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It's Hollywood's biggest night! Unfortunately it's a departure from our usual experience with the Oscars as Alex is away so we can't do our annual watch along torture. Instead we bring you our alternative nominations and predict who or what should win and will win in some of the prestige categories.  Will normal service be resumed next year? We pray that we never have to do ano...

Our semi regular video game episode returns with a bang, Andy has been playing more video games than usual, Alex has actually been consistently playing a game for longer than he was forced to.  We round up both the good and bad in video games that we've been playing, whether Andy likes or hates a game he's put over 70 hours into and whether Alex will win the championship with Williams, e...

In a relatively sparse episode of news and reviews we still somehow find time to prattle on for a while about nonsense, mainly Alex being upset with the movie industry if we're being totally honest. We sum up the biggest and best in news stories, we try to work out who will actually watch 'Avatar 2', why they would try to make a 'Deadpool 3' and whether there are more than...

With this weekend seeing the release of the latest film in the ongoing stories of the caped crusader in 'The Batman', we thought we'd see how Alex would survive being Batman with none of the training. How many of the villains will Alex defeat? Will Gotham fear or praise him? Has anyone ever asked The Joker his name? Andy guides you through it all here.

This week we find a news & reviews episode which sees large scale disaster movies colliding with small budget movies about witchy women living their wiccan way in the woods. Nothing new here then. We talk big budget nonsense in 'Moonfall', horror reboot garbage in 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre', a couple of Shudder originals and Oscar nominated Spanish film 'Parallel Mother...

To celebrate the release of heartwarming man and dog road trip movie 'Dog' this week, we take time to pitch our own versions of one word animal escapades. We imagine the hijinks and scrapes we'd have along the way and flesh out some pretty predictable story beats that you find in all of these sorts of films. 

It's been a little while but News & Reviews finally returns with a solid crop of reviews of the latest in films and TV series. We also round up some recent trailers and the Oscar nominations that were announced last week.  We talk about noir thriller 'Nightmare Alley', video game adaptation adventure 'Uncharted', quiet drama 'Mass', recent George Clooney dire...

As timely as ever we enter another year of this podcast with a spoiler review of a film which has been out for almost 2 months now, 'Spider-Man: No Way Home'.  We go into what worked for us, what didn't, character reveals and inciting incidents. We talk in depth about all aspects of the film so we do sound the spoiler porg pretty early on, but chances are you will have seen the film...

To add more competitive elements to the podcast we've looked to the world of sports for inspiration this week and come up with this, the first ever Dinosaur Man Draft! Andy and Alex assemble their teams from the rest of the releases due in 2022, from superhero blockbusters to ultra low budget horror movies we run through it all to build a roster of films to compete for financial and critical...

Here it is folks, the magnum opus! The long awaited and prestigious Dinosaur Man awards for films of the year released in the UK in 2021. In what has become a long standing tradition we battle it out with our guest Paul Hudson to nominate and win in the 5 big categories.  Listen in to find out which films are on the receiving end of some high praise this year! 

We kick off the first News & Reviews of 2022 with reviews of four films from 2021, naturally.  'The Tragedy of Macbeth' is the new Joel Coen adaptation of the Shakespeare play which has just hit Apple TV+ after a few weeks in cinemas, seen as an awards hopeful, will it prove divisive? 'Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain' has finally come to the UK after being availab...

As awards season pulls into view we begin with a new kid on the block in our inaugural Game of the Year awards for games played in 2021 (although released in some cases half a decade ago). Andy doles out awards to a bunch of big and small names in the world of video games, Alex acts as the recapper of the year in videogame news whilst giving his opinion on the couple of games he actually played la...

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, comic book event 'Spider-Man: No Way Home', Oscar winner from 2021 'Another Round', franchise reboot 'The Matrix Resurrections', awards hop...

Step into Christmas loyal listeners with us as your festive guides, it's the most wonderful time of the year and this is our festive treat to you.  In keeping with the season we take a look at the connective tissue between heartwarming family drama 'Jack Frost', in which Michael Keaton plays a struggling blues musician who gets a second chance at a relationship with his son when he...

Welcome to this, the final News & Reviews of 2021. As we close out another year we have a less busy than usual slate of reviews, mainly due to the ongoing situation regarding the rise in cases of Covid in the UK. We do have reviews of awards frontrunner 'The Power Of The Dog', a brooding mood piece released on Netflix worldwide, 'Old' which is the latest film from M. Night...

With the impending release of Spider-Man: No Way Home this week, we decided to take a look at his most famous stable of villains, The Sinister Six. We cast multiverse versions of six villains previously featured in at least one of the Spider-Man feature films and justify our reasoning for some slightly strange casting decisions that are sure to annoy fanbases and possibly general audiences too, we...

In the penultimate News & Reviews of this year Alex brings you a bumper crop of new releases.  From Netflix we have documentaries 'Procession', 'A Cop Movie' and directorial debuts in Oscar hopefuls 'tick, tick...BOOM!' and 'Passing', alongside this we have festive Aardman stop motion with 'Robin Robin'. Elsewhere there's powerful drama &a...

Alex is joined once again by Paul in order to celebrate another significant milestone in the history of this podcast, it's Episode 400!  We talk about the history of the podcast, the future, Fatboy Slim, Banksy and also review 2015's Science Fiction Mystery '400 Days', which is no good at all.

Bustin' makes us feel good!  With the imminent return of the Ghostbusters franchise proper with this weekend's release of the sequel 'Ghostbusters: Afterlife', Alex and Paul got to thinking about what pointless sequels to beloved properties they could pitch to try and cash in on the retro trends.  Alex loses the spirit of his original film whilst Paul manages to make a young an...

Welcome back to the podcast, this week we'll be mostly reviewing movies that have come out anytime between a week ago and 10 months ago, a real diverse spread today.  Paul joins the pod again to drop his reviews of sci fi epic 'Dune', long awaited and long delayed James Bond entry 'No Time To Die', comic book sequel 'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' and Netflix'...

Alex is joined by Paul again for a look ahead at what could be the latest revival of the slasher movie within the horror genre. We close out Shoctober by discussing the recently released 'Halloween Kills', the upcoming 'Scream' and 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' and what this means for the future of a subgenre that rises to prominence every 20 years or so.  Paul also prove...

This week Alex is joined by semi regular guest Paul to bring reviews of some of the special programming from the recently wrapped up 65th 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. J...

Shocktober contiinues with another special episode, Andy is tasked with assembling a Blumhouse style horror film from some predetermined categories and seeing if he can bring in a successful movie whilst remaining under the famously tight budget constrictions in place.  Which concept does he choose? Who does he cast? Will anyone want to watch it? Listen in to find out. 

It is Shocktober! The ghouls and goblins are about, ghosts are washing their sheets and Draculas are enjoying fine wine. Of course with the oncoming spooky season comes the spookiest day of all, Halloween! What better way is there tokick things off than with a horror anthology film? Alex made Andy watch 2007's 'Trick 'r Treat' and here we are breaking it down section by section...

As spooky season draws in we have a farewell to News & Reviews for a few weeks, don't worry though we're not leaving you with anything but a bumper episode. We've got brand spanking new releases and things we've caught up with from earlier in the year. Reviews this week are of David Lowery's medieval fantasy 'The Green Knight', Netflix revenge actioner '...