Popcorn Digest

Gareth and Andy are back to decipher the forgotten zodiac puzzle that is Neil Breen's Fateful Findings. If you've ever wondered 'What type of movie would David Lynch make if he had suffered a traumatic head injury?' Well, look no further as Neil Breen is that and more! But does Fateful Findings live up to the hype or should it remain lost to obscurity? Listen to our 100th EPISODE to find out! 

We're back and for our latest episode, we are coming out of our shells to trade family-friendly blows with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secrets of the Ooze. But is this terrapin ninja movie a radical time? Or is it less Martial Arts and more martial farts? Listen on to find out! 

Roger Moore is back as Jimmy Bond in Moonraker, only this time he’s older! Featuring a head with more lines on it than Pablo Escobar's coffee table, Moore takes our lovable super spy from the countryside of France to the edge of space in his fight against full-sized Peter Dinklage impersonator, Hugo Drax. But does this ambitious space adventure have a licence to thrill? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are donning their furry best as they look to answer the question ‘Just what would a Marlon Brando film look like if no one told him no?' That's right, they're taking a doomed trip to The Island of Dr. Moreau. But does this troubled production leave them howling for more? Listen on to find out! 

Father of the modern blockbuster, Steven Spielberg, is back to direct up to 28% of Ready Player One, a plug-in-and-play adventure movie that takes us into the world of virtual reality! But is Ready Player One more than just a shopping list of nostalgia bait and movie references? Listen on to find out! 

Gareth and Andy are back and once again spending time with notorious kook and enemy of the couch Tom Cruise, as we take on Mission: Impossible 2. But is this much-maligned sequel an overlooked gem or is finishing the film the only impossible mission we face? Listen on to find out! 

Gareth and Andy take to the sky to review the Richard Pryor starring Superman III, featuring Christopher Reeve as Superman in a guest star role. But is Superman III a super-hit or a super-dud? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are donning their helmets and heading to the block as they take on Sylvester Stallone's much-maligned comic-book movie, Judge Dredd (1995). But is there something special to salvage in the wreckage of this nightmare production or is Judge Dredd about as convincing as Sylvester Stallone’s attempts at comedy? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are back for the battle of the musical biopics as they compare notes on Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocketman. But will Rhapsody rock us? Or when the dust has settled is it Rocketman that will be left still standing? Listen on to find out! 

For this week's episode, well, you didn’t hear anything from us, as we’ll be spending time with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman. But do Scorsese and his team of special effects wizards convince us that De Niro can relive his youth or is the real crime the fact $200m dollars was spent to make him look like a De Niro waxwork dummy after a blaze at Madame Tussauds? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are spending time with the film so nice they made it twice as they take on not one but two Exorcist prequels. That’s right, Morgan Creek took one look at Paul Schrader’s Dominion and called the only man they knew that could salvage this interesting but flawed meditation on man’s evils and post-war faith— Deep Blue Sea’s Renny Harlin. But do either of these films light the way to Go...

Gareth and Andy are traveling deep underground to draw their guns with commandos, fight against the undead and escape from genetic abominations as they review Paul WS Anderson's Resident Evil (2002). Milla Jovovich is the amnesia-suffering Alice, a mostly-naked action hero who is struggling to remember who she actually is, in this film that will leave you struggling to remember what the heck actua...

Gareth and Andy are back once more for a close encounter of the felt kind as they take a look at Muppets From Space. But is this adventure out-of-this-world or is the only question Muppets From Space leaves us asking, 'I wonder how many Muppets I can bludgeon with a bag full of bricks?' Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy welcome the erotic thriller with open legs as they take an uncomfortably long look at Basic Instinct 2. But is there more to this critical flop or does this particular pick leave us ice cold? Listen on to find out! Visit CINEFANART: https://tinyurl.com/cinefanart-shop

If this boat is rocking, well, probably best to call the police as Gareth and Andy are jumping aboard Richard Curtis' The Boat That Rocked. Here they'll be spending time with that most unproblematic group of role models; the 1960s Disc Jockey. But does this boat rock or sink like a stone? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are back and plugging into The Matrix Resurrections, the Gremlins 2 of the Matrix series. Remember those sequels you didn't like? Well, they've made another one! And remember those characters you loved? Well, they're sad now! Yes, the matrix is back for a limited time only (if the box office is anything to go by). But is this an unfairly maligned legacy sequel? Listen on to find ou...

The boys are back and at war with Joe Dante's Small Soldiers, a movie that asks 'what if Vietnam, but in your kid's bedroom?' But is this the toy-based movie to rival Pixar's Toys or do these small soldiers deserve a lifetime in Sid's backyard? Listen on to find out!

In the latest of their 'first vs last' episodes Gareth and Andy are back and revving their engines for The Fast and the Furious franchise. But just how has Dominic Toretto and this group of loveable rogues evolved from their days of DVD player heists and humble race wars (no, not THAT kind of race war) to the Marvel superhero-like figures they are today? Listen on to find out!

For our latest episode, Gareth of Green and Andrew of Raphael are off to Nottingham Forest to shoot their arrows into Kevin Costner's Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves. Does the script live up to Alan Rickman's hilarious pantomime villain performance, or is the final film as confused as Costner's accent work? Listen on to find out!

Just in time for the Avatar sequel, Gareth and Andy are back to review James Cameron’s surprisingly pro-global warming movie that makes glacial ice the villain?! That’s right, we’re plunging deep into Titanic, a film that at 25 years of age is now just old enough for Leonardo DiCaprio to break up with it. But does this James Cameron epic leave us feeling like kings of the world, or do our hopes an...

Gareth and Andy are taking a dive into Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the animated film about a sunken ancient city that ironically sunk the Disney animation department. But is this swashbuckler a rip-roaring adventure or have Disney ripped the heart out of their renaissance? Listen on to find out!

In the latest episode, Gareth and Andy are taking a very, very slow ride on the Starship Enterprise as we join Kirk, Spock, Bones, and crew on their search to find the fabled clitoris. That’s right, we’re discussing Star Trek The Motion Picture. But is this a triumphant return to Starfleet, or are these two of the longest hours of our life that we’ll never get back?

After a brief hiatus (and then a further 12 months off podcasting) Popcorn Digest is back! And in this latest episode, we’re puzzling over not one but two adaptions of Clive Barker’s The Hellhound Heart as we look at both 1987 and 2022’s HELLRAISER. But do we find delight in these grotesque depictions of love and death or is the battle of the Hellraisers about as pleasurable as a colonoscopy perfo...

Like Palpatine from Star Wars, the dead are alive (somehow) as we’re spending time with patient zero of the sexually transmitted disease, James Bond. That’s right, we’re back to review SPECTRE, a 007 adventure with too many plot points surrounding the quality of James Bond’s Ring. But is spectre a success or a spectacular failure? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are joined by writer/ director M.K Rhodes (The Gulf of Silence) for an all-together spooky episode of the show as we ask some of the big questions. Questions such as ‘are we alone in the universe?', ‘have we secretly made contact with intelligent alien life?’ and finally ‘why did no one stop Chris Carter after six seasons!’. That’s right, we’re watching The X-Files: Fight the Futur...