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HAPPY 100TH EPISODE EVERYONE! Thank you to all who've supported us over the last 2 and a bit years! We celebrate our centenary of episodes with a special ep where we each select 5 films and 3 TV shows to bring with us to a desert island with us (which is a completely original idea and not at all inspired by any long-running radio shows). Sam and J-L did this in August of 2020, and since we have swapped hosts and Sam has changed his opinions a lot, so we thought we'd revisit the format. Here's to the next 100!

We're back to discuss the newest instalment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Lewis also reviews The Banshees of Inisherin (I'm not spell-checking that) and The Menu!

Jordan-Luke McDonald returns to the pod to discuss the final instalment of David Gordon Green's Halloween reboot trilogy in our late Halloween special. Sam discusses a horror marathon that included the likes of The Thing, The Shining and The Exorcist and the subject of Marvel fatigue is yet again debated.

We're back! At long last! We tackle the mammoth that is Baz Luhrmann's Elvis which features Austin Butler as 'The King' and Sam takes a look at The Black Phone, a new Blumhouse horror starring Ethan Hawke. Aside from this, we have mini-reviews of Jurassic World Dominion, Lightyear, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Obi-Wan Kenobi. ELVIS REVIEW STARTS at 1:20:00

Ethan Simmie of the 24 Minutes of A24 podcast joins Sam to discuss Alex Garland's new folk horror MEN, as well as the A24 brand and catalogue in general! Find Ethan on twitter at @EthanSimmie and his podcast at @24minutesofA24 TIMESTAMPS: A24 discussion: 0:54-14:55 What We've Watched (including Climax, The Bob's Burgers Movie, The Northman, Kenobi and more): 14:55-28:32 Kenobi (Ep 3 + controversy): 28:33-34:50 MEN (spoiler free): 49:30-1:04:12 MEN (w/ spoilers): 1:04:12- the end. Apologies for some of the microphone issues Sam had this week!

Lewis and a very ill Sam look at one of the most critically acclaimed films of recent times, Everything Everywhere All At Once, a new film from Daniels starring Michelle Yeoh! We also discuss some new Disney news (including She-Hulk), Doctor Who, Cannes, and rapping. Timestamps: What we've watched: 04:30-19:08 News: 19:08-33:30 EEAAO: 33:30-55:20

Journey with us into the multiverse of madness (and moon-ness?)! We look at two new additions to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, including Sam Raimi's Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness and Moon Knight starring Oscar Isaac. Sam goes into great detail about the New French Extremity, which currently has a season running at the BFI, we look at the BAFTA TV awards, the new Doctor Who and Lewis updates us about his Bond-athon. Timestamps 13:18-31:22 New French Extremity 31:22-37:45 The New Doctor 37:45-43:58 BAFTA TV Awards 44:00-1:01:41 Moon Knight 1:01:41-1:26:12 Doctor Strange (Spoiler-free) + Avatar 2 1:26:12-2:04:45 Doctor Strange (Spoilers)

In our first in-person recording, we tackle The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the new Cage-in-a-Cage action-comedy, and Lewis looks at Paul Verhoeven's new drama Benedetta. We also discuss the large number of films we've seen recently including Eraserhead, Breathless, Spirited Away, The Conversation, 8 and 1/2 and more...

Follow us on our journey of revenge as we tackle Robert Eggers' new Viking epic The Northman starring Alexander Skarsgaard, Nicole Kidman and Anya Taylor-Joy. Lewis also gives a review of new Netflix LGBT+ coming-of-age series Heartstopper, based on a successful graphic novel, and Sam gives his brief thoughts on the newest episode of Moon Knight!

Sam rambles his way through his first-time thoughts on Francis Ford Coppola's legendary Godfather trilogy (which turns 50 this year), whilst Lewis recalls his own opinions and compares the mob classics to Scorsese's Goodfellas. We look at the new directors cut of the third installment, The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone. Also... Is It Cake?

We're back! And at last, awards are out of the conversation! Prepare for quickfire 5 minute reviews of everything we haven't had time to review over the last month. We tackle Turning Red, X, The Worst Person in the World, The Phantom of the Open, Apollo 10 1/2, The Nan Movie, Ali & Ava and (now last week's episode of) Moon Knight!

We announce the winners of the 2022 Now Showing Alternative Oscars! Thank you to everyone that voted, and congratulations to the winners!

Lewis and Sam discuss two new cinema releases, Sony's newest instalment into their universe of Spider-Man side characters, and the new sequel to the 2020 Sonic the Hedgehog adaptation, as well as the first episode of new Disney+ MCU series Moon Knight starring Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke.

The 94th Academy Awards finally happened! After months of discussing possible nominees, possible wins and upsets, the ceremony has happened and given us our fair share to talk about; from the slap and the awful jokes that defined this year's Ceremony to the Oscars themselves, we take a deep dive into one of the most memorable Oscars in recent years (for all the wrong reasons). 

Our final predictions! We look through all the big categories at this years Oscars and give our predictions and personal picks. Sam also talks for 20 minutes about old movies. Apologies for Sam's mic.

JL joins us to run through all of our personal choices for the 2022 Alternative Oscars!  Apologies for Sam's audio in the first 12 minutes.

Jordan-Luke McDonald joins us to announce the nominations for the 2022 Now Showing Alternative Oscars, voted for by you! We announce all 23 categories, and have a brief discussion about the nominees.*

We're joined by the wonderful podcaster, critic and comic expert Neil Vagg to look once again at The Batman; here we discuss all our spoiler-ey thoughts, but don't fret if you haven't seen it yet! In the first hour we discuss our favourite Batman movies, what we've watched and do another brief spoiler-free review!  Find Neil at @neilvagg on Twitter, and his website is getyourcomicon.co.uk

We have seen The Batman! We give our immediate and spoiler-free thoughts on Matt Reeves' new take on the caped crusader. No other films, no guff, just our reviews (and Loose Women).

Sam and Lewis look at Tom Holland-led action flick Uncharted, based on the popular game series, and Kenneth Branagh's second adaptation of Agatha Christie's Poirot, Death on the Nile. Also talk of Superbowl trailers, Amy Schumer and The Beatles.