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The Superman extraveganzy bonanza continues with a look at Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman! Starting in 1993 and running for four seasons it achieved huge ratings over the majority of it's time before its eventual cancellation. Starring Teri Hatcher and Dean Cain and bringing sci-fi, romance and adventure to the small screen it's fondly remembered for a bunch of reasons some of wh...

Movies are big and real again! That's right, the director of Top Gun: Maverick Joseph Kosinski has teamed up with William Bradley Pitt (full name) for F1, this years movie that your dad will like. Plus we talk a new director for the James Bond franchise, The Batman II is moving also, the final trailer for Fantastic Four: First Steps, The Social Network Part II, Michael Bay returning to the Transfo...

2025 is quickly becomming the year of Superman with the DCU reboot courtesy of James Gunn. So over the next three weeks we're going to take a look at THREE classic Superman TV shows, starting with Adventures of Superman from 1952 starring George Reeves. It's a hell of a show propelled the character to new heights and lead to the increased populatiry of both Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane before tragica...

It’s been 23 years in the makes but the long awaited sequel to 28 Days Later (and 28 Weeks Later) is finally here! With Danny Boyle and Alex Garland returning some people are like ‘we hate this!’  Plus we talk John Bernthal’s The Punisher returning for Spider-Man: Brand New Day,  Tom Rhys Harries playing Clayface, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow retitled, James Gunn thinks superhero showdow...

Just when we thought we was out, they pull us back in. To talk about Michael Crichton movies! This week it's John McTiernan's (director of Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Predator) The 13th Warrior. Considered one of the biggest box office bombs of all time this Antonio Banderas action flick is certainly not up there with McTiernan's best but it's certainly not...the worst movie. Mason doesn't...

Rom coms are back! That's right Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal are competing with the love of Dakota Johnson in Materlalists. Plus we talk the first Wonder Woman movie in the DCU, the final Superman trailer, the Superman sequal and the post credits. Plus the reactions to Mortal Kombat II, Max becomes HBO Max again and great expense and for no reason, Disney Sue Midjourney over AI and more! Thanks fo...

It's Timeline time everyone! Because we're continuing our look at Michael Crichton's movie adaptations that arn't Jurassic Park. The year is 2003, Richard Donner (director of Superman: The Movie) decided to gather up Paul Walker, Gerry Butler, Frances O'Connor and Billy Connolly to do a big time travel to the year 1357 in order to run around a bit and cause of ruckus. Not the best Michael Crichton...

You're never going to believe this but it's time for another podcast. This week we cover the latest entry in the John Wick franchise, Ballerina. Plus we got all sorts of news including a confirmed Superman runtime, box office preditions of Fantastic Four: First Steps, trailers for Alien: Earth, Wicked: For Good and 007 First Light, the new White/Black Panther, Kathleen Kennedy's potential replacem...

Ever heard of Jurassic Park? Michael Crichton’s greatest adaptation! Well get ready for another adaptation that’s not Congo, Sphere. A movie about aliens and time travel and Sphere’s and nightmares. Starring a young…ish Samuel L Jackson, Dustin Hoffman and Sharon Stone it sank like a bloody stone at the box office due to poor reception and general disinterest in its blend of sci-fi and horror. Tha...

Podcasts are back! The world might be ending but at least we still have new movies coming like Superman, The Fantastic Four and Skibidi Toilet. In this week's ep, we discuss the scuttlebutt about two of those films and their competing releases with James Gunn also weighing in on the debate. Plus another DC & Marvel crossover plus loads of trailers including Frankenstein, Happy Gilmore 2, Knive...

Michael Crichton is probably most famous for penning the novel that would go on to became 1993's Jurassic Park and the subsequent Park/World sequels. And in light of that a whole lot of different attempts have been made to adapt his work some before, like Westworld and some after like Westworld. Over the next three weeks we're going to take a look at some of the lesser known and lesser successful...

Tom Cruise is back to do his last Mission Impossible apparently!  In this week's episode we talk The Final Reckoning, the 8th Mission Impossible installment. Plus news on Avengers: Doomsday and Secret Wars being delayed, why Andor’s Tony Gilroy thinks Marvel movies are failing, trailers for Jurassic World: Rebirth and IT: Welcome to Clown Town, an update on the Skibidi Toilet movie and the fu...

Jason Bourne is back! And this time he's kinda old but not like super old but for sure older than the previous time we saw him. A new threat has Jason Bourne emerge from hiding and it's Facebook plus Iron Hand plus Tommy Lee Jones plus Vincent Cassel! And then the regular stuff resumes, a bunch of running around and car chases and big kicks. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage review and jo...

Nobody is complaining about a brand new episode of The Weekly Planet podcast! This week we review Andor Season 2 which is probably the best Star Wars we'll ever see and why bother trying anything else. Plus Superman 2025 gets a new trailer as does Ironheart and Spider-Man Noir, the first reactions to Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning, an MCU Annihilator movie, HBO Max is HBO Max again, a Ram...

The Bourne franchise was as good as finished upon the conclusion of 2007's The Bourne Ultimatum. But franchises never truly die if there's profitablity at stake! So in 2012 Tony Gilroy of Andor fame returned to the series this time as director for The Bourne Legacy! Jeremy Renner steps into the universe as Adjacent Bourne aka Aaron Cross, a Blackbriar super soldier agent enhanced with pharmaceutic...

Welcome but to the soon to be Golden Globe winning podcast The Weekly Planet. This week we catch up on some 2025 action movies we missed out on with the likes of Novocaine, The Accountant 2 and Havoc plus the news of the week. Stuff like Thunderbolts* being rebranded as The New Avengers, Bob Iger and Kevin Feige’s thoughts on the MCU, a Hawkeye Season 2 update, Donald Trump’s movie tarif...

We've reached the end of the road for Jason Bourne, wrapping up the Matt Damon led trilogy where everything finally falls into place. Old white guys at Treadstone LOOK OUT because Jason Bourne is going to come to your work when your not there and you'll be like "hey man what the hell". Anyways be sure to come back next week and also the week after for the continuing adventures of Jason Bourne and...

It's time to revist the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the 36th time (discounting tv shows, spin-offs etc) in Thunderbolts Asterix! All in all people seem to think it's a better movie than Captain America: Big Brave Bird. Plus we talk some DCU rumours including Clayface being in trouble and Sergeant Rock's cancellation, trailers for Now You 3 Me, The Smashing Machine and Weapons, Jeremy Renner's Ha...

Matt Damon as Jason Bourne is back in the first of many sequels! This time he has to try and remember all of his memories by tracking down another old man who made him do a Treadstone. It's got action! A car chase! More things from the first movie! It also has Paul Greengrass taking over directorial duties with a script sort of from Andor's Tony Gilroy. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garbage r...

Another Monday, another podcast. This time we talk the latest Playstation movie productio, Until Dawn. Plus we discuss the news of the week including the first reactions to Thunderbolts*, non-casting for Star Wars: Starfighter, Sam Jackson returning as Mace Windu, trailers for Weapons and Predator: Badlands and Sinners continues to do big and great things. Thanks for listening Nick Mason on new ep...

Oh my goodness it's Jason Bourne. That's right we're taking a look at all of the movies in the Jason Bourne-universe. Beginning with the Doug Liman directed Matt Damon starring action-espionage thriller The Bourne Identity. Set against a European backgrop and also featuring the likes of Franka Potente, Julia Stiles, Brian Cox, Clive Owen and Chris Cooper the story follows a man whom after beig dre...

MOVIES ARE GOOD EVERYONE. At least that's what everyone is saying this week with the release of Ryan Coogler's latest movie, Sinners. We review that plus all the big news coming out of Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025, Daredevil: Born Again Season 1 and trailers galore with The Fantastic Four: First Steps, 28 Years Later, Him and a featurette on James Gunn's Superman. Thanks for listening New bonu...

By popular demand we've been forced into covering Uncharted 2021, an adaptation of some of the Naughty Dog video game series. Not the good one (The Last Of Us on HBO) but Uncharted 2021, a movie that mostly covers some of the ground seen in parts 3 and 4. With Tom Holland taking on the role as a young Nathan Drake and Mark Whalberg playing that much beloved character, himself, this globe trotting...

If everyone could just ignore the dystopian hellscape we're all plunging into for just one second because it's time to for Black Mirror Season 7. It's also time for the news of the week which includes a potential Star Wars horror project, tariffs and US movie releases in China, A Minecraft Movie controversy, some potentially troubling news for The Batman Part II, the Amazon Tomb Raider series is d...

Wing Commander is a bad movie that came out in 1999. Sure it's based on a much beloved computer game series (that features the likes of Mark Hamill) and stars both Freddie Prinze Jr and Matthew Lillard. Plus it was directed by Chris Roberts who not only created the original series but also the upcoming Star Citizen video game which is going to change the way you do video games. All in all though i...