X-Men ‘97 Nearly 30 years after it’s exit from our screens, we return to the world of X-Men the Animated Series, but instead of rebooting or re-imagining, we’re jumping back in to the very next season of this beloved show. Xavier is dead, the world has changed and old enemies are now to become new allies. All in almost the exact same animation styl…

Godzilla X Kong : The New Empire Monkey back to punch more Lizard! Only now Lizard upstairs, monkey downstairs, so monkey punch other monkeys instead. Other monkeys are bad monkeys. Monkey need Lizard to help punch other monkeys oh and other lizard. in end all monkeys punch all lizards and all monkeys punch all other monkeys. Humans are there too. …

In this podcast we are counting down to look deep into the heart of the universe and see which of us blinks first. For once, that result isn’t a forgone conclusion. 3bodyproblem is the new netflix show based on the hugely popular book series the “Remembrance of Earth’s Past” trilogy by Liu Cixin. This first story, The 3 Body Problem is a mind bendi…

Do you experience feelings of dread in your podcast or twitch stream? Have you or your family ever reviewed a spook, spectre or ghost-buster? If the answer is “yes,” then don’t wait another minute. Pick up the phone and call the professionals… the NEW professionals! Thats’s right TPToA Is here to review all your paranormal ghostbusting sequels, pre…

Chanel, Dior, Lagerfeld, Givenchy, Gaultier, darling. Names, names, names! Specifically, let’s focus on Dior and Chanel in Apple TV+’s new series “The New Look”. Christian Dior is a much-loved fashion icon, and this series opens up his portfolio and explores how French fashion houses, and names, names, NAMES survived during World War II, and what b…

In this show we are looking at the highly divisive film that has swept through the Oscars like dose of salts! From the mind of Yorgos Lanthimos, and based on the novel by Alasdair Gray, Poor Things proclaims itself to be a journey of growth and exploration for Bella Baxter, the nymphomaniacal Frankenstein’s creature of this fantastical film. Or is …

If you know what the: Bene Gesserit, Muad’dib, Mahdi, Fedaykin, Kwisatz Haderach, Mentats, Panoplia Propheticus, Qadis as-Salaf, Sadu and Shai-Hulud are… Then you’re probably well and truly prepared for DUNE Part 2. But if that word salad made less sense than Weird Al’s Dada poetry, then you may be needing to gird your loins for some LORE HEAVY SCI…

Have you ever just been watching a movie, a regular, every-day movie, and then WHAM! A song bursts in and assaults you completely unexpectedly! You are shocked, you are lying bloodied and broken, your toe tapping reflexively… You have been blindsided by a musical, and you could be entitled to compensation. There’s a strange trend in recent years of…

We are rebranding ourselves for one show only to The Periodic Table of Awful. “Why?” We hear you ask? To discuss this absolute car wreck of a film!!! Madame Web; the newest entry into Sony’s Spider-man adjacent universe of questionable choices, has been receiving the lowest scores of any super hero movie since Catwoman, even eclipsing the mighty Mo…

Two strangers land jobs with a spy agency that offers them a life of espionage, wealth, and travel. The catch: these new identities are in an arranged marriage. Sounds familiar? well, it’s been a TV series before in 1996 with Scott Bakula and Maria Bello and a Film in 2006 with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. What new insights can Donald Glover and M…

Matthew Vaughn returns to the world of spies and international intrigue with Argylle, but this time it’s less about “all the Kings Men” and more “Yass, literary queen!”. Best selling author Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) is dragged kicking and screaming into the dangerous parallel world drawn from her own books. But instead of her super-spy Argy…

In 2009, during the filming of the 7th Harry Potter film, Daniel Radcliffe’s stunt double David Holmes, broke his neck on one of the combat stunts. This doco looks into Davids life, his recovery and the people who surrounded him on his journey. There’s no JK here just a story of friendship and perseverance and hope. Catch a Nimbus 5000 with us and …

This week we are returning to the Marvel Universe on the small screen with the first “Marvel Spotlight” series: Echo. The return of Alaqua Cox as the titular Echo, also brings back Vincent D’Onofrio as The Kingpin and even a splash of Charlie Cox as Daredevil too! join us to talk through this multifaceted series, in whatever language you prefer! Th…

If “The Talented Mr Ripley” had worn it’s kink on it’s sleeve a little louder, this may have been the film we got; In Saltburn Barry Keoghan’s Oliver Quick is taken under the golden wing of aristocratic fuck-boy Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi). The clashing class divide of Oliver in their mansion proving a tasty little frisson of excitement for the old…

The Doctor is back for 2023…Both of them? It’s time to jump in the TARDIS and fly back to the heady days of yore, November 2023, so we can experience the joy of weekly Doctor Who once more and look back on the 60th Anniversary specials: The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle. Then we’ll get festive with Ncuti Gatwa’s newly minted Dr in the…

Deck your baubles, shine your halls and get ready to make your Yuletide (and apparel) super gay! it’s the annual Christmas/holiday movie special and this year we are looking at a selection of recent releases that may or may not give you some Christmas cheer! The films looked at in this episode include Ex-Mas, Christmess, Journey to Bethlehem, Chris…

In this podcast we can conclusively decide who is the power bottom, who is the messy top and who is the swing. About movies! always about movies! Its a LGBTIQA+ teen high school comedy with a bunch of unexpected twists and turns. But is it actually any good? Listen in and find out! It’s Dion, Jill and Peta for this show as quinny got caught up his …

Its Kaiju time…AGAIN!!! Get ready to destroy some cities, this time its back to Tokyo in the 1940s! In this Japanese language epic we see the rise of Godzilla in the late 1940s. This human lead drama is set against the backdrop of Post-war Japan; a country living in the shadow of the atomic destruction wrought upon it. Our not-so kamikaze crew for …

It’s typical isn’t it? You wait years for some good Kaiju action where the giant, ancient radioactive lizard stomps some poor unsuspecting city, and then two come along at once! Ahead of next week’s review of Godzilla Minus 1, we are checking out the next entry into Legendary Pictures MonsterVerse; a shared cinematic story-world that now comprises …

The prequel to the tetralogy in the same universe, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes might just be the longest title we’ve seen in a while, but fear not, this movie is also… long. Set 65 years before the original The Hunger Games book-which-had-movies-about-it, this was actually one book (sorry Jill) which seems to have been stretc…

Its time for us to return to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for this 33rd film in the epic ongoing experiment in cohesive world building and aggressive audience engagement tactics. We now check back in with three badass women whose stories have encompassed a broad spectrum of the marvel universe, Captain Marvel who has been the intergalactic “peacek…

In this weeks podcast we check out the latest in the Agatha Christie inspired, Hercule Poirot mysteries that follows on from “Murder on the Orient Express” and “Death on the Nile.” Is the brilliant Belgian in finest form here or is he heading out to pasture, in this horror-inflected spook-fest that managed to keep the halloween vibes going for just…

This weeks spook-tacular halloween special is a plastic pumpkin themed bucket chock full of tasty horrific treats and sadly the occasional nasty trick too. We decided to cover as much ground as possible and have watched an absolute tonne of Horror or horror adjacent movies and TV this month so you can scare yourselves silly. The Terrifying Team was…

Fire up your positronic brains and get down with your bad A.I. simulant-selves as we check out the new film from Gareth Edwards: The Creator. Cyberpunk, sci-fi military war-movie and zen Buddhist anti-imperial colonialism come crashing together in this visual treat. But is it actually a good film? That’s very much a personal preference and one whic…

Normally when we talk about sailing the high seas for our entertainment, it’s a bit more tongue in cheek (and possibly referring to the high cost of streaming services and film in this hellscape of an economy). But in this case it’s 100% above board! or Over Board! We are setting sail for adventure on The Grand Line looking for the mythical pirate …

In Star Wars: Rebels Season 5 (or Ahsoka as Disney+ is calling it), they have changed animation style drastically, but still Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and her on-again off-again apprentice Sabine, are investigating an emerging threat to the galaxy following the fall of the Empire. Bring your Gonk droid, folks coz we are going to need a power of …

Hoist the misenmast, keelhaul the bilges and batten down the cabin boy, as we set sail for the warm loving seas of Our Flag Means Death! We are opening up this first season’s chest of emotional pirate booty before Season 2 catches the wind and runs us down! It’s Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi leading with their hearts and we are here for it (especial…

Since their emergence in the early eighties we have seen innumerable iterations of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; on our TV screens, in our cinemas, in our video games and on our shelves in the form of SO MANY TOYS… Well, now only a year after their last TV outing (Rise of the TMNT) we return to the cinema screen with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle…

OK folks, get ready for the movie discussion that has been on the tips of the lips of all concerned for some time now. How deep a cut is too deep and what do we do when Superhero Fatigue has finally hit us like a wrecking ball? with DC’s Blue Beetle, we find ourselves in an uncertain universe, with possibly no history and probably no future. It was…

The film is about a TV show that follows a writer, working on his world famous fictional play. The play becomes the film that isn’t the TV show, but is still a play. It’s theatrical narrative is about a grieving father who travels with his tech-obsessed family to the small rural town of Asteroid City to compete in a junior stargazing event, only to…

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…