The Weekly Planet

This week we pay tribute to Kevin Conroy, a man many consider to be the definitive voice of Batman across multiple mediums. Plus the first look at Indiana Jones 5, Fast & Furious X's enormous budget, more SPUMM and more! Thanks for listening. Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month. 00:00 The Start 04:02...

The Alan Moore-athon trundles along with this weeks entry being 2005's V For Vendetta. Unlike a lot of the other entries in this series this one is generally beloved. With Hugo Weaving as V along with Natalie Portman as Evie it deals with a fascist regime in England, a political uprising, issues of race, gender and sexuality, some fancy karate and of course Alan Moore hates it. Thanks for listenin...

It's a bittersweet week with the release of Black Panther: Wakanda Forever after the passing of Chadwick Boseman in 2020. Plus we talk another Star Wars director Switch, Indiana Jones the TV series, John Wick 4 plus the passing of a legend in Batman actor Kevin Conroy. Thanks for listening! Please vote for The Weekly Planet in Listener Choice Awards: https://australianpodcastawards.com/vote Visit...

2003 was very much like today in the sense that everybody was looking to adapt comic book properties into a huge movie franchise. So in continuing our Alan Moore-athon we're taking a look at The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen, or LXG if you would. In Sean Connery's final live action role before retirement he leads a team of 19th Century super people as Alan Quartermaine. We've never liked it bu...

I disagree it is a big week for news (if you agree disregard). We get into the renewal of The Sandman plus the cancellation of Stargirl, a new trailer for Avatar 2: The Way Of Water, more Marvel casting, Warner Bros brand new focus on franchises plus the movie Don't Worry Darling. Thanks for listening! Please vote for The Weekly Planet in Listener Choice Awards: https://australianpodcastawards.com...

There is a long history of Alan Moore movie adaptation that he absolutely hates. So we're going back to revisit all those we haven't visited yet, starting with From Hell from 2001. Starring Johnny Depp, Heather Graham and Ian Holm it tells a fictionalized tale of notorious serial killer Jack The Ripper. And it's pretty boring. That's our hot take. Thanks for listening to our Caravan Of Garbage rev...

This week, it being the spookiest time of the year (and I'm not just talking about tax time) we talk Barbarian, Bodies Bodies Bodies and The Stranger. Plus we get into James Gunn taking over at DC Films, trailers for Ant-Man 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special, a new/old Doctor Who and more! Thanks for listening. Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentarie...

Hello. It's the spookiest time of the year and I'm not just talking about tax time. And to celebrate this we're revisiting a 1992 Francis Ford Coppola classic, Bram Stoker's Dracula. With screen rattling performances from Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder and Keanu Reeves it is somehow both a cult classic and a box office hit. And it's also very horny. Thanks for listening! SUBSCRIBE HERE...

The DC Universe is back at it again with another soft reboot as we enter Phase One or something with the release of Dwayne "The Rock" Johnsons Black Adam. We also talk Fantastic Four rumours, CrE3d, the worst way to re-release/watch Lord Of The Rings and more. Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for...

Before he was a big Egyptian morally ambiguous magical warrior man in Black Adam, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnsons was a big Egyptian morally ambiguous magical warrior man in The Scorpion King. After his live action movie debut and then being a big CGI scorpion person in The Mummy Returns Mathayus (which is his name?) of Akkad is back in a tale of epic-ish proportions! A tale so epic it got a series of...

EVIL DIES TONIGHT. I mean probably not because the Halloween movies always make money including Halloween Ends, the movie we're talking about this week. Plus we get some big Marvel delays, Harrison Ford in the MCU, a bizarre trailer for M3gan, the death of a British legend and more. Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad...

Recently the MCU saw the first live action appearance of Man-Thing in the Halloween special Werewolf By Night. Sorry I just forgot right now, there was a Marvel adaptation of Man-Thing that dates back to 2005 produced by Avi Arad who's producing credits include Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men, Hulk, Blade and even Iron Man. Filmed entirely in Australian with a next to nothing budget it certainly...

As we approach the spookiest time of year (and I'm not just talking about tax time) we delve into the spookier side of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a review of Werewolf By Night. Plus more news of Henry Cavill's return as superman, new trailers including The Super Mario Bros movie and more! Thanks for listening. Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, earl...

The Incredible Hulk marks the second entry in the MCU with also the lowest box office return. Bringing on Edward Norton for his brief stint as Bruce Banner this incarnation is leaner, meaner, green...greyer and mostly forgotten despite some of it's elements eventually bleeding over into the wider universe. All in all this can safely be categorised as a movie we've reviewed on Caravan Of Garbage. S...

It's an incredible time to be both Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds. Because they're rich and handsome and famous. But also because it's been revealed that Hugh Jackman will be returning to the role of Wolverine in Deadpool 3 set somewhat within the MCU. We also talk news of more Planet of the Apes, everyone is getting deepfakes, Harrison Ford joins the Thunderbolts potentially plus we get into acto...

In 2003 Ang Lee made a valiant attempt at bringing the Hulk to life like we'd never seen before. With the casting of Eric Bana and groundbreaking CGI technology the Hulk was both bigger and greener than ever before. And at the end of the day it's pretty weird but also good but also boring but also interesting. Probably other things also. Thanks for listening to our Caravan Of Garbage review! SUBSC...

WOW. A new Iron Man game? The return of The Punisher? Andor is here to save Star Wars because and Star Wars is good again apparently? All this and more discussed on this weeks episode! Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per month. 00:00 The Start 05:22 Marvel's Iron Man Game 18:11 Black Adam...

All journeys must come to an end. Some with a whimper. Some with a bang. Some do the cinematic equivalent of dragging the audience through broken glass in the third entry of a trilogy for two hours and twenty four minutes. Which coincidently is the runtime of The Battle Of The Five Armies which sees Bilbo, Gandalf and various Dwarfs/Elves go up against the forces of somebody over something. Thanks...

This week it's a big catch up bonanza! Because Claire forced us to take a month off we missed some things worth talking about including Nope, Prey and The Sandman. Plus there's news of more Blade Runner, more Constantine and slightly less Star Wars. Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-free podcast feeds for $9 per mon...

Nobody was happier than us when we heard the second Hobbit book was being made into a movie. JOKES. The result of splitting JRR Tolkien's work into three movies lead us here to The Desolation Of Smaug, the middle and probably best chapter in the series. Here we see the return of Lord Of The Rings favorite Orlando Bloom's Legolas as well as a genuinely great performance with Benedict Cumberbatch as...

It's Disney 23 time yet again! And what better way to celebrate than by sifting through the never ending tidal wave of content including Star Wars, Marvel, Animation, Live Action remakes and more. Plus so many hot exclusives for Joker, Fantastic Four, Werewolf By Night and more. Thanks for listening! Visit bigsandwich.co for a bonus weekly show, exclusive movie commentaries, early stuff and ad-fre...

Caravan Of Garbage has returned to look at what is probably considered the second most disappointing prequel trilogy of all time. Director of The Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson reluctantly returns to the directors chair for 2013's An Unexpected Journey, the first very long entry in an adaptation of a very short book. Come with us as we talk about the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf the Grey...

During our August break DC decided to upend their entire business model is favor of...cost cutting and tax breaks? With Batgirl thrown on the bin, Fandome cancelled, HBO Max stripped of content and the seemingly never ending search for their own Kevin Feige. We break all that down plus D23 Fantastic Four casting, the return of Lord Of The Rings and Game Of Thrones plus She-Hulk did a twerk. Thanks...

One of my favorite things to record is the Big Sandwich monthly series Time Crapsule. This is where we take a look at a year in pop culture and look at all the bizarre, wonderful and often terrible events that took place and determine which of these things remain relevant to this day. Then at the end we play Tina Turner's The Nut Bush. It's something we started doing in an earlier episode but I've...

Every month over at BigSandwich.co we pick a movie, sometimes a request, somethings on our own accord and have a big chat over the top of it. Think of it like an extended real time Caravan Of Garbage with facts and trivia and the like and a hell of a lot of wig and hair talk. This week as a bonus is our Commentary on the classic X-Men solo film, Wolverine Origins. A spellbinding tale of brothers d...