Strangers in Space

Ahead of the fortieth anniversary of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we look at Steven Spielberg's first four movies from The Sugarland Express to 1941, taking in Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind along the way

Unhitched from our James L Brooks conversation, a separate discussion on the musical he made with songs by Prince, Sinead O'Connor and Carole King, which were subsequently removed before the movie's release - begging the question, was I'll Do Anything any better without them?

Fifteen years after they took their final trip in the TARDIS (by the time their new episode is broadcast, that is), David Tennant and Catherine Tate return to Doctor Who. That's right, it's another Sunday and another casting announcement, so here are our immediate thoughts on the reveal

Is it too early to invent the expression Doctor Whuti? Our thoughts on the casting of the new Doctor Who

You'll have seen his name attached to every episode of The Simpsons, his directorial debut won Best Picture at the Oscars and he once did a musical without any songs with Prince (but that's another story); we turn our attention to Jack Nicholson's most long-term employer James L Brooks

Thirty years ago it looked like they might be about to replace sliced bread, but things didn't go quite that far for Suede. Our latest Music Club profile, primarily focussing on their imperial phase in the 1990s

Matt, Jon and Mark take a look at the tenure of the fourth Doctor Tom Baker, in the first of a series of Doctor retrospectives that will look at the legacy of the actors and the characters they created in the role

As a postscript to our Man With No Name episode, Simon chooses Sam Raimi's 1990s Western The Quick and the Dead as a subject for conversation in the latest Film Club Lite

Jane Lovering, biscuit-loving author of A Cottage Full of Secrets and winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year award, braves a less than ideal internet connection in order to undergo a series of occasionally tailor-made (but largely off-the-peg) pop culture challenges - before getting rudely cut-off by a disturbance in the host's neighbourhood

Gallifrey Most Wanted's Ross returns to chat with JR about Sergio Leone and Clint Eastwood's Spaghetti Western trilogy, A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Our review of Chris Atkins' new documentary about the KLF, telling the story of how they progressed from being an art-house Jive Bunny to deleting their entire back catalogue and burning a million quid before finally releasing it all on a streaming service nearly three decades later; it's quite a story, but does the film live up to it?

Our review of Matt Reeves' new version of (The) Batman

Playwright, author and ex-Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel undergoes a series of sometimes tailor-made pop culture challenges

Our review of Legend of the Sea Devils, the penultimate story for Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall, and that trailer for the Centenary Special

Dr Robert of The Blow Monkeys participates in the inaugural set of challenges in the first edition of our new interview format, Pop Culture Clash

A comparison between Alejandro Amenábar's 1997 film Abre los Ojos - aka Open Your Eyes - and Cameron Crowe's 2001 remake Vanilla Sky

Tim Dorney of Republica and Tin Gin, chooses the eight items he would take with him, if he was about to be marooned on a desert planet Tin Gun on Twitter

Mark Cockram sticks around after his appearance on our anniversary episode, and chooses Edgar Wright's 2010 Scott Pilgrim vs. the World as his selection for a Film Club Lite

It's ten years since the first Blue Box Podcast turned up in people's ears, so to celebrate here we (almost all) are, running down our listeners' favourite stories according to our poll of the various individual season poll winners. With a very special guest, returning from the very beginning

Simon and Jon talk Caerphilly's finest in the latest instalment of Music Club

Back in 2012 we decided it might be an idea to bank a Blue Box Podcast for a rainy day, so early that June JR, Mark and Simon convened to record a couple of commentary tracks, pairing a single original run episode with a complementary modern story. We weren't particularly pleased with the result, though, so we never did publish that podcast. Until now

Back in April 2012, after our first Blue Box Podcast recording session (in which we ploughed through all of our first three episodes), Lee suggested we add his friend Simon to the team to make sure there were still enough of us to hold a conversation on the off-chance there were occasions when one or other of us wasn't able to come along. So we invited Simon to our second recording session - and L...

A review of this year's Academy Award Best Picture winning film, CODA, plus a catch-up on a few of the other Oscar nominees in that category

A review of the latest Spider-Man movie, No Way Home, as it comes to home media; warning: if you've somehow managed to avoid the spoilers surrounding this film, we will be discussing them here

There's a waft of fin de millénaire on this edition of Film Club, as we head back to 1998 to investigate existential angst among the parallel realities of Dark City, The Truman Show and Pleasantville