Strangers in Space

In the first part of our Twin Peaks retrospective, Matt leads the conversation through a discussion of the original two television series from 1990 and 1991 - but can the sceptic on the team be convinced to embrace the damn' fine coffee?

Matt and the team turn their focus to the twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi, in this episode beset with technical issues which we hope won't ruin your enjoyment of the conversation

Iain and JR discuss the three attempts to bring Lara Croft to the silver screen, and the various pros and cons of each

We all know the EU subtext, but does The Curse of Peladon still stack up as a Doctor Who story?

A comparison between the current situations of three "populist" politicians and leaders, for each of whom the past might be catching up Note: this was recorded before the news broke about Donald Trump's indictment

In tribute to Burt Bacharach, we choose our Top 5 Bacharach compositions and the artists whose versions we prefer

Winner of Best International Feature Film at this year's Academy Awards, Edward Berger's All Quiet on the Western Front is the third adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque novel and the second time the story has been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar

It's here, but is it any good? We watched Cocaine Bear, so you wouldn't have to

Our thoughts on the new Luther TV movie, in which Idris Elba's character gets the boot from the establishment where he's been working these last years, and fetches up as a special agent for Netflix instead

Our recent addition Dylan chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet

Now that Inspector Morse's origins have been fully explored - or as fully as writer Russell Lewis is going to - we turn our microphones to the prequel series Endeavour, and ask if it's a spin-off that lives up to its predecessor

Dylan and JR give their thoughts on the new and recently concluded post-apocalypse drama The Last of Us

It's the final day of our Doctor Who-themed House of Games-styled quiz, with Matt, Jon and Iain challenging to be the ultimate victor   Until Round Tow, whereafter JR's challenge is to inject some sense of jeopardy back into the competition; in the end, the only winner is you, of course, the listener

Our thoughts on the winners and occasionally losers, after this year's Academy Awards were announced

Ahead of our reaction on the Oscar results themselves, here are our thoughts on the latest from Darren Aronofsky, The Whale, for which Brendan Fraser has been nominated Best Actor

The last Best Picture nominee we're going to get to before the Oscars announce their winner, is Ruben Östlund's Triangle of Sadness, a satire on status mostly set on a ship

It comes to a pretty pass when football's 'Mr. Nice Guy'™ gets sent off from his own television hosting job, but that's thirteen years of Tory government for you: not so much football sponsorship as footballer censorship; our thoughts

Top Gun: Maverick might perhaps be the most unlikely candidate for this year's Best Picture Academy Award, but does it stand a chance in hell of winning?

Having talked about She Said earlier in the year, we now turn our microphones to Plan B films' other MeToo movie, Sarah Polley's latest, the Best Picture-nominated drama Women Talking

It's the penultimate edition of our Doctor Who-themed House of Games-styled quiz, as Dylan, Iain and Matt go five rounds in an evenly paced competition

Baz Luhrmann's glitterball biography of Elvis Presley - or of Colonel Parker perhaps - is the latest review in our rundown of this year's Best Picture nominees

It's been a curious week in UK politics, what with Rishi Sunak's Windsor framework and Matt Hancock's double-dealing ghost writer; obviously that was how we wanted to kick off Oscars week

Martin McDonagh's film about a feud on a remote Irish island exactly a century ago is the latest of this year's Best Picture nominees to come under our microphones

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?