The Reel World Podcast

What more objective source to talk about a symbol of America than two young Brits? Ben & Matt are here with a tonne of notes about the tumultuous history of Captain America on film, a brief history lesson on the character's interesting background in comic books and a TONNE of praise for the cast as per usual. Cap is a sub.

The most necessary podcast mini-series in Reel World history has unfortunately reached its inevitable conclusion, the terrible in a good way Blade Trinity. Who wants to hear about Mike Thomas' vampire-based essays? Pull up a chair.

Featuring notes and opinions on one of the more divisive films in the MCU. Matt has definitely chosen his bridge to die on. Also, full disclosure, there's a pretty poor edit in this episode inserting material recorded separately. If you spot it you win the no prize.

Yo, buddy! We got dat hot vampire on vampire on action you like! The Thirst Winners returns as Mike & Matt apathetically speed their way through Blade II in record setting time.

Featuring notes on Marvel's first sequel as well as their first major recasting. There's even a script this time! Ben & Matt wax lyrical about the MCU's first truly great villain... also Mickey Rourke is here. Last one to invent an element is a rotten egg!

Mike Thomas returns to a podcast on his own website for the first time since Christmas and sinks his teeth into the Blade trilogy in new Reel World Podcast mini-series: The Thirst Winners.

Featuring background on Marvel's decision to reboot The Hulk, the Edward Norton drama, a brief history of The Hulk in comic books and of course a tonne of thoughts and info about the film itself. Plus Matt totally mistakes Black Widow and Scarlet Witch. What a fake geek boy.

Featuring background on Marvel's formation of its own film studio, the state of superhero movies in 2008, the history of Iron Man in comic books and of course a tonne of thoughts and info about the film itself. Plus niche quotes from beloved cancelled sitcoms!

Mike & Matt each chose a Christmas film to talk about to celebrate the end of 2017. Matt also chose not to add the audio clip Mike wanted to the episode intro. Enjoy it anyway.

The internet doesn't have quite enough opinions from white dudes about the new Star Wars movie so here you go, chumps.

Mike lives! That's right, much like Superman, the founder of The Reel World, Mike Thomas, has risen from the grave in order to share his white millennial thoughts on movies! But what momentous event could possibly have served as such a catalyst? Why it's Justice League of course! And as Batman is technically in it, that means it's time for another episode of The Tape Crusaders! Oh, spoilers i gues...

Pitch Please made it to two episodes! Matt and Ben return to take turns pitching X-Men movies without Mike Thomas even though that's how the entire podcast was founded 51 episodes ago! Possibly the nerdiest podcast The Reel World has put out, but what would you expect?

Mike & Matt present a brand new addition to the Reel World network: Pick Your Poison. Each episode your hosts will bring a film to the table that the other has never seen before. Kinda like a book club but not at all. So for the inaugural episode Mike Thomas selected Nightcrawler and Matt Waters went for The Spectacular Now. In addition to discussion of the two films the guys got lost for a while...

Pitch Please is a brand new show on the Reel World podcast network wherein Matt Waters and Ben Phillips present their pitches for future instalments in film and television franchises. In the inaugural episode the pair discuss the next wave of Marvel & Netflix's partnership, tossing out ideas on The Punisher, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Daredevil and the much maligned Iron Fist. Read our content at e...

A Reel World Podcast... without Mike Thomas?! What is this madness? Well it's 80 minutes of two British dudes talking about American television shows. Ordinarily that would be the worst, but Matt has recruited one of the foremost experts on TV he knows, Ben Phillips to wax lyrical about the comedy and drama nominees this year and what he would have voted for if he had a ballot. Enjoy.

Finally Mike & Matt got around to talking about a current movie... weeks after it got released. Matt waxes lyrical about the essence of Spider-Man while Mike has #problematic race topics covered. So your standard Reel World episode.

Hot on the heels of their vicious takedown of the Sam Raimi trilogy, Mike & Matt are back to defend the almost forgotten Marc Webb Amazing Spider-Man films... sort of. This episode was recorded before the release of Homecoming inside a wind tunnel.

To celebrate the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming, Mike & Matt decided to dive into the wall-crawler's cinematic past, starting with Sam Raimi's trilogy of Spider-Man films starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. Spoilers: You all remember them as being better than they actually are. Also sorry for the blown out audio levels at times.

To celebrate an entire year of not falling out so badly they cancel the entire endeavour, Mike Thomas & Matt Waters decided to discuss their favourite films of all time, Hoop Dreams and Adventureland respectively. Pull up a chair and listen to a pair of nerds discuss films you don't care about but they love irrationally.

'Serenity' (The Movie) (Again) A special bonus episode that's in no way an improvised make-good after a disastrous attempt at a three-person podcast with Matt, Mike and guest Kevin Ford. Not. At. All. Kevin offers some perspective as an established Firefly fan, giving his thoughts on Serenity as an end to that journey.

'Serenity' (The Movie) Despite promising a special guest to break down the movie, Mike & Matt return in their standard two-man format due to technical issues. Fear not though, there's still 90 minutes of deep analysis and laughs to be had and that guest is coming next week for a bonus episode, so what are you even complaining about?

'Objects In Space' The 'now' portion of the podcast has reached its terminus. That's right, it's time to talk about one of the best and one of the most #problematic episodes of the show, 'Objects In Space', as well as reflect on the series as a whole as we gear up for the movie. We've got special features, comic books and a lot of laughs ;)

'The Message' + 'Heart of Gold' The hot streak of Firefly episodes finally comes to a screeching halt with the undisputed worst episode in the show. Luckily there's an extremely good one to talk about first. So, every cloud.

'War Stores' & 'Trash' We're getting depressingly close to the conclusion of our little jaunt through the 'verse, but luckily we have another good one-two punch to lift our spirits and this time it involves the return of two guest characters in Niska and Saffron! Time to assess how #problematic things are once again!

'Out of Gas' + 'Ariel' Mike & Matt return once more to discuss potentially the very best episode of Firefly and then finally learn a few things about River and a lot more about Mal & Jayne.