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We reassemble for AVENGERS: ENDGAME-ENCORE as the classic movie returns to the cinema with new footage to herald AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY, and get strange with three mystery novels by Japanese author Ukestsu- STRANGE HOUSES, STRANGE PICTURES and STRANGE BUILDINGS (PUSKIN VERTIGO BOOKS) and more!

We litigate David Green's now unshelved movie COYOTE VS ACME, and accept delivery of Zach Cregger's RESIDENT EVIL reboot, even though we don't have a pen to sign for it.

We marvel at the MARVEL AGE OF COMICS: AN EXPLORATION series of books with individual titles: THE ULTIMATES by Ted Adams, SPIDER-MAN MILES MORALES by Ytasha L. Womack and WOVERINE WEAPON X by Jim Rugg (BLOOMSBURY/PENGUIN), check out the 2026 EMMY AWARDS genre winners, and precariously live in HOPE, South Korean Director Na Hong-Jin's new monster movie.

More notional gold to giveaway to subscribers as we celebrate Triple R's golden 50th Birthday Radiothon and musically travel back to when it all started in 1976!

We step off the pavement with David Robert Mitchell's new dinosaur movie THE END OF OAK STREET, open the shutter on D.C's LANTERNS television series (HBO MAX), take a preliminary look at the 2026 EMMY AWARDS, and more!

Focusing upon the genre aspects of their careers we farewell beloved creatives: Hayden Panettiere, Peter Cullen, Dolly Parton and Tim Curry.

Enjoy the thwip with Destin Cretton's new MCU movie, SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY and survive your stay at Jane Schoenbrun's horror-com TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA.

We celebrate 3RRR FM's 50th Birthday and the Triple R Radiothon by giving away notional gold genre items* for subscriptions made during today's show. (*Notional Curses may apply to certain items!) Plus: News from this year's Disney D23 Expo. Thanks to all listeners, volunteers and staff for fifty orbits around Sol III. Fifty years! That's ten Starfleet Standard Five Year Missions!

We go MIFFING again, pulling focus on works from the 2026 Melbourne International Film Fesitval we've seen, including: CHRONOVISOR, REPLICA, MUM-I'M ALIEN PREGNANT, CROCODILE, GHOST IN THE CELL, and YESTERDAY ISLAND.

Further inspired by Nolan's ODYSSEY we voyage to Director Mario Camerini's 1954 movie Ulysses, and check out trailers and Hall H announcements from the San Diego Comic Convention, 2026.

We take the scenic route Homer through the Greek Islands with Christopher Nolan's THE ODYSSEY and a goatskin full of other screen adaptations of the iconic epic poem.

As is our annual tradition (since 1994), we scry the screen of the 2026 Melbourne International Film Festival with the Zero-G Genre Filter. See Zero-G's Facebook page for written film pick lists. https://www.facebook.com/ZeroGRadio/

We bravely wade out into Season 1 of the comedy/horror series WIDOW'S BAY (APPLE +) and shout "Booray! Ollywood" with Pierre Coffin and Kyle Balda's new entry in the DESPICABLE ME/MINIONS saga MINIONS & MONSTERS! (IN CINEMAS)

We listen to Matt Dinniman's audiobook DUNGEON CRAWLER CARL (Also in print as an ACE BOOK, from PENGUIN), and seek "Truth, Justice, Whatever" with Director Craig Gillespie's new D.C.U movie, SUPERGIRL.

We go sailing some more through three decades of the TOY STORY toy box, with a googly eye to Director Andrew Stanton's newest entry in the saga, TOY STORY 5, now before us in cinemas.

Winter chills with Curry Barker's "Be careful what you wish for" movie OBSESSION (in cinemas now), Genki Kawamura's liminally loopy EXIT 8 (streaming for rent or purchase), and Kane Parsons' limitlessly liminal BACKROOMS.

Probing questions asked of occupants of interplanetary craft with Steven Spielberg's DISCLOSURE DAY, who you gonna call in DISPATCH the superhero workplace game (ADHOC STUDIOS) and we farewell genre author Jane Yolen.

Noir Way? YES Way for SPIDER-NOIR (AMAZON PRIME), genre pics from ABC CLASSIC'S ALL TIME GREATEST 100, and we farewell British Actor, Singer and Musician Anthony Stewart Head.

We collect the bounty on Jon Favreau's THE MANDOLORIAN AND GROGU, and bid farewell to BLAKE'S SEVEN actor, Michael Keating.

We have a butchers at the season five and series finale of the dystopic superpowered show, THE BOYS. (AMAZON PRIME)

We survey Eurovision 2026 for genre content, and check out Daniel Kraus's cross genre Pulitzer Prize winning novel, ANGEL DOWN.

Ewe knew we would flock to director Kyle Balda's anthropomorphic fantasy movie THE SHEEP DETECTIVES, and also drive into the John Griffin created science fiction (?) horror series, FROM (Streaming on STAN).

Come what may, in May (new content streaming and at the cinema) plus we look at horror comedy series WIDOW'S BAY (APPLE TV) and Yorgos Lanthimos adapts a South Korean black comedy alien conspiracy in his intense English language film, BUGONIA (Rentable on AMAZON PRIME and APPLE TV)

We swing by the SPIDER-MAN NOIR series trailer (AMAZON PRIME), glove up with the 2026 revival series of SCRUBS (DISNEY+), preview FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA 2026, recite Ian McEwan's Science Fiction novel WHAT WE CAN KNOW (JONATHAN CAPE - PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE 2025) and play with Keza MacDonald's gaming history book SUPER NINTENDO (GUARDIAN FABER 2026)

Nasty nuptials with Haley Z. Boston's SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN (NETFLIX) and Richard Schenkman's long-lived JEROME BIXBY'S THE MAN FROM EARTH & THE MAN FROM EARTH: HOLOCENE (AMAZON PRIME)