Top 5 Episodes

May 4, 2022

Midweek Mention... The Thing

THE THING is John Carpenter's 1982 horror masterpiece, combining a simple but sensational premise with some of the most incredible special effects ever devised from legendary prosthetic makeup designer Rob Bottin. Crash landi...

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April 29, 2022

Sound of Metal & Regular Show

Sidey is famed for his sartorial elegance so it should come as no surprise that he picked the Top 5 Suits for us to discuss. By the end of this week’s show, you'll know your two-piece from your three-piece, your …

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April 22, 2022

The King of Staten Island & The Loud House

As impossible as it is to imagine if all you ever do is listen to his razor sharp mental gymnastics and displays of intellectual acuity on the podcast, but Bad Dad Dan can from time to time be forgetful so …

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April 15, 2022

Lars and The Real Girl & The Epic Adventures of Morph - Episode Re-Re…

The Dads are on holiday but will be back as usual from 20th April. In the meantime enjoy this special rereleased episode where we discuss LARS AND THE REAL GIRL... Original show notes below. ______________ “The lack of women ...

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April 8, 2022

Boiling Point & Andy and the Band

Before your phone rendered the entire idea of literature redundant as it continues to deepen its inexorable grip on your soul, you may well remember reading something called a book. They aren’t novel to noted bibliophile How...

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April 1, 2022

The Power of the Dog & Bananaman

An egg is of course the fertilized ovum of an animal that grows and develops as an embryo inside some kind of organic vessel. And as delicious as that sounds, they are only to be consumed when they are hot, …

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March 25, 2022

Love & Mercy & Making Fun

Whilst you may have laboured under the misapprehension that the pen was a mere writing implement, in the world of movies it can do so much more. Mainly kill people according to our research. Will we find any benevolent biros …

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March 18, 2022

Sorry To Bother You & Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

What makes a great title for a film? Should it encapsulate the essence of the story, tell us something via symbolism about the characters or locations involved, be instantly familiar and memorable or generate intrigue? No, li...

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March 11, 2022

Kaiser! The Greatest Footballer Never To Play Football & Ren and Stim…

"I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere." There's more than a grain of truth in what Anakin Skywalker says in one of cinemas most cherished and beloved moments, during the universally a...

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March 4, 2022

Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins & Art Ninja

We were delighted to have the ART NINJA Ricky Martin join us this week to talk about craft storage solutions, the responsibility of being a beloved childhood icon, cardboard horror movies, his experiences with ADHD and much m...

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Feb. 25, 2022

Room & Voltron: Legendary Defender

Skyscrapers are of course symbols of male domination and authority, immense metal and concrete phalluses penetrating the sky itself so of course Hollywood loves to gaze adoringly at them. This week sees us discussing the Top ...

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Feb. 18, 2022

A Ghost Story & Fireman Sam

Since all attempts to capture proof of ghosts on film consist of grainy night-vision footage more like an amateur Pornhub channel than indisputable proof of life after death and your guaranteed never to encounter a ghost in r...

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Feb. 11, 2022

14 Peaks & That Girl Lay Lay

I'm sorry to have to disappoint you but the idea that snowflakes are unique is not entirely true, there being eight main types of shapes at the molecular level, with 39 sub-categories which then order themselves via weak hydr...

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Feb. 4, 2022

A Field in England & The Lion Guard

There have been some great movies and scenes set in hotels; I'm thinking of course of the likes of THE SHINING, THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL, LOST IN TRANSLATION and video after video of heavy-eyed, heroin ingesting porn stars be...

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Jan. 28, 2022

The Guard & Centaurworld

"Should men cry?" is a question that literally no one asks anymore because we all know that the correct answer is "of course, as long as it's done in the right way", that is to say that it's expressed in …

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