Writers on Film
Modern Horror
There’s a ghost in my house, as the old Motown song goes, but just what is haunting the family in Steven Soderbergh’s Presence? A. J. Black and Hugh McStay try to find out…
Academy Watch
In the first of several pre-Oscar breakdowns of the Best Picture nominees, Bo Nicholson is joined by Sean Wilson to dig deep on Sean Baker’s Anora, plus he talks to Violet Hammond about Coralie Fargeat’s The Substance…
Reel Talk
It’s a big one this week as Sam Stokes, joined by guests Bo Nicholson and Craig McKenzie, review the cinematic year that was 2024, plus they tread on Bo’s turf by talking Oscar 2025 predictions…
We Are Starfleet
We watched, reviewed and podcasted about it so you don’t have to, as Mike Slamer, Ian Buckley, Ashley Thomas and Craig McKenzie unite to tackle the travesty that is Star Trek: Section-31. Punch it!
Vampire Videos
Brace yourselves as we’re back Underworld with 2009 sequel Rise of the Lycans, as Dan Owen and Hugh McStay are joined by Anthony Bowman for more bloody action. It can’t be worse than the first one… can it?
Frame to Frame
After several specials, the boys are back with a decidedly Japanese theme, talking samurai movies in Kurosawa’s seminal 1954 epic Seven Samurai and Kobayashi’s 1962 thriller Harakiri…
Japan on Film
It’s a genre-bending outing for Perry Constantine this week, joined by author Jennifer Upton, to discuss Ryuhei Kitamura’s Versus from 2000…
Illumination Above All
The mysteries at Lumon continue to deepen in Severance as Ian Buckley and Sarah Applegate ask one question in discussing 2×03, ‘Who Is Alive?’…
A Dream Given Form
Who are you? What do you want? Two key questions at the heart of Babylon-5's penultimate second season hour, dissected by Baz Greenland, Luke Winch and guest A. J. Black, as they talk 2×21 ‘Comes the Inquisitor’…
Ask Us About Loom
Matt Latham returns for a brand new series of his point + click adventure game podcast as he asks Clare Morwood about the game Dark Nights with Poe and Munro…
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The X-Cast
In 2018, A. J. Black for charity undertook a mammoth 24 hour live stream podcast on The X-Files, never before released to the masses. Across this year, all 24 episodes will be coming, so in Hour 2, he chats about the shows first season with author Sarah Blair and Carl Sweeney…
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