success it deserved. If you've never seen it, check it out, and then listen to this week's Milestone Movies Podcast! 

Send us Fan Mail With great power comes great responsibility. We're not yet quite at the dawn of the MCU, but we are thick in the beginnings of the Comic book movie boom, with Sam Raimi's pitch-perfect take on everybody's favourite web-slinger, which paved the way for a series which is still going from strength to strength today!

Send us Fan Mail You. Shall. Not. PASS!! Well, at least not until you've listened to this week's podcast anyway! We've reached 2001, which was the year that "The Fellowship of the Ring" launched us all into Peter Jackson's fully realised vision of Tolkein's world, so join me as I dive deep into Middle Earth! Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, looking forward...