The #NOTwatching Podcast

While Box office receipts have so far failed to return to pre-pandemic heights the small screen continues to thrive. With a summer dominated by Stranger Things and yet more entires in the Star Wars and Marvel canon, how could we possibly top that? The answer? Not one but two enormous high budget fantasy epics. We're back to Westeros AND Middle Earth. And how can we possibly process this? Well, by...

It's been a while, but we've been quite busy over the summer with the world now mostly back in business and that can only mean a fairly packed schedule at the box office. First though, we have all the Marvel Phase 4/5 news that dropped at Comic Con and the results of our summer movie wager. Enjoy! Contact us on Email at: notwatchingpodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @notwatchingpod You can fi...

In the interest of full discretion this episode was recorded back in May, but has there really been much better on since. James Gunn's Suicide Squad spin-off had no right to be this good, blending satire and outright hilarity to glorious effect. And then there's the Ben Stiller difrected Severance, who mad sci-fi concept not only justified every episode, but probably added up to most successful fi...

There's a lot to fit in this week as we welcome the first proper summer movie season for 2 years with the first Marvel offering of the 2022 and a sort of bizarre Spider-man follow-up in more ways than one, for none other than Sam Raimi is behind the camera for this Doctor Strange sequel. We also go over some of the more notable releases so far this year, including The Batman and Everything Everywh...

On this month's episode we're just focussing on a couple of shows Marcus and I have both been dipping back into recently. Well, we're definitely at different points along a Doctor Who rewatch as has been previously mentioned anyway - it's only a short one, but these two cult retro shows might not be for everyone so we thought we might as well spin these conversations into their own mini-episodes r...

New year, New Movies & New TV. That we know about anyway. On this week (month?)'s episode we're going through the things we're most excited about that are due to surface on a screen of some size in the next 11 months (or slightly less). Highlights include a new prequel series for Game of Thrones, the return of Ewan McGregor's take on the Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi, a new Batman movie and yet a...

Even with production scheduled blown off course by covid, the floodgates couldn't hold back the inevitable tidal wave of TV. So once again it's that time of year when we look back on the year that was and which shows were particular highlights of the past 12 months. It's no surprise that Netflix's The Witcher series features once again after a year away in COVID jail, nor Disney's most recent MCU...

Well 2021 was another funny old year for the movies wasn't it? With cinemas closed for the first third of the year, premium video on demand became almost a given for most theatrical releases, whilst Netflix continued to deliver blockbusters and oscar-bait in equal measure. We saw the Marvel stretch the credibility of the MCU to it's absolute lengths with it's belated Black Widow film and highly in...

This episode marks the return of an anti-hero in whose ashes this very podcast was born, for as a means of recognising quite how extraordinarily bad that series finale was, we decided the devote an entire episode to it. Yet hear we find ourselves at the beginning of a new chapter in a series that unlike many of it's characters simply refuses to die. It's not all doom and gloom though, cos we can't...

We're back to full force this month after Marcus's unfortunate accident and while he's not quite up to cinema visiting strength he has finally caught up on some recent cinema releases, including Shang Chi and the Legend of the 10 Rings. Meanwhile Rob actually HAS been to the cinema to see the newest lega-sequel that is Ghostbusters Afterlife, Denis Villeneuve's masterful adaptation of Dune and Mar...

Who'd have thought if you gave the man behind Guardians of the Galaxy a chance to have another crack at DC's Suicide Squad, you'd end up with the greatest summer blockbuster of 2021. Or at least perhaps, the film we all deserve after such a wretched couple of years. It's also been a cracking few weeks for the small screen, with the return of Ted Lasso, Netflix's utterly deranged Brand New Cherry F...

On this week's show we're back at the cinema once again, this time watching the already quite tardy, but also massively delayed Black Widow, which sees Scarlett Johansson's ill fated former assassin tackling the demons of her past in another bombastic MCU adventure. Meanwhile in another ludicrously sprawling franchise, Vin Diesel literally shoots cars into orbit in the latest installment of the Fa...

Cinema is BACK! And with it an actual proper release schedule of blockbuster films that have been put on hold for more than a year! Chiefly among those is A Quiet Place 2, which while being completely unnecessary yet almost entirely inevitable stays true to the original's formula and expands it's universe. Also at the flicks is the Bob Odenkirk brutalfest, Nobody, which sees the small screen's fav...

It's awards time again and despite cinemas being closed, we've managed to catch some of the nominees and winners of this years most prestiguous ceremonies, including Riz Ahmed's star turn in Sound of Metal and the outrageously dark Promising Young Woman. Also worthy of mention outside the torrent of awards contenders finding their way onto the various streaming platform is Andy Samberg starring Pa...

On this week's show we're picking over the carcass of what's actually managed to get released in 2021 so far, including the stunning third and fully netflix backed season of Cobra Kai, the also youtube-premium originated Wayne on Amazon Prime and the second insane season of M. Night Shyamalan's Servant on Apple TV+ There's also been a couple of decent enough movies out across the various streaming...

We know it's taken a while to get an episode out this year, but we wanted to make sure we had something significant to discuss before we did. And it doesn't get much more significant than the first official MCU show on Disney+ Wandavision arrived in all it's retro-glory back in January and now the final episode has aired we can get into it spoilers an' all. There's also some chat about all the oth...

Once again, we're well into another year, but there's still time to go through our picks of the best TV from last year, especially in a year that was so hugely reliant on the small screen, with more streaming services than there are days in the week now - it was a small mercy in a year where entertainment options were at a premium. Disney+ made a belated but hugely significant impact, with not one...

Well we were honestly expecting to be talking about the new James Bond movie by now, but alas it was not to be. With cinemas shut, we once again turn to the small(er) screen to keep ourselves sane and what a relief that we are once again in the company of Disney's The Mandalorian, as it's second season begins to air during another national lockdown. Honestly, having new live action Star Wars to lo...

The cinemas might have been a wasteland this year and with restrictions delaying productions of all kinds you could be forgiven for believing the small screen might be barren too. Thankfully there's been a constant drip-feed of entertainment to keep us sane in this most bunkered down of years. In fact, we've had some of the highest quality shows of the year these past few weeks, including the seco...

Hoorah for the 2020 Blockbuster Movie Summer! Did you enjoy it? Never could we have believed we would be able to cover all of it in just one episode, but here we are! The great white hope of Christopher Nolan's Tenet was able to keep cinemas open where possible, Disney+ invented an entirely new category of premium access for Mulan and Bill & Ted arrived on the high seas via a combination of limite...

While 2020 won't go down in history as anyone's favourite year, the lockdown was made slightly more bearable thanks to two notable events. First, the entire Studio Ghibli was made available on Netflix over the course of three monthly drops. Second, a little company called Disney launched their own streaming service. So we could all at least find a little animated comfort in these darkest of times....

The cinemas have been shut most of the year, but there's still been loads to watch on TV during this endless lockdown. First there was the Joe Exotic/Tiger King phenomenon, then the skull splitting violence of Gareth Evans' Gangs of London, followed by the mind-bending Sci-Fi of Alex Garland's Devs. All this & more on another fully locked down #NOTwatching Podcast! Contact us on Email at: notwatch...

When we said we weren't gonna be putting out shows regularly anymore, we didn't expect to be taking a break for this long! So first of all, apologies for that, but we weren't expecting the cinematic release schedule to actually stop. So for lack of any actual new releases, we're gonna be going through some of the more notable movies we've seen so far in 2020. Spoiler Alert: the shortlist isn't tha...

We know it's a bit late, but there were a number of things from 2019 that we needed to get to before we put together our end-of-the-year lists, so this week, we're talking about our favourite movies of 2019, a few things we still haven't got round to yet and then a few things we're looking forward to in 2020. We'll be back in a few weeks to do more or less the same thing for TV, by which time you'...

After an explosive resurrection with the Force Awakens and a thoughtful follow-up in the Last Jedi, the finale to this new trilogy was never going to be an easy task. And so Rise of Skywalker has so far been the most divisive Star Wars movie ever. Listen on for our thoughts on this finale to this most holy trilogy of trilogies, not to mention a quick time jump to next March when we are enjoying Th...