Strangers in Space

With Crimes of the Future, David Cronenberg returns to the body horror that made his name - and even uses the name of one of his own films (despite this not being a remake). But now that it's landed in the UK, what did we think of it?

Dr Robert, lead singer and chief songwriter of The Blow Monkeys, chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Robert's Patreon page (to which JR contributes): https://www.patreon.com/drrobert/posts Autumn live dates (JR will be at the Worthing gig): https://www.theblowmonkeys.com/live-dates  

A fan, a lapsed fan and an agnostic form the panel for this discussion of Atlanta, Georgia's finest song-workers, R.E.M.

Now that we've all had chance to digest Jordan Peele's third offering as director, was Nope the dope, or was there scope for improvement...?

Recently debuting on Netflix, a new South Korean zombie thriller from Jung Byung-gil - but when does a lot of action become too much action, and how realistic does that action need to be?

Matt and Simon discuss the Disney+ series about Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects company formed by George Lucas in order to make the Star Wars films

Comparing and contrasting two original Sherlock Holmes films of the 1970s, Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, based on the novel by Nicholas Meyer

Nigel Kneale looks ahead to the future of television from the vantage point of 1968, predicting text speak and Love Island among other things. But is The Year of the Sex Olympics as dated as Ekin-Su, or standing test of time like laughing out loud, you only live once?

Our review of the latest from Roland Emmerich, a sci-fi rescue mission-cum-disaster movie about the moon falling from the sky, that's called Moonfall

Matt and Mark travel to an alternative timeline where the space race is still ongoing, in order to discuss the Apple TV+ series For All Mankind

Our thoughts on the fifth film in the Predator franchise, and whether it's a successful reinvention of the series

There's been a little flurry of Neil Gaiman related screen activity of late, the most recent being this Netflix adaptation of the late 20th century DC comic book The Sandman. But what will Jon and Matt make of it?

The passing of David Warner prompted us to take another look at Nicholas Meyer's 1979 film Time After Time, in which Warner plays a Jack the Ripper pursued to modern San Francisco by Malcolm McDowell's H.G. Wells

Our random journey through short-form Doctor Who reviews takes us back to the very beginning, 1963's An Unearthly Child

Our thoughts on the Duffer Brothers' homage to the 1980s, Stranger Things

Road testing a new strand, JR chooses his ten favourite songs and the team discuss the choices A YouTube playlist of the ten songs A YouTube playlist of the ten that got ruled out

A conversation about the Swedish pop sensations AᗺBA, during which JR, Jon and Simon each choose their five favourite songs

He arrived in a blaze of ill-temper and departed in much the same way, but what is the sixth Doctor's legacy? Matt leads Jon and Mark through a discussion of the short life and times of Colin Baker's incarnation of Doctor Who

The reaction to Taika Waititi's Thor: Ragnarok follow-up has been somewhat Marmite, but how will the Strangers team react to it? Simon leads the discussion in our review of Thor: Love and Thunder

A short tribute to the career of David Warner, whose distinctive voice and face graced many a fine film or TV project and who improved those things immeasurably when he did

There's something evil in the Magic Garden and it isn't Robbie Williams... In this edition of Film Club Lite, we turn our microphones to Dougal and the Blue Cat (released in 1972 in the UK), the first long-form spin-off from The Magic Roundabout

Simon and JR chat about Bill Plympton's debut feature, the 1992 animated musical The Tune

Our first tentative steps in the direction of reviewing books, this initial instalment is a potted bibliography of renowned science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, author of The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos and Chocky

Now that we've covered Pistol, here's a very much pre-Pistol biography of The Sex Pistols from inside their own camp, an apparent collaboration between manager Malcolm McLaren and director Julien Temple who tell the almost-sort of-true story of what really might have happened but probably didn't

The highs and lows and very very highs of the Oxford art-rock outfit with the Exeter connection