The Weekly Planet

Fantastic news! There's a new movie and it's good. We review One Battle After Another, the latest from director Paul Thomas Anderson. Plus we discuss the Superman sequel man of steel (lowercase) and its connection to Peacemaker Season 2 and the wider DCU, Stan Lee's return in AI form, trailers for Avatar: Fire & Ash, Wolverine PS5 and The Mandalorian VS Groglet, a Bard Wire reboot and Mad Max...

We've all been having the best time revisiting different failures within the Dark Universe. This week it's Dracula Untold, a thinly veiled attempt to turn Dracula into a comic book action hero. Which is weird because Dracula already exists in both the Marvel and DC Universes. Anyhoo Luke Evans stars as Vlad The Impaler, a kind and gentle family man who just wants to forget the time he literally im...

Welcome back to podcasting, The Weekly Planet podcasting. This week we’re talking the return of Gen V with a look at the first three episodes of Season 2. Plus we talk the passing of Robert Redford, potential villains for The Batman Part II, Tron: Ares opening weekend, a Rambo prequel update, the first look at Liam Hemsworth in The Witcher Season 4, a trailer for the Anaconda 2025 reboot and more!...

In 2010 Universal took another step towards rebooting the Dark Universe with a straight shot at a remake of the 1941 classic The Wolf Man starring Lon Chaney Jr. This time starring Benecio del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt and Hugo Weaving and with the late addition direction of Joe Johnston it does manage to capture some of the magic of a classic monster movie. But also it's not that good ev...

Stephen King adaptations are back and bigger than ever with The Long Walk, a movie about a long walk but if you don’t walk good enough Mark Hamill will kill you.  We also talk the most current and best news including our first look at Doctor Doom from Avengers: Let’s Pay Robert Downey Jr Fifty Million Dollars, kudos for David Zslav (normal man), a price increase for HBO Max, sequels for Juras...

In 2004 Universal attempted the impossible, recreate the success of The Mummy reboot from 1999 using the classic monsters of old. At it turns out that was impossible and would continue to be so until The Invisible Man in 2020. Over the next four weeks we're going to take a look at a series of movies that each tried to start their own Dark Universe incorporating classic movie monsters. This week it...

The important thing in the world has happened. The Rock doesn't have as many muscles and now he's serious and has glasses. And in celebration of that we talk the greatest pivots in Hollywood history. Plus we talk an annoucement of the next DCU Superman movie, the Lara Croft TV show movies forward, a Call of Duty movie, 007 First Light James Bond gameplay, Alien: Romulus sequel loses it's director...

To the surprise of most, Percy Jackson 2010 actually got a sequel in 2013's in Sea of Monsters. Sure the originally director didn't come back or a bunch of the original actors including horse Pierce Brosnan but the core trio of Percy, Percy's friend and Percy's another friend. This time they're on a quest for the Golden Fleece which they're going to use to heal a tree that makes a forcefield that...

You're not going to believe this but there might be a bigger movie in the world than Red Notice. We get into the success of Kpop Demon Hunters plus a look at Darren Aronofsky's Caught Stealing, our first look at Star Wars: Starfighter, a delay for Mortal Kombat II, ratings for Peacemaker Season 2, Disney trying to lure in Gen Z males, Alan Ritchson on joining the DCU and more! Thanks for listening...

In the midst of Harry Potter fever every studio was looking for their own potential young adult franchise to bring to the big screen. In 2010 20th Century Fox settled on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson series, beginning with Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. They even brought on board Christopher Columbus, the director of the first two Harry Potter movies. Sadly the magic wasn't...

This podcast has returned along with Peacemaker who has returned for a second season and The Naked Gun has returned for another The Naked Gun. We also talk the news of the week which means Alan Cumming spilling some Avengers: Doomsday confusion, Mahershala Ali being replaced as Blade in Marvel What If, Ian McKellen returning as Gandal in that Gollum movie, Jason Bourne finds a familiar home, trail...

If there's one this 2012's Prometheus needed, it's some explanations for what the hell just happened. And if there's one other thing it needed was to be exactly like the movies Alien and Aliens. The solution to both ended up being the 2017 sequel/prequel Alien: Covenant. Doing away with the previous lead character Elizabeth Shawit follows a new crew of expendable and stupid human beings who run af...

It's Monday again and that's bad. But podcasts are good and maybe that's even true for this one. This week we're talking the first two episodes of Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth, a prequel and continuation of the Alien franchise. Plus we talk Ryan Reynold's return as Deadpool in Avengers: Doomsday, Jeff Bezos' pick for the next Bond girl, Simon Kinberg's plan for the next Star Wars Trilogy, a first lo...

The Alien franchise was flagging after the middling reception of the previous few entries including a crossover with the Predator franchise. In an effort to bring back both the prestige of Alien and Aliens plus the fan base Ridley Scott returned to the series with Prometheus. Set up as a prequel of sorts with echo's of future entries it assembled a steller cast, the help of Lost's Damon Lindelof a...

Horror movies are having a hell of a run, this time with the release of Zach Cregger’s Weapons. Plus we talk all the latest on Spider-Man: Brand New Day, Matt Smith rejoining the Star Wars universe, Michael Bay back for Transformers and exiting a Will Smith movie, Tom Cruise’s next movie gets dropped by Warner Brothers, trailers for One Piece Season 2 and The Paper, an update on The Batman Pa...

It's our final entry in our 'That's a comic book movie?!?' series! And we're taking a look at an entry that's barely an entry, 2013's Oblivion. This is the first pairing of Tom Cruise and Joseph Kosinski who'd later reteam in the much more successful Top Gun: Maverick in 2022. Set in the apocalyptic future of 2077, there's a big triangle in the sky telling Tom Cruise what to do which you'd think w...

It's medium to small size movie week! We're talking Neon's latest horror entry, Together. Plus we discuss the Warner Bros Discovery split and the huge cost associated, the Superman 2025 mural reveal, Robert Downey Jr's Avengers payday, the lagging The Fantastic Four: First Steps box office, an update on MCU's Blade, Deadpool 4 and Black Panther 3, our first look at the Spider-Man: Brand New Day su...

It's time for another look at a comic book movie that you might not think is a comic book movie! We're tackling Bulletproof Monk from 2003, the Chow Yun-fat and Sean William Scott lead action comedy that we discover is completely servicable and forgettable as a movie about a magic scroll that gives you some magic. The fight scenes are okay! The cast chemistry is okay! And the story is okay! What m...

It's big movie season and it's time for another big movie! The Fantastic Four: First Steps marks the fourth live action incarnation of the superhero family and there first appearance in the MCU. If you discount John Krasinski in Doctor Strange 2 and Chris Evans in Deadpool & Wolverine WHICH I DON'T. In addition to reviewing that we talk the news of the week including a new Judge...

We're back with the next installment of our look at Comic Book Movies that people might not know are comic book movies! This week, the Pamela Anderson 1996 action vehicle Barb Wire. Based on the comic of the same name published under Dark Horse and Comics Greatest World it sees Barbara "The Wire" Kopetski facing a distopian nightmare future in the far flung future of 2017. And for a movie that isn...

Now that we’re between the big releases of Superman and Fantastic Four: First Steps, it's time for another topic episode!  This time it’s best and worst legacy characters which at this point pretty much encompasses everything superhero character ever.  We also talk Fantastic Four news including its runtime and the removal John Malkovich’s Red Ghost, casting for the live action Legend of...

TIMECOP. Sorry I'm getting ahead of myself. Basically we like the idea of doing a series of videos on movies that you didn't realise were based on comic books. And in the first of four weeks we're taking a look at peak JCVD (Jean-Claude Van Damme), Timecop. A movie about a man who's both time and cop determined to stop financial criminality across the centuries whilst not really bothering with the...

Big movie alert! Big movie is back! Superman 2025 is here to again reboot the DC Cinematic Universe after over a decade of very mixed results. Plus we talk the cancellation of a black Superman movie for being too woke, Dune 3 gets a new title, the Fantastic Four: First Steps embargo, Avengers: Doomsday third act woes, the Hot Wheels movie finds itself a director and more! Thanks for listening...

Smallville did a hell of a job reinstablishing the origins of Clark Kent/Superman as well building it's own law that's become canon across other DC Universes including Superman in the DCU. Here we look at the pilot episode, a Christopher Reeve cameo episode plus the two hour series finale that wrapped up it's incredible 10 season run. Plus we get into the freak of the week trope, the lack of an ac...

It feels like that time again. The Jurassic Park/World franchise is back with Jurassic World Rebirth.  Plus we talk the first (negative) review of Superman 2025, Paul Walker is back from the dead for Fast & Furious: The Next One, X-Men confirms a director, the Blade MCU costumes ending up in Sinners, Indiana Jones getting a reboot, trailers for The Running Man, Project Hail Mary and The O...