Dinosaur Man

After last week saw the conclusion to awards season, regular service is resumed today with another jam packed News & Reviews episode.  From a preview of upcoming family friendly fantasy romp 'Dungeons & Dragons' to reviews of the latest slasher sequel 'Scream 6' and touching Belgian drama 'Close', much more to boot! 

It's that time of year again where awards season comes to a head and we celebrate by staying up too late and watching the Oscars live and report back to you once you've already found out the results. It's one of the many helpful services we offer as part of this podcast. So sit back, relax and enjoy the torture.

Okay so this episode took way too long to edit and I'm tired. It's a lent episode, we give things up, I might edit this description tomorrow, I probably won't. I'm so tired. Andy will moan about this being a bad description. 

I think we can all agree guys, 9 is too many films for one episode. We'll never take a week off again now, this has taught everyone a valuable lesson.

It's the day of the big game! That's right, it's Super Bowl Sunday and we're celebrating in the only way we know how, by creating our own personal Mount Sportsmore! Alex and Andy each pick 4 sports movies which they believe should be commemorated in form of a giant cliff face, sports mainstream and obscure are covered and picks remain mostly conventional. 

Just a little quick episode (quepisode) to tide you over this week, Alex is away and we pre-recorded this placeholder as a result. We'll be operating full service next week anyway, enjoy!

After a month of no News & Reviews episodes it triumphantly returns with yet another overstuffed edition.  Andy talks about the box office sensations 'Avatar: The Way of Water' & Blumhouse's 'M3GAN', Alex covers off Cornish folk-horror 'Enys Men', awards nominated drama 'Aftersun', Irish creature comedy horror 'Unwelcome', Spanish grin...

Here it is folks, yet another magnum opus! The long awaited and prestigious Dinosaur Man awards for films of the year released in the UK in 2022. In what has become a long standing tradition we battle it out with our guest Paul Hudson to nominate and win in the big categories. Talking about big blockbusters and tiny indie films alike, it's our chance to honour the films we loved (and didn&apo...

Awards season has begun to pull into view and so we kick off our fortnight of awards episodes with a newer ceremony in the form of Game of the Year awards for games played in 2022 (although released in some cases 25 years ago). Andy doles out awards to a bunch of big and small names in the world of video games, mustachioed plumbers, Miltanks and Marvel's avengers all feature. Alex talks about...

As you may have guessed from the title, "It's Catchup Season Baby!". Alex and Andy have both been busy catching up with things missed earlier in the year over the festive period. Reviews include, and are limited to, Oscar hopeful ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’, documentaries ‘Wildcat’, ‘A Bunch of Amateurs’ and ‘The Sound of 007’, Netflix’s ‘Do Revenge’, Tollywood sensation ‘RRR’, musi...

Happy New Year!  As is now tradition (if traditions can be established after 1 year), the first episode of this year is the annual Dinosaur Man Draft! We find out how well our picks from last year performed before selecting our choices for the forthcoming year. This episode has it all, rule changes, Morbius slander, the word "pushbackable" and much much more!  Join in with the fun and se...

Ho ho ho! Welcome to this year's Dinosaur Man holiday special, our most extravagant and low effort special yet. It's a commentary track for a now beloved Christmas classic, 2021's 'Love Hard'. We've wanted to honour this film ever since last year's Netflix Christmas episode got ruined by gremlins (not the film), this was a fitting way for us to do that without ha...

Reviews in our final News & Reviews of this year include the new stop motion 'Pinocchio', in depth German documentary 'Mr Bachmann And His Class', Apple TV+ festive musical 'Spirited', Macedonian Australian horror 'You Won't Be Alone' & 'The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special' from Marvel and James Gunn.  Enjoy it you lot. 

After the rip roaring success of our2 previous deep dives into the world of Netflix original Christmas movies we return with another look into this years line up. We get into the ins and outs of three entries.  'The Noel Diary', 'Christmas With You' and 'Falling for Christmas' are the subjects this year. Unfortunately none of them are musicals but we live and learn, h...

Due to popular demand this week sees Andy return to the podcast after his covid enforced break. Thankfully he's seen a film in the interim so at least he's pulling his weight when it comes to reviews.  We feature reviews of new cannibal romance adaptation 'Bones and All', the latest MCU film 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever', tone shifting horror 'Barbarian'...

Another minisode this week as Andy's currently indisposed, Alex takes time to review recent horror releases 'V/H/S/99' and 'Deadstream' (both available on Shudder now) while Andy's off. Normal service hopefully resumes next week. 

It's another solo episode today as Andy has been struck down by a virus, so in this shorter mini episode Alex discusses the film 'United Passions' from 2014. A largely self funded FIFA propaganda film, what better way is there to commemorate the start of the 2022 World Cup?  I mean, thank goodness this is only a short episode as there probably isn't 90 minutes worth of discussi...

Well, here we are. Better late than never right? A nothing episode for a week where we genuinely had nothing to do and still managed to not release it in time.  It's what we in the industry regard as a fallow week for podcasting and as a result it's mainly chat with very little point to it.  Enjoy!

This week we welcome Andy back onto the pod for a jam packed News & Reviews. With 7 films reviewed and plenty of news the planned "quepisode" was never going to happen. Reviews this week include DC superhero fare Black Adam. The finale of the Michael Myers saga in Halloween Ends. The reboot (maybe) of pinhead and the gang in Hellraiser and plenty more. Andy also finally wraps up his...

This week Alex is joined by semi regular guest Paul to bring reviews of some of the special programming from the recently wrapped up 66th BFI London Film Festival. Between satellite screenings around the country and at home screenings on BFI Player, this year had a packed schedule with plenty for everyone. We take time to review six of this year's offerings ahead of their upcoming releases. W...

This is it, the conclusion to the greatest sporting contest of 2022, it's the Dinosaur Man Monster Mash! We rattle through towards the inevitable conclusion of this exciting tournament and crown a greatest horror villain. Will Pinhead beat a tyre? Will Candyman rid his stomach of bees? Will Killer Klowns theme song see them through?

Greetings friends and welcome to the back end of Shocktober, we're ending with a two parter which pits titans against each other, it's the one and only Monster Mash! A 64 seed single elimination bracket tournament where classic movie monsters go up against each other the see who is truly the king on the monsters.  There are aome shocks and surprises along the was a we work through the fu...

In yet another move to really provide you lot with value for money in podcast terms, we decided to make this another marathon length episode of News & Reviews, so I guess you're welcome. Plenty to talk about this week as Andy updates on 'She-Hulk', 'The Rings Of Power' and 'House Of The Dragon'. On the film front we've got reviews of the latest crowdplea...

Boo!  And with that scare we kick off 2022's Shocktober episodes with a bang. We've got a packed month ahead of us so why don't we just get straight into it?  This week, Alex talks us through the current trend of horror legacy sequels and what they mean for the genre. We discuss a few examples and talk through what works about the successful ones and what doesn't work for the m...

After the exciting snake pit action of last week, Alex has fought his way free to take part in this week’s news & reviews episode. Thank goodness he has as he’s got a backlog of things to talk about in an already news heavy week so this one’s going to be a marathon episode.    There’s new David Cronenberg body horror ‘Crimes of the Future’, Bowie documentary ‘Moonage Daydream’, Idris Elba turn...