The Weekly Planet

TRANSFORMERS. MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE AND ONE IS A GORILLA. This week we talk all about the lastest Paramount/Hasbro brand movie Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts. Plus more writers strikes delays, regrets about Thor 4 from Chris Hemsworth, Captain America 4 gets a new name, an update on Fast X Part Deuce, Indiana Jones 5 might be okay, a trailers for the Expend4bles, a new Zelda movie from Nintend...

We continue our look at the Indiana Jones film series with the second installment, the prequel Temple Of Doom. A meaner, screamier and more culturally insensitive movie that introduces audiences to Ke Huy Quan's Short Round and Kate Capshaw's Willie Scott. Filled with heart pulling, brain eating, bridge cutting madness this entry managed to also herald in the PG-13 film. Thanks for watching our Ca...

Big week for Spider-Man...s! Spider-Man Across The Spider-Verse, a movie 5 years in the making, is finally here! And in addition to a review of that we talk more writers strike delays, The Rock and Kim Cattrall returns to their most popular series, a new rift is forming the the Fast & Furious family, confirmation of a Miles Morales live action movie, Tom Cruise takes on Christopher Nolan and m...

Harrison Ford began his journey as Indiana Jones in the Steven Speilberg directed George Lucas written hit Raiders of the Lost Ark. Acting as a thrownback to the adventure serials from decades earlier it introduced a nazi punching swashbuckling grave robber/archeologist which became an imediate smash hit. So on the road to Dial Of Destiny in 2023 lets take a look back at the four equally beloved I...

WOW PODCAST. This week we talk the passing of two legends, we get into more MCU delays including some complications around the filming of Deadpool 3, the future of the John Wick franchise, more The Terminator from James Cameron, a new look at Barbie and Spider-Man 2 on the PS5 and special guest, Mason's bro Claire Tonti is hear to talk The Little Mermaid 2023. Tickets and more info for Claire's UK...

The Transformers: The Movie attempted to do the impossible. Take a children's cartoon about alienrobots changing into cars and planes and a gun and make a commercially viable mainstream movie where they kill most of the characters kids loved including Optimus Prime. It didn't work nobody saww it. But the legacy lives on because so much of this became popular Transformers lore including Unicron, ne...

Fast X is here! We're talking all the big action, big cameos and the biggest family you've ever seen. Plus all the hot topics with more shows being delayed, heaps of them leaving Disney Plus, Marvel's new release strategy, no more CW superheroes and muted reactions for Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Then a huge trailers ahoy (honk) with Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning, Killers of the Flo...

It's been a long day without you, my friend and I'll tell you all about it when I see you again. Which is to say that we've come to the end of of this part of our journey through the Fast Saga, wrapping things up with Furious 7. Delayed a year to be rewritten around the death of Paul Walker some would argue this was the last time the franchise was truely great. Which might be true it's hard to kno...

Get ready for a borderline nonsensical discussion about some of the longest running TV and movie franchises! Star Wars! Star Trek! Bond! The Australian children's educational program Playschool! Plus we talk HUGE news for the Fast & Furious Saga on the eve of Fast X, more writers strike delays, trailers for The Meg 2 and Oppenheimer, more CW cancellations, a Superman Legacy update and more. Th...

We're in the era of Fast & Furious where the movies are good and people seem to like them in general. And bang in the middle of that is the movie Fast & Furious 6 which introduces for the first but not last time an evil team of supercar people. Lead by Owen Shaw and cultimating in the "death" of multiple main characters including Han and Giselle. Anyways thanks for watching and here's out...

Nine years after the original and many adventures Avengers and Christmas related the Guardians have returned to the MCU for potentially the last time! So we review that. But also talk news of Hollywoods latest writers strike, Fantastic Four MCU casting, Mortal Kombat kasting, a sequel to Stallone's best plus trailers for Dune Part II and Gran Turismo. Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for...

Finally. We've reached the good one. A moment in time when the Fast & Furious franchise truly took off with an action packed, high stakes, rip roaring heist movie with returning actors Paul Walker and Vin Diesel plus the introduction of The Rocks character Hobbs or Shaw I can't remember. Terrific stuff all round. Well done everyone. Thanks for checking out our Caravan Of Garbage review! Video...

Cinemacon 2023 brings us news of the biggest Batman movie of all time with The Flash, Transformers: Rise Of The Beats, Dune II, Kraven Man Of The Animals and much more! Plus we return to the Superhero showdown with an incredible twist! Ai but not really. Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 pe...

The Fast & Furious 4 or what was simply titled Fast & Furious was an attempt to bring the franchise back to what made the original a success, two guys being mates. But not just any two guys, for the first time since 2001 Vin Diesels Dominic Torreto and Paul Walkers Brian O'Conner are back in the drivers seat to delieve a very okay sequel. Things certainly do improve with number five but to...

This week we take a look at the latest entry in The Evil Dead franchise along with a recap/review of The Mandalorian Season 3. Plus we get into news of two classics being reintroduced into the world as a series, a Michelle Yeoh lead Star Trek streaming movie, trailers for Fast X and Godzilla X Kong, more Transformers, more Star Wars and first reactions to Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol III. Thanks fo...

Batman Forever set the wheels in motion for a brand new kind of Batman. Camp. With George Clooney taking over from Val Kilmer who took over from Michael Keaton this is where people truely fell out of love with the Batman francise. Even the likes of Batgirl, Mr Freeze, Poison Ivy and Bane didn't stop people crying about new levels of sillyness that left the reviews and box office lower than ever. T...

It's another big news week with HBO Max being renamed Max and official word on that Harry Potter reboot series, more Game Of Thrones prequels, Amazon's big push on Robocop, Stargate and Legally Blonde plus trailers for The Marvels, Continental, The Penguin and others! We're also joined by Zach and Broden from Aunty Donna to talk their new show Coffee Cafe, their roles in Dungeons & Dragons 202...

Tim Burtons Batman Returns ended up being not the creative direction (box office return) that Warner Brothers wanted. So in response to that we got a pretty significant tone shift for the next entry, Batman Forever directed by Joel Schumacher and now starring Val Kilmer as Bruce Wayne. And it worked! Financially. Thanks for checking out our Caravan Of Garbage review SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http://goo.gl...

HUGE week for movie news. We get into The Super Mario Bros. movies which is destroying box office records plus Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023. There were got new trailers for Ashoka featuring Thrawn and Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny and word of three new movies including a Jedi origin movie, a Dave Fioni directed Mando-verse movie and the return of Rey Skywalker in a new Jedi Order se...

Nintendo has a very strange relationship with the adaptation of it's propeties into film. Before the release of Super Mario Bros. in 1993 and even longer before The Super Marios Bros. Movie in 2023 the closest thing we got to on screen reputation was The Wizard. Basically serving as a promotion tool for the upcoming Super Barios Bros. 3 along with other Nintendo licenced products like the Power Gl...

It's not every day that there's a new theatrically released Dungeons & Dragons movie. It's happened twice. So in additionto a review of that we talk Clayface in The Batman 2, Ant-Man 3 bombs pretty hard, more information on Tarantino and Ike Perlmutter is given his marching orders from Disney and Marvel. Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commen...

With the release of The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023 we've taken the time to go back and revist an absolute classic of th video game movie genre, Pixels from 2015. Despite having a stellar comedic cast, an excellent director and an intriguing premise it turned into the movie Pixels from 2015 which is unfortunate. Regardless, thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review! SUBSCRIBE HERE ►► http...

John Wick is back to punch, kick, grapple and be hit by multiple cars in Chapter 4. But before that we talk the news of the week including Mission Impossible casting, the first look at Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn, a Snyderverse update, another name leaves the Star Wars franchise, a big firing at Marvel, the truth behind Black Adam and the bombing of Shazam II and more! Thanks for listening. Visit bi...

The first shot at a Dungeons & Dragons movie was not the 2023 entry Honor Amongst Thieves starring one Chris Pine. Unfortunately. There is in fact an earlier attempt from the year 2000 that takes aim at reinvention the fantasy genre by bringing to the big screen all the elements people know and love from D & D. Quests. Magic. Elves. A big porridge rug. The second Jimmy Olsen from Lois and...

Shazam! Fury of the Gods has arrived and boy is it not doing well. Whether it be because it's on the tail end of the DCEU, the annoucement of the new DCU or some other Black Adam related reason we get into all of that. Plus we talk the passing of Lance Reddick, Tom Cruise loving The Flash, Disney closes in on a MCU leaker, Tarantino's final movie, James Gunn confirmed as director for Superman: Leg...