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We continue our epic and cinematic journey towards Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey by taking a look at a second inspiration behind his adaptation. This time it's Troy from 2004 from director Wolfgang Peterson. Loosely based on Homer's Iliad and the story of the Trojan War it pits (pun intended) Brad Pitt's Achilles against Eric Bana's Hector, Orlando Blooms Paris against Brendan Gleeson's Menelaus...

Incredible week for doing a great podcast! In this latest episode of The Weekly Planet we talk the best and worst comic adaptation choices from modern and decades past. We also discuss the further death of physical media with Sony Playstation not creating physical disks after 2028, confirmation that the Minions didn’t work with Hitler, new details on Danny McBrides G.I. Joe adaptation, a trailer f...

By way of Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey is hitting cinemas in July, an epic fantasy action bonanza based on Homer's Odyssey. Its use of scale and practical effects harken back to the movies and stories he grew up on, including this one, Jason and the Argonauts from 1963. Featuring groundbreaking effects from stopmotion and dynomation wizard Ray Harryhausen, he considers it the pinnacle of his wor...

The second movie entry in James Gunn's DCU is here, 2026's Supergirl starring Millie Alcock and it is not doing well at the box office and also people don't like it very much. We review that plus the annoucement of three new DC animated shows with Absolute Batman, Joker: Laugh Riot and Krypto, an influencer free start for Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, trailers for Batman gets his back broken an...

For our final look at Supergirl, we're returning to the DCEU. And also Earth 89, Earth 789, Earth 30, Earth 66, Earth 203, Earth 789, and a reboot. That's right, we're taking a look at The Flash (2023), which aimed to be both a love letter to and the end of the Zack Snyder DC Universe, while also serving as an introduction to James Gunn's DCU. All your favourites are back: Michael Keaton, Ben Affl...

Welcome one and all to this brand new episode of The Weekly Planet! This week we're talking Toy Story 5, first reactions and box office for Supergirl 2026, a Clayface test screening result, clarity around the recently announced Gorilla Grodd, a Skibidi Toilet movie update, trailers for Shrek 5 and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, an Austin Powers 4 reveal and apparently we're getting a He-Man/Masters of...

It's time to enter the universe of Earth-38, more commonly referred to as The Arrowverse. Amazingly we're haven't really covered much of this in Caravan Of Garbage and the Supergirl 2015 series seems a good a place as any. This version again sees the character of Kara Zor-El arrive from Krypton a little late to encounter a fully grown Superman and finds herself directionless despite having all the...

Oh my gosh good news everyone movies are back and we also have news of new movies being made. This week we review Steven Spielberg's latest alien sci-fi outing, Disclosure Day. Plus we talk the leaked Spider-Man Brand New Day trailer, 24 Jump Street, Doctor Who takes a big hiatus (is cancelled), potential trouble with the Paramount/Warner Brothers merger, trailers for The Social Reckoning, Whalefa...

Its time to return to Earth-167! Which you would obviously know as the universe of Smallville, the smash hit ten season long Superman original series that managed to introduce EVERY. SINGLE. DC. CHARACTER. before Clark Kent decides to put on the suit. This time we're going to be covering the storyline of Kara Zor-El aka Supergirl as played by Laura Vandervoort introduced in Season 7. And we've dis...

Dead franchises are back! That’s right, Masters of the Universe is finally in cinemas again after a near four decade break and its (Sword Talk/Quickstophers Quickstions) bad news for the character of He-Man. Plus we talk the passing of Anthony Head, Supergirl’s break even point, our first look at Lex Luthor’s battle armour from Man of Tomorrow (Superman 2), some big Avengers: Doomsday reveals, How...

To conclude our look at classic 90s sci-fi we've hit The Fifth Element! A wonderful action adventure movie starring Bruce Willis, Milla Jovovich and Gary Oldman sporting three of the most insane hairstyles every commited to film. Wonderful special effects, great world building, action scenes that pack a punch all under the direction of a really crook bloke. Thanks for watching our Caravan Of Garba...

Welcome back everyone to a new episode of The Weekly Planet! This week we review two hot propeties that in a way have nothing in common, Backrooms and also Spider-Noir. We also discuss the passing of legandary editor Marcia Lucas, trouble for the Masters of the Universe 2026 adaptation, the return of AI Stan "The Man" Lee, the next movie from Obsession director Curry Barker and more! Thanks for li...

It's absolutely bizarre that the first live action adaptation of Starship Troopers from director Paul Verhoeven bombed as badly as it did. Not only that but critics also seemed to have completely missed the not very subtle social commetary in relation to the rise of facism in western society. Now, for the most part I hope, people seem to know better and this movie is recognised for both its satiri...

Incredible week for both big movie and big tv show! That’s right, both The Mandalorian VS. Groglet and The Boys Season 5 finale have arrived to varying degrees of audience apathy. We review that plus talk the news of the week covering Peter Jackson potentially returning to Middle Earth to direct The Silmarillion, The Godfather gets a fourth movie, a new trailer for Lanterns and more!&nbs...

Stallone, always on the hunt for the next action blockbuster, took a shot at sci-fi in 1993 with the release of Demolition Man. Set in the future of 1996 and then the future of 2032 it pits him against Wesley Snipes' Simon Phoenix having the absolute time of his life. And that's the whole movie real, just an absolute blast from the get go with somewhat accurate depictions of the future mixed in wi...

It's high time for another Weekly Planet podcast! This week we're talking the latest MCU Special Presentation The Punisher: One Last Kill, box office tracking for The Mandalorian vs Groglet & Masters of the Universe, Ahsoka Season 2 release date, the Voltron movie going straight to streaming, four Fast & Furious spin-off TV shows in the works, new details on the Lanterns DCU series and mor...

Over the next four weeks we're taking a trip through some classic 1990's science fiction films. An interesting era which still encorporated old school film making techniques like model work, stop motion and rear projection plus early computer generated imagery. This week it's the action classic Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sharon Stone from director Paul Verhoeven not to be conf...

Welcome back to another episode of The Weekly Planet where wer talk movies (Mortal Kombat 2), comics (some Doctor Strange Thing) and TV Shows (Daredevil: Born Again Season 2/The Boys Season 5). We also talk the news of the week including a Spider-Man MCU origin revelation, a snow first look at The Batman Part II, a new Planet of the Apes movie in the works and trailers for Evil Dead Burn and Chris...

The only logical solution to wrap up our look at the original X-Men trilogy is a updated re-release of our Caravan Of Garbage review from 2019. Sure Bryan Singer is now gone (for now) but luckily Brett "The Rat" Ratner has stepped in to take his place to conclude the stories of Wolverine, Gene Grey, Professor X, Magnet, Storm, Cyclops and many more characters that would continue to never die and r...

By 2003 superhero movies were well back in vogue. Sam Raimi's Spider-Man from 2002 had become a massive hit, a serious Batman reboot was in the works and of course we got the return of Bryan Singer's (yuck) X-Men franchise with X2: X-Men United. All your favourites are back! Storm, Cyclops, Ice Boy, Rogue, Magnet, Wheels, Gene Grey, all in support of whatever Hugh Jackman's Wolverine wants to do....

We won't be silienced. By hook or by crook we're going to discuss and review The Devil Wears Prada 2. Plus we're going to talk the Django/Zorro sequel movie that might finally be happening, a trailer for Zack Cregger's Resident Evil movie, the DCU Authority movie cancelled, details of Desert Warrior (a huge movie that bombed nobody has heard of) and the passing of two comic book legends. Thanks fo...

Cast your mind back to the year 2000. Okay great. And now think about the movie X-Men which introduced the world to the modern superhero movie with the likes of Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, Patrick Stewarts a bald guy, Ian McKellen as Magnet and Halle Berry as a much underused Storm. And with the likes of James Marsden coming back as Cyclops for Avengers: Doomsday in 2026 this decades old Marvel fran...

It’s kind of hard to believe that it is yet again time for another Weekly Planet podcast. It’s even harder to believe we talk about the movie Exit 8 and also the Michael Jackson biopic. Plus we talk the news of the week which involves a new video game adaptation from Christopher McQuarrie and Michael B Jordan, the cancellation of Gen V, trailers for Clayface, the first DCU horror movie,...

All good things must come to an end, like for example our War of the Worlds retrospective. But at lease we're going out on the lowest of the lows, the 2025 but filmed in 2020 Ice Cube "screenlife" adaptation. Considered by many to be one of the worst movies ever made with such a bizarre and terrible execution it's kind of hard to stay focused on one thing at a time when talking about it. Thanks fo...

CinemaCon 2026 brings us news and footage from all the major studios most of which we are not allowed to see. We're talking Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man: Brand New Day plus trailers for The Mandalorian vs Groglet, Street Fighter & Godzilla Minus Zero, massive layoffs over at Disney and more! Also as mentioned up top everything at BigSandwich.co is now avaliable on Patreon! New bonuses now...