Commentary Club

In a new mini season of our stay in, stay safe comedy podcasts, we look at the first episode of Blackadder II, in which we catch up with Blackadder, Percy and Baldrick in Tudor times, where merry England is ruled by Queen Elizabeth I (played Miranda Richardson),aided by her stalwart advisor Lord Melchett (Stephen Fry) and long-serving Nursie (Patsy Byrne). In this episode, romance is in the air an...

This time round we are looking at cult favourite Clue from 1985 - the first movie based on a board game! Featuring an all-star cast including Tim Curry, Eileen Brennan, Christopher Lloyd, Michael McKean, Madeline Kahn, Martin Mull and Leslie Anne Warren.

In this podcast we go back to 1962 for a classic fantasy adventure Jack the Giant Killer! A magical tale based on British folklore starring Kerwin Matthews and Torin Thatcher, directed Nathan Juran, and with creature FX by Jim Danforth.

For our Christmas special this year we have a real classic - the celebrated comedy take on A Christmas Carol starring Bill Murray and Karen Allen - Scrooged (1988)!

In this show we are venturing in the worrying world of low budget Christmas horror, with Canadian anthology Unholy Night (2018) will festive frights ensure or just Yuletide yawns?

We have a festive visit to Mr Ebenezer Blackadder for Blackadder's Christmas Carol ! First aired back on 23rd December 1988, this classic Yuletide comedy special features an all-star cast which includes Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robbie Coltrane, Miranda Richardson, Miriam Margolyes, and Jim Broadbent!

'Twas a long time ago, longer now than it seems, in a place that perhaps you've seen in your dreams.... Yes, it's cult film time again, in this podcast we go back to 1993 for the cult classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, written by Tim Burton, directed by Henry Selick and featuring music by Danny Elfman!

In this minisode we return to the Jim Henson's The Storyteller to look at the final two episodes from the little known second season. Here we have two classic tales of heroes versus famous monsters - Theseus and the Minotaur and Perseus and the Gorgons! 

Join us on an epic adventure across Africa with some Hollywood's brightest stars as we revisit a true classic - The African Queen (1951) starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn and directed by John Huston.

This year, for the spookiest night of the year, we are revisiting John Carpenter's classic horror movie - Halloween (1978) - the film that brought us the Shape, AKA Michael Myers! 

It's crap film time again, and we have a movie about undead wildlife - Zombeavers (2014)! Yes, a film about zombie beavers... Does hilarity ensue?

In this minisode we return to the Jim Henson's The Storyteller to look at two episodes from the little known second season. In this series, Michael Gambon takes on the mantle of the Storyteller to recount tales from Greek myth.  And in this episode, we watch the story of Daedalus and Icarus, and the legend of Orpheus. 

In this episode we take a trip to Delos for the holiday of the future! Yes, we are revisiting Michael Crichton's first tale of a futuristic theme park gone bad Westworld - the seminal science fiction meets Western movie starring Yul Brynner as the unstoppable android Gunslinger!

For our classic movie this time we are watching a hugely important film, a massive influence on modern science fiction and the grandfather of Hammer horror - yes, it's The Quatermass Xperiment (AKA The Creeping Unknown in the US) from 1955.

As a tribute to the late great John Saxon we settle to watch one of his most celebrated movies - the martial arts classic Enter the Dragon (1973), in which Mr Saxon, an actual real-life black belt, co-starred with the legendary Bruce Lee! 

In this show we take a look at one of the most infamous rubbish films of all time Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1978). Is this a terrible movie made by morons or actually an ahead-of-its-time spoof? 

In the next of our stay in, stay safe comedy podcasts, we look at the sixth and final episode of The Black Adder - the tragic tale of the Black Seal! The most cunning plan and the most evil men in England plot to take the crown... Who will survive, and what will be left of them?

It's cult movie time again, and this time we are looking at one of the best horror comedies of recent years -  What We Do in the Shadows  a mockumentary created by Taika Waititi and Jermaine Clement exploring the shows world of the undead in present day New Zealand!

In the fifth of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, strange omens and dark forces are abroad in the kingdom of The Black Adder , and the dreaded Witchsmeller Pursuivant cometh! Folk horror vibes, bloody milk and dire warnings about the fruit of the carrot tree ensue... Plus watch out for a cameo from Satan himself!

We take a trip back to 1997 for to discover who is protecting the Earth from the scum of the Universe! Yes, it's that classic pairing of Tommy Lee Wallace and Will Smith in Barry Sonnenfeld's smash hit SF comedy Men in Black !

In the fourth of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, we voyage back in time to watch The Black Adder - Born to be King! It's St. Leonard's Day and cunning plans and woeful variety acts ensue...

It's crap film time again, and this time we have gone for one of the worst movies of all-time - Robot Monster from 1953! Shot in four days and in 3D, see an incredible alien invader, the Ro-Man - which looks suspiciously like a gorilla in a space helmet - fart about with a bubble machine while pestering the last surviving humans on earth!

As we enjoyed it so much last time, we pay tribute again to the late great Tim Brooke-Taylor, with another two of our favourite episodes of classic 1970s comedy series, The Goodies! In this episode we are watching are Kung Fu Capers from Series 7 and Saturday Night Grease from Series 8!

We are back in cult film territory and back to the films of Tim Burton too - this time for his 1990s SF comedy Mars Attacks ! Ack! Ack! Ack! 

In the third of our stay in, stay safe comedy specials, we voyage back in time to watch The Black Adder - The Archbishop ! Has the King finally found a use for his other son... you know, the slimy one?