The Popcorn Bucket Podcast

Hello and welcome to The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! We wish you a very happy new year, and what better way to start off a new year, than by looking back at an old one, as we cast out cultural and critical eyes over 2023. As well as talking through the films we saw last year (and some we didn’t), we also look at: Books (some may have not been released in 2023) Music Podcasts Games (both video and boar...

Hello and welcome to our final Pick N Mix episode of 2023! This time we are looking at the various film trailers and news that snuck into December 2023, as a sort of cinematic house clearing before we look at the whole of 2023 in our forthcoming Cultural Review. In the meantime, we sincerely wish you all the best for the New Year, whatever you are doing, and that you have a super 2024. See you nex...

Hello and welcome to a firmly festive filled episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. In a temporary pause from our Blight Before Christmas series, here is our annual Christmas One Shot episode, featuring a menagerie of podcast animals, and two classic Christmas choices. Before all that though, we settle the matter of who won the last Christmas One Shot… Please rate and review on your podcast app of...

Hello and welcome to this bountiful booby-trapped Franchise Fatigue? episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, your favourite festive filthy animals pratfall their way through the Home Alone movies, starting with 1-3. Yes, there are more than that and yes, it gets much, much worse. This is it. Don't get scared now. Please rate us on your podcast app of choice, and please follow us on Insta...

Hello and welcome to this spitefully seasonal Franchise Fatigue? episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, your Turbomen are tackling Jingle All the Way and the lesser known Jingle All the Way 2 as part of their new "Blight Before Christmas" feature. Join Ben and Rob as they ignore the holiday classics and peruse the Christmas Movie Naughty List instead. 'Tis the season! Thanks, as always,...

Hello and welcome to a rather emotional episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This time around we are talking about the films that move us and why. Old man Ben shouts at a cloud, and then lays down a challenge that will definitely not be picked up on, Rob brings up fencing (so tick that off your Popcorn Bucket Podcast bingo card, if you’re playing along at home), and a long running feature is fin...

Hello and welcome to our monthly Pick N Mix episode, this time about that month what just done finished, November 2023. This episode, there's some Swift chat we take our time with, a film that may or may not be seen starring a man you definitely can't see, a moratorium on running jokes that will probably go nowhere and Rob heads south for the winter. Please rate and review on your podcast app of c...

Hello and welcome to a format free Pick N Mix episode, this time all about the God of Mischief and his recently completed second series. This episode, your anything but low-key hosts timeslip in Loki Season 2 and have a good ol' chinwag about the goodness to be found within. They also chat up a storm about Marvel in general as well as The Marvels in particular. What brave pioneers they are. Please...

Hello and welcome to this zanily zombi-riffic Franchise Fatigue? episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, your favourite shamblebois, ColumBen and Little Rob, tackle 2009's Zombieland and its sequel, Zombieland: Double Tap. Expect chat about forgotten ticks, crashing celebrity mansions, confectionery trucks full of rare reptiles and some other zombie-related waffle. Please follow us on: I...

Hello and welcome to a slightly delayed look back at October 2023 from The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. We talk trailers, we talk delays, we talk intermissions, and we talk about swiftly completing a video game, and Swift as well. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod, and on Twitter @popcornbu...

Hello and welcome to this suitably spooky episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this week's One Shot, Ben and Rob dig up the past and exhume their Halloween tradition of picking a hopefully haunting, hair-raising Hollywood horror to battle it out in the amusement park where all those kids disappeared ten years ago this very night. Happy Halloween! With thanks as always to Laurence Owen of long...

Hello and welcome to another ‘Franchise Fatigue?’ episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This time we are taking three spooky trips to Fear Street, as we look at Netflix’s trilogy based on the R L Stine series. Expect terrible accents (sorry), terrific bakery puns, and a story about being in fear of a different street entirely. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on you...

Hello and welcome to a format free Pick N Mix episode, this time all about the recently completed series Ahsoka This episode, your motherflippin' Starbois chat about the latest entry in the Star Wars canon. Expect talk of Jizz (with a capital "J"), the probability of no-one being able to fill the boots (or cloak) of Ray Stevenson and a visit to the wretched hive of scum and villainy that is r/salt...

Hello and welcome to this Franchise Fatigue? episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. In this episode we talk about the 12:14 to Edinburgh, as we go and spot our favourite trains. Wait. Instead, we take a look at the masterpiece of British cinema that is Trainspotting, and the follow up of T2: Trainspotting. So all aboard as, with a Lust for Life, we take a giant dive in to the early 90s and talk ab...

Hello and welcome to our monthly Pick N Mix episode, this time all about the month historians will refer back to as "September 2023" This episode, your favourite members of the Shelf Preservation Society talk about everything from creators, court cases and controversies to calamitous content and cute cats. Plus, we have the usual trailer talk and some spicy Reccobendations. Join us, won't you? Ple...

Hello and welcome to this cautiously controversial episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this week's One Shot, Ben and Rob go against the grain and tackle films considered classics that they believe ain't all that. This episode features Ben dreaming of the triumphant return of a murderer, Rob reaching his twee limit and feeling physically sick and some actual movie discussion too. What more co...

Hello and welcome to this Franchise Fatigue? episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This time, despite a previous dinosaur related experience, the podcast is fully operational, and we look at the Jurassic World trilogy. To make it bigger, cooler, and with more teeth, there is a brand new (and amazingly named) feature, and more bickerlodocuses than you can shake an over priced vintage T-shirt at. P...

Hello and welcome to this positively prehistoric Franchise Fatigue? episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, your dino bois go on an adventure 65 million and 30 years in the making in the form of the Jurassic Park franchise, starting with films 1-3 in the series. Expect a paddock of Nostalgiasauruses, an enclosure of Criticismadons and an entire field of Bickermimuses. Please follow us on...

Hello and welcome to our monthly Pick N Mix episode, this time all about the August just gone. This time, your bucket bois chat about the news that there isn't really any news, serve up some hot Robservations and Recobendations and, as always, fly the flag for physical media and movie collections. Just call them the Shelf Preservation Society. The articles discussed can be found here: https://www....

Hello and welcome to a twisting and turning episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This time a listener suggestion sends our daring duo to look at films with a twist. Featuring a brief discussion about the nature of twists in films, two twisting types of theatrical releases, and a poorly planned out return to a sort of sketch opening (please see our episodes on The Matrix and Magical Films for ref...

Hello and welcome to this doggedly defensive Franchise Fatigue? episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! This time, your podbois have gone all Continental and are exploring the world of John Wick. Join Ben and Rob as they trawl through Chapters 1-4 and try not to get on each other's...er...nerves. Please follow us on: Instagram @popcornbucketpod, Twitter @popcornbucketpd, GoodPods @PopcornBucket or...

Hello and welcome as we say goodbye to another month of 2023, and this time it was July. We start off quite fruity, remain cantankerous, once again get stressed over streaming, and have a passionate plea for physical media. Please rate and review on your podcast app of choice, and share on your social network of choice. We are on Instagram and Threads @popcornbucketpod, and on Twitter @popcornbuck...

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to listen to the third part of our Mission: Impossible episodes, as we look at the latest release, Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One. There are masks, stunts, cars, and steps, and this marks the first time we have returned to a ranking, to see where this fits in with the other films in the franchise. Please rate and review on your podcas...

Hello and welcome to this haphazardly high-octane episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast! In this week's One Shot, Ben and Rob pit their best driving films against each other. Your boy racers (figuratively) put the pedal to the metal and battle for a premium podcast podium place. Who will be quaffing champagne with well-wishers and who will be left with only shattered dreams and (hopefully figurati...

Hello and welcome to this Pick ‘N Mix Episode of The Popcorn Bucket Podcast. This time we are reminiscing about June 2023, in what starts out as rather acorny episode. There is some non-Spider-Man Spider-Man News, fantastic facts about Fast and Furious, and the usual trailers and news discussion. Plus, more Robservations and RecoBendations (which is a feature that is definitely catching on, and ne...