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Bargaining tactics or kissing Putin's ass? It's just another week in Trumpton Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber

Peter Jackson's second film, the one it seems he most wishes everyone would forget, is the "adult" puppet comedy Meet the Feebles. We took a look, so you don't have to Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Mikey Smith

Also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay, Nickel Boys is the next Best Picture nominee from this year's Academy Awards on our list. But does the film's unusual format - which has brought it a shedload of awards already - mean it's more or less likely to pick up the Oscar? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

There's a new Wolf Man pic on the block, as part of the revised Monster Universe. And one of our extended team just happens to be watching his way through the original Universal horror collection... So what would he, and we, think? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Steve Hatcher

Recorded just moments before Elon Musk's attempted buyout of Chat GPT, a new voice joins us on the feed to try and make sense of just three weeks' worth of Trump.2 Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Mikey Smith

How does David Tennant's first (of at least sort of three) regeneration hold up nearly two decades later? The randomiser brings us the Series 4 finale Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Two films we've caught up with recently, one terrific and one terrible, which illustrate Hollywood's recent interest in sexual boundaries Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

After a previous pairing of the original Nosferatu and its fictionalised creation in Shadow of the Vampire, we decided our review of Robert Eggers' 2024 adaptation should include Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre to round out the story Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Jackson Rees

The randomiser brings us to the surprising opening instalment of Series 7B, and so we coupled up Asylum of the Daleks with Pond Life in order to lessen the impact real life sometimes has on our fan brains... Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold, Matt Barber and Jack Rees

What do you get when the streamer behind Slow Horses asks the producer of Ted Lasso to adapt a novel from the writer of Striptease to feature one of the stars of The Wedding Crashers? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Iain Martin

Our thoughts on Anora, the latest from indie writer-director Sean Baker which has catapulted him into the Oscar conversation Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

More rumours about what might be happening (and Who might not be a part of it) in the worlds of Doctor Who. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

Our reaction to and predictions for the nominations for this year's Oscars. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

It's Donald J's first week back in the White House, so how's he doing? Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold

We catch up with a handful of recent movies that are in this year's Academy Awards conversation: Wicked, Emilia Pérez, A Real Pain and Dune: Part Two Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Award-winning writer and Big Finish contributor David K. Barnes chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Presented by Joe Ford David's website

Overlooked gem or mismatched misfire? We turn the clocks back thirty years to take another look at Kathryn Bigelow's follow-up to Point Break, the VR thriller Strange Days Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Some thoughts about film director David Lynch Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

In which we talk about three largely British space horror movies - Event Horizon, Pandorum, The Last Days on Mars - as part of our ongoing conversation about the Alien franchise and its influence Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees

We head back to the penultimate episode of Torchwood's second series to see how the series is looking, in the latest choice from Doctor Who's back catalogue as made by our randomiser Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees

In a case of Christmas leftovers, here's something we recorded for the festive season but didn't get around to publishing thanks to a surfeit a last minute reviews: it's another surprise discussion about yet another randomly selected movie poll from the thoroughly random YouGov website. Presented by J.R. Southall, with Matt Barber and Mark Donaldson

In which we catch up with Ridley Scott's latest belated sequel and fail to wonder whether Thelma II Louise could be up next Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Matt Barber

Including some bonus thoughts on Joy to the World and the arrival of last year's AI figures, mostly we end up going over the latest internet buttlescut about the forthcoming second series writers, story titles and broadcast dates Presented by J.R. Southall, with Jon Arnold and Dylan Rees

A catch-up on some of the more striking Christmas TV, mostly focussing on the latest A Ghost Story for Christmas, with a short conversation about the latest Wallace & Gromit and the final Gavin & Stacey too Presented by Matt Barber, with Steve Hatcher and J.R. Southall

Dr Simon Exton of The ExtonMoss Experiment chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Presented by Joe Ford