Strangers in Space

There's something evil in the Magic Garden and it isn't Robbie Williams... In this edition of Film Club Lite, we turn our microphones to Dougal and the Blue Cat (released in 1972 in the UK), the first long-form spin-off from The Magic Roundabout

Simon and JR chat about Bill Plympton's debut feature, the 1992 animated musical The Tune

Our first tentative steps in the direction of reviewing books, this initial instalment is a potted bibliography of renowned science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, author of The Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos and Chocky

Now that we've covered Pistol, here's a very much pre-Pistol biography of The Sex Pistols from inside their own camp, an apparent collaboration between manager Malcolm McLaren and director Julien Temple who tell the almost-sort of-true story of what really might have happened but probably didn't

The highs and lows and very very highs of the Oxford art-rock outfit with the Exeter connection

Matt and Mark travel back in time to India a hundred years ago for a rollicking bromance about two frenemies united in a single cause, that bust out of Bollywood to become an international success on its release earlier this year; S.S. Rajamouli's RRR

Our reaction to a momentous day in British politics and our answers to the question of who and what comes next

It's a new Alex Garland film and he's prodding at the outer edges of modern morality once again, so we sat and watched it and here are our impressions

With the news that a second season has now been cancelled by HBO, this review - recorded a week ago - becomes our post mortem on Steven Moffat's adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's book about a woman who is married to an accidental time traveller, The Time Traveler's Wife

Simon and Matt watch the new, dramatised biography of the Sex Pistols on Disney+, examine the legacy of the band, and ask whether it's a better use of Danny Boyle's time than the Richard Curtis pic Yesterday

Matt hosts a conversation about the latest Star Wars streaming series on Disney+, the story of what happened to Obi-Wan before the original trilogy and after the prequels 

Mark and JR exchange differing opinions on the latest outing from Karen Gillan, Riley Stearns' film about a woman who ends up with an unwanted clone, Dual

On its fortieth anniversary we ask if Ridley Scott's Blade Runner was all it's cracked up to be, and if Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 is a worthy sequel

Mark and JR discuss the latest film in the Jurassic Park-World franchise, and ask if it might have been better off left stuck in the amber

Matt, Jon and Mark discuss the short-lived era of the first modern Doctor, Christopher Eccleston's ninth

A retrospective of Mark Hollis' synth-rock outfit Talk Talk, who gradually morphed from a post-punk keyboard band into something much more singular. Including contributions from one host who is experiencing most of the music for the very first time.

Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Philip K Dick; what can possibly go wrong? 

It's 65 years since the publication of John Wyndham's classic story about an invasion of alien babies, and so here's our review of Sky TV's latest adaptation

It's been a long wait, but it's finally time for us to rewatch Malcolm Hulke's Season 10 story Frontier in Space, and decide whether it's a scintillating political thriller or just two-and-a-half hours' worth of going around in not very interesting circles

Now that we've all had chance to see it, here's our review of the Daniels' follow-up to Swiss Army Man, the multi-universe comedy drama set in a laundry, Everything Everywhere All At Once

A conversation about the brief but influential musical career of singer-songwriter Nick Drake

Simon, Jon and Matt discuss the second season of the Star Trek The Next Generation spin-off Picard

JR springs a surprise subject for the latest Music Club episode, leading to a hunt through some forty year old memories and a few revelations about our favourite Madonna songs

It's forty years since Steven Spielberg's horror film for kids about a friendly resurrecting alien who gets stranded on Earth, was first released. So here we are looking back on it, with mostly fond eyes

A moderately spoilery round-up of some Doctor Who casting and shooting news, after the first week of outdoor recording on Russell T Davies' return to the programme