Popcorn Digest

Gareth and Andy are back and taking on prosthetically enhanced mobsters as they review Warren Beatty's Dick Tracy (1990), a cartoonish hard-boiled noir featuring a lot of dicks and plenty of rubber. But do we find a lot to love about Warren Beatty's dick caper? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy return once more to draw their swords against Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Studios. The story follows Bilbo Baggins, a Shire-Hobbit who finds a magic ring that allows him to disappear... for large portions of the plot. But is this middle-earth fantasy an epic triumph or does it crash and burn in a fury of dragon flame? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are stuck at the airport for the second of their Christmas specials, as they spend some time with the world's unluckiest action hero. That's right, we're reviewing Die Hard 2 (Die Harder?). But is this a Christmas well spent? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are spending this holiday season in perpetual darkness, as they travel to Gotham City for the first of our Christmas specials. That's right, we're flying high with Tim Burton's Batman Returns; a packed to the walls sequel starring Danny DeVito as The Penguin, Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman and, of course, Michael Keaton as Sir. Not Appearing in the Movie. But is it a worthy follow u...

This week Gareth and Andy are staring down the barrel at Quantum of Solace, another international espionage adventure starring everyone’s favourite sex pest, James Bond. But is Quantum of Solace a rip-roaring ride or does it get bond wrong? Listen on to find out!

This week Gareth and Andy are donning their masks to prepare themselves for a face-melting good time with Halloween 3: Season of the Witch. But is this Halloween film a shapeless mess? Listen on to find out!

Gareth and Andy are joined by special guest Aidan Belizaire, to unravel the creature feature that is Alex Kurtzman's The Mummy (2017), the first epic monster movie in Universal’s Dark Universe. If you don't know what Universal's Dark Universe is, well it's a collection of cross-media monster-movie related films, tv shows, books and video games that in a uniquely bold creative choice for a cinemati...

Gareth and Andy are back with the last of our Best Forgotten Movies Lost Episodes. And this time we're jacking into a world of well-choreographed fight scenes, mind-bending philosophies and tear-inducing disappointment. No, we're not talking about a night out with the in-laws but The Wachowski's The Matrix Sequels!

Gareth and Andy return for the second part of their Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker special. But do we find ourselves one with the force or, like a Sith with diarrhoea, do we find the hate flowing through us? Listen on to find out. 

This week Gareth and Andy are executing order 66- that's episode 66- as we turn our ion cannons on Star Wars Episode IX: Electric Boogaloo. But is this sequel a star too far for a dying franchise or have we unfairly treated this space adventure like fresh bantha poodoo? Listen to part one of this two-part Star Wars special to find out! 

This week Gareth and Andy are boarding the cruise ship of H.P Lovecraft's dreams as we take a plunge with Stephen Sommers' Deep Rising, a film named after an impending bowel movement. But is this creature-feature too much for us to digest? Listen on to find out!

Pierce Brosnan lures children and simple folk into his basement with the promise of a good time in (legally not) Stephen King's The Lawnmower Man; a film so bad the man behind Dreamcatcher had his name forcibly removed from the title. But do Gareth and Andy find this 90's virtual-reality thriller virtually unwatchable? Listen on to find out. 

Gareth and Andy are back and they've got worms! That's right, we're reviewing Ron Underwood's Land Jaws... I mean Tremors! But have we unearthed a B-Movie classic worthy of its cult status or is this a bad mother-humper that deserves to be buried? Listen on to find out!

This week Gareth and Andy are joined by special guest Aidan Belizaire, for first of our new topic-based episodes. And what better topic for these three 30-something men to discuss than animated kid's films? No, honestly. This week we'll be discussing Disney's live-action remakes, from 101 Dalmatians and Aladdin to The Lion King and Mulan. But are there diamonds in the rough of this creatively bank...

Gareth and Andy return for a Bird based double-bill as we spend an episode talking about a couple of memorable peckers! One film is a thriller by the master of suspense, littered with scenes so iconic they’ve come to define the genre, and the other is The Birds! But do either of these films soar? Listen on to find out...

Gareth and Andy embark on a most unprecedented expedition to the after-life with everyone's favourite dumb rockers, Bill & Ted. But do we find this Bogus Journey a hell of a time or is it simply a hellish time? Listen on to find out.

For this weeks episode Gareth and Andy are swapping the darkness, tension and Alien beings that populate space, with the darkness, tension and Alien beings that populate the ocean as we take a deep dive into James Cameron's THE ABYSS! But do we find a treasure worth bringing to the surface or should this thriller be left to rot with the Titanic? Listen on to find out!

This week Gareth and Andy are venturing into the cosmos to ask 'in space, can anyone hear you complain?' That's right, we're watching Ridley Scott's ALIEN COVENANT. But is the Prometheus sequel worthy of the series name or should we blast this sucker out of the nearest airlock? Listen on to find out...

This week Gareth and Andy unearth another unreleased Best Forgotten Movies episode with their review of Ridley Scott's Alien: Dicktease. I mean, PROMETHEUS. But is this divisive sci-fi a shining star in the dark or a quality black hole? Listen on to find out...

For this weeks episode, Gareth and Andy are looking at the cartoonish 1992 Christmas released film starring beloved improv actor Robin Williams and featuring a character called 'Al'. That's right, we're reviewing... TOYS? *checks notes* Yes, TOYS! But is Barry Levinson's much-maligned passion project worth another play? Listen on to find out... 

Gareth and Andy return to the X-Men franchise to review the last film in the series (anyone actually watched). Huge Jacked-Man returns as Logan Stabby-Hands a mutant mercenary turned care worker for the elderly, living out the remainder of his days in Trump's America. But is Logan the book-end the X-Men series deserves or is it surprisingly good? Listen on to find out...

You've seen The Lord of the Rings, binged Game of Thrones and taken a glance at any fantasy novel from the past 70 years, now watch Willow! A film that's all of those things, and less! Gareth and Andy venture into the realm of Lucasfilm high fantasy to ask 'should we have watched Strange Magic instead?'  But is Ron Howard's Willow an often overlooked childhood classic? Listen on to find out...

Gareth and Andy plunge into the depths of madness, as they review Cats. But is this far from purrfect feline farce the catastrophe its reputation has led us to believe? Yes. Yes, it is.  But listen on to hear our hosts lose their minds over this bonkers musical anyway...

Gareth and Andy present a blast from the past with the first of our Lost Best Forgotten Movies Episodes. This week we review Titan AE, an animated sci-fi epic that blew up the earth before bombing at the box office. But is this titan of failure one of the best of the forgotten movies, or should it simply remain best forgotten? Listen on to find out...

This week Gareth and Andy sift through cinematic trash as they review Paul WS Anderson's SOLDIER (1998). But is this Kurt Russell starring Blade Runner spin-off a diamond in the rust, or should we have left Soldier on the junk pile? Listen on to find out!