Media Matters Podcast Network

Episode 35 - "She said all energy was only borrowed, and one day you have to give it back." We see you, podcast viewers & listeners. No, not in a creepy way! That's our way of saying that, in honour of the imminent release of it's long-awaited sequel, this episode we're breaking down and reviewing officially the biggest movie of all time; James Cameron's 'Avatar'. Mike and D.K are joined by fa...

Episode 34 - "Imagination is the only weapon in the war with reality." Welcome movie lovers and fans of all things magical. Please be our guest to a whole new (but familiar) world as we embark on our next Top Ten adventure. This time around we're ranking our top Disney movies. To be clear we're talking specifically about the 61 official Walt Disney Animated Studios films, from 'Snow White and the...

Series 3, Episode 11 - "I work in I.T, that seems completely natural to me." Welcome shipmates to a very special (Cadet) review. Mike and D.K are joined by former "Top Ten Trek Movies" guests Steven and... some notes from Adrienne (we tried but she couldn't make the trip to 1986). Buckle in to your stolen Klingon Bird of Prey for a discussion about the movie Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The conv...

Series 3, Episode 10 - "I know everybody wants a plush Murf, but I want a plushie sehlat." Welcome once more travellers to another brand new episode of the podcast. This week we're joined by yet another first-timer; Mary (aka flutemusik). Along with hosts Mike & D.K she discusses Trekkie parenting done right, diving into fandoms, cosplay, The Monkees, The Orville and much more. We honestly had...

Series 3, Episode 9 - "Dax is obviously a fangirl for Spock, and then years later Terry Farrell marries Adam Nimoy!" Welcome back carbon-based, silicon and all non-corporeal life-forms to another episode of Trek-tacular talk and time travel tractation. Mike is off again this week so D.K is back on hosting duties and welcomes first-time guest Runa to join him. Runa braves a fierce cold (or possibly...

Episode 32 - "Only the most broken people can be great leaders." Surprise. Welcome friends to an unannounced, unplanned episode of the podcast. Mike went to see the movie 'Black Panther: Wakanda Forever' and is here to share his personal SPOILER FREE thoughts, feelings and rating. This will serve as a sort of test to see if these shorter form, one-person reviews for new releases might be popular e...

Series 3, Episode 8 - "They're this far into the future, surely they're not still playing Snake!" Welcome back friends. We're resuming business as usual this week with a return to reviewing time travel themed episodes. Unfortunately due to some issues with guests and timing it's just Mike and D.K this week, just like old times. Don't worry though because we still have a cracking episode taking in...

Series 3, Episode 7 - "I almost put Galaxy Quest on my list!" Welcome friends, crewmates & Trek fans to this special episode of the podcast. Originally recorded as part of CloneStar podcast's #TrekForUkraine live charity stream in March this year and serving here as a brief intermission from our time travel series. Get to know the team who you'll be seeing/hearing again for a movie review very...

Episode 31 - "It's Halloween. Everyone's entitled to one good scare, eh?" Welcome back to fright night. It's Halloween and we're here outside of our normal night to bring you the epic conclusion of our Top Ten Horror Movies special. Once again D.K and Mike are joined by the terrifyingly macabre Purgatori and Freddy, to give their Top 10 favourites, read out audience lists and come up with a final...

Series 3, Episode 6 - "Did it say "Don't Panic" on the front?" Happy Halloween Trek fans! For this special spooky-themed episode we're thrilled to be joined by the Cardassian Queen herself, Lady Vean. There's a fascinating & insightful discussion of Vean's Trek journey and favourites, a Halloween appropriate "Hit or Miss" section and then an in-depth review of that scary time aliens landed in...

Episode 30 - "What's your favourite scary movie?" Darkness falls across the land. The midnight hour is close at hand. Creatures crawl in search of blood, to terrorise y'all's neighbourhood. And though you fight to stay alive, your body starts to shiver. For no mere mortal can resist the power of the Silver Screen Top 10 Horror Movies special mwahahahaha. Hosts Mike & D.K are joined by huge hor...

Series 3, Episode 5 - "To be honest I get enthralled whenever I see a donut." Welcome back temporal tribe, we're here with another podcast looking at all things involving time travel in the Trek-verse. This week we're joined once again by established non-Trekkie Will Templar as Mike and D.K introduce him to the bona fide TOS classic "The City on the Edge of Forever". What will he make of this huge...

Episode 29 - "If it takes us over, then it has no more enemies, nobody left to kill it. And then it's won." Welcome podcast fans, ghosts, ghouls and other things that go bump in the night. It's the spookiest time of year (and I'm not talking about tax time). The Halloween season is here and so the Silver Screen and Big Screen podcasts have united to give you quite the Thriller. Mike, D.K, Theo and...

Series 3, Episode 4 - "Scotty would have never let Kirk get his hands dirty." Welcome back Trekkers, Trekkies and those of undefined Trekking to another third season episode of this here podcast, as we continue to examine time travel in the franchise. This week we're thrilled to be joined once again by returning guest Dominic Martin. As a Doctor Who fan film creator/actor he's more than familiar w...

Series 3, Episode 3 - "Don't worry about the magic space snake." It's "time" for another episode of this, the podcast's time travel themed third series, looking at the two-part TNG story "Time's Arrow". We have plenty of time, it seems. D.K is sitting this one out and taking a week's rest but Mike is here along with returning guests from Series 1; Andy Kemp and Phil English from the 'We Pay For Yo...

Series 3, Episode 2 - "Bigger on the inside. Light bulb!" Welcome back Star Trek fans, and welcome back returning guest Will Templar to the podcast. D.K is flying solo this week on hosting duties but we're continuing the mission of introducing non-fan Will to more Star Trek. This week, keeping with this podcast series' time travel theme D.K and Will are analysing the Enterprise episode "Future Ten...

Episode 28 - "I've been ionized, but I'm okay now." Welcome podcast fans, movie lovers and Blue Blaze Irregulars to what we hope will be the first in an ongoing occassional series; Silver Screen Podcast: Cult Classics. Conceived and brought to you by your host D.K, we kick off the first of these special episodes with legendary cult movie 'The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'...

Series 3, Episode 1 - "We've popped back in time to check this. Like it's poppin' to Tescos" Greetings officers. We're finally back, ironically after a long time, for our third series, this time all on the theme of "time travel". To kick off this series hosts Mike and D.K are thrilled to welcome back newly minted "TrekkerMind" champion Rick Everson. The trio are reviewing an episode dear to Rick's...

A CONVERSATION WITH FRED BRONSON Welcome back Trek fans to a special, bumper length episode, the next in our series of interviews with people of note from the Trek universe. The phrases "renaissance man" and "hardest working person in showbiz" are cliches, but this episode we are talking to a man for whom neither of these phrases even seems like enough, the legendary and charming Fred Bronson. Fre...

Episode 27 - "Smile, you son of a..." Welcome back to another of our post-cinema trip mini reviews. This review we'll be discussing another of Steven Spielberg's seminal classics, the one that started it all, the original summer blockbuster; Jaws. The film was just re-released into cinemas in IMAX (where available) and "RealD 3D" and our Mike was lucky enough to catch the 3D release on the big scr...

The D stood for disappointment. Thank you to Timeless Journey for our new outro. Please visit them at soundcloud.com/timelessjourney Follow Michael: https://twitter.com/Ironmikewilson Follow Mike on Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/g479 Follow Mike on Instagram: https://instagram.com/michael.k.wilson Follow D.K: https://twitter.com/AKAStarlord Follow this podcast: https://twitter.com/podcast_screen Fol...

"But does he like it?" Welcome back Trek friends. If you've watched either our previous mini review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture or our sister channel Silver Screen Podcast's mini review of E.T then you know what this is, why we're here in this format and what it's about. If you aren't aware the legendary Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is back in cinemas for a limited time (in it's superior d...

Episode 26 - "Phone home." Welcome back to the Silver Screen Podcast. This is the first in what may become a semi-regular feature, shorter "mini reviews" of films that at least one of us has just seen at the cinema. If you follow our sister podcast "Hit or Miss: Star Trek" you'll have seen our first of these reviews covering the new 4k restoration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture. This review thou...

Episode 25 - "Are we talking about the Joker here or Ezra Miller?" Welcome friends to our new episode, the next in our series of "top ten" specials. It's a rough time to be a DC fan right now, especially when it comes to film, but we wanted to spread some positivity and celebrate the movies DC have given us over the years. Thus we present here a panel of "experts" discussing their absolute favouri...

"You don't touch up the Mona Lisa" Hello strangers. We know, it's been a while but hey, we're hitting you with another surprise unannounced episode. This is it, right here! This is the first in what may become an ongoing series of shorter "mini reviews", the reason for this one being that our Mike was fortunate enough to have seen the new 4k restoration of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wis...