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With the release of Avengers: Endgame, the first saga of the Marvel Cinematic Universe – ‘The Infinity Saga’ – was completed. We may not know what grand form the franchise is set to compose next, even with the following few years’ worth of content mapped out, but the series will...

Parasite or symbiote? That’s the question at the core of the 2020 Russian chiller Sputnik. In 1984’s Kazakhstan, a space module returns to Earth carrying two cosmonauts, and in turn one of those spacefarers may be carrying something else. Something otherworldly. Confined to a military installation with seemingly no...

This week Ben and Aadil chat about the brand new 80s practical effects surreal gorefest with homages to other B-movie tropes. Our theme song is by captiveportalmusic, used under the CC ShareAlike license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)....

Ben and Aadil chat about the second round of film delays due to the pandemic, and the move of some studios to forego theatres entirely. We discuss how we think that will affect the already tentpole based industry and where it might go from here. The episode rounds out...

The Star Wars franchise has some of the most famous sound effects and music ever produced, so it’s a bold choice whenever it instead embraces silence. It’s surprising how often John Williams’ iconic music disappears from the films to allow the sound design to tell the story, whether the...

Ben and Aadil talk all about Wonder Woman 1984, from the endearing down to the baffling. While we had some issues with the film, we took some time to talk about what we liked, and hoped for more of in the DCEU. Our theme song is by captiveportalmusic, used...

With the success of The Mandalorian and the announcement of countless other series in the works, the future of Star Wars is streaming. Yet a couple of those old-fashioned motion pictures they used to have in the olden days are also being developed, starting with Rogue Squadron in 2023....

Weaving an intricate yet colossal tale across 23 films and counting, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is consistently praised for its foresight and planning. Yet Kevin Feige’s series of interconnected films were once not so tightly plotted. Back in ‘Phase 1’, when the MCU as we know it today felt...

Join Ben and Aadil this week as they discuss and dissect Fox’s final X-Men movie The New Mutants. They get into the history of the production, the story, the cast and where they think the budget was spent. They also have ideas of what may have made for a...