The Electric State Simon Stålenhag may not be a household name, but his incredibly distinctive art has inspired hundreds of thousands of people all around the world. His books, “Tales from the Loop“, “Labyrinth”, “Things from the Flood” and “Sunset at Zero Point” as well as the novel basis for this film “The Electric State” have garnered a passiona…

Mickey 17 The novel this film was based on; Mickey 7 was being written by Edward Ashton, at almost exactly same time as the film back in 2021. Director Bong Joon Ho saw an opportunity and ran with it to create something pertinent, meaningful and as always, very weird… What remains then to answer is why the film version has solidly 10 more Mickeys!?…

97th Academy Awards Recap The 2025 Awards season has closed out, much the same way that liberty has died; with thunderous applause and too much Timothee Chalomet. We watched a bunch of the Awards favourites ahead of the Oscars, saw some of the Emmy’s missed the SAGs and the BAFTAs and then came back together for the 97th Academy awards of whatever……

The Gorge Grab your sniper rifles, trip-mines and laser guided minigun turrets, friends… because it’s time for a good old fashioned love story! Their eyes meet across a crowded gorge that may be the portal to hell, and from that moment Miles Teller and Anya Taylor Joy are falling, falling deep… into The Gorge. But, are you joining them in the fall …

Captain America: Brave New World In Captain America: Brave New World we follow on from the events of Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Eternals, The Incredible Hulk, Winter Soldier, Endgame, Civil War and lets be honest here, 30 something other Marvel films and an indeterminate amount of TV shows. The key takeaways are that Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie)…

A Different Man This week we are looking A Different Man, at a film that takes some pretty bold and experimental swings at a subject that many would be uncomfortable with; facial difference and the experiences of the people who live with it. Sebastian Stan takes on the role of Edward; a shy actor who has facial difference (it is not mentioned but i…

Companion Ain’t love grand? Is there anything more delightful that the excitement and drama of a new relationship? Well, if it ends in someone covered in blood and multiple dead or dismembered bodies strewn around the lake-side mansion of an Eastern European multi millionaire… then maybe there’s a few things that are better. Companion is the new, d…

Severance and Skeleton Crew This week we are dipping our toes into a strange and disquieting corner of psychological sci-fi and then going on a child-friendly jaunt through inner and outer space! Most people don’t see Severance as particularly child-friendly, but it’s all in how you read it. And Skeleton Crew may not feel like a psychological explo…

Season 2’s Our month of “S” shows continues with a bunch of stupenduos second seasons, from Silo to Shrinking with some Squid Game on the side! Often the sophomore season brings a show unstuck, so let’s see how these second timers stand up to the serious scrutiny! Will Squid Game stick the landing? Does Silo slow to a slugs pace? Is Shrinking simpl…

Saturday Night In the 90 minutes leading up to the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live in 1975, producer Lorne Michaels battles against a swathe of challenges to get the unknown and untested conceptual nightmare of a show onto TV at 11:30pm. Personalities, egos, creative differences and unloved muppets are just the start of the challenges tha…

Christmas Thirst Traps While we’re getting ready to unwrap presents, it looks like we’ve gotten a bit thirsty and are ready to unwrap something else! Whether it’s ugly-sweater beefcake, or Mrs Clause adjacent Cheesecake, we’re down for it. By the end of the show we’re actually talking about the comparative sexiness of Animated demi-gods and Anti-he…

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing? In this Anime feature film;The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim, set in the Peter Jackson envisioned version of Middle Earth, directed by Kenji Kamiyama, that…

End of Year Wrap Up As we come screeching into the final corner to end the race of 2024, our tyres smoking, our bodywork hanging by a thread, and fire spitting from the engine bay, lets have a look at whats on in this silly season! in the show we talk about: Dune Prophecy Nosferatu Gladiator 2 It’s a smaller show tonight with Dion and Jill guiding …

Wicked Fellow Aussie-ans rejoice and gather around… The musical sensation of the stage is now here on the screen and we’re all green with envy! Or are we tickled pink? Thats for you to listen in and find out… We have one wicked princess of the Western Sydney… Jill! And Peta the Wonderful Witch of the Eastern suburbs. Oh and one Wizard of Oz, you kn…

Two for Wednesday Sophomore seasons of TV can make or break a show. You can hit gold for one season, but can you follow it up? In this episode we look at some of the second seasons entering the market right now, including Arcane, The Diplomat and Silo and then look back at times from the past when maybe the second bite of the TV pie, was more sink …

The Franchise In a world overrun by huge budget Super-hero blockbuster movies… one man will stand up for what he believes in… One man will hold back the tide of oncoming disaster… that man is… The Assistant Director. This week we check out the new comedy series; The Franchise on HBO, taking a critical look at the sausage factory of grand-scale Supe…

The Apprentice As the world looks on in disbelief at a system that has seemingly shifted towards the far right and the election of a convicted felon, we thought it was about time to have a look at what may be a really interesting and intelligent movie about a really awful person. Or two, in fact: Donald Trump as played by Sebastian Stan and Roy Coh…

Halloween Hecate! It’s the creepiest of seasons Ghouls, Boils and non-binary foils! So it’s time to get a little eerie with your favourite podcast ghosts with the most! We scoured the darkest corners of the internet for all the best monster-ific content to be served up on our charspookerie board of delights! And for this Halloween that serve includ…

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story occasionally a single interpretation of a character becomes so indelibly linked to that character, that the world will be unable to see it as anyone else for potentially generations. These performances become iconic, embedded into the fabric of our reality. For many Moses will always look like Charlton Heston,…

The Substance Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You. Only better in every way. You should try this new product, The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. It generates another you. A new, younger, more beautiful, more perfect, you. And there’s only one rule: You share time. One week for you. One week for the new you. Seven days each. A …

Wolfs Wolfs is the grammatically problematic new Apple TV movie starring the charisma power duo of Brad Pitt and George Clooney. They take on the role of “fixers” who have been called to deal with a dead young man in a high profile D.A.’s expensive hotel room. Hilarity ensues. The whole team is back for this one though lets be honest due to Covid, …

Magical Menagerie – Show-Cuterie! This week we are calming down from all our international travels and interstate excursions… our Movie Premieres, interviews and general excitingness… This week we are plonking ourselves firmly on the couch and checking out the new TV that has dropped into our streaming services in a “Magical Menagerie” of Witches, …

Transformers One You got the touch!!! Now get into this podcast and prepare for the POWER! With the upcoming release of the new Transformers animated film we have had a big week of talking about Transforming robots and “plastic crack”. Regular host Quinny is joined by special guests Lisamaree Chiu and Jason Murray from the Transformers Collectors C…

Speak No Evil In this US Blumhouse remake of Speak No Evil, (a blisteringly fast-turnaround of the Danish original film from 2022 of the same name) James McAvoy, Aisling Franciosi, Mackenzie Davis and Scoot McNairy learn the true meaning of making new friends as an adult: abject horror. Parenting, social niceties, politeness and vicious murder and …

Terminator Zero There may be no fate but what we make, but if this new animated take on the time travelling killer robot franchise is to be believed, there may be no fate at all! Before Terminator Zero we have had 6 Terminator movies, a Machinima series (?) a TV show exploring the wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey interactions of Skynet, the Terminators an…

The Crow People once believed that when a franchise dies, a crow carries it to the land of the dead (direct to video). But sometimes, something so bad happens to a film series that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the franchise can’t rest. The Crow is that franchise, and despite it languishing in Development Hell for nearly 20 years it has…

Sunny In a future where our closest personal assistants are cutesy robots with giant heads, how do we cope if they decide they don’t like us? Rashida Jones stars in Sunny this stylish and bizarre Apple TV sci-fi series which clashes robotics, grief, the Yakuza and ’60s Japanese pop music into a fusion nobody was expecting. The whole crew is on boar…

Alien: Romulus We are now 9 films deep into the Alien cinematic franchise (if you include the AVP films, which we do) and we are really getting to the point where marrying the lore of the early films to the later ones has become a full time job. Well, let us introduce you to Alien: Romulus, the hardest worker in that full time job… Who along with t…

Time Bandits We are turning back time to 1981 and at the same time it’s 2024 (in fact we’re jumping all around the timeline, and all over the magical map)! In 1981 Time Bandits was a Terry Gilliam film nominally aimed at kids with a stacked cast and a deeply weird premise. Time Bandits in 2024 is an Apple TV original series directed by Taika Waitit…

Deadpool and Wolverine It’s the culmination of the Deadpool trilogy. It’s the wrap up of 24 years of X-men films and FOX owned superheroes, plus it’s the gentle nudging of the Mutant agenda into the 616 cinematic universe… and it’s the ONLY MARVEL Movie coming out this year. It was always going to be huge! We just didn’t know HOW huge. Huge Jackman…

Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Well, yes, actually… kind of. It’s a man dressed as a bird, with a strap-on plane? And there beside him is his buddy the metal-armed cybernetic bad-ass with a memory problem. Check out our take on the first episode of ‘The Falcon and The Winter Soldier‘ (now streaming on Disney+). If that’s not enou…