The Popcorn Bucket Podcast

Hello and welcome to this purgingly patriotic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! With All Hallow's Eve upon us, Ben and Rob have decided to dress up in their best slutty costumes, cover their car in fairy lights and go out looking for trouble by binging The Purge franchise. In this exsanguinating episode, they cover the first three entries in the series, namely The Purge, The Purge: Anarch...

Hello and welcome to this freaky follow-up episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob explore the wider Freakverse and cast their eyes over three other versions of the classic body-swapping bonanza. There's the original 1976 one, the hard-to-find 1995 one and full-on musical one from 2018. Plus, there's the Bucket List, where all versions are weighed and measured. Will t...

Hello and welcome to this fantabulously freaky episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Feeling fruitful, fantastic friends Fen and Fob felt focused on facilitating a fresh Franchise Fatigue? for feople to fenjoy. Fearing f...sod this. They've done Freaky Friday. This ep will concentrate on the two Lindsay Lohan/ Jamie Lee Curtis films and the second part will be the original Jodie Foster movie...

Hello and Welcome to the second Pick and Mix episode of the year! This time, we talk about trailers for Ink, Street Fighter, Focker In Law, and Wild Horse 9 to name but four, and there are up to date reviews of Disclosure Day and Dolittle. Lastly, it is the significant matter of a significant birthday of your significant podcast cohost, and to celebrate we will journey through 40 years of box offi...

Hello and welcome to a Pick ‘N Mix episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! It is in fact, our first Pick ‘N Mix for a while (first one of 2026, fact fans!), in which we round up film trailers and news. This time, we are talking about trailers for Digger, Forgotten Island, Matchbox, Clayface, Jumanji Open World, and Avengers Doomsday to name but six. We also talk about Sam Neil and Glen Hansard. Plu...

Hello and welcome to this colossally conclusive episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this episode, Ben and Rob bid farewell to all things Spider-Man (for now, at least) with a look over their favourite bits and things of the entire Spidey saga (with some mild Brand New Day spoilers to boot). Plus, we finally arrive at the Bucket List ranking for all the movies so far. It's enough to give...

Hello and welcome to this fantastically fresh episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! It's all led to this. Ben and Rob (like a billion dollars' worth of other people) have seen Spider-Man: Brand New Day and, by golly, they have some thoughts. For those of you who haven't managed to see the movie yet, the pod starts with a spoiler-free section giving general, unspoilery thoughts on the...

Greetings weary travellers and welcome to this epically entrancing episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week, The Random Popcorn Maker of Film Topics is on the blink, so Ben and Rob had to venture out to the cinema to see the latest Christopher Nolan epic, The Odyssey. Expect chat about flexing, what kind of sea people are presented and whether or not Chris Nolan is a mad genius or an eliti...

Hello and welcome to this greatly powerful episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In what we could consider the dawn before a Brand New Day, your feckless FOSs (Friends of Spider-Man) get to grips with Spidey's introduction into the mighty Marvel Cinematic Universe and the three sensational subsequent Spider-Films that followed. If you're sad to see our webslinging fun coming to an end, fe...

Hello and welcome to this wickedly wall-crawling episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Franchise knowers and pattern recognisers rejoice! After reviewing Raimi last week, it's time to weigh some Webb with the Amazing Spider-Man movies. Cards on the table time - Ben doesn't like these movies. Rob does. Can our heroes find some common ground before the pod has been fully cast? Will there be...

Hello and welcome to this wonderfully webslinging episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In celebration of their 200th episode, Beamin' Ben Browne and "Reliable" Rob Benyer decided to tackle one of Ben's white whale franchises- the spectacular Spider-Man series! (*not to be confused with the animated Spectacular Spider-Man series, which was pretty good too - Ben) With a Brand New...

Hello and welcome to this Franchise Fatigue Round Up episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we have finished our journey from earth, through the stars, and back to earth again, through different eras, and through cities, jungles, and small town USA, as we round up our coverage of the Alien, Predator, and Aliens V Predators films. Join us as we look at designs, teams, and our dream cinema...

Hello and welcome to another Franchise Fatigue episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This week we continue our space exploration into the worlds of the Alien and Predator films, by looking at the epic crossovers of Alien Versus Predator and Alien Versus Predator: Requiem. Do the films fit with the wider Alien Predator universe? They have a great tagline (Whoever Wins, Earth Loses), but do the fil...

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time your hosts load another coin into the podcast arcade machine as we take another look at video game movies. Yes we have done this topic before, but the caveat in this new console generation is that the films in question have to actually be based on video games (the last time we did this, not so much). Expect problematic p...

Hello and welcome this absolute thumbs down episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we are looking at Project Hail Mary. Your hosts are long time fans of Ryan Gosling, and of space films in general, so sit back and enjoy (or spin around to create gravity) as we talk adverts, adaptations, and the live action Moana film. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on you...

Hello and welcome to this fitfully feral episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! As their battle with the mighty Predator franchise draws to a close. Ben and Rob need their wits about them. The fight is nearly over, but the pair have a time-hopping trilogy to deal with first. Not only that, but this is the last stop before they careen headlong into the AvP miasma and face down the challenge of the...

Hello and welcome to this ham-fistededly hunting episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! After braving the dense jungle thicket and the heat/crime waves of 1997's Los Angeles, Ben and Rob continue their Predator journey and transported to an alien game reserve before being unceremoniously dumped back on Earth. Expect chat about missing trailer dopeness, problematic portrayals and several weird...

Hello and welcome to this uncannily uplifting episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! Does your 2026 suck so far? Are you experiencing headaches, nausea, existential dread and pillow screaming? Drs. Ben and Rob are here with the perfect podscription - films to make you feel good! So, relax, cram this up your earholes and then get up super early the next morning to book an appointment on the phone l...

Hello and welcome this raging episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This week we are looking at a sequel to one of our favourite films of 2025, the fourth film in the complexly titled ‘28 ____s Later’ franchise. Please join us as we talk trains, dancing, and charity, as we go deep into rage filled infected and dystopian survivors. Get your iodine and tickets at the ready! Please rate and review o...

Hello and welcome to a proudly prophetic episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! With 2025 sent to the naughty step (because it knows what it did) Ben and Rob cast their eyes over the year of forthcoming attractions. Will 2026 be the new golden child or a case of the klumps? No, there's no real reason why we're shouting out Eddie Murphy movies. Sometimes you just have to write to keep yours...

Hello and welcome to the first episode of the new year! It has been quite a while since we graced your pod spaces, and we return by looking back at 2025, to ask, culturally, what made us jive in 2025? So please join us once again as we cast our cultural eyes not just over films, but we pick out the podcasts, books, music, and games that we enjoyed from the last year. Please rate and review on your...

Hello and welcome to this stealthily stalking episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! After surviving the Alien franchise, Ben and Rob got a taste for more extraterrestrial terror and found it shimmering in the jungle canopy. The Predator series is next on the Bucket List and your favourite sexual Ty-rannosauruses are just the slabs of rippling beefcake to take it on. Thanks, as always, to Laurence...

Hello and welcome to a positively diabolical One Shot episode, in which we take the side of the bad guys, and each pick a film, that isn’t connected to a sequel, spin off, or prequel, in which the bad guy is in the right. Contains dark green, a few trolley problems, and a brimful of 90s music references. You can find us on Instagram or Threads as @popcornbucketpod, and thanks, as always, to Lawren...

Hello and welcome to this powerfully Promethean episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, Ben and Rob return to the Alien universe to tackle Prometheus, Covenant and Romulus. In podspace, no-one can hear you like and subscribe. Vids/Pods mentioned: "The 'Prometheus School of Running' Misconception" - https://youtu.be/QY-8DDUriWc?si=IRVHD7ZV1DW12uSw Film Stories Podcast: "Prometheus (2012)...

Hello and welcome to another One Shot episode, in which we take a topic and each choose a film that isn’t connected to a sequel, prequel, or spin off. This week, we stand in front of two podcasts, one always tells the truth, and the other always lies, as we look at films ‘based on a true story’. So please listen, and please forgive any embellishments and liberties taken.